Riddle 1 - the tea cup
Answer: the tea cup is empty
Riddle 2 - ancient invention
Answer: window
Riddle 3 - I fly but have no feathers
Answer: Bat
Riddle 4 - Always wrong
Answer: wrong
Riddle 5 - Add two more
Answer:
The word "few". Add "er" and it
becomes fewer.
Riddle 6 - From the beginning of eternity
Answer: Letter e
Riddle 7 - How long?
Answer: 37 days. At the end of day one, the worm would be at the one foot mark. At the end of the 35th day the worm would be at the 35 foot mark. On the 36th day the worm travels from 35 feet to 39 feet but slips back to 36 feet at the end of the 36th day. On the 37th day, the worm travels up four feet from the 36th foot mark and is consequently out of the hole.
Riddle 8 - once red but now black
Answer: matches
Riddle 9 - In how many days?
Answer: If they are doubling then after 19 days the pool would be half covered. The next day the lilies would double in size and cover the pool.
Riddle 10 - the shot
Answer: The woman is a photographer. She gave her husband a snap shot, developed it, and hung it up to dry before they both went for the dinner party.
Riddle 11 -
7 apples
Answer: An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Riddle 12 - The tied goat and the hay
Answer: The other end of the rope is tied to nothing!
Riddle 13 - How many months?
Answer: Only February does not have 30 days so, the answer is 11. The trick is that even the months which have a total of 31 days, also have up to 30 days.
Riddle 14 - The beggar's brother
Answer: The beggar was a woman
Riddle 15 - The contest
Answer: The successful suitor simply asked the Princess to walk over to where he stood, and to touch his hand!
Riddle 16 - What day?
Answer: Thursday
Riddle 17 - I am unchanged
Answer: The postman or a mailbox.
Riddle 18 - The bus driver
Answer: The bus driver was walking
Riddle 19 - How many fish?
Answer: 8 fish! FISH CAN'T DROWN!
Riddle 20 - A green house
Answer: water melon
Riddle 21 - 10 apples
Answer: The last person gets the basket with the last apple still in it.
