RIDDLES

Here are 10 riddles for you to think about. The answers are at the bottom of the page bottom of the page but no cheating.

 His…Daryl Miller

1.  A new medical building containing 100 offices has just been completed. Fred Smith was hired to paint numbers 1 to 100 on the doors. How many times will Smith have to paint the number nine? (ANSWER)

2. Can you translate the following into a sentence? 1 0 0 2 0 4 1 8 0 (ANSWER)

3. A horse is tied to a five meter rope in front of an old saloon. Six meters behind the horse is a bale of hay. Without breaking his rope, the horse is able to eat the hay whenever he chooses. How is this possible? (ANSWER)

4. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25? (ANSWER)

5. If someone said to you, "I will bet you $1 that if you give me $2, I will give you $3 in return", would this be a good bet for you to take? (ANSWER)

6. When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer? (ANSWER)

7. How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the English language spelling of a whole number? (ANSWER)

8. If you saw your mirror image holding a letter 'd' in your left hand, what would you, in actuality, be doing? (ANSWER)

9. Bob asked his secretary to make him a coffee. While the secretary was making the coffee, her clip-on earring fell into the cup. Even though the cup had coffee in it, the earring didn't get wet. How is this possible? (ANSWER)

10. A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a local storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time? (ANSWER)

ANSWERS

1.      Twenty times (9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, 99) (to question #2)

2.      I ought naught to owe for I ate nothing. (to question #3)

3.      The rope is not tied to anything else. (to question #4)

4.      Once, after the first calculation, you will be subtracting 5 from 20, then 15, and so on. (to question #5)

5.      No. This is a situation where you lose even if you win. Assuming the other person is being wise, they would take your $2 and say, “I lose”, and give you $1 in return. You win the bet, but you lose $1. (to question #6)

6.      When you add two hours to eleven o’clock, you get one o’clock. (to question #7)

7.      You would have to count to one thousand. (to question #8)

8.      You would be holding a letter “b” in your right hand. (to question #9)

9.      The cup has only dry instant coffee in it. (to question #10)

10.  Luckily for the dog, it was daylight. (to TOP)

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