Description : There was a farmer making his way to the market with a fox, a chicken, and some grain. He came to a clearing with a stream. He saw a boat nearby, but he could only take one of his items with him. ... and if he took the fox, the chicken would eat the grain. How do you get all of them across? -Riddles
Last Answer : You take the chicken across, and then go back for the fox. While you are dropping off the fox, take the chicken back, and then get the grain, and take it across. Then go back and get the chicken. Share this with your friends!
Description : Growing melons from seeds you got from store bought melon
Last Answer : Need Answer
Description : can I grow honeydew melons from the seeds i get in a melon I buy in the store?
Description : Jim and Joey were on vacation and driving along a deserted country road from the town of Kaysville to the town of Lynnsville. They came to a multiple fork in the road. The sign post had been knocked ... there was no one around to ask, how could Jim and Joey find their way to Lynnsville? -Riddles
Last Answer : They need to stand the signpost up so that the arm reading Kaysville points in the direction of Kaysville, the town they had just come from. With one arm pointing the correct way, the other arms will also point in the right directions.
Description : A man is walking down a road with a basket of eggs. As he is walking he meets someone who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. He walks a little further and meets another person who buys ... of his eggs, and he never broke an egg. How many eggs did the man have to start with? -Riddles
Last Answer : 7 eggs. The first person bought one half of his eggs plus one half an egg (3 1/2 + 1/2 = 4 eggs) This left him 3 eggs. The second person bought one-half of his eggs plus one half an egg, (1 1/2 + ... last person bought one-half of his eggs plus one-half an egg, (1/2 + 1/2 = 1 egg) leaving no eggs.
Description : David is throwing Robert a surprise birthday party but he has to stay within his budget. He spent half of his money plus $2.00 on the cake. Half of what he had left plus $2.00 was spent on balloons and ... had left plus $1.00 on candy. Now he is out of money, how much did he start with? -Riddles
Last Answer : This one is best solved working backwards, the last part David spent half of what was left plus $1.00 on candy and then was out of money. That means he must have spent $2.00 on Candy as $1.00 was ... logic backwards: $2.00 on candy $6.00 on Balloons and Streamers $12.00 on the cake Total of $20.00.
Description : There are five acquaintances. One of them shot and killed one of the other five. Which man is the murderer? 1. Dan ran in the NY City marathon yesterday with one of the innocent men. 2. Mike ... last computers together. 9. The murderer is Jack's brother; they grew up together in Seattle. -Riddles
Last Answer : 1. Jack is not the murderer, because he is the brother of the murderer. 2. Dan can't be the murderer since he ran a marathon, and the murderer recently had his leg amputated, and wouldn't ... must also be alive since Jeff plans to install Ben's computer next week. This means that Jeff killed Mike.
Description : If a rooster laid 11 eggs and the farmer took 5 of them and another rooster laid 14 eggs and 5 of them were rotten. How many eggs were left? -Riddles
Last Answer : 0, Roosters don't lay eggs.
Description : If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left? -Riddles
Last Answer : None. The rest of the crows flew away when they heard the gunshot.
Description : A little girl named Sasha was left home alone with her butler, chef, and gardener. Sasha's parents went out on a date night and came home and found their daughter stabbed to death. The police ... of killed her'. Automatically the cops knew who it was and arrested them. Who and How? -Riddles
Last Answer : The butler because the cops never mentioned that she was stabbed with a knife.
Description : There are 4 borthers 3 of them want to buy a television which is 30 pounds. Each of them pay 10 pound each they give the money to the fourth brother and asked him to go into town and buy the television. ... So the 3 brothers only payed 9 pounds each. 3 times 9 is 27 were is the last pound? -Riddles
Last Answer : Add 3 on to 25 = 28 then add 2
Description : Johnny's dad had told Johnny that if he could get an A+ on his final exam, he could get any ice cream flavor he wanted plus a pizza. When the day for the final exam came, the professor said, 'There are three questions on this exam... -Riddles
Last Answer : When the professor confirmed Johnny's anonymity (the professor didn't know who he was), Johnny quickly slipped his exam paper into the pile of exams and ran off, so the professor wouldn't know which exam paper deserved an F. Congratulations on sticking through the whole riddle.
Description : There is a man, with his horse he is going to a town. The man went to the town on Monday. He stayed there for 3 days and then he came back on Friday. How? His horse was not tired, he wasn't sleepy and took rest. -Riddles
Last Answer : The horse's name was Friday.
Description : Three cars had driven into a parking lot at the same time, and the three drivers left them all for the attendant to park. Unfortunately, he isn't too good at remembering exactly which driver drove which ... is Mr. Brown if and only if Alan drove the Cortina. Who arrived with which car? -Riddles
Last Answer : Brian Brown drove the BMW, Alan Andrew drove the Avenger, and Colin Cooper drove the Cortina.
Description : A crime has been committed at Freemont Street. The main suspect is a man named Sean Baker. It was said that a man had been walking along the pathway when he was suddenly shot in the stomach. The suspect had ... 'I think this man is telling a lie,' said one of the policemen. How did he know? -Riddles
Last Answer : If the murder came from behind it wouldn't make sense that he shot him in the stomach
Description : These are a series of riddles. They are all connected. 1) There are 100 bricks on a plane. One falls off. How many are left? 2) What are the three steps to put an elephant in a fridge? 3) ... 5) A lady crossed a crocodile infected river and survived. How? 6) She crossed back and died. How? -Riddles
Last Answer : 1) 99 2) Open the door, put the elephant in, close the door. 3) Open the door, take the elephant out, put the giraffe in, close the door. 4) The giraffe. It was in the fridge. 5) The crocodiles were at the party. 6) The brick from the plane hit her in the head.
Description : Once upon a time, in a temple, there were three deities: Truth, Lie and Wisdom. The Truth Deity always told the truth. The Lie Deity always told the lie. The Wisdom Deity sometimes told the ... the middle deitie?'- 'Lie', the deity answered.How could the sage distinguish the three deities? -Riddles
Last Answer : The left deity is Wisdom; the middle one is Lie, and the right one is Truth. Explain: The left deity (L) said that the middle one (M) is Truth; therefore, L cannot be Truth (because there cannot be two ... cannot be Truth. Thus, R is Truth. According to him, M is Lie and as a result, L is Wisdom.
Description : Ok, There was a farmer and he had a problem with his coop (the place where you keep the birds), and he wanted to go check it out. When he got there he noticed that there was a rooster on ... shaped with a triangle type top. But suddenly the rooster laid an egg. Which side did it roll on? -Riddles
Last Answer : It didn't because roosters don't lay eggs.
Description : A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left alive? -Riddles
Last Answer : 9
Description : A man rode out of town on Sunday, he stayed a whole night at a hotel and rode back to town the next day on Sunday. How is this possible? -Riddles
Last Answer : His Horse was called Sunday!
Description : If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field? -Riddles
Last Answer : One. He Combined them into one.
Description : The names of three trees are hidden in the sentences below. The letters are in consecutive order. Can you find them? On this farm, we get ham from a hog any time. The farmer will help in every possible way. He faced two very similar choices, both bad. -Riddles
Last Answer : Mahogany, pine and larch.
Description : A man went on a trip with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. He came upon a stream which he had to cross and found a tiny boat to use to cross the stream. He could only take himself and ... alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn.How does he get all safely over the stream? -Riddles
Last Answer : Take the goose over first and come back. Then take the fox over and bring the goose back. Now take the corn over and come back alone to get the goose. Take the goose over and the job is done!
Description : A man went on a trip with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. He came upon a stream which he had to cross and found a tiny boat to use to cross the stream. He could only take himself and ... alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How does he get all safely over the stream? -Riddles
Description : One day, a scientist was down in his personal lab. It was around 11 o'clock. He was working late on poisons and their antidotes. He was hungry, so he went to get a snack. Suddenly, he found ... and pink colored poisons in his lab. All of them were deadly. Which one did the scientist choose? -Riddles
Last Answer : The white one, since sugar is known as 'White Poison'.
Description : Not far outside the town of Pottsville, a railroad track runs through a tunnel in a hillside. There's only one track, and the tunnel is wide enough for only one train. But one day, two trains ... out at the opposite ends of the tunnel. Yet, there was no collision! How was this possible? -Riddles
Last Answer : One train comes at 8am and the other train came at 8pm.
Description : Many years ago, a wealthy old man was near death. He wished to leave his fortune to one of his three children. The old man wanted to know that his fortune would be in wise hands. He stipulated that ... man ended up leaving his money to his third child, a daughter. What did his daughter do? -Riddles
Last Answer : Every other day, the daughter sang her father a song.
Description : A salesperson has goods of worth Rs.12000. He sold half of the goods at a gain of 24%. At what profit per cent should he sell the remaining half of the stock so that he gets36% profit on the whole?
Last Answer : CP of goods = 12000 For 36% gain, total SP =12000 + (36/100*12000) = 16320 SP of goods worth 6000 at 24% profit = 6000 + (24/100*6000) = 7440 Therefore, SP of remaining goods = (16320-7440) = 8880 Let ... % for remaining goods be x. Then, =>6000*(100+x)/100=8880 =>100+x=8880/60 x=148-100=48
Description : Once every year a farmer walks about on his farm property, picks out his favorite tree, and chops it down with an axe. He then drags the tree home and puts it in a metal bowl. The farmer ... a crisp. How can you explain this apparent drastic change in the farmer's mood toward this tree? -Riddles
Last Answer : The man owns a Christmas tree farm where he grows thousands of Christmas trees for sale to the public. He is simply performing his annual Christmas ritual of selecting a tree, placing it in a tree stand, keeping it healthy for two weeks, and then disposing of it.
Description : A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have? -Riddles
Last Answer : Ten Cows. We can call the pigs cows but it doesn't make them cows.
Description : A farmer has never taken a shower in his life. He gets dirty every day, wears no cleansing scents, and is always clean at the end of the day. How is this possible? -Riddles
Last Answer : The farmer takes a bath every day.
Description : A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The ... each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver? -Riddles
Last Answer : None. A pear tree does not bear plums
Description : A farmer owned a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that ... each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver? -Riddles
Last Answer : None. A pear tree does not bear plums.
Description : A beggar found a leather purse that someone had dropped in the marketplace. Opening it, he discovered that it contained 100 pieces of gold. Then he heard a merchant shout, 'A reward! A reward to the one ... of a leather bag lost and a leather bag found. He counted the coins; 100 gold coin -Riddles
Last Answer : The judge said 'Merchant, you said that the purse you lost contained 200 peices of gold. The purse this beggar found only contained 100 peices of gold. Therefore it cannot be the same purse'. With that the judge gave the purse to the beggar.
Description : There once was an evil wizard. He took 3 woman from their homes and turned them into rose bushes that looked exactly alike. He put them in his garden. One of the woman had a husband and children and ... the answer and he took his wife home. How did he know which rose bush was his wife? -Riddles
Last Answer : The wizard brought the rosebush to her home at night and returned her to the garden in the morning. Therefore, she was the only plant without dew.
Description : My first may be fashioned of iron or wood, And at window or door for safety is placed; In village or town it does more harm than good, Leading people their health, time, and money to waste. My ... -'tis a one-shilling glove- It is something which makes people open their eyes.What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : Bar-gain.
Description : Why is a small horse like a young musk-melon? -Riddles
Last Answer : Because it makes a man go.
Description : My tail is long, my coat is brown, I like the country, I like the town. I can live in a house or live in a shed, And I come out to play when you are in bed.What am I? -Riddles
Last Answer : A Mouse.
Description : Two friends, from a very cold town in Minnesota, each had unusual life skills which helped them in their adventures together. The first of the friends was a tall, lanky individual who, at times, ... a man without fear. Can you name the two friends from this very cold Minnesota town? -Riddles
Last Answer : Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose, otherwise known as Rocky and Bullwinkle. The two Russian-like spies (Boris and Natasha) were lead by the infamous Fearless Leader.
Description : A salesman sold a parrot to a man. The salesman said, 'This parrot will repeat every single word it hears.' The man bought the parrot, but he found it would not speak a single word. What the salesman said was absolutly true, however. How is this possible? -Riddles
Last Answer : The parrot was deaf.
Description : A wealthy man named Richard Ellis had been counting his money. When he finished, he accidentally left a $100.00 bill on his desk. But when he returned for it a short while later, it was gone. Only two ... But when they looked, there was no money in the book. After Mr. Ellis had talked to th -Riddles
Last Answer : The butler did it. Mr. Ellis knew the butler was lying because pages 35 and 36 in a book are always printed on opposite sides of the same piece of paper.
Description : An officer wishing to arrange his men in a solid square found by his first arrangement that he had 39 men left over. He then started increasing the number of men on a side by one, but found that 50 additional men would be needed to complete a new square.How many men did the officer have? -Riddles
Last Answer : The officer had 1975 men. When he formed a square measuring 44 by 44, he had 39 men over. When he tried to form a square 45 x 45, he was 50 men short.
Description : A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep were left?
Last Answer : 9 live sheep.
Description : why are my black diamond watermelons half hollow on the inside
Last Answer : I don't know where u live but has it been really dry?
Description : What is it that when you take away the whole you still have some left over? -Riddles
Last Answer : Wholesome.
Description : What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over? -Riddles
Last Answer : Wholesome!
Description : Billy and Sally set out on a journey to visit a famous castle, but they both forgot to bring any food, water, or money with them. At the onset of their trip, they saw a beautiful rainbow ... eatery, and had tuna fish sandwiches for lunch. Where in the world was this famous castle located? -Riddles
Last Answer : Billy and Sally were children, playing a game of Candy Land.
Description : A woman was found dead in a ditch. They picked up her phone and called the first person in her contacts, which was the husband. They called the husband and said, 'Hi, your wife was found dead in ... please hurry!' So, the husband came to the ditch and got arrested. Why did he get arrested? -Riddles
Last Answer : The husband killed her, because he knew where the ditch was.