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November 28, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What is a mathematician’s favorite Thanksgiving food?

Answer: Sweet potato pi.

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November 21, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?

Answer: Their middle names.

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November 14, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What is taken before you can get it?

Answer: A photo.

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November 7, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What has many teeth but cannot bite?

Answer: A comb.

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October 31, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: I have hundreds of ears, but I can’t hear a thing. What am I?

Answer: A cornfield.

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October 24, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?

Answer: The match.

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October 17, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet only three people are in the car. How?

Answer: They are grandfather, father and son.

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October 10, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What grows when you feed it but dies when you water it?

Answer: A fire.

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October 3, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?

Answer: An anchor.

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September 26, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What begins with an "e" and only contains one letter?

Answer: An envelope.

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September 19, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What part of the chicken has the most feathers?

Answer: The outside.

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September 12, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?

Answer: Your legs.

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September 5, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?

Answer: A bar of soap.

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August 29, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in 1,000 years?

Answer: The letter “M.”

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August 22, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What is harder to catch the faster you run?

Answer: Your breath.

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August 15, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?

Answer: A calendar.

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August 8, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What do you bury when it’s alive and dig up when it’s dead?

Answer: A plant.

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August 1, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What has a neck, but has no head?

Answer: A guitar.

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July 25, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What has one eye, but can’t see?

Answer: A needle.

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July 18, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What starts with a T, ends with a T and has T in it?

Answer: A teapot.

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July 11, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What’s always on the ground but is never dirty?

Answer: A shadow.

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July 4, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?

Answer: The letter "E."

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June 27, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What has 10 letters and starts with gas?

Answer: Automobile.

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June 20, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?

Answer: The letter "R."

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June 13, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: When is a door no longer a door?

Answer: When it’s ajar.

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June 6, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What kind of room has no doors or windows?

Answer: A mushroom.

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May 30, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What has lots of eyes but can’t see?

Answer: A potato.

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May 23, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What can you catch, but not throw?

Answer: A cold.

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May 16, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What has a heart that doesn't beat?

Answer: An artichoke.

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May 9, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: I add 5 to 9 and get 2. The answer is correct, so what am I?

Answer: A clock. When it is 9 a.m., adding 5 hours would make it 2 p.m.

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May 2, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?

Answer: Your left hand.

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April 25, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: I am strong enough to smash ships, but I fear the sun. What am I?

Answer: Ice.

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April 18, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What is the longest word in the dictionary?

Answer: Smiles, because there is a mile between each 's'.

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April 11, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: Those who make it have no need of it. Those who buy it have no use for it. Those who use it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

Answer: A coffin.

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April 4, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What is it that no one wants to have, but no one wants to lose either?

Answer: A lawsuit.

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March 28, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: I cannot talk, but I always reply when spoken to. What am I?

Answer: An echo.

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March 21, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what are 4 and 5?

Answer: 9.

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March 14, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, but never Neptune or Venus. What am I?

Answer: The letter R.

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March 7, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

Answer: Stars.

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February 29, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?

Answer: Corn on the cob.

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February 22, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What is at the end of a rainbow?

Answer: The letter W.

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February 15, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What can be touched but can't be seen?

Answer: Someone’s heart.

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February 8, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: When you stop to look, you can always see me. But if you try to touch me, you can never feel me. Although you walk towards me, I remain the same distance from you. What am I?

Answer: The horizon.

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February 1, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What gets broken without being held?

Answer: A promise.

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January 25, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?

Answer: Concrete floors are very hard to crack.

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January 18, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: Forward, I am heavy; backward, I am not. What am I?

Answer: A ton.

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January 11, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: Which fish costs the most?

Answer: A goldfish.

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January 4, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?

Answer: A sponge.

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January 2, 2024 Riddle

Riddle: What can you put in a bucket to make it weigh less?

Answer: A hole.

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December 21, 2023 Riddle

Riddle: What do you call a snowman with a six pack?

Answer: An abdominal snowman.

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December 14, 2023 Riddle

Riddle: What falls in the winter but never gets hurt?

Answer: Snow.

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December 7, 2023 Riddle

Riddle: What has a neck but no head?

Answer: A bottle.

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November 30, 2023 Riddle

Riddle: Where do you take a sick boat?

Answer: To the dock-tor.

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November 23, 2023 Riddle

Riddle: What happened to the turkey that got into a fight?

Answer: He got the stuffing knocked out of him.

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November 16, 2023 Riddle

Riddle: What can be measured, but has no length, width, or height?

Answer: The temperature.

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November 9, 2023 Riddle

Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?

Answer: All of them.

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October 31, 2023 Riddle

Riddle: I have hundreds of ears, but I can’t hear a thing. What am I?

Answer: A cornfield.

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