Riddles

Some months have 31 days. How many of them have 28 days?

A sparrow has fallen into a hole in a rock. The hole measures three inches in diameter and is three feet deep. Due to the depth of the hole, the sparrow cannot be reached by hand. We cannot use sticks or canes because we could hurt the bird. How can you get the bird out?
 

A ribbon in 30 inches long. If you cut it with a pair of scissors into one-inch pieces, how many snips would it take?

I am a three digit number.

My tens digit is five more than my ones digit.

My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit.

What number am I?

What belongs to you, but others use it more than you do?

Why was the math book sad?

What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

If I say “Everything I tell you is a lie,” am I telling you the truth or lie?

The ages of a father and son add up to 66.The father’s age is the son’s age reversed. How old could they be?

What’s smaller than an ant’s mouth?

Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats. Each female gets her own cat. How is this possible?

There are 3 stoves: A glass stove, a brick stove and a wood stove. You only have 1 match. Which do you light up fast?

How far can a dog run into the woods?

Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg are white ‘or ‘The yolk of the egg is white’?

Look at me. I can bring a smile to your face, a tear to your eye, or even a thought to your mind.But, I can’t be seen. What am I?

Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday?

If a chicken says, ‘All Chickens are liars’, is the chicken telling the truth?

I have a head and tail, but no body. What am I?

I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I touch,Will soon turn red.

I have four legs, but no tail. Usually I am heard only at night. What am I?

It’s red, blue, purple and green, no one can reach it, not even the queen. What is it?

A man rides into town on Friday, stays for three days and leaves on Friday. How did he do it?

I have no eyes no legs or ears and I help move the Earth?

Each morning I appear to lie at your feet. All day I will follow you, no matter how fast you run. Yet I nearly perish in the midday sun?

To cross the water I’m the way. For water I’m above: I touch it not and truth to say I neither swim nor move?

Look in my face I am somebody; look in my back I am nobody?

There is something that is nothing, but it has a name. It joins our walks; it joins in our conversations; it plays in every game. What was it?

Fatherless and Motherless; born without sin. Roared when it came into the world and never spoke again?

What is lighter than a feather, but the strongest man in the World can’t hold it very long?

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