Riddles
Riddles!
This topic is about short riddles, because not everyone likes to do the larger logical puzzles. If you do like those, then click here.
If you've guessed the riddle, you can immediately post another one yourself. Let's keep it going.
I will start with this riddle:
What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?
There are a dozen eggs in a carton. Twelve people each take a single egg, but there is one egg left in the carton. How is this possible?
If you drove a coach leaving Canterbury with 35 passengers, dropped off 6 and picked up 2 at Faversham, picked up 9 more at Sittingbourne, dropped off 3 at Chatham, and then drove on to arrive in London 40 minutes later, what colour are the driver's eyes?
@DarkWolf
Brown.
@Mirea
Why are the driver's eyes brown? can you expand a little bit on that?
You go in one hole and and come out three.
When you're inside, you want to be out. When you're out, you're still in.
What are you doing?
@Mirea My internal CPU has been cycling on this for a day. So far I'm stumped! Almost ready to beg for a hint...
@BurkeDevlin
This is a tough one. To be perfectly honest, I didn't get it but when I heard the answer, it made sense. Let me know when you're ready for a hint. :D
@Mirea Let me take a wild stab first.
Is it putting a shirt on?
The first clue fits perfectly.
While you're still 'inside' the shirt, you want your head and arms out (so you can see, and move).
When you're 'out' (through the holes), you're still 'in' the shirt (as in, wearing it).
@BurkeDevlin
Yes! Well done!
@Mirea Woot! I feel so smart now, I'll be an inferno of productivity at work this afternoon.
@BurkeDevlin
Please be a disco inferno of productivity.
A man built a rectangular house, each side having a southern view. He spotted a bear. What colour was the bear?
@DarkWolf White! He must be at the North Pole. (Where I wish I was right now. Die, summer, die!)
@BurkeDevlin
That's right Not a fan of summer I see
How many hands does the clock of the tower of Big Ben have?
@DarkWolf
I guess this was more of a question for the other (general ignorance) topic, but it;s just passable as a riddle I think.
Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on the lawn. Nobody put them on the lawn but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be there. What is it?
@DarkWolf The snowman melted!
I drink the blood of the Earth,
and the trees fear my roar,
yet a man may hold me in his hands.
What am I?
Thousands lay up gold within this house,
but no man made it.
Spears past counting guard this house,
but no man wards it.
What is it?
I march before armies / a thousand salute me
My fall can bring victory / but no one would shoot me;
The wind is my lover / one-legged am I
Name me and see me / at home in the sky.
What am I?