[ { "riddle": "I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?", "answers": [ "candle" ], "fullAnswer": "A candle" }, { "riddle": "What month of the year has 28 days?", "answers": [ "all of them" ], "fullAnswer": "All of them" }, { "riddle": "What is full of holes but still holds water?", "answers": [ "sponge" ], "fullAnswer": "A sponge" }, { "riddle": ": What question can you never answer yes to?", "answers": [ "are you asleep", "are you sleeping" ], "fullAnswer": "Are you asleep yet?" }, { "riddle": "What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?", "answers": [ "future" ], "fullAnswer": "The future" }, { "riddle": "There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?", "answers": [ "no stairs", "aren't any stairs" ], "fullAnswer": "There aren’t any stairs. It’s a one-story house." }, { "riddle": "What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?", "answers": [ "promise" ], "fullAnswer": "A promise" }, { "riddle": "What goes up but never comes down?", "answers": [ "age" ], "fullAnswer": "Your age" }, { "riddle": "A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?", "answers": [ "bald", "no hair", "have any hair" ], "fullAnswer": "He was bald." }, { "riddle": "I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?", "answers": [ "barber", "hairdresser" ], "fullAnswer": "A barber" }, { "riddle": "You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?", "answers": [ "married" ], "fullAnswer": "All the people on the boat are married." }, { "riddle": "You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?", "answers": [ "match" ], "fullAnswer": "The match" }, { "riddle": "I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?", "answers": [ "bank" ], "fullAnswer": "A bank" }, { "riddle": "What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?", "answers": [ "echo" ], "fullAnswer": "An echo" }, { "riddle": "The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?", "answers": [ "darkness" ], "fullAnswer": "Darkness" }, { "riddle": "I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?", "answers": [ "shadow" ], "fullAnswer": "Your shadow" }, { "riddle": "What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?", "answers": [ "piano" ], "fullAnswer": "A piano" }, { "riddle": "What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?", "answers": [ "right elbow" ], "fullAnswer": "Your right elbow" }, { "riddle": "What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?", "answers": [ "chalkboard", "blackboard" ], "fullAnswer": "A chalkboard" }, { "riddle": "I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?", "answers": [ "breath" ], "fullAnswer": "Your breath" }, { "riddle": "Where does today come before yesterday?", "answers": [ "dictionary" ], "fullAnswer": "The dictionary" }, { "riddle": "What invention lets you look right through a wall?", "answers": [ "window" ], "fullAnswer": "A window" }, { "riddle": "If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?", "answers": [ "secret" ], "fullAnswer": "A secret" }, { "riddle": "What can’t be put in a saucepan?", "answers": [ "lid" ], "fullAnswer": "Its lid" }, { "riddle": "What goes up and down but doesn’t move?", "answers": [ "staircase" ], "fullAnswer": "A staircase" }, { "riddle": "It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?", "answers": [ "name" ], "fullAnswer": "Your name" }, { "riddle": "What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?", "answers": [ "potato" ], "fullAnswer": "A potato" }, { "riddle": "What has one eye, but can’t see?", "answers": [ "needle" ], "fullAnswer": "A needle" }, { "riddle": "What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?", "answers": [ "christmas tree", "pine tree" ], "fullAnswer": "A Christmas tree" }, { "riddle": "What has hands, but can’t clap?", "answers": [ "clock" ], "fullAnswer": "A clock" }, { "riddle": "What has one head, one foot and four legs?", "answers": [ "bed" ], "fullAnswer": "A bed" }, { "riddle": "What can you catch, but not throw?", "answers": [ "cold" ], "fullAnswer": "A cold" }, { "riddle": "What has many teeth, but can’t bite?", "answers": [ "comb" ], "fullAnswer": "A comb" }, { "riddle": "What is cut on a table, but is never eaten?", "answers": [ "deck of cards" ], "fullAnswer": "A deck of cards" }, { "riddle": "What has words, but never speaks?", "answers": [ "book" ], "fullAnswer": "A book" }, { "riddle": "What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?", "answers": [ "fence" ], "fullAnswer": "A fence" }, { "riddle": "What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?", "answers": [ "stamp" ], "fullAnswer": "A stamp" }, { "riddle": "What has a head and a tail but no body?", "answers": [ "coin" ], "fullAnswer": "A coin" }, { "riddle": "Where does one wall meet the other wall?", "answers": [ "corner" ], "fullAnswer": "On the corner" }, { "riddle": "What building has the most stories?", "answers": [ "library" ], "fullAnswer": "The library" }, { "riddle": "What tastes better than it smells?", "answers": [ "tongue" ], "fullAnswer": "Your tongue" }, { "riddle": "What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?", "answers": [ "cards" ], "fullAnswer": "A deck of cards" }, { "riddle": "It stalks the countryside with ears that can’t hear. What is it?", "answers": [ "corn" ], "fullAnswer": "Corn" }, { "riddle": "What kind of coat is best put on wet?", "answers": [ "paint" ], "fullAnswer": "A coat of paint" }, { "riddle": "What has a bottom at the top?", "answers": [ "legs" ], "fullAnswer": "Your legs" }, { "riddle": "What has four wheels and flies?", "answers": [ "garbage truck" ], "fullAnswer": "A garbage truck" }, { "riddle": "I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?", "answers": [ "seven" ], "fullAnswer": "Seven" }, { "riddle": "If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?", "answers": [ "nine" ], "fullAnswer": "Nine" }, { "riddle": "What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?", "answers": [ "one, two and three", "one two and three", "one, two, three", "one two three", "1, 2, 3", "1 2 3", "1, 2 and 3", "1 2 and 3" ], "fullAnswer": "One, two and three" }, { "riddle": "Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Mary have?", "answers": [ "five", "5" ], "fullAnswer": "Five—each daughter has the same brother." }, { "riddle": "Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?", "answers": [ "neither", "none" ], "fullAnswer": "Neither—they both weigh a ton." }, { "riddle": "Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Bill actually have?", "answers": [ "none", "zero" ], "fullAnswer": "None. He has three sisters." }, { "riddle": "Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?", "answers": [ "grandfather, father and son", "father, grandfather and son" ], "fullAnswer": "They are a grandfather, father and son" }, { "riddle": "The day before yesterday I was 21, and next year I will be 24. When is my birthday?", "answers": [ "december 31", "31 december", "31th of december" ], "fullAnswer": "December 31; today is January 1" }, { "riddle": "A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going home, all but three break. How many eggs are left unbroken?", "answers": [ "three", "3" ], "fullAnswer": "Three" }, { "riddle": "A man describes his daughters, saying, “They are all blonde, but two; all brunette but two; and all redheaded but two.” How many daughters does he have?", "answers": [ "three", "3" ], "fullAnswer": "Three: A blonde, a brunette and a redhead" }, { "riddle": "What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?", "answers": [ "short" ], "fullAnswer": "Short" }, { "riddle": "What begins with an \"e\" and only contains one letter?", "answers": [ "envelope" ], "fullAnswer": "An envelope" }, { "riddle": "A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?", "answers": [ "dozens" ], "fullAnswer": "Dozens" }, { "riddle": "What would you find in the middle of Toronto?", "answers": [ "o" ], "fullAnswer": "The letter “o”" }, { "riddle": "Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?", "answers": [ "r" ], "fullAnswer": "The letter “r”" }, { "riddle": "I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?", "answers": [ "e" ], "fullAnswer": "Also the letter “e”" }, { "riddle": "What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?", "answers": [ "noon" ], "fullAnswer": "NOON" }, { "riddle": "Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?", "answers": [ "not" ], "fullAnswer": "The word “not”" }, { "riddle": "What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?", "answers": [ "chicago" ], "fullAnswer": "Chicago" }, { "riddle": "I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?", "answers": [ "few" ], "fullAnswer": "Few" }, { "riddle": "What is the end of everything?", "answers": [ "g" ], "fullAnswer": "The letter “g”" }, { "riddle": "What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?", "answers": [ "queue" ], "fullAnswer": "Queue" }, { "riddle": "I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?", "answers": [ "isle" ], "fullAnswer": "Isle (add “a” to make “aisle”)" }, { "riddle": "What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?", "answers": [ "heroine" ], "fullAnswer": "Heroine" }, { "riddle": "What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?", "answers": [ "silence" ], "fullAnswer": "Silence" }, { "riddle": "What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?", "answers": [ "river" ], "fullAnswer": "A river" }, { "riddle": "Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?", "answers": [ "frozen", "ice" ], "fullAnswer": "The river was frozen." }, { "riddle": "What can fill a room but takes up no space?", "answers": [ "light" ], "fullAnswer": "Light" }, { "riddle": "The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?", "answers": [ "footsteps" ], "fullAnswer": "Footsteps" }, { "riddle": "I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?", "answers": [ "key" ], "fullAnswer": "A key" }, { "riddle": "People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?", "answers": [ "money" ], "fullAnswer": "Money" }, { "riddle": "What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?", "answers": [ "day, and night", "day and night" ], "fullAnswer": "Day, and night" }, { "riddle": "What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?", "answers": [ "road" ], "fullAnswer": "A road" }, { "riddle": "I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?", "answers": [ "fire" ], "fullAnswer": "Fire" }, { "riddle": "The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?", "answers": [ "coffin", "casket" ], "fullAnswer": "A coffin" }, { "riddle": "A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting?", "answers": [ "son" ], "fullAnswer": "The man’s son" }, { "riddle": "With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?", "answers": [ "stapler" ], "fullAnswer": "A stapler" }, { "riddle": "Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?", "answers": [ "c" ], "fullAnswer": "C" }, { "riddle": "What kind of dog keeps the best time?", "answers": [ "watchdog" ], "fullAnswer": "Watchdog" }, { "riddle": "Laughing Out", "answers": [ "loud" ], "fullAnswer": "Loud" }, { "riddle": "A tasty reward given to well behaved dogs and kids", "answers": [ "treat" ], "fullAnswer": "Treat" }, { "riddle": "A caribbean shape that makes ships disappear", "answers": [ "triangle" ], "fullAnswer": "Triangle" }, { "riddle": "It takes two people to do this", "answers": [ "tango" ], "fullAnswer": "Tango" }, { "riddle": "What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?", "answers": [ "clock" ], "fullAnswer": "Clock" }, { "riddle": "What has a neck but no head?", "answers": [ "bottle" ], "fullAnswer": "Bottle" }, { "riddle": "What type of cheese is made backwards?", "answers": [ "edam" ], "fullAnswer": "Edam" }, { "riddle": "What gets wetter as it dries?", "answers": [ "towel" ], "fullAnswer": "Towel" }, { "riddle": "What starts with a 'P', ends with an 'E' and has thousands of letters?", "answers": [ "post office" ], "fullAnswer": "Post Office" }, { "riddle": "What has to be broken before you can eat it?", "answers": [ "egg" ], "fullAnswer": "Egg" }, { "riddle": "What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it?", "answers": [ "teapot" ], "fullAnswer": "Teapot" }, { "riddle": "Teddy bears are never hungry because they are always what?", "answers": [ "stuffed" ], "fullAnswer": "Stuffed" }, { "riddle": "The more you take aways, the larger it becomes? What is it?", "answers": [ "hole" ], "fullAnswer": "Hole" }, { "riddle": "Where do fish keep their money?", "answers": [ "riverbank" ], "fullAnswer": "Riverbank" }, { "riddle": "What do you get when you cross an automobile with a household animal?", "answers": [ "carpet" ], "fullAnswer": "Carpet" }, { "riddle": "Mary's father has 4 children; three are named Nana, Nene, and Nini. So what is the 4th child's name?", "answers": [ "mary" ], "fullAnswer": "Mary" }, { "riddle": "What bone has a sense of humor?", "answers": [ "humorous" ], "fullAnswer": "Humorous" }, { "riddle": "What has four fingers and one thumb, but is not alive?", "answers": [ "glove" ], "fullAnswer": "Glove" }, { "riddle": "What flies without wings?", "answers": [ "time" ], "fullAnswer": "Time" }, { "riddle": "What turns everything around, but does not move?", "answers": [ "mirror" ], "fullAnswer": "Mirror" }, { "riddle": "What is half of two plus two?", "answers": [ "three" ], "fullAnswer": "Three" }, { "riddle": "What word looks the same upside down and backwards?", "answers": [ "swims" ], "fullAnswer": "Swims" }, { "riddle": "What kind of fish chases a mouse?", "answers": [ "catfish" ], "fullAnswer": "Catfish" }, { "riddle": "Your mother's brother's only brother-in-law is asleep on your coach. Who is asleep on your couch?", "answers": [ "dad" ], "fullAnswer": "Dad" }, { "riddle": "What's the difference between here and there?", "answers": [ "t" ], "fullAnswer": "T" }, { "riddle": "What goes up and down without moving?", "answers": [ "stairs" ], "fullAnswer": "Stairs" }, { "riddle": "Take off my skin and I won't cry, but you will, What am I?", "answers": [ "onion" ], "fullAnswer": "Onion" }, { "riddle": "What doesn't get any wetter, no matter how much rain falls on it?", "answers": [ "water" ], "fullAnswer": "Water" }, { "riddle": "I have a face, two arms, and two hands, yet I can not move. I count to twelve, yet I can not speak. I can still tell you something everyday.", "answers": [ "clock" ], "fullAnswer": "Clock" }, { "riddle": "What is round on both ends and hi in the middle?", "answers": [ "ohio" ], "fullAnswer": "Ohio" }, { "riddle": "What do you call a dog that sweats so much?", "answers": [ "hotdog" ], "fullAnswer": "Hotdog" }, { "riddle": "What do you call a rabbit with fleas?", "answers": [ "bugs bunny" ], "fullAnswer": "Bugs Bunny" }, { "riddle": "What rains at the north pole?", "answers": [ "reindeer" ], "fullAnswer": "Reindeer" }, { "riddle": "What kind of apple has a short temper?", "answers": [ "crabapple" ], "fullAnswer": "Crabapple" }, { "riddle": "What do you do with a dead chemist?", "answers": [ "barium" ], "fullAnswer": "Barium" }, { "riddle": "What calls for help, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?", "answers": [ "sos" ], "fullAnswer": "SOS" }, { "riddle": "What body part is pronounced as one letter but written with three, only two different letters are used?", "answers": [ "eye" ], "fullAnswer": "Eye" }, { "riddle": "What is 2+2? What is 4+4? What is 8+8? What is 16+16? Pick a number between 12 and 5", "answers": [ "seven" ], "fullAnswer": "Seven" }, { "riddle": "Feed me and I live, give me something to drink and i'll die, What am I?", "answers": [ "fire" ], "fullAnswer": "Fire" }, { "riddle": "What keeps things green and keeps kids occupied in the summertime?", "answers": [ "sprinkler" ], "fullAnswer": "Sprinkler" }, { "riddle": "Old Mcdonald had this", "answers": [ "farm" ], "fullAnswer": "Farm" }, { "riddle": "Poorly behaved children often find themselves sitting in these", "answers": [ "corner" ], "fullAnswer": "Corner" }, { "riddle": "Brings you may flowers", "answers": [ "showers" ], "fullAnswer": "Showers" }, { "riddle": "A shower that lights up the sky", "answers": [ "meteor" ], "fullAnswer": "Meteor" }, { "riddle": "Longer than a decade and shorter than a milennium", "answers": [ "century" ], "fullAnswer": "Century" }, { "riddle": "Rolling on floor", "answers": [ "laughing" ], "fullAnswer": "Laughing" }, { "riddle": "There are four of these, but everyone's favourite seems to be spades", "answers": [ "ace" ], "fullAnswer": "Ace" }, { "riddle": "Rabbits do this to carrots and Jason Mraz does this to ears", "answers": [ "nibble" ], "fullAnswer": "Nibble" }, { "riddle": "These minerals are vital to your health", "answers": [ "vitamin" ], "fullAnswer": "Vitamin" }, { "riddle": "Commits friendly home invasions one night a year", "answers": [ "santa claus" ], "fullAnswer": "Santa claus" }, { "riddle": "Treats said to be based on a shephero's staff", "answers": [ "candy cane" ], "fullAnswer": "Candy cane" }, { "riddle": "Everyone claims to know a way to stop these involuntary contractions but none of them work", "answers": [ "hiccup" ], "fullAnswer": "Hiccup" }, { "riddle": "Has 4 lucky leaves", "answers": [ "shamrock" ], "fullAnswer": "Shamrock" }, { "riddle": "One of the best things you can hope for after whacking a ball with a stick", "answers": [ "home run" ], "fullAnswer": "Home run" }, { "riddle": "They put the heat in pop tarts", "answers": [ "toaster" ], "fullAnswer": "Toaster" }, { "riddle": "What has a ring, but no finger?", "answers": [ "telephone" ], "fullAnswer": "Telephone" }, { "riddle": "What has four legs, but can't walk?", "answers": [ "table" ], "fullAnswer": "Table" }, { "riddle": "What is higher without the head, than with it?", "answers": [ "pillow" ], "fullAnswer": "Pillow" }, { "riddle": "What is harder to catch the faster you run?", "answers": [ "breath" ], "fullAnswer": "Breath" }, { "riddle": "What is made of wood, but can't be sawed?", "answers": [ "sawdust" ], "fullAnswer": "Sawdust" }, { "riddle": "What is a witch's favorite school subject?", "answers": [ "spelling" ], "fullAnswer": "Spelling" }, { "riddle": "What is an aliens favourite sport?", "answers": [ "spaceball" ], "fullAnswer": "Spaceball" }, { "riddle": "What is the saddest fruit?", "answers": [ "blueberry" ], "fullAnswer": "Blueberry" }, { "riddle": "What is black and white and read all over?", "answers": [ "newspaper" ], "fullAnswer": "Newspaper" }, { "riddle": "What is easy to get into, and hard to get out of?", "answers": [ "trouble" ], "fullAnswer": "Trouble" }, { "riddle": "If two hours ago, it was as long after one o'clock in the afternoon as it was before one o'clock in the morning, what time would it be now?", "answers": [ "nine" ], "fullAnswer": "Nine" }, { "riddle": "What types of words are these: Madam, Civic, Eye, Level?", "answers": [ "palindrome" ], "fullAnswer": "Palindrome" }, { "riddle": "It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?", "answers": [ "beetle" ], "fullAnswer": "Beetle" }, { "riddle": "What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?", "answers": [ "stone" ], "fullAnswer": "Stone" }, { "riddle": "How many 9's are there between 1 and 100?", "answers": [ "twenty" ], "fullAnswer": "Twenty" }, { "riddle": "Which vehicle is spelled the same forwards and backwards?", "answers": [ "racecar" ], "fullAnswer": "Racecar" }, { "riddle": "I am lighter than air, but a million men cannot lift me up, What am I?", "answers": [ "bubble" ], "fullAnswer": "Bubble" }, { "riddle": "Five men were eating apples, a finished before B, but behind C. D finished before E, but behind B. What was the finishing order?", "answers": [ "cabde" ], "fullAnswer": "CABDE" }, { "riddle": "David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and ?", "answers": [ "david" ], "fullAnswer": "David" }, { "riddle": "It is everything to someone, and nothing to everyone else. What is it?", "answers": [ "mind" ], "fullAnswer": "Mind" }, { "riddle": "What has a mouth but can't chew?", "answers": [ "river" ], "fullAnswer": "River" }, { "riddle": "If it is two hours later, then it will take half as much time till it's midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it?", "answers": [ "nine" ], "fullAnswer": "Nine" }, { "riddle": "Forward I am heavy, backwards I am not. What am I?", "answers": [ "ton" ], "fullAnswer": "Ton" }, { "riddle": "What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?", "answers": [ "keyboard" ], "fullAnswer": "Keyboard" } ]