Love brain teasers? Then try to solve these riddles on your own, and then look at the solution. Give it your best shot
1) If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
2) There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
3) You can start a fire if you have alcohol, petrol, kerosene, paper, candle, coke, a full matchbox and a piece of cotton wool. What is the first thing you light?
4) What gets broken without being held?
5) A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, “I’m bankrupt!” Why?
6) Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
7) He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
8) A doctor in Paris has a a brother in Toronto who is lawyer. The lawyer does not have a brother who is a doctor. How is it possible.
9) What invention lets you look right through a wall?
10) What can you catch but not throw?
11) What is at the end of a rainbow?
12) What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold for more than a minute?
13) It has one eye but cannot see?
14) What is always coming but never arrives?
15) Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they’re not twins. How can this be?
16) A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn’t break the law. How come?
17) What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
18) How can 1459 + 1 make 1500?
Solution
1) If you take 2 apples, then you have of course 2 with you
2) A Watermelon.
3) A match.
4) A promise.
5) He was playing Monopoly
6) Forward I am ton, backwards I am not.
7) A priest.
8) The doctor is a woman.
9) A window.
10) A cold.
11) The letter W.
12) Breath.
13) A needle.
14) Tomorrow.
15) The two babies are two of a set of triplets.
16) She was walking
17) The letter M.
18) It's time. 1459 hours plus one minute makes 1500 hours.