- Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can’t hold it for much more than a minute.
- As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone, or fowl.
- What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
- I went into the woods and got it, I sat down to seek it, I brought it home with me because I couldn’t find it.
- What can fill a room but takes up no space?
- It is weightless, you can see it, and if you put it in a barrel it will make the barrel lighter?
- No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
- Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.
- Four jolly men sat down to play, And played all night till the break of day. They played for cash and not for fun, With a separate score for every one. When it came time to square accounts, They all had made quite fair amounts. Now, not one has lost and all have gained, Tell me, now, this can you explain?
- Jack and Jill are lying on the floor inside the house, dead. They died from lack of water. There is shattered glass next to them. How did they die?
- Why don’t lobsters share?
- A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds?
- Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, Even a river can’t fill it up. What is it?
- Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?
- He has married many women but has never married. Who is he?
- If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
Answers:
1. Breath / 2. Glove / 3. River / 4. Splinter / 5. Light / 6. A hole / 7. Silence / 8. Railroad / 9. Four men in a dance band / 10. Jack and Jill are goldfish. / 11.They’re shellfish. / 12. Holes / 13. A kitchen strainer / 14. She lives in the Southern Hemisphere. / 15. A priest / 16. None. Roosters don’t lay eggs.
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