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Riddles and Their Answers

This document contains 27 riddles with their answers. The riddles involve common objects, situations, and concepts that have hidden meanings or unexpected properties, such as an egg needing to be broken before use, a candle getting shorter as it burns, and a married person being on a boat filled with other married people. The answers are revealed after each riddle.

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Riddles and Their Answers

This document contains 27 riddles with their answers. The riddles involve common objects, situations, and concepts that have hidden meanings or unexpected properties, such as an egg needing to be broken before use, a candle getting shorter as it burns, and a married person being on a boat filled with other married people. The answers are revealed after each riddle.

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1: 

What has to be broken before you can


use it?
Answer 1: An egg

2: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short


when I’m old. What am I?
Answer 2: A candle

3: What month of the year has 28 days?


Answer 3: All of them

4: What is full of holes but still holds


water?
Answer 4: A sponge

5: What is always in front of you but can’t


be seen?
Answer 5: The future

6: What can you break, even if you never


pick it up or touch it?
Answer 6: A promise

7: What goes up but never comes down?


Answer 7: Your age
8: A man who was outside in the rain
without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a
single hair on his head wet. Why?
Answer 8: He was bald.

9: What can you keep after giving to


someone?
Answer 9: Your word

10: I shave every day, but my beard stays


the same. What am I?
Answer 10: A barber

11: You see a boat filled with people, yet


there isn’t a single person on board. How is
that possible?
Answer 11: All the people on the boat are
married..

12: What can’t talk but will reply when


spoken to?
Answer 12: An echo
13: The more of this there is, the less you
see. What is it?
Answer 13: Darkness

14: I’m light as a feather, yet the


strongest person can’t hold me for five
minutes. What am I?
Answer 14: Your breath

15: If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but


give me a smile and I’ll always smile back.
What am I?
Answer 15: A mirror

16: People make me, save me, change me,


raise me. What am I?
Answer 16: Money

17: What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?


Answer 17: A potato

18. What has one eye, but can’t see?


Answer 18: A needle
19. What has hands, but can’t clap?
Answer 19: A clock

20. What has legs, but doesn’t walk?


Answer 20: A table

21. What has one head, one foot and four


legs?
Answer 21: A bed

 22. What has many teeth, but can’t bite?


Answer 22: A comb

23. What has words, but never speaks?


Answer 23: A book

24. Where does one wall meet the other


wall?
Answer 24: On the corner

25. What building has the most stories?


Answer 25: The library
 26. I am an odd number. Take away a letter
and I become even. What number am I?
Answer 26: Seven

27. You see me once in June, twice


in November and not at all in May. What am
I?
Answer 27: The letter “e”

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