Riddles

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RIDDLES

Are you clever enough to figure these ones out?
Let's try it together!

1

The poor have it.
The rich need it.
If you eat it, you die.

nothing

2

I have four legs, a back, but no head.
What am I?

a chair

3

I have keys, but no locks and no rooms.
You can enter, but you can't go outside.
What am I?

a keyboard

4

You answer me,
but I never ask you questions.
What am I?

a telephone

5

What word starts with 'is',

ends with 'and',
and has 'la' in the middle?

island

6

I'm tall when I'm young
 and I'm short when I'm old.
What am I?

a candle

7

A man lives on the 10th floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator (lift) all the way down to the bottom and goes to work.
In the evening, when he comes back from work, he gets into the elevator, and if there is someone else in it, he goes back to the 10th floor. On rainy days he also goes directly to his floor. On all other days, he goes to the 7th floor and walks up 3 flights of stairs to his apartment (flat). Why?

man is very small, cannot reach to number 10, uses an umbrella or someone else to push the button.

8

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

the future

9

A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

he was bald

10

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

a barber

11

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

All the people on the boat are married.

12

David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of their third son?

David

13

I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?

your breath

14

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

a window

15

If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?

second place

16

What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?

a Christmas tree/ pine tree

17

What has words, but never speaks?

a book