ok smartie....

1. What row of numbers comes next in this series?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

2. A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?

3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?

4. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?

5. What is broken every time it's spoken?

6. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?

7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?
Short Hard Riddles

8. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

9. If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?

10. What work can a painter never quite finish?

11. Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?

12. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?

13. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?

14. What has a mouth but can't chew?

15. How many letters are in the alphabet?

16. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

17. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

18. Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I?

19. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?

20. What stinks when living and smells good when dead?

21. When is it bad luck to meet a white cat?

22. If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?

i'll post answers later.....

don't worry i got google bro

rats....

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one ones, one three, two ones, three twos, one ones

15. How many letters are in the alphabet?

if the answer to this is 11 and not 26 imma gonna punch u in the face

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15. How many letters are in the alphabet?

if the answer to this is 11 and not 26 imma gonna punch u in the face

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If its non repeating ur wrong twice!

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15. How many letters are in the alphabet?

if the answer to this is 11 and not 26 imma gonna punch u in the face

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hey! owch!!!

I have answered all of them correctly.

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3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?

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Hook it all up to a bomb, put it in Central Park, and call Officer John McClane.

3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?

Easy fill 3 gallon container, pour into 5 gallon (5 gallon now has 3 gallon) fill 3 gallon container fill up rest of 5 gallon container and be left with 1 gallon in the 3 gallon container

I watched Die Hard 3 last night bitch

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3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?

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Hook it all up to a bomb, put it in Central Park, and call Officer John McClane.

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beat me to it

you'll need Zeus too

I love this kind of thing.. although I'm not very good at it...

1. What row of numbers comes next in this series?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221
11132211

2. A man was to be sentenced, and the judge told him, "You may make a statement. If it is true, I'll sentence you to four years in prison. If it is false, I'll sentence you to six years in prison." After the man made his statement, the judge decided to let him go free. What did the man say?
Your mother was a hampster, let me go free.

3. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?
Fill the 5g container, pour 3/5 of it into the 3g. Empty the 3g container, now only 2g remains in the 5g. Pour this into the 3g. Fill the 5g. Pour 1g into the 3g, leaving 4g in the 5g container. Empty the 3g container. Fill the 3g with the 5g container, leaving only 1g behind in the 5g container.

4. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?
17. Not going to bother explaining my math here.

5. What is broken every time it's spoken?
broken english

6. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?
Poligamy

7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?
7

8. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
?

9. If I say "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?
Impossible

10. What work can a painter never quite finish?
Self-portrait

11. Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people?
Bertha died

12. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?
she died during labor with john...or, photography did not exist during her time, or curlers for that matter

13. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?
one

14. What has a mouth but can't chew?
venus fly trap, or a fish?

15. How many letters are in the alphabet?
26. if the answer is 11, the question is gramatically incorrect.

16. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
cloth

17. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
the back left wheel of a car

18. Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I?
fire

19. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?
donut.. i know, whole is not spelt as 'hole' but it's all i could think of.

20. What stinks when living and smells good when dead?
skunk on the bar bee

21. When is it bad luck to meet a white cat?
labour day

22. If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?
zero



Here's a couple I have:
1) Name two different words that start with the letter 'F' and end with 'UCK.'

2) A snail is trying to get out from the bottom of a 10 foot well. The snail can travel 3 feet/day, but then slides down 2 feet at night. How many days does it take for the snail to escape?

Here's my favorite:
3) There are three books on a shelf. the front cover of each book is 1/2 inch. the back cover of each book is also 1/2 inch. the paper between total 1 inch in each book. A bookworm is eating its way through the books. If the bookworm begins from the front page of book #1 and eats through until the back page of book #3, how many inches has the bookworm ate through?

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5. What is broken every time it's spoken? SILENCE

6. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying? MARK IS A MINISTER/JUSTICE OF THE PEACE/WHATEV

7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family? 7

11. Why wasn't Bertha put in jail after killing dozens of people? BERTHA WAS A HURRICANE

12. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers? CAMERAS WORK BETTER THAN CURLERS

13. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have? THE ONE YOU TOOK

14. What has a mouth but can't chew? A RIVER

15. How many letters are in the alphabet? 11

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I think the answer to #7 is none of the above. It 's somewhere between 7-gazillion.

Name a 3 letter/1 syllable word that when you add just one letter it makes it 3 syllables

the answer to #2 is clearly PLEAD THE FIFTH.

http://www.increasebrainpower.com/hard-riddles.html

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7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family? 7

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I keep coming up with 10, explain
4 daughters=4 brothers=8 kids+2 parent=10
What am i missing?

^^^^^
the sisters share the same brother

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7. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?

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They each have the same person as their brother. My 4 sisters each have 1 brother, me. As an example.

19. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?

The word "Wholesome".

1. 1113213211 After the first line, each line describes the previous line:
One One
Two Ones
One Two, One One
(and so on...)
2. He said, "You'll sentence me to six years in prison." If it was true, then the judge would have to make it false by sentencing him to four years. If it was false, then he would have to give him six years, which would make it true. Rather than contradict his own word, the judge set the man free.
3. Fill the 3-gallon container with oil and pour it into the 5-gallon container. Then fill the 3-gallon container again and use it to fill the 5-gallon container the rest of the way. One gallon will be left in the 3-gallon container.
4. Five. There are only four colors, so five socks guarantee that two will be the same color.
5. Silence.
6. It's part of his job - he's a justice of the peace.
7. Seven. The four daughters have only one brother, making five children, plus mom and dad.
8. Queue.
9. A lie. It can't be the truth without contradicting itself (and therefore being a lie), but some of my statements can be lies, and this is one of those statements.
10. Her autobiography.
11. She was a hurricane.
12. You can't use curlers to take photos! You need a camera.
13. You have just one - the one you took away.
14. A river.
15. There are eleven letters in "the alphabet."
16. A towel.
17. A stamp.
18. Fire.
19. The word "wholesome."
20. Bacon.
21. When you're a mouse.
22. Just one - after that it won't be empty.

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17. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

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Midget locked in a cage

EZ