These days, a good laugh often comes from my daily emotional offences. I thought it’s better to laugh about it than holding it in with anger or sadness. After all, they capture the little frustrations of life in a way that makes us smile instead of sigh. Pair them with a riddle, and suddenly you’ve got more than a joke, a reason to think.
1. You have 10 fishes, 5 drowned, 3 came back to life. How many do you have?
Answer: Stop counting smart one. Fish can't drown.
2. What do you call a bee that comes from America?
Answer: USB.
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3. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
Answer: Two.
4. Think of a number. Double it. Add ten. Half it. Take away the number you started with.
Answer: Your answer is five.
5. Tomorrow is neither Wednesday nor Thursday. Yesterday was not Friday or Saturday. Today is not Thursday or Sunday or Monday. What day is it today?
Answer: Friday.
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6. What connects two people, but touches only one?
Answer: A wedding ring.
7. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
8. Two boys were born to the same mother, at the same time, same day, same month and year. However they are not twin brothers. How can this be?
Answer: They were two of a set of triplets (or quadruplets etc.
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9. There's a king, queen, and two twins. But nobody in the room. How's it possible?
Answer: They're all beds.
10. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can't go outside. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard.
11. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.
12. While on my way to St. Ives, I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
Answer: Just one, me.
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13. What happens after it rains cats and dogs?
Answer: You step in a poodle.
14. Jimmy’s mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child?
Answer: Jimmy, because Jimmy’s mother had four children!
15. A mother has six girls and each of them has a brother. How many children are there?
Answer: Seven. Each girl has the same brother.
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