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Puzzles

Try your hand at a few of these puzzles and riddles.............I love it!



 

  • How many times can you take 3 from 18

       Once 
 

  • Dave and Brad, two popular politicians, met at a club to discuss the overthrow of their party leader. They each ordered vodka on the rocks. Brad downed his and ordered another. He then drank his second in a gulp and decided to wait before he ordered a third. Meanwhile, Dave, who was sipping his drink, suddenly fell forward dead. Both men were setup for an assassination. Why did Dave die and Brad live?
    Both Dave and Brad were given drinks with poisoned ice cubes. Brad drank his  drinks so quickly that the ice didn't have time to melt and release the poison. 
 
  • What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

       Towel 

  • What can you catch but not throw?

       A cold 

  • I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?

       A nose

  • What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

       A stamp 

  • Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I? 

    A fire 
     
  • Make 34 out of 1, 2, 6, and 7. 
    (7-1) * 6 = 36 - 2 = 34 
 
  • A black dog stands in the middle of an intersecton in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?

      It’s the day time! 
 
  • Four men were in a boat on the lake. The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man got wet! Why?

     Because they were all married and not single.  
 
  • Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it wants it not.

    Counterfeit money. 
  • When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height. Ten years later at age sixteen, John returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimeters each year, how much higher would the nail be?

      The nail would be at the same height since trees grow at their tops. 

  • The Music played. The music Stopped. A person Died. What happened? 

      The person is a blindfolded cord walker that relies on music to know when the  end of the cord is reached.  

  • Mr. Peters, a Londoner was reading the paper one day and read about an accident that resulted in death. A local couple had been vacationing in Paris and the wife had fallen to her death from their 19th story room. Mr. Peters told his wife that it was no accident and that the wife had been murdered. 
    Mr. Peters had never met either the husband or the wife, how could he have known this?

    Mr Peters is an airline desk operator who sold the couple their tickets which  included a return flight for the husband but only a one way ticket
    for the wife. 

  • Ryan has arranged to meet Sarah at Waterloo Station on Saturday, but when asked at what time he replied with:

      IHHG ONNO 

  • Dennis and Edna ______ 
     
    What did Dennis and Edna do? 
     
  • Sex at noon _____ 
     
    What does sex at noon do?
 
  • If  8709 = 5 
     7123 = 0 
     4162 = 2 
     2716 = 1 
     8666 = 5 
     1111 = 0 
     8947 = 4 
     6170 = 2 
     0000 = 4 
     3333 = 0 
     9152 = 1 
     6815 = 3
 

      Then  3284 = ? 
 

 

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