Riddles: great distraction
 

So riddles are fun and really distracting... so mike thought that we should have a thread for them. Just write the riddle, and put the answer under a hide box. Everybody can add more when they hear them, and go through and do other peoples.

So, to start,

Two twins were born in March, but their birthdays were in April. One was twenty, and the other was twenty to, and one married the other. How are all three of these statements possible?



You give your mother a present (but forgot to wrap it, silly you), yet she opens it over and over again, and each time she opens it she makes a mess. What did you give her?



so start adding more!!!!

Haha! I knew the answers to both of those, but my knowledge of riddles is ridiculously low. I can never remember them!

Some easy (well known) ones though:

What gets wetter the more it dries?



The man who built it doesnt want it, the man who bought doesnt need it the man who needs it doesnt know it. What is it?



What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it? You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library.



A father and son were in a car accident where the father was killed. The ambulance brought the son to the hospital. He needed immediate surgery. In the operating room, a doctor came in and looked at the little boy and said I can't operate on him he is my son. Who is the doctor?

Katie im shocked and appaled at you , this was my idea , i told oyu i was going to make this thread¬¬ That was just mean :P ill add a riddle when i remember how to put the hide marks on

how many times can you take 6 from 30



What must be broken before it can be used



Thats it for now:P post more later

Hey... You took one of my riddles :0 oh, well, it's only fair...

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

Im allowed totake one of your riddles, You took my thread ;)

A man was standing in a room and said:
"brothers, sisters, I have none, but this man here, is my dads son"
Who did he see?

I like the one above mine...

You wouldn't want me if I had one, two, or three holes, but if I had five you might throw me out. What am I?



Normally you unwrap me, throw out the wrapper, and enjoy the inside of me... But in Hollywood they unwrap me, throw out my insides, and use my wrapper to make people around the world laugh. What am I?

ha ha, i like them! :)

Im never far from the point, never get things wrong, but help if there is allready a mistake, what am i?



Cant remember the exact words used, but its sort of it!

Okay i got some :]

What goes up and down the stairs but never moves?


The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?

ha ha, i love this thread, but i cant think of any at the moment! hmm...

What is white when dirty and black when clean?



This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town
And beats high mountain down.

I love riddles :) I'm quite suprised that I knew the answers of some of the above =] mine are easy:

If a blue house is made of blue bricks
a red house is made of red bricks
and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks.
what is a green house made of?



A Panda Bear walked into a resturant. He sat down at a table and ordered some food. When he was finished eating, he took out a gun and shot his waiter. He then left the resturant. After the police caught up with him, they asked him why he had killed the waiter. He replied, "Look me up in the dictionary." What did the dictionary say?

*edit* oops.. i put the answer lmfao..... sorry... the panda one is brill and made me giggle like mad!

...Riddle me this! Haha, sorry, Batman freak moment >.>

I stand beside the holy man;
The monarchs fear my wrath,
None may move the way I can -
Ever the crooked path

ok I can only think of a boring one....

What object is generally green; but red when you eat it and black when you spit it out?