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Riddles:

1.What has a face and two hands but no arms? A clock

2.What five-lettter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Short

3.What word begins and ends with 'e' but only has one letter? Envelope

4.What type of cheese is made backwards? Edam

5.What gets wetter as it dries? A towel

6.Why did the boy bury his flashlight? Because his batteries died.

7.Which letter of the alphabet has the most water? The C

8.What starts with a 'P', ends with 'E' and has thousands of letters? The Post Office

9.What has to be broken before you can use it? An egg

10.What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it? A teapot

11.How many letters are there in the English alphabet? There are 18:3 in 'the', 7 in 'English' and 8 in 'alphabet'

12.Which word, if pronouncedd right, is wrong, but if pronounced wrong is right? Wrong!

13.Imagine you are in a room with no windows, doors or anything, how do you get out? Stop imagining!

14.A boy and a doctor went fishing. The boy is the doctor's son but the doctor is not the boy's father. Who is the doctor? The boy's mother!

15.What is so fragile that when you say it's name you break it? Silence

If you want any more riddles (with or without answers) just ask on the 'guestbook' or 'feedback' page.

Puzzles to work out at home:

2+2 = fish

3+3 = eight

7+7 = triangle?

1.What goes up but never comes down?

2.How many times can you subtract 5 from 25?

3.A man was going to buy a $5000 car, but he didn't pay a penny for the car, how is this possible?

4.What is it when you take away whole, you still have some left over?

5.Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

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