#1121 - Unique Riddle
What is the unique characteristic of the following words:
coughing, thirsty, defiant
Each word has 3 consecutive letters of the alphabet- couGHIng, thiRSTy, DEFiant
#1122 - Playing Cards Puzzle
On your travels you come to an old man on the side of the road holding three cards from a standard deck face down. Trying to make conversation you ask him what the three cards are.
He tells you, 'To the left of the queen, are one or two jacks. To the right of the jack, are one or two jacks. To the right of the club, are one or two diamonds. To the left of the diamond, are one or two diamonds.' What are the three cards?
From left to right: the jack of clubs, jack of diamonds, and queen of diamonds.
OR: jack of diamonds, jack of clubs, queen of diamonds.
#1123 - Maths Quiz
Fred can eat 27 chocolates in a hour, Alice can eat 2 chocolates in 10 minutes, and Kelly can eat 7 chocolates in 20 minutes. How long will it take them to share and eat a large box of 120 chocolates whilst watching a movie?
2 hours.
In one hour, Fred eats 27 chocolates, Alice eats 12, and Kelly eats 21. A total of 60 chocolates. Therefore 120 chocolates would take 120 ÷ 60 = 2 hours. QED.
#1124 - Kid Riddle
What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
A computer keyboard.
#1126 - Answer a Maths Riddle
Can you find a seven digit number which describes itself. The first digit is the number of zeros in the number. The second digit is the number of ones in the number, etc. For example, in the number 21200, there are 2 zeros, 1 one, 2 twos, 0 threes and 0 fours.
3211000
#1127 - Poem Riddle
I have streets but no pavement,
I have cities but no buildings,
I have forests but no trees,
I have rivers yet no water.
What am I?
A Map
#1128 - Popular Science Riddle
If you drop a 15 kg iron bar and a 5 kg bag of cotton from a height of 50 meters which will reach the ground first?
Both will reach the ground at the same time since acceleration due to gravity is a constant for all objects on earth.
#1129 - Riddle
On a fine sunny day a ship was in the harbor. All of a sudden the ship began to sink. There was no storm and nothing wrong with the ship yet it sank right in front of the spectators eyes. What caused the ship to sink?
Submarine
#1130 - Simple Card Puzzle
Two ladies played cards for candy; the winner received one piece per game from the loser. When it was time for one of the ladies to go home, one lady had won three games, while the other lady had won three new pieces of candy.
How many individual games had they played?
They ended up playing nine games