1. A sheik announced that a race would decide which of his two sons would inherit all his wealth.

The sons were to ride their camels to a certain distant city. The son whose camel reached the city last would be given all the sheik's wealth. The two sons set out on the journey. After severals days of aimless wandering, they met and agreed to seek the advice of a wiseman. After listening to the wiseman's advice, the two sons rode the camels as quickly as possible to the designated city. They did not agree to split the wealth, and their father's decree was to be followed. What was it that the wiseman told the two sons? He told the two sons to switch camels. . A man wanted to enter an e!clusive club but did not know the password that was required. "e waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, #twelve.# The member replied, #si! # and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, #si!.# The member replied, #three# and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said ,#ten# and the man replied, #five.# $ut he was not let in. What should have he said? Three, because there are three letters in Ten. %. A man leaves home and, after making three left turns, he ends up back at home, and finds two masked men waiting for him. What is happening? The man is a baseball player which has hit an in-the-park home-run.

4. &ote' This riddle must be done in your head and not using paper and pen. Take
1((( and add )( to it. &ow add another 1(((. &ow add %(. &ow add another 1(((. &ow add (. &ow add another 1(((. &ow add 1(. What is the total? The total is 4100. I your answer is !000, check the last step.

5. *hen +iss +ae purchased her new parrot, the salesman assured her that it would
repeat any word it heard. About a week later, +iss +ae returned the parrot complaining it hadn't uttered a single word. The salesman had spoken the truth about the parrot's abilities. +iss +ae had said words to the parrot, but the parrot did not repeat them. Why didn't the bird talk? The parrot was dea .

6. Tom and ,erry, two popular politicians, met at a club to discuss the overthrow of

their party leader. They each ordered vodka on the rocks. ,erry downed his and ordered another. "e then drank his second in a gulp and decided to wait before he ordered a third. +eanwhile, Tom, who was sipping his first drink, suddenly fell forward dead. $oth men had been setup for an assassination. Why did Tom die, yet Jerry lived? Their ice cubes had been poisoned. "erry drank his so ast that the cubes hadnt melt at all yet. Toms ice cubes howe#er, had partially melted and poisoned his drink.

7. -f you have me you want to share me. -f you share me, you won't have me. What
am I?

$ secret.

8. "ow many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick.

%ne. &o matter how many bricks it took to make the buildin', it takes one last brick to complete it.

9. /eter celebrated his birthday on one day, and two days later his identical twin
brother, /aul, celebrated his birthday. How could this be? (hen the mother o the twins went into labor, she was tra#ellin' by a boat. The older twin, )aul, was born irst, barely on *arch 1st. The boat then crossed a time +one, and the youn'er twin was born on ,ebruary -.th. In the leap year the youn'er twin celebrates his birthday two days be ore his older brother.

10. *hat is so fragile that when you say its name you break it.
/ilence.

11. All the electricity was out in town and none of the street lights or traffic signals
had power. A dark limousine was cruising down the newly paved blacktop, with its headlights off. A young boy dressed totally in black 0with no reflectors1 stepped out to cross the street. The moon wasn't out and the boy had no flashlight, yet the driver stopped to let the boy cross the street. How did the driver see the boy? It was durin' dayli'ht hours. 1 . A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. *hen he arrives the surgeon says, #- can't operate on this boy, he is my son2 # "ow can this be. The sur'eon was his mother. 1%. A man died and went to "eaven. There were thousands of other people there. They were all naked and all looked as they did at the age of 1. "e looked around to see if there was anyone he recogni3ed. "e saw a couple and he knew immediately that they were Adam and 4ve. "ow did he know. He reco'ni+ed $dam and 0#e as the only people without na#els. 1ecause they were not born o women, they had ne#er had umbilical cords and there ore they ne#er had na#els. This one seems per ectly lo'ical but it can sometimes spark ierce theolo'ical ar'uments.

14. A murderer is condemned to death. "e has to choose between three rooms. The
first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in % years. *hich room is safest for him. The third one. The lions that did not eat or three years are dead.

15. *hat is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it
away. 2harcoal.

16. Two dogs are sitting on a porch 5 a fat dog and a thin dog. The little dog is the
son of the fat dog, but the fat dog is not the father of the thin dog. 6an you e!plain. The at do' is the mother.

17. *hat goes around the world but stays in a corner.

$ stamp.

17. The man who invented it doesn8t want it. The man who bought it doesn8t need it. The man who needs it doesn8t know it. *hat is it. $ co in. 19. :ou use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when - am dead. *hat am -. $n onion.

20. - am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which - am never
released, and yet - am used by almost everybody. )encil lead.

21. A man went on a trip with a fo!, a goose and a sack of corn. "e came upon a
stream which he had to cross and found a tiny boat to use to cross the stream. "e could only take himself and one other 5 the fo!, the goose, or the corn 5 at a time. "e could not leave the fo! alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. "ow does he get all safely over the stream. Take the 'oose o#er irst and come back. Then take the o3 o#er and brin' the 'oose back. &ow take the corn o#er and come back alone to 'et the 'oose. Take the 'oose o#er and the 4ob is done5

22. *ho spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at
night. $ ly. %. There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good. *hat are they. (ater, ire, earth and wind.

). /oke your fingers in my eyes and - will open wide my jaws. ;inen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all. *hat am -. /cissors. <. - am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. :ou cannot e!press happiness without me, yet - am in the midst of crosses. - am always in risk, yet never in danger. :ou may find me in the sun, but - am never out of darkness. The letter /. =. ;ives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth. *hat am -. $n echo. >. A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under water. "is record was = minutes. A kid that was listening said, #that's nothing, can stay under water for 1( minutes using no types of equipment or air pockets2# The magician told the kid if he could do that, he'd give him ?1(,(((. The kid did it and won the money. 6an you figure out how. The kid illed a 'lass o water and held it o#er his head or 10 minutes.

7. Think of words ending in 5@A:. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the 4nglish language. *hat is the third word. The word is something that everyone uses every day. -f you have listened carefully, - have already told you what it is. It states, 6There are only three words in the 0n'lish lan'ua'e. (hat is the third word76 The third word o that phrase is o course 6lan'ua'e.6 9. Bntil - am measured - am not known, :et how you miss me *hen - have flown. Time. %(. A woman shoots her husband, then holds him under water for five minutes. Cinally, she hangs him. Cive minutes later they enjoy a wonderful dinner together. "ow can this be. /he took a photo o him and de#eloped it in the dark room. %1. A cowboy rides into town on Criday, stays for three days and leaves on Criday. "ow did he do it. The horses name is ,riday.

% . A man walks into a pub and simply orders a water. The bar tender simply looks at the man, grabs a shotgun, and points it at the man's face. The man says, #Thank you,# gets up, and walks out of the pub. *hy did they behave this way. He was ha#in' hiccups, so in order to stop them, the bartender took out a 'un to shock the man. %%. Do you say, #&ine and five is thirteen,# or #&ine and five are thirteen#. &either. &ine and i#e are ourteen. %). *hat runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a head but never weeps. $ ri#er. %<. "ow could - place a bookbag on the floor where no one could jump over it. In a corner o a room.

36. A /anda $ear walked into a resturant. "e sat down at a table and ordered some
food. *hen he was finished eating, he took out a gun and shot his waiter. "e then left the resturant. After the police caught up with him, they asked him why he had killed the waiter. "e replied, #;ook me up in the dictionary.# *hat did the dictionary say. (hen they looked up the word 6)anda6 in the dictionary, it stated, 6)anda8 0ats shoots and lea#es.6

%>. A three year old girl, and a 1(( year old man have had e!actly the same amount of birthdays. "ow many birthdays have they had. %ne. 9ou celebrate your birthday e#ery year, but the only day that is actually your birthday is the day you were born. %7. A man was walking in the jungle. "e only had one bullet in his gun. $ut yet he shot a puma and a cougar. "ow did he do this. $ puma and cou'ar are the same animal. %9. "ow many letters are in the alphabet. There are 11 :0TT0;/ in the $:)H$10T. )(. A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, #-f write your e!act weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me ?<(, but if - cannot, - will pay you ?<(.# The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. -n the end the boy ended up paying the man ?<(. "ow did the man win the bet.

The man did e3actly as he said he would and wrote 6your e3act wei'ht6 on the paper. )1. -f you were running a race, and you passed the person in nd place, what place would you be in now. -nd place. ) . - cannot be felt, seen or touchedE :et - can be found in everybodyE +y e!istence is always in debateE :et - have my own style of music. *hat Am -. Im a soul. /tyle o music 8 soul music.

43. - look at you, you look at me - raise my right,you raise your left *hat is this
object. $ mirror. )). Fn 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. *hat caused the ship to sink. The 6/ubmarine6 2aptain ordered the crew to di#e. )<. Gergi and Gally where sitting in their family room one night. *hile Gergi was watching T.H his wife Gally was reading. All of a sudden the power went out and Gergi decided to go to bed, but Gally kept on reading. *ith no use of artificial light, Gally kept on reading. "ow. /ally was blind, she was readin' a book by 1raille.

46. *hy can't Ievin ;aroche, who is now living in 6anada, not be buried in the BGA.
1ecause he is still ali#e5

47. *hat gets wetter the more it dries.

$ towel.

48. Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell.
&o matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. "owever, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Cinally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. *hat is his plan.

His plan is to di' the tunnel and pile up the dirt to climb up to the window to escape.

49. There was a green round house. -nside the green round house was a smaller
white house.-n the white house was a red house.And living in the red house were lots of little black babies.*hat is this. $ watermelon5

50. - have holes on the top and bottom,- have holes on my left and on my right, and
- have holes in the middle, yet - still hold water. *hat am -. $ spon'e5

51. They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being
stolen. The stars.

52. 6an you name three consecutive days without using the words *ednesday,
Criday, or Gunday. 9esterday, today and tomorrow5

53. *hat state is surrounded by most water.

Hawaii.

54. A man was born in 19<<. "e's alive and well today at age %%. "ow is this
possible. He was born in the hostpital with the room number 1<!!.

55. *hat is the capital city of 6hina.

1ei4in'

56. A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. *ho am -.

Im their dau'hter.

57. A =5foot tall +agician had a water glass and was holding the glass above his
head. "e let it drop to the carpet without spilling a single drop of water. "ow could he manage to drop the glass from a height of si! feet and not spill a drop of water. It was an empty 'lass o water5

58. /at Gmith gives someone a dollar. /at is this person's brother, but the person is
not /at's brother. "ow can that be. Its )ats sister.

59. A woman was sitting on a windowsill on the %<th floor of a building. Ghe was
about to commit suicide. The police surrounded the bottom of the building telling her &FT to jump. "er husband was in the room with her and kept trying to stop her. Ghe got nervous and fell, yet she did not get or hurt or even a scratch. *hy. /he ell into her room instead o out the window5

60. A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive
girl named Garah. The bus driver had to go on a long bustrip that would last a week. $efore he left, he gave Garah seven apples. *hy. $n apple a day, keeps the doctor away5

61. - reach for the sky, but clutch to the groundE sometimes - leave, but - am always
around. *hat am -. $ tree. = . :ou live in a one story house made #entirely of redwood#. *hat color would the stairs be. (hat stairs7 9ou li#e in a one story house. =%. -f you go to the movies and you're paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at the same time. It=s cheaper to take two riends at the same time. In this case, you would only be buyin' three tickets, whereas i you take the same riend twice you are buyin' our tickets.