Clever Riddles/Puzzles

[Anarchemitis]

What is easy to manipulate and hard to operate?

This one is annoying me...

Snigger snigger. I knew no one would get it.
[Unlike other super-challenging riddles I have put forth, this one has a good answer.]

 

[frank220]

a towel

 

[Flap Jack452]

1. What can you catch but not throw?
2. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
3. I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
4. You use a knife to slice my head, and weep when I am dead. What am I?
5. I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?

Spoiler: 5

The letter R

Spoiler: 2

A globe, map, or atlas?

No this has already been solved but it was
<spoiler=5>A dictionary
<spoiler=2>A stamp

 

[Maileigh]

Spoiler: 1. What unusual natural phenomenon is capable of speaking in any language?

A baby

And now for some of mine:

A midget has a job st the circus, which he loves very much. For his 15th anniversary of preforming there, his circus friends throw him a party. Getting quite drunk at the party, he goes home to his trailer. The next day, he wakes up and makes breakfast. Halfway trough making it, he looks at the table in the middle of his trailer, drops the pan in shock, and shoots himself. Why did he kill himself? All the information needed is given.

Nope wrong!

 

[Nekroneko]

I have one. Some of you may have heard this one before.

Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

 

[Flap Jack452]

1. My thunder comes before the lightning;
My lightning comes before the clouds;
My rain dries all the land it touches.
What am I?

2. What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?

3.What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?

4. You can have me but cannot hold me;
Gain me and quickly lose me.
If treated with care I can be great,
And if betrayed I will break.
What am I?

 

[bad rider]

Indianna Jones, a woman, a child and a old man have 22 minutes until the volcano erupts and destroys the only bridge out. However it's dark and they need a torch to see where Planks have rotted in the bridge, and only two people can cross at any time. They only have one torch.

Given that it takes indy 3 minutes the woman 4 minutes the child 6 minutes and the old guy 7 minutes to cross the bridge. How do they make their escape?

Thought I would repost this one as I have corrected all of it's errors.

 

[bad rider]

And another (pretty terrible) one:

You're stuck in a jail cell with 4 walls and no windows, how do you escape?

Climb through the gap where the windows were?

 

[Flap Jack452]

A midget has a job st the circus, which he loves very much. For his 15th anniversary of preforming there, his circus friends throw him a party. Getting quite drunk at the party, he goes home to his trailer. The next day, he wakes up and makes breakfast. Halfway trough making it, he looks at the table in the middle of his trailer, drops the pan in shock, and shoots himself. Why did he kill himself? All the information needed is given.

He suddenly realized he has been a circus freak for 15 years? I dunno

 

[bad rider]

I have one. Some of you may have heard this one before.

Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

Language. What was with the whole gry thing?

 

[Krakyn]

1. My thunder comes before the lightning;
My lightning comes before the clouds;
My rain dries all the land it touches.
What am I?

2. What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?

3.What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?

4. You can have me but cannot hold me;
Gain me and quickly lose me.
If treated with care I can be great,
And if betrayed I will break.
What am I?

2.

Spoiler

A coat of paint?

 

[Flap Jack452]

1. My thunder comes before the lightning;
My lightning comes before the clouds;
My rain dries all the land it touches.
What am I?

2. What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?

3.What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?

4. You can have me but cannot hold me;
Gain me and quickly lose me.
If treated with care I can be great,
And if betrayed I will break.
What am I?

2.

Spoiler

A coat of paint?

Indeed, you are quite good at these riddles.

 

[Nekroneko]

Indianna Jones, a woman, a child and a old man have 22 minutes until the volcano erupts and destroys the only bridge out. However it's dark and they need a torch to see where Planks have rotted in the bridge, and only two people can cross at any time. They only have one torch.

Given that it takes indy 3 minutes the woman 4 minutes the child 6 minutes and the old guy 7 minutes to cross the bridge. How do they make their escape?

Thought I would repost this one as I have corrected all of it's errors.

Indy and woman = 4
Indy back = 7
Old man and Child = 14
woman back = 18
Indy and Woman again = 22

 

[Krakyn]

I have one. Some of you may have heard this one before.

Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

Language. What was with the whole gry thing?

It was meant to distract you by making you link the -gry, angry, and hungry to the only three words part. Worked on me, didn't even realize the misdirection. Good one!

 

[bad rider]

Indianna Jones, a woman, a child and a old man have 22 minutes until the volcano erupts and destroys the only bridge out. However it's dark and they need a torch to see where Planks have rotted in the bridge, and only two people can cross at any time. They only have one torch.

Given that it takes indy 3 minutes the woman 4 minutes the child 6 minutes and the old guy 7 minutes to cross the bridge. How do they make their escape?

Thought I would repost this one as I have corrected all of it's errors.

Indy and woman = 4
Indy back = 7
Old man and Child = 14
woman back = 18
Indy and Woman again = 22

Ding you win a time management cookie. It dosen't do much but it tastes nice.

 

[Nekroneko]

I have one. Some of you may have heard this one before.

Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

Language. What was with the whole gry thing?

Heh, got that quicker than I thought. At least I didn't tell it the Chinese whispers way.

 

[bad rider]

snszxeooazhnywrlodocsewiuapbfskeuoih

 

[Flap Jack452]

1. My thunder comes before the lightning;
My lightning comes before the clouds;
My rain dries all the land it touches.
What am I?

2. What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?

3.What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?

4. You can have me but cannot hold me;
Gain me and quickly lose me.
If treated with care I can be great,
And if betrayed I will break.
What am I?

1. Buh.

2. paint

3. frog

4. Eh?

Only paint is correct.

 

[CptRumGuy]

A midget has a job st the circus, which he loves very much. For his 15th anniversary of preforming there, his circus friends throw him a party. Getting quite drunk at the party, he goes home to his trailer. The next day, he wakes up and makes breakfast. Halfway trough making it, he looks at the table in the middle of his trailer, drops the pan in shock, and shoots himself. Why did he kill himself? All the information needed is given.

The table is now shorter in comparison to himself (someone played a prank by sawing bits of the legs off?). He now thinks he is growing to normal size, in which case, he would be out of a job.