Riddles

1. A couple enters a grand ballroom only to find the occupants are dead. There has been no crime committed. The couple is not
concerned by what they have found. How is this possible?

Answer: The couple is scuba diving on a sunken cruise ship. The occupants in the ballroom had drowned when the ship sank suddenly in a
terrible disaster at sea.

2. A carrot, a scarf, and five pieces of coal are found lying on your neighbor’s lawn. Nobody put them on the lawn, but there is a simple,
logical reason why they are there. What is it?

Answer: The items were used by children to build a snowman that has now melted.

3. An elderly woman lives on the 35th floor and hates taking the stairs. Every day she takes the elevator down to the lobby floor to go
to work. When she comes home from work, she takes the elevator to the 25th floor and walks the rest of the way up, except on days
when it rains. Those days she takes the elevator all the way home. Why does she walk the last ten flights of stairs if she hates it so
much?

Answer: The elderly woman is too petite to reach the button for the 35th floor. She can only reach the 25th-floor button. On days when it
rains, she uses her umbrella to hit the button for the 35th floor.

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4. You are driving a school bus. The bus is empty when you begin your route. At the first stop, 4 people get on. At the second stop, 8
people get on and 2 get off. At the third stop, 3 people get off and 4 get on. What color are the bus driver’s eyes?

Answer: The color of your eyes.

5. A baby falls out of a window of a 20-story building, yet survives. How?

Answer: The window was on the ground floor.

6. A man pushes his car until he reaches a hotel. When he arrives, he goes bankrupt. What happened?

Answer: He’s playing Monopoly and his piece is the car. He lands on a space with a hotel and doesn’t have the money to pay the fee.

7. Rachael and Monica have moved into a shared house with several other occupants. Monica doesn’t like their new accommodation
though because of the angry and aggressive cat that greeted them when they first walked in. Rachael realizes that there isn’t really a
problem. Why?

Answer: There is a mirror near the entrance. Monica is a cat, saw her reflection, and thought that it was another cat challenging her for
territory. Rachael can cover up the mirror until Monica becomes settled, but Monica will figure it out eventually even if Rachael does nothing.

8. A family has a chicken coop for their one dozen hens. Late one night, a terrible storm came through their area and killed all but eight
chickens. How many chickens did the family have the next morning?

Answer: The family still had 12 hens, four dead, and eight alive.

9. A woman with her barking dog enters a room and presses a button. Within seconds, she instantly loses 20 pounds and the dog stops
barking. How did she lose the weight?

Answer: The room is actually an elevator. When she gets inside to go down to her room, the elevator accelerates downward, making her
weight temporarily lower.

10. The sound of Brian’s snoring is usually just annoying, but today it causes terror and panic. Why?

Answer: Brian is a bus driver.

11. A woman who is in a department store fills her basket to the top and leaves the store without paying. Although she is seen, no one
calls the police or attempts to stop her. Why?

Answer: The woman works there. She is filling the basket with trash and taking it out to the dumpster.

12. A man is sentenced to death. He has to choose from three rooms to receive his punishment. The first room has a firing squad with
guns loaded. The second room has a blazing fire. The third room is full of tigers that haven’t eaten for six months. Which room should
he choose?

Answer: The room of tigers. If the tigers haven’t eaten in six months, they’re dead.

13. A man opened a door, screamed, and then was found dead a few minutes later. No gunshots were heard in the area. What
happened to him?
Answer: He was on an airplane and opened the door while the plane was in flight, falling to his death.

14. While walking across a large open field, you come across a woman that has died very suddenly, unexpectedly, and only a very short
time ago. You look around but there is no one and nothing except for an unopened package next to the woman. How did she die?

Answer: The unopened package was the woman’s parachute.

15. Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?

Answer: A square manhole cover can be turned and dropped down the diagonal of the manhole. A round manhole cover cannot be dropped
down the manhole. So for safety reasons, all manhole covers should be round

16. Jason’s dad couldn’t keep his son from playing video games. To keep Jason from playing video games all the time, the dad grabbed
a hammer and solved the problem. Now he can play video games but Jason cannot. What did the dad do?

Answer: The dad built a shelf out of Jason’s reach and put the video game console up there. The dad can still reach it to play but Jason cannot.

17. A man and his wife raced through the streets. They stopped and the husband got out of the car. When he returned, his wife was
dead and there was a stranger in the car. What happened?

Answer: The wife was about to have a baby. The husband drove them to the hospital. The husband left to get a wheelchair but the baby was
born in the meantime. The wife died in childbirth.

18. A woman enters a large metal tube. She is overcome with fear and clenches her boyfriend’s hand tightly. She is visibly shaken. Her
boyfriend gently rubs her arms and speaks softly to her but is unaffected himself. A few hours later, the woman’s boyfriend tells her
that it’s time to go and her torment ends. What was happening to the woman?

Answer: The woman is terrified of flying but must travel to see a dying relative and this adds to her stress level. Her boyfriend does his best to
comfort her during the few hours of the flight.

19. After a night of partying with her friends, a sorority girl arrives home and finds that she cannot enter her house. She’s sure that
she’s at the right home, but she cannot get inside. What happened that makes entering her home impossible?

Answer: Her friends took her keys away from her the night before because she had too much to drink. They ordered her an Uber to get home
and kept her keys, which meant she didn’t have her house key.

20. One of Michael’s dearest loved ones binds him to a chair, but Michael doesn't mind. Why?

Answer: Michael is a kid. The chair is a car seat. One of Michael’s parents put his seatbelt on for him.

21. At the bottom of a large hill, more than 50 cars are involved in an accident. Some of the cars are overturned and others are resting
on top of other cars. The pile-up is so large that a few military vehicles and a fire truck are also involved in the crash. What happened to
cause this big accident?

Answer: The cars, trucks, and other vehicles are toys being played with by a toddler.

22. Every two weeks a woman sits down and writes two words on 60 sheets of paper. Why does she do this?

Answer: The woman runs her own small business with 60 employees. Every week she signs her name on their paychecks.

23. The man finds himself commuting to work in his car every day. Upon arrival to work each morning, he proceeds to drive his car in a
circle four times before finally parking it and entering his office building. Why does the man drive in circles every day?

Answer: The man works in a crowded part of downtown and is required to park on the fifth floor of a parking structure every day.

24. A woman is driving on a sunny day. She makes a turn and water suddenly starts to pelt her car very hard for about five minutes.
Then the car is buffed by extremely hard-blowing air. The car even begins to shake. The blowing stops, and the woman makes another
turn onto the main road and heads home safely. What happened?

Answer: The woman drove her car into a drive-through car wash. After about 10 minutes, she leaves and drives his clean car home.

25. A man ran into a fire and lived. A man stayed where there was no fire and died. What caused this?

Answer: The two men were working in a small room protected by a carbon dioxide gas fire extinguisher system when a fire broke out in the
next room. One of the men ran through the fire and escaped with only minor burns. The other one stayed in the room until the fire
extinguishers kicked in and died of oxygen starvation.

26. A woman hears her name and is then taken away by two men. Later, the woman dies while under the care of many. What happened
to this poor woman?

Answer: The woman had committed a murder and was determined to be guilty after a fair trial. A judge called her name, gave her the death
penalty, and then two bailiffs took her out of the courtroom. Years later, she was executed while under the care and supervision of a doctor
and detention officers.
27. Three kids enter a room, but only two walkout. The room is empty. Where is the third kid?

Answer: The third kid uses a wheelchair, so they roll out of the room instead of walking out.

28. A woman died and went to Heaven. There were thousands of other people there. They were all naked and all looked young. He
looked around to see if there was anyone he recognized. He saw a couple and he knew immediately that they were Adam and Eve. How
did he know it was them?

Answer: He recognized Adam and Eve as the only people without navels. Because they were not born from a woman, they had never had
umbilical cords, and therefore they never had a belly button.

29. Max’s Trucking Company has been delivering goods to and from local businesses for years. Max’s business is steady and his trucks
drive the same routes and roads every day without any trouble. This year, Max decided to start delivering and receiving goods on
Christmas Day as a way to earn additional money. When Christmas Day finally came, Max sent a few drivers out to do business with
those companies that chose to remain open. Later that day, Max received a call that one of his delivery drivers had struck a bridge and
severely damaged the truck. How could this happen if the drivers have always used the same route without any previous problems?

Answer: On Christmas Day, many of the local businesses that contract with Max’s company had shut down for the day. Having made a final
delivery, and not receiving any new goods to transport, this particular truck was empty. When returning to headquarters the empty truck had
a higher profile and struck the bridge on the way back.

30. A woman grabbed a guy's ring, pulled on it, and dropped it, thereby saving his life. What happened?

Answer: They were skydiving. He broke his arm as he jumped from the plane by hitting it on the plane door, and he couldn't reach his ripcord
with his other arm to pull out the parachute. She pulled the ripcord for him.

Answer: It was winter. He fired the gun near a snowy cliff, which started an avalanche.

Games
1. Fortunately/Unfortunately.
2. Alphabet Categories.
3. Famous Names
4. Invite 5 people to a dinner party.
5. Word association
6. Who can spot the best rock or cloud shaped like something.
7. River Cricket