Riddles

Riddles: Answer correctly and receive 2 points per
question

What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away

and it still makes a word.  Take another letter away

and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you

have one letter left. What is the word?

Starting, Staring, String, Sting, Sing, Sin, in, i

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

Footsteps

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

A penny

Can you name three consecutive days without using the

words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

or Sunday?

Yesterday today and tomorrow

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment,

but never in a thousand years?
The letter m

A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman,

an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus

trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy,

"If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me

$50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." 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. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50.

How did the man win the bet? The man did exactly as he said he would and

wrote your exact weight on the paper

What has many keys, but can't even open a single door?
A piano

What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
Your name

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when

you throw it away? Charcoal

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