See all answers to riddles from the Impact Wealth Planners newsletter
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
What is cut on a table, but is never eaten?
I shave every day, but I still have a beard. What am I?
What contains three ‘E’s but only one letter?
I live for but a single breath.
Any touch could spell my death.
A rainbow spins within my eye.
Make me right, and I can fly.
Some find me in pictures,
Others have found me in smells.
I really only exist when something is gone.
And when I’m gone a long time,
I can come back unexpectedly in an instant.
What am I?
I have keys and locks but no doors.
I have space but no rooms.
I have characters but no people within.
What am I?
With 48 or more teeth in my skull, I am always growing
Always hungry, and always consuming
Though I speak in a language no one understand
Manipulating adult humans to my will, I can bend
With a single cry, I bring worry, panic, and even terror
And yet, surprise, I am no eldritch horror
What am I?
Lose me once I'll come back stronger,
Lose me twice I'll leave forever,
What am I?
This thing, without hands is caught,
Take it you must, or forever not
We’re not very close, my siblings and I,
I see them only when one’s passing by.
I have seven in total: one sister, six brothers,
But I am quite unlike all of the others.
I’m nurturing and caring, this sets me apart,
I'm a bit of a lunatic but I have a warm heart
I lie in a bed but never sleep, I can push or kill yet I have no arms, I run yet have no legs, I roar yet I have no voice, what am I?
My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick. Fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe. What am I?
Five women took part in a bicycle race. Barbara finished before Vicki but behind Susan. Katarina finished before Sarah but behind Vicki. In what order did they finish?