Riddles and Brain Teasers

My Daughter’s Father

I am a faithful wife who married but once. John’s son is my daughter’s father. What is my relationship to John?

Daughter-in-law. Her daughter’s father is her husband (she’s only been married once and is devoted, meaning she didn’t have an affair). This means John’s son is her husband, so John is her father-in-law, making her the daughter-in-law.

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Twist and Dance

I love to twist and dance.
Though wingless, I fly high in the sky.

What am I?

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A kite.

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A Headless Kiss

What do you kiss that has a neck but no head?

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A bottle.

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The Longest Pregnancy

A baby was born four years after its parents died in a car crash. How was this possible?

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Amazingly, this actually happened. The parents died in a crash crash and their parents fought for the rights to the four frozen embryos left by their late children. After a surrogate pregnancy, the baby was born with DNA matching their deceased parents.

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ABCD equals DCBA

What 4-digit number abcd satisfies this equation?

4 × abcd = dcba

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2178

4 × 2178 = 8712

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Take It And You Will Lose

Take it and you will lose or gain more than all others.

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Risk.

(found in The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare)

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Fred’s Packing Job

Fred was almost done packing for the day, with five packages left. Unfortunately, Fred dropped the labels and had no idea which label went to which package. What is the probability that Fred managed to correctly label exactly four of the five packages?

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Zero. If Fred had correctly labeled four packages, the fifth label would belong to the fifth package and all packages would be correctly labeled. Therefore it is impossible to mislabel exactly four packages.

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Not a Burden For Its Weight

Not a burden for its weight and daily carried out,
He who takes it wishes it had never come about.

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Punishment.

By Sef Daystrom

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I Am Here, I Am There

I am here, I am there
I am burned into the mind of none
I walk on fire and live on ice
My words are meaningless for I talk not
I hate everyone yet fear no one
I have lived for centuries
Yet I have never existed
What am I?

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Nothingness.

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