I come in the form of a question. If you don’t know the answers, you will think a lot, but when you know or you are being told the answer it sounds simple that you will think everybody can easily know.
Jim and his wife Patty were sitting in bed together one evening while a thunderstorm raged outside. After a bolt of lightning followed by a loud clap of thunder, the lights went out. Jim stopped reading and went to sleep, but Patty continued reading in the dark. How did she do it?
Patty is blind and was reading a Braille book so she didn’t need the light to begin with. Of course this also meant she didn’t know Jim snuck downstairs to get some cookies, but we’ll just keep that quiet.
1 lb = A 2 lbs + A = B 3 lbs = B 4 lbs = A + B 5 lbs + A + B = C 6 lbs + B = C 7 lbs + B = A + C 8 lbs + A = C 9 lbs = C 10 lbs = A + C 11 lbs + A = B + C 12 lbs = B + C 13 lbs = A + B + C 14 lbs + B = D 15 lbs + B = A + D 16 lbs + A = D 17 lbs = D 18 lbs = A + D 19 lbs + A = B + D 20 lbs = B + D 21 lbs = A + B + D 22 lbs + A + B = C + D 23 lbs + B = C + D 24 lbs + B = A + C + D 25 lbs + A = C + D 26 lbs = C + D 27 lbs = A + C + D 28 lbs + A = B + C + D 29 lbs = B + C + D 30 lbs = A + B + C + D
Jeremy was making $10 an hour at his summer job, but he hated the work. He decided to take a 50% pay cut to work at an easier job. He liked his new job at first, then grew bored and found another job paying 50% more than he was currently making. What was his hourly pay at the third job?
I am a five-letter word and am feared by most but experienced by all. If you remove my first and last letters I bring life. If you add an ‘r’ between the third and fourth letters I am almost nothing and if you remove the first letter from this new word, I am your home.
Death (eat, dearth, earth). No one can escape death, but many fear it. Removing the first and last letters leaves eat, and we must eat to stay alive. Adding the ‘r’ turns death into dearth, which is scarcity and removing the first letter of dearth leaves earth, where you live, assuming this riddle hasn’t reached extraterrestrials.
