Riddles and Brain Teasers

The owner of the butcher shop is five foot ten inches tall, has brown hair and wears size 11 1/2 shoes. He is married and has two children, one boy and one girl. What does he weigh?

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Meat. The rest of the details were merely distractions. Butchers weigh meat at a butcher shop.

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Two Sisters Give Birth to the Other

They are two sisters. One gives birth to the other, who in turn gives birth to the first. What are the two sisters?

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Night and day. When night is over, the day breaks, and when the day ends, night is born anew.

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Spell check

Which word is always spelled wrong?

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The word “wrong”.

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All In White, A Fossil

All in white, a fossil,
fresh snow, a loan, the sky,
But just what am I?

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A bride (something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue).

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Cats Catching Mice

5 cats can catch 5 mice in 5 minutes. How many cats does it take to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?

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5 cats. The same five could keep catching 5 mice every 5 minutes for 100 minutes.

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A Sinking Ship

Imagine you’re alone in a boat with a large hole in the bottom. Sharks are swimming around you on all sides and the boat is sinking fast. How do you survive?

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Stop imagining ;)

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