Riddles for 12 Year Olds — Page 22

Why did the baseball coach tell the baseball player to go to the bank?

Why did the Indian chief wear so many feathers?

Why Does 1 = 3 2 = 3 3 = 5 4 = 4 5 = 4 6 = 3 7 = 5 8 = 5 9 = 4 10 = 3

With pointed fangs it sits in wait, With piercing force its doles out fate, Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might, Eternally joining in a single bite. What am I?

Hint: With pointed fangs it sits in wait…

You and your three friends stay over night at a hotel it costs thirty to stay over each of you pay 10 bucks shortly after you get back the bellhop arrives and gives you 5 bucks becasue it was only 25 dollars you give the bellhop a tip of 2 bucks and your friends both a dollar WHERE DID THE LAST DOLLAR GO !!!

Hint: You and your three friends stay over night at a hotel it costs thirty to stay ov…

You are in a room that is completely bricked in on all four sides, including the ceiling and floor. You have nothing but a mirror and a wooden table in the room with you. How do you get out?

Hint: You are in a room that is completely bricked in on all four sides…

You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet. How can you identify this magnet?

Hint: You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods…

You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?

Hint: You are on a ship…

You are standing on the top one of two solid metal pillars. They are both exactly one kilometer apart from each other and they both stand one kilometer high. There is absolutely nothing around these pillars, but you have one small twig, one small rock and an unlimited supply of rope. Usuing only the materials named, how can you get from the top of the pillar that you are on to the top of the other pillar?

Hint: You are standing on the top one of two solid metal pillars…

You are walking down a road and you encounter a fork in the road and you do not know the correct way to go. There are two men standing at the junction and both know the correct road. One man always lies, and the other man always tells the truth, but you do not know who is the liar and who is the one who tells the truth. You can only ask each man one question, but it must be the same question for both. What is the question that would allow you to get the information necessary to choose the correct path?

Hint: You are walking down a road and you encounter a fork in the road and you do not …

You can carry it everywhere you go, and it does not get heavy. What is it?

You can see nothing else When you look in my face, I will look you in the eye And I will never lie.

Hint: You can see nothing else When you look in my face…

You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving. What is it?

Hint: You can spin…

You can’t keep this until you have given it.

You can take off all of my skin and I will not cry but YOU will Why ?

You give someone a dollar. You are this person’s brother, but the person is not your brother. How can that be?

Hint: You give someone a dollar…

You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock. This one loses exactly 24 minutes every hour. It is now showing 3:00am and you know that is was correct at midnight, when you set it. The clock stopped 1 hour ago, what is the correct time now?

Hint: You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock…

You have three stoves: a gas stove, a wood stove, and a coal stove, but only one match. Which should you light first?

Hint: You have three stoves: a gas stove…

You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?

Hint: You hear it speak…

You heard me before, Yet you hear me again, Then I die, ‘Till you call me again.