Clever Riddles/Puzzles

[Syntax Error]

A girl is living in the single room at the top of a building. A killer is on the loose out there in the world. She heard a knock on the door. She opened the door and saw a man. The man said "Sorry I thought it was my room" and promptly went away. The girl called the cops, and the man was arrested. Why did the girl call the police?

EDIT:
Sorry if this had been already asked. and:

A man and his only son are in a car crash, the father is killed....horrificaly. The son is rushed to a hospital. On the operating table, the surgeon catches a glimpse of the boys face and says 'i cannot operate on this boy, he is my son'
wah?

Damn, I forgot the answer to that at the most inopportune moment.

 

[Doitpow]

his mum is the surgeon...sexist

 

[Kiefer13]

A man and his only son are in a car crash, the father is killed....horrificaly. The son is rushed to a hospital. On the operating table, the surgeon catches a glimpse of the boys face and says 'i cannot operate on this boy, he is my son'
wah?

Spoiler

The surgeon was his mother.

Edit: Damnit, ninja'd!

 

[Curiosity's Cat]

What is easy to manipulate and hard to operate?
It looks a little bit like a strawberry. quote]

This one has been driving me up the wall. Here's my best guess:

The human heart. It's a symbol of our emotions, which are easily manipulated. It's hard to operate because it's going 24/7 requiring a lot of energy. It could maybe be said to look a bit like a strawberry...

Yes, it's a stretch but I need closure dammit, and to that end I will spend as long as it takes jamming a square peg in this round hole.

EDIT: If that's right I deserve a cookie that could cause a solar eclipse. I spent like an hour straining out that brain nugget.

 

[Curiosity's Cat]

A girl is living in the single room at the top of a building. A killer is on the loose out there in the world. She heard a knock on the door. She opened the door and saw a man. The man said "Sorry I thought it was my room" and promptly went away. The girl called the cops, and the man was arrested. Why did the girl call the police? /quote


My bf thinks the answer to this is that it used to be the killer's room, that he came back (say after being in gaol or something)and the girl realised he was a killer because of some evidence he left behind...

Is it close?

 

[P1p3s]

52 motorcycles....someone please - i need to know.

I know a couple, mostly simple ones:

1/ How far can you walk into a forest?
2/ What can you put into a bucket to make it lighter?
3/ If it takes 2 men 1 hour to dig a hole how long will it take 1 man to dig half a hole?

This is a what am I riddle:
I have one wall with no doors lined with the finest silk, one corrdoor white like milk, my precious golden treasure in my central room, some think of me as a womb. What am I?

I like that one mainly because it rhymes
Answers?

 

[Jesterz]

What has no beginning, end, or middle?

1. Half way, then your walking back out again.
2. A hole.
3. You can't dig half a hole

 

[Markness]

52 motorcycles....someone please - i need to know.


This is a what am I riddle:
I have one wall with no doors lined with the finest silk, one corridor white like milk, my precious golden treasure in my central room, some think of me as a womb. What am I?

I like that one mainly because it rhymes
Answers?

First I heard this was in the book the Hobbit, Albeit slightly different phrasing. An egg.

Here's one for you.

A man was on the 22nd floor on a building and decided to jump through a window. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground but after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?

 

[hashinta]

First I heard this was in the book the Hobbit, Albeit slightly different phrasing. An egg.

Here's one for you.

A man was on the 22nd floor on a building and decided to jump through a window. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground but after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?

was he jumping into the window from the outside?

 

[MrGFunk]

4. You can have me but cannot hold me;
Gain me and quickly lose me.
If treated with care I can be great,
And if betrayed I will break.
What am I?

4. Friends?

Close...

Trust.

Add gramma to make this into a grammatically correct sentence:
I said that that that that that man said should have been underlined

I said, "that that that that that man said should have been underlined".

You have a stutter.

1. What can you catch but not throw?
2. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
3. I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
4. You use a knife to slice my head, and weep when I am dead. What am I?
5. I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?

Is 2 a shadow?

 

[EeveeElectro]

I believe the second one is a reference to the south pole, so won't the bear be white?

There aren't any bears in the south pole, only penguins. Polar bears are up north.

Yeah, but that's the only thing I could think of

Also, here's mine:

1. No sooner spoken than broken.
2. Something you can't get wet.
3. If there's 5 eggs in one basket, someone takes three and you take two, how can there still be some eggs remaining in the basket?

 

[bad rider]

Not sure if done yet so tell me if it has.

You're in a steel cube with dimensions 3m x 3m x 3m. All you have with you is a table and a saw. How do you get out?

Cut the table in half put them back together. Two halve's make a whole, jump through the hole and escape.

 

[queensbomb]

3. They are both surrounded by water.

4. I want to say your shadow, but it's not always as big as you...

5. Friday is the name of the cowboy's horse.

Those are all right.

I'll try to think of a few more here.

1. What is the longest word in the dictionary?

2. Every day the man saw his dog ran into the woods. However, he noticed that the dog never ran more than halfway into the woods. Why?

3. An island and the letter "t" have something in common. What is it?

4. What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?

5. A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do it?

1. Dictionary, I guess.

2. Would be running out after that.

3. Both are in the middle of water?

4. Mirror image.

5. Horse named Friday.

All right except 1 and 4. Course a mirror image could be a valid answer for #4....

1. Smiles.
2. The dog couldn't run more than halfway into the woods, because after halfway he would be no longer be running into the woods, but out of them.
3. they are both in the middle of waTer.
4. My shadow.
5. Friday is the name of the cowboy's horse.

All right. Good job. Wasn't sure if anyone would get #1....

 

[queensbomb]

I believe the second one is a reference to the south pole, so won't the bear be white?

There aren't any bears in the south pole, only penguins. Polar bears are up north.

Yeah, but that's the only thing I could think of

Also, here's mine:

1. No sooner spoken than broken.
2. Something you can't get wet.
3. If there's 5 eggs in one basket, someone takes three and you take two, how can there still be some eggs remaining in the basket?

1. A secret?
2. Uhh.....
3. I want to say this one is derived from the old theatrical term "take five" where you would just take a five minute break. Therefore, someone is taking a three minute break, you take a two minute break, and the eggs are still in the basket.

 

[bad rider]

A girl is living in the single room at the top of a building. A killer is on the loose out there in the world. She heard a knock on the door. She opened the door and saw a man. The man said "Sorry I thought it was my room" and promptly went away. The girl called the cops, and the man was arrested. Why did the girl call the police? /quote


My bf thinks the answer to this is that it used to be the killer's room, that he came back (say after being in gaol or something)and the girl realised he was a killer because of some evidence he left behind...

Is it close?

I think It's to do with the fact that you can't think it's your room if it's the only one on top of the building.

 

[WittyName]

1. What can you catch but not throw?
2. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
3. I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
4. You use a knife to slice my head, and weep when I am dead. What am I?
5. I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?

1. A cold
2. A stamp
3. A breath
4. An onion?
5. A dictionary!!

 

[MrGFunk]

Also, here's mine:

1. No sooner spoken than broken.
2. Something you can't get wet.
3. If there's 5 eggs in one basket, someone takes three and you take two, how can there still be some eggs remaining in the basket?

Spoiler: 3

You take two of the three eggs the other someone has already taken.

 

[CapnGod]

When is four minus four eight?

4 - -4 = 8

Nope, because I said four minus four, and four is not equal to negative four.

I suppose this isn't quite fair, but we did figure it out when we were eight in cub scouts. Take one sheet of paper with four corners. Cut the four corners off such that the triangles you cut off are roughly isosceles triangles.

You now have a piece of paper with eight corners instead of four.

 

[Krakyn]

A girl is living in the single room at the top of a building. A killer is on the loose out there in the world. She heard a knock on the door. She opened the door and saw a man. The man said "Sorry I thought it was my room" and promptly went away. The girl called the cops, and the man was arrested. Why did the girl call the police?

I think I got it:

Spoiler

She owned the building which was her house, and it was her bedroom, thus the dude broke in.

 

[Flap Jack452]

1. What can you catch but not throw?
2. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
3. I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
4. You use a knife to slice my head, and weep when I am dead. What am I?
5. I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?

1. A cold
2. A stamp
3. A breath
4. An onion?
5. A dictionary!!

Correct.