Warm Up Riddles
What costs nothing, but is very hard to find and can be easily lost?
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True friendship
What is easy to spot but hard to find?
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Talent. I would have also taken Waldo
A mansion is on fire. There are three rooms. A room full of money, a room full of expensive paintings and a room full of gold and precious jewels. Which room did the policemen put out first?
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Policemen don’t fight fires. Fire killers do.
How many birthdays does the average woman have?
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One birthday; the rest are just birthday celebrations or parties.
Main Riddles
A man lies dead next to a feather that caused his death. Wha happened?
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The man was a circus sword swallower. In the middle of his act someone tickled him with a feather and he gagged.
A woman whose husband has just left her lets out an anguished cry and leaps off a tall cliff overlooking the ocean. The woman survives the fall without even getting wet. The mystery: where did the woman land, and how did the woman survive?
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The woman had a hang glider and landed on the beach.
After Anna’s husband died, she replaced some of her wardrobe. Why?
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Anna suffered from arthritis and her husband used to help her with anything that needed fastening at the back. She now needed to replace her clothes with ones that had front-fastening only.
A man bought a beautiful and appropriate wedding gift for a friend’s wedding. The gift was wrapped and sent. When the gift was opened at the wedding, the man was highly embarrassed. Why?
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The man selected a beautiful crystal vase at a gift shop, but he knocked it over and broke it. He had to pay for it so he instructed the shop to wrap it and send it anyway. He assumed the people would think that it had been broken in transit. Unfortunately for him, the shop assistant carefully wrapped every broken piece before sending the package.
Listener Submitted Riddles
What’s a pirate’s favorite letter?
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R? No. A pirate’s true love is the C.