#13 Throw another Riddie on the Barbie

Warm Up Riddles


A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn’t break the law. How come?

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She was walking

I appear once in summer and twice in autumn, but never in winter. What am I?

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The letter U

I am always there some distance away. Somewhere between land, sea, or sky I lay. You may move toward me yet distant I’ll stay. What am I?

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The horizon

What is often returned but never borrowed?

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Thanks and compliments

You go at red, but stop at green. What am I?

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Watermelon

Main Riddles


I speak without a mouth, and hear without ears. I have no body but come alive with wind. What am I?

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An echo

What word in the English language does the following? The first two letters signify a male. The first three letters signify a female. The first four letters signify a great man. The entire word signifies a great woman.

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Heroine

A man was murdered in his office. The suspects are: Gerry, Julie, Jason, Nick and Sophie. The numbers 6, 4, 9, 10, 11 are written on the calendar with blood. Who was the killer?

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Jason – June (6), April (4), September (9), October (10), November (11)

We are all very little creatures. All of us have different features. One of us in glass is set. One of us you’ll find in jet. Another you may see in tin, and a fourth is boxed within. If the fifth you should pursue, it can never fly from you. What are we?

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Vowels

A homicide detective is called at a crime scene. A man is lying dead in front of an abandoned building. It is believed that the man jumped out of the window off the abandoned building and committed suicide. The detective asks his team to collect evidence and he heads toward the building. He goes to the first floor and towards the room that is on the front side. Inside the room he lights a cigarette, walks toward the window facing the dead body, opens the window, and throws out the cigarette. he then goes to the second floor and repeats the same process. He keeps doing the same thing until he is done with all the floors, and then takes the lift to the ground floor. Upon reaching there, he informs the team that it was not a suicide but a murder. How did he know this was not a suicide?

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The windows were all closed when he got to them.

Listener Submitted Riddles


When I’m there, you notice my lack. When I’m not, all is truly black. I’m described as warm, soft and bright. The end to this riddle is…?

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Light

There are three men on a boat in the middle of a lake and they have 4 cigarettes between them. The problem is they forgot to bring a lighter. How do they smoke?

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They throw the extra cigarette in the lake and the whole boat becomes one cigarette lighter.