Today's Riddles

6

What stays where it is when it goes off?

4

I am a word that begins with the letter I. If you add the letter A to me, paradoxically I become a new word that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?

14

What spends all the time on the floor but never gets dirty?

51

I can run but never walk, have a mouth but never talk, have a bed but never sleep. What am I?

11

I build bridges of silver and crowns of gold. Who am I?

6

Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever drinking; all in mail, never clinking. What am I?

6

It's the middle of the night. A man wakes up from his slumber in a confused daze. Still in his day clothes, he checks the time. It's 02:43. He tries to go back to sleep, but his body won't have it. He goes downstairs to his kitchen and opens the fridge. He grabs the jug of milk as well as a glass cup. He pours it, takes a swig of it, but doesn't drink the whole thing. He puts the jug of milk back in the fridge and leaves the half cup of milk on the window sill incase he still can't fall asleep. As he is going back upstairs, he realizes he has left some lights on from before he went to sleep. He can't remember why they were on in the first place, so he proceeds to turn every off light that he left on. He climbs back into his cozy bed and drifts off within a half hour. He wakes up around 07:27, takes a shower, and gets ready for the day. He goes downstairs to have breakfast and sees his leftover milk from the middle of the night on the sill, but to his horror, he looks outside and sees hundreds of fresh human corpses surrounding the east end of his house. Why?

20

I sell invisible things. After I sell what I have, I still have it. I sell what everyone needs but often don't want. Who am I?

5

I'm never odd or even, but I can't be anything else. What am I?

7

I have a heart that never beats, I have a home but never sleep. I can take a man's house and build another's, and I love to play games with my many brothers. I am a king among fools. Who am I?

14

A dead body is found at the bottom of a multistory building. It looks quite clear that the person has committed suicide by jumping off from one of the floors. A detective comes, goes to the first floor and walks in the room facing the direction in which the body was found. He opens the closed window of that room and flips a coin towards the floor. He goes to the second floor and does the exact same thing till the last floor. Then, when he climbs down, he tells the team that it is a murder, not suicide. Why?

16

0>2, 2>5, and 5>0. What am I?

16

Three people came to a witch with personal difficulties or diseases. The witch told them that she would craft a brew to soothe their woes, but this panacea required certain ingredients. To the boatsman, she asked to bring back the rib bone of a shark. To the butcher, she asked for the blood of a mule's firstborn. To the baker, she asked for unleavened sourdough made from wheat's first harvest. The witch told them to never return until they came back with their ingredient. Who was the first to return?

6

My first is in FILLINGS, but not in BRACES. My second is in TENNIS, but not HORSE RACES. My third is in PLAIN SIGHT, not in DISTANT SKIES. My fourth is in CANDY STORES, but not in PIES. My fifth is in STORMS, but not in the SEA. My sixth is in RINGS, but not in JEWELRY. My seventh is in a TILT, and also in a SPIN. My eighth is in ICE, but not in GIN. Is my ninth in DARKNESS, under a pall? No. My ninth is not the ninth at all.

10

Part of me is in a woman ready to be married but not in birds. Another part of me is in the same woman's partner and in company. Another part of me can be in four, five, six, seven or eight, but not in one, two, three, or nine. My other part... I'm not quite kind enough to show up anywhere. Jeez...that's not the right order, I'm mixed up. What's the word?