15 hard riddles until 11pm!!!

Question

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

2.Two cannibals were chatting as they had their dinner. One complained that he really quite disliked his new mother-in-law. What was the advice given to him by his companion?

3.Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

4.What types of words are these: Madam, civic, eye, level.

15.What ends everything always?

5.When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?

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

7.The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?

8.It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?

9.2 fathers and 2 sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they bring home only 3 fishes?

10.Which is the longest word in English?

11.You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?

12.What do the letter ‘t’ and an island have in common?

13.Which is the word in English that has nine letters, and remains a word at each step even when you remove one letter from it, right up to a single letter remaining. List each letter as you remove them, along with the resulting word at each step.

15.Complete this sequence of letters: o, t, t, f, f, s, s, _, _, _.

Answers:

YOU HAVE TILL 11 PM England time, most with correct answer wins :D

Answer 1

1. Your shadow.

   2. "So just finish your vegetables."

   3. Meat.

   4. "palindromes"

   5. The alphabet ‘g’.

   6. A secret.

   7. His horse’s name is Friday.

   8. A coffin.

   9. Beetle.

  10. Because the fishing group comprises of a grandfather, his son, and his son’s son – hence just three people.

  11. Smiles



  12. Your breath.

  13.  water

  14. ‘Startling’

  15. e, n, t

Answer 2

---Your shadow

---so eat ur veggies,lol

---Meat.

---they r the same backwards, i think they are called something like palindromes, or something kinda like that.

---a secret.

---His horse’s name is Friday.

---A coffin.

---Beetle.

---a grandfather, his son, and his son’s son.

---Smiles or floccinaucinihilipilification

---breath.

---both are in water

---Startling, staring, staring, string, sing, sin,i n, I.

---e, n, t :8,9,10

Answer 3

its past 11pm in UK time

Answer 4

.Your shadow.

So just finish your vegetables.

Meat.

They are palindromes; they read the same both ways.

The alphabet ‘g’.

A secret.

His horse’s name is Friday.

A coffin.

Beetle.

Because the fishing group comprises of a grandfather, his son, and his son’s son – hence just three people.

Smiles - Because a ‘mile’ exists between the two S’s. While that is a good answer to the riddle, the actual longest English word is 'floccinaucinihilipilification'- which means'to describe something as worthless, or turning something into being worthless by deprecating it.'

Your breath.

Both are in water - WaTer.

‘Startling’ is the word. Begin by removing ‘i’, which makes it ‘staring’, then take away the ‘t’, making it ‘staring’, and so on – string; sing; sin; in; and, I.

e, n, t – The first letter of the numbers from one to ten.

Answer 5

1. gravity 2. swallow her up.  3. he weighs meat as he's a butcher. 4. madame- civic. eye-level 5. misery.15. a period  6. horse is named friday. 7. coffin  8.beetle 10.onomotopoeia  9. grandfather, father, and son: grandfather and father are 2 fathers. father and son are sons.   11. a grudge.  15. zzz. 12.  Both "t" and island have one crossing path. - and ocean 13. startling, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I

Answer 6

1. Your shadow.

2.So just finish your vegetables.

3.Meat.

4.They are palindromes; they read the same both ways.

5.The alphabet ‘g’.

6.A secret.

7.His horse’s name is Friday.

8.A coffin.

9.Beetle.

10.Because the fishing group comprises of a grandfather, his son, and his son’s son – hence just three people.

11.Smiles - Because a ‘mile’ exists between the two S’s. 12.While that is a good answer to the riddle, the actual longest English word is 'floccinaucinihilipilification'- which means'to describe something as worthless, or turning something into being worthless by deprecating it.'

13.Your breath.

14.Both are in water - WaTer.

15.‘Startling’ is the word. Begin by removing ‘i’, which makes it ‘staring’, then take away the ‘t’, making it ‘staring’, and so on – string; sing; sin; in; and, I.

16.e, n, t – The first letter of the numbers from one to ten.

Answer 7

1. a big broken pair of scales lol

2. eat her

3. meat as hes a butcher

4. ones with the same vowel in but no others Lol

15. a letter

5. chocolate

6. his horse is called friday

7. no idea

8. green fly lol guessed

9. they threw one back lol

10. CETYL­SERYL­TYROSYL­SERYL­ISO­LEUCYL­THR... lol

or maybes glish lol

11. yourself

12. tea comes from islands like japan lol

13. aaaaaaaah

15. ottffssqqh

i guessed them all haha :P very fun idea :D:D

Answer 8

1. Your shadow

2. Put some salt on her

3. Meat

4. Palindromes

5. "g"

6. A secret

7. Friday is the name of the horse

8. A coffin

9. Beetle

10. Because one of the fathers is also a son (so there's really only 3 people)

11. Smiles

12. Your breath

13. Both are in water

14. "Startling"

15. E, N, and T

Answer 9

1 Shadow

2 Put salt and pepper on her first before you eat her

3 He weighs meat

4 can be read backwards as well as forwards

15 The last word?

5 A secret

6 Friday is the horse

7 A coffin

8 ?

9 Grandad, his son, and his grandson

10 ish?

11 Going to the toilet

12 long island tea?

13 q

15sso

Answer 10

1. Your shadow.

2.So just finish your vegetables.

3.Meat.

4.They are palindromes; they read the same both ways.

5.The alphabet ‘g’.

6.A secret.

7.His horse’s name is Friday.

8.A coffin.

9.Beetle.

10.Because the fishing group comprises of a grandfather, his son, and his son’s son – hence just three people.

11.Smiles - Because a ‘mile’ exists between the two S’s. 12.While that is a good answer to the riddle, the actual longest English word is 'floccinaucinihilipilification'- which means'to describe something as worthless, or turning something into being worthless by deprecating it.'

13.Your breath.

14.Both are in water - WaTer.

15.‘Startling’ is the word. Begin by removing ‘i’, which makes it ‘staring’, then take away the ‘t’, making it ‘staring’, and so on – string; sing; sin; in; and, I.

e, n, t – The first letter of the numbers from one to ten.

Answer 11

1. age/ height

2. to eat her

3. meat

4. english words

15. (i dont know why this come after 4 but its the first 15 not the last one) death / a full stop/ 'g'

5.your heart

6. he didnt stay in that town for the other 4 days/ on the outskirts of town

7.

8.

9. they got hungry on the way home/ lost one / 2 catch the same fish

10.english

11. anything you want

12.they both stand alone

13.

15.

i doubt i did very well i am c**p at riddles

oops out of time