RIDDLES

1. What can by dry but not wet?

2. Why couldn't the magician do his act on the sea cruise to Hawaii?

3. What's the difference between a complex sentence and a standing ovation?

4. When Noah told the animals to go forth and multiply, the two snakes stayed behind. Why?

5. Can you complete this verse?

       If Noah had been truly wise,

       He would have __________.

 

6. Took off my hat

    And sat, I confess.

    Paid for something,

    Left with less. - - - - - What is it?

 

7. Brass that never plays a tune,

    Ten of every kind of show,   

    Hat worn for the sake of form,

    Secrets we are not to know. - - - - - What word answers the riddle?

 

Answers:

 

1. Humor/wit

 

2. He lost his sleight of hand when he was out of sight of land.

 

3. A complex sentence has a clause; a standing ovation has applause.

 

4. They were adders.

 

5. ..... swatted those two flies. 

 

6. A haircut

 

7. Top

 

Credits:

2: Sally Porter

    GAMES Magazine

    July, 1984

6-7: Tom Jolly

        GAMES Magazine

        June, 1984