MY FAVORITE RIDDLES I

Joseph Appel

 

1. What falls but never breaks?

    What breaks but never falls?

 

2. It has a mouth, but never eats;

    It has a bed, but never sleeps.

 

3. What do you get free twice, but have to pay for the third time?

 

4. Why did the girl mushroom like the boy mushroom?

 

5. What can you keep after giving it to another?

 

6. Why did they kick Cinderella off the baseball team?

 

7. What did Snow White say when her pictures weren't ready?

 

8. What word begins with E and ends with E but has only one letter.

 

9. What did the boy say when asked why he never helped his sister?

 

10. Why did it take three husky Boy Scouts to help the little old lady across the street?

 

Answers:

 

1. Night and day

2. A river

3. Teeth (3rd time - false)

4. He was a fun guy (fungi)

5. Your word

6. She ran from the ball.

7. "Someday my prints will come."

8. Envelope (letter - "Dear Grandma .....")

9. "I can't be a brother and assist her too." (assist her - a sister) 

10. She didn't want to cross the street.