General Riddles

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

I look like a pearl. Clouds are my grandparents. I am very delicate. I die as soon as anybody touches me. Who am I?

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?
2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your Name

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

The eight of us go forth not back to protect our king from a foes attack.
Chess pawns.

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

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