Riddles can either be great fun or greatly infuriating, depending on how good you are at solving them.
We want to give you some riddles today, but don't want to frustrate you. So read the title, think about it a bit, and then scroll down to the answer to see if you got it right.
Everyone is immediately thinking of traffic lights, but the answer is just a tad more juicy and delicious (assuming, of course, that you stop at green).
We're talking about watermelons, of course. What else?
I have an image in my head of something getting squashed down to the point that it expands in size at its base. But this is more of a metaphorical thing than a tangible one.
The answer? A temper.
Read the question carefully, then come back to it. The answer is there, and the answer isn't yellow.
Because it's a one-storey house, there can be no stairs. So the stairs don't have a color, because they don't exist.
This question's context changes greatly when you consider the fact that the person didn't say they shave themselves every day.
The answer? A barber. Although, now that I think of it, the barber's beard has to change at least a little bit every day.
This one's more like it. Sound it out phonetically and it becomes clear. Seriously: say "eighty" out loud and you'll get it.
The answer, of course, is A-T.
It has to be one, right? After all, if you add up the fish that did something else, it comes to nine.
Then again, if you really read carefully, none actually left the tank. The correct answer is that ten were in the tank before, and ten remain.
This is a bit like the last one.
Look, forget about their sons and their sons' kids. The description was clear: only the two people — the elderly couple — were confirmed as going on that picnic.
Don't think about this one for too long, because there isn't an answer, per se. Note that there's no question mark.
In this case, everything is literal: the word 'what' has four letters, 'sometimes' has nine, and 'never' has five.
In this case, the answer in question is so fragile that if someone says literally anything at all, or even makes a noise, it breaks.
The answer, of course, is 'silence'.
This one's somewhat simple if you just read the question carefully and take it at face value.
We know that he has four daughters, and each of them have a brother. Of course, it's the same brother, so Mr. Smith has five kids.
Strip away all of the random details and apply your knowledge, whatever it may be, of biology.
Humans have more cognitive ability than any of those animals, so the smartest one in the room is you, smartie pants!
You might need to adjust your thinking on this one. There's a certain historical era where we count the years backwards, and therein lies the answer.
Michael wasn't living in 1980 AD, he was living in the BCE era.
I see myself as someone with a decent vocabulary, but I wasn't even close on this one.
The answer here is 'dozens', which isn't a word that really springs to mind immediately.
If you're thinking that this isn't talking about literal hearts, you're on the right path.
You probably have the answer in a drawer somewhere. The answer is...a deck of cards.
Think of something that freezes completely if it heats up too much. It isn't ice or anything organic.
The device you're looking at this on is a potential answer, because the answer is "a computer."
