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Short riddles fit on one breath: a compact question and a fast payoff. They are ideal for warm-ups, line queues, and chat messages where you do not want a long lead-in. We tag “short” by question length (under about ninety characters), so the list stays predictable for readers and for search.
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Riddles in this collection
- A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
- A man rode in to town on Tuesday, and left two days later on Tuesday. How so?
- A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds?
- A farmer had seventeen sheep, all but nine died, how many did he have left?
- A one-seeded fruit I may be, but all of your calendars are full of me. What am I?
- A pizza weighs ten pounds plus half its own weight. How much does the pizza weigh?
- A man and his boss have the same parents, but are not siblings. How is this possible?
- A tasty reward given to well behaved dogs and kids
- A train was on its way to Florida and derailed. Where would they bury the survivors?
- A man is lying drowned in a dead forest, far from water. How did this happen?
- A beggar's brother died, but the man who died had no brother. How could this be?
- A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds?
- An archaeologist finds a coin dated 48 B.C. How did he know it was a fake?
- A hundred feet in the air, but it's back is on the ground. What is it?
- A man was born in 1898 He is still alive now at the age 33 How is this possible ?
- A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I.
- A man but an animal, a horn with two hands. What am I?
- A man lay dead in a room with 51 bicycles around him. What happened?
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