Hard Riddles and Answers

Question: How do you make the number one disappear by adding to it?

Question: An apple tree has apples on it. A storm comes through and there is no longer apples on the tree. But there isn't apples on the ground either.

How can this be so?

Question: What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

Question: A man hangs his hat and walks 500 yards with his eyes closed. He then turns around and shoots his hat with his pistol with his eyes still shut.

How did he do this?

Question: A man and his boss have the same parents, but are not siblings. How is this possible?

Question: A boy at a carnival went to a booth ran by a man who said "If I can write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agreed, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50.

How did the man win the bet?

Question: Samuel was out for a walk and it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet.

How could this be?

Question: There is an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world today that allows people to see through walls.What is it?

Question: There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet there was nothing wrong with what he had done.

Why?

Question: After you go through a fall I will take over.All life will stall, or at least grow slower.What am I?