Hard Riddles and Answers

Question: What goes up when the rain goes down?

Question: There is a brick of gold and a brick of iron in a boat (both 10 inch blocks), if they are both dropped into the water which will make the water level higher?

Question: Tom wants to send Sally an expensive ring through the mail because they live thousands of miles apart. The only problem is that everything sent through the mail is stolen unless there is a lock put on it. Both Tom and Sally have plenty of locks and keys but they don't have any of the same locks or keys.

How can Tom send Sally the ring without it getting stolen?

Question: At the sound of me, men may dream, or they may stamp their feet.
At the sound of me, women may laugh, or even weep.

What am I?

Question: Tom and Joe want to sit behind each other in class and the teacher arranges them so they are both happy.

How did the teacher do so?

Question: A book has 500 pages:

• The 1st page says "Exactly 1 page in this book is false."
• The 2nd page says "Exactly 2 pages in this book are false."
• ...
• The 500th page says "Exactly 500 pages in this book are false."

Question: The more of me you have, the longer your life.
The more of me you have, the less you have left.

What am I?

Question: You are playing a game of dodge ball with two other people, John and Tom. You're standing in a triangle and you all take turns throwing at one of the others of your choosing until there is only one person remaining. You have a 30 percent chance of hitting someone you aim at, John has a 50 percent chance, and Tom a 100 percent change (he never misses). If you hit somebody they are out and no longer get a turn.

If the order of throwing is you, John, then Tom; what should you do to have the best chance of winning?

Question: An ant gets onto one end of a tight rope that is 1 meter long. The ant is traveling at 1 centimeter per second, but the entire rope is being stretched an extra 1 meter (1,000 centimeters) a second (it can be stretched forever).

Will the ant ever reach the other end of the rope?

Question: You put me on a table and cut me, but you don't eat me.

What am I?