Hard Riddles and Answers

Question: A knight comes to a castle where his love is trapped. The castle is surrounded by a square moat that is 10 feet wide (it forms a square around the castle). The knight is able to fashion two 9 foot long planks to cross the moat.

How can he do this?

Question: The shorter I am, the bigger I am.

What am I?

Question: Christmas and New Year's Day occur exactly one week apart. So a New Year's that occurs right after Christmas should be on the same day of the week. But in the year 2020 Christmas will occur on a Friday and New Year's on a Wednesday.

Why is this?

Question: If a man carried my burden, he'd break his back.
I am not rich, but I always leave silver in my track.

What am I?

Question: I tear paper but I'm not mad,
I wear a purse but it's not a fad.

Who am I?

Question: A thief enters a shop and threatens the clerk, forcing him to open the safe. The clerk says, "The code for the safe is different every day, and if you hurt me you'll never get the code". But the thief manages to guess the code on his own.

How did he do it?

Question: A hobo picks up cigarette butts from the ground and can make a cigarette with 4 butts. If he finds 16 cigarette butts, how many cigarettes can he make?

Question: There are three jars full of equal amounts quarters, dimes, and penny's. Which one has the highest value?

Question: I make up all literature, but I'm often sealed.

What am I?

Question: I go into the water red and come out black.

What am I?