Riddles

Published April 5, 2014
  1. A horse is on a 24 feet chain and wants an apple that is 26 feet away. How can the horse get to the apple?

  2. It’s been around for millions of years, but it’s no more than a month old. What is it?

  3. In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower — everything was pink!

What colour were the stairs?

  1. If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?

ANSWERS:

  1. The chain is not attached to the horse.

  2. The moon

  3. There weren’t any stairs, it was a one story house!

  4. There is no smoke, it’s an electric train!

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