Set of Footprints

A man was found dead out in a field of snow. The only tracks that were left was a set of footprints between two parallel lines. Who should the police be looking for?

Answer: ˙ɹıɐɥɔlǝǝɥʍ ɐ uı uɐɯ ɐ

All Four Sides

You are in a room that is completely bricked in on all four sides, including the ceiling and floor. You have nothing but a mirror and a wooden table in the room with you. How do you get out?

Answer: ˙ǝloɥ ǝɥʇ ʇno qɯılɔ noʎ puɐ 'ǝloɥʍ ɐ ǝʞɐɯ sǝʌlɐɥ oʍʇ 'ɟlɐɥ uı ǝlqɐʇ ǝɥʇ ʇnɔ noʎ puɐ ʍɐs ǝɥʇ ǝʞɐʇ noʎ 'ʍɐs noʎ ʇɐɥʍ ǝǝs noʎ ɹoɹɹıɯ ǝɥʇ uı ʞool noʎ

That's a Cool Word

What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

Answer: ¿ɥnɥ 'looɔ ˙uoou

I'm a Good Guy!

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?

Answer: ˙ʎuoɯǝɹǝɔ ɹǝɥ ʇɐ ɹǝʇsıs sıɥ pǝıɹɹɐɯ puɐ ɹǝʇsıuıɯ ɐ ǝq oʇ dn ʍǝɹƃ ǝɥ 'ʎllɐuıɟ ˙ɯıɥ oʇ ɥʇɹıq ƃuıʌıƃ ǝlıɥʍ pǝıp ɹǝɥʇoɯ sıɥ ˙ɯıɥ ǝɹoɟǝq uɹoq sɐʍ ǝɥ ǝɹoɟǝɹǝɥʇ 'uɹoq sɐʍ ǝɥ uǝɥʍ ɯıɥ ɟo ʇuoɹɟ uı sɐʍ ɹǝɥʇɐɟ sıɥ

Beyond Your Reach

When you stop and look, you can always see me. If you try to touch you cannot feel me. I cannot move, but as you near me, I will move away from you. What am I?

Answer: ˙uozıɹoɥ ǝɥʇ ɯɐ ı

Don't Need 'Em All

How many 1 foot by 1 foot bricks would it take to complete a building that's 20 feet long on all four sides and 20 feet high?

Answer: ˙ʇı ǝʇǝldɯoɔ llıʍ uı ʇnd noʎ ʞɔıɹq ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ ؛ǝuo ʎluo

Not a Raincoat

What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

Answer: ¡ʇuıɐd ɟo ʇɐoɔ ɐ

Some Trust

What is it that you ought to keep after you have given it to someone else?

Answer: ˙ǝsɹnoɔ ɟo 'ǝsıɯoɹd ɐ

Be Gone!

How do you make "one" disappear?

Answer: ¡"ǝuou" ʇı ǝʞɐɯ oʇ "u" uɐ ɹo "ǝuoƃ" ʇı ǝʞɐɯ oʇ "ƃ" ɐ ppɐ

Clever Word

What word contains all of the twenty six letters?

Answers: ˙ʇǝqɐɥdlɐ

Who needs a Calculator!

If life gets tough, what do you have that you can always count on?

Answer: ¡sɹǝƃuıɟ ɹnoʎ

Stop Complaining

Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble.
What are they?

Answer: ˙sǝʌɐǝl uǝllɐɟ

The Rain

What goes up when the rain comes down?

Answer: ˙ɐllǝɹqɯn uɐ

Oh, that's why!

What question can you never answer?

Answer: "¿pɐǝp ǝq oʇ ǝʞıl ʇı s,ʇɐɥʍ"

Outside the Battlefield

Dead on the field lie ten soldiers in white, felled by three eyes, black as night. What happened?

Answer: ˙ƃuılʍoq uıd 01 uı uʍoɹɥʇ sɐʍ ǝʞıɹʇs ɐ

Nonexistent

I can be found where anything cannot; dead men eat me all the time, but if a living man eats me, he'll die. What am I?

Answer: ˙ƃuıɥʇou ɯɐ ı

Start Walking

What kind of running means walking?

Answer: ¡sɐƃ ɟo ʇno ƃuıuunɹ

Just Like You

What's as big as you are yet doesn't weigh an ounce?

Answer: ˙ʍopɐɥs ɹnoʎ

Cowboy Riddle

How could a cowboy ride into town on Friday, stay two days, and ride out on Friday?

Answer: ˙ʎɐpıɹɟ pǝɯɐu sı ǝsɹoɥ sıɥ

Newspaper Divider

Tom and his younger sister were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting, and decided to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of newspaper in such a way that they couldn't touch each other.

How did she accomplish this?

Answer: ˙ǝpıs ɥɔɐǝ uo ƃuıpuɐʇs ƃuılqıs ɥɔɐǝ 'ɹoop ɐ ɹǝpun ɹǝdɐdsʍǝu ɐ pıls ɹǝɥʇoɯ s,ɯoʇ

Metaphor - A ponderous House

I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils
O red fruit, Ivory, fine timber!
The loaf's big with it's yeasty rising
Money's new minted in this fat purse.
I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I've eaten a bag of green apples
Boarded the train there's no getting off.

Answer: (ɯǝod snoɯɐɟ ɐ oslɐ sı sıɥʇ)

ʎɔuɐuƃǝɹd

Everlasting

Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?

Answer: ǝɯıʇ

Don't Think Too Hard

If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?

Answer: ¡ɥnp 'ʇǝʍ

Our Jobs

What's the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?

Answers: ˙sllǝɔ sǝɥɔʇɐʍ ɹǝlıɐɾ ɐ puɐ sǝɥɔʇɐʍ sllǝs ɹǝlǝʍǝɾ ɐ

Spot was here...

If a fire hydrant has H2O inside, what does it have on the outside?

Answer: ˙(ʎllɐnʇuǝʌǝ ʇı ʇǝƃ ll,noʎ) d9ʞ

Dry or Wet

What gets wetter the more it dries?

Answer: ˙lǝʍoʇ ɐ

To Keep, Give

Two words, my answer is only two words. To keep me, you must give me.

Answer: ˙"pɹoʍ ɹnoʎ"

Make up your Mind

Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it wants it not.

Answer: ˙ʎǝuoɯ ʇıǝɟɹǝʇunoɔ

Mouth That Never Talks

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

Answer: ˙ɹǝʌıɹ ɐ

Not Appreciated

Black I am and much admired, men seek me until they're tired. When they find me, they break my head, and take from me my resting bed. What am I?

Answer: lɐoɔ

Same Tea

A woman was horrified to find a fly in her tea. The waiter took her cup and went into the kitchen and returned with a fresh cup of tea. She shouted, "You brought me the same tea!" How did she know?

Answer: ˙ʇǝǝʍs ʎpɐǝɹlɐ sɐʍ ʇı ɐǝʇ ʍǝu ǝɥʇ pǝʇsɐʇ ǝɥs uǝɥʍ puɐ ʇı uı ɹɐƃns ʇnd ʎpɐǝɹlɐ pɐɥ ǝɥs

Single Man

Four men were in a boat on the lake. The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man got wet! Why?

Answer: ˙ǝlƃuıs ʇou puɐ pǝıɹɹɐɯ llɐ ǝɹǝʍ ʎǝɥʇ ǝsnɐɔǝq

Winning Game

Four men sat down to play. They played all night till break of day. They played for gold and not for fun. With separate scores for everyone. When they had come to square accounts. They all had made quite fair amounts. Can you the paradox explain. If no one lost, how all could gain?

Answer:˙˙suɐıɔısnɯ ǝɹǝʍ uǝɯ ǝɥʇ

Riddle

A riddle can be classed as a statement with a solution. This solution, however, need not have a logical solution. Solving riddles usually involve thinking about the question with great concentration, and putting it into a context.