Puzzled?

You will be when you try the following riddles. To see the answer just highlight the space between the asterisks.

 

QUESTION: You are walking through a field, and you find something to eat. It doesn't have bones, and it doesn't have meat. You pick it up and put it into your pocket. You take it home and put it on a shelf, but 3 day's later it walks away. What is it?

ANSWER (Highlight space between asterisks): * It's an egg! *

 

QUESTION: There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an apple so that all but one person can see it?

ANSWER (Highlight space between asterisks): * Place the apple on one person's head *

 

QUESTION: A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river. He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing. If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken. If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn. How does the man do it?

ANSWER (Highlight space between asterisks): * Man carries chicken, man leaves chicken and comes back, man gets fox, man leaves fox and gets chicken, man leaves chicken and gets corn, man leaves fox and corn to get chicken, man gets chicken. *

QUESTION: I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown. What am I?

ANSWER (Highlight space between asterisks): * An arrow *

 

QUESTION: How much dirt is in a hole that is 3 ft deep, and 6 inches in diameter?

ANSWER (Highlight space between asterisks): * None. A hole only has air in it, no dirt. *

 

QUESTION: A man was outside taking a walk when it began 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 happen?

ANSWER (Highlight space between asterisks): * He was bald. *