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Middle School Riddles

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    Can your students solve these riddles?
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  • How can you make the equation true by moving only one matchstick?
    By moving vertical matchstick from plus to six to make it 8
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  • I am used in most sports, have four holes, come in many different colors and there is a state that shares my name. What am I?
    A jersey
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  • I am a fruit, I am a bird and I am also a person. What am I?
    Kiwi
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  • What is always late and never present now?
    Later
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  • What can be big, white, dirty and wicked?
    Lie
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  • What is often on the ground getting stepped on by others, but you don’t have to wash it because it never get dirty, in fact you couldn’t wash it even if you tried?
    Shadow
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  • I come in different colors, sometimes I am hot, sometimes I am sweet, I’m sorry I can’t answer you because even though I have a bell it doesn’t ring. What am I?
    Bell Pepper
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  • What has feet on the inside but not on the outside?
    Shoes
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  • When does April comes before January?
    In the dictionary
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  • What do Taylor Swift and an air conditioner have in common?
    They both have fans
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  • 4 rubber ducks were floating in the bathtub, 2 floated away and 2 drowned. How many ducks are still alive?
    Zero, because rubber ducks aren’t alive and cannot drown
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  • I flicker and I glow and tell stories and put on a show, to make me you must move super fast many pieces of art from the first to the last. What am I?
    A cartoon
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  • I can run fast and slow, I can be high or low. I can slip through most anything, and am needed by both the poor and kings. What am I?
    Water
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  • Which one doesn’t quite belong: vultures, eagles, hawks, herons, pelicans and ostrich.
    Ostrich, because all the other birds can fly
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  • Joe, Dennis, Maya, Angel, MJ, Abby, Zoe, Ray, Nicole and Brad were in an airplane crash and every single person died on board. However, when the ambulance arrived they discovered Nicole and Brad still alive. How did this happen?
    Nicole and Brad were married and are therefore not single
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  • The little rabbit went outside and ran around in the pouring rain for hours, yet not a single strand of hair got wet. How can this be?
    Because rabbits don’t have hair, they have fur
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