Random Riddles Weird History Followers Shared That Stumped Them (26 items)

• (#10) A Bat And A Ball

  Submitted by Facebook commenter Roger Nilsson: 

  Riddle: A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

   

   

   

   

   

  Answer: Five cents. If the bat costs $1 more than the ball, and the total cost for both is $1.10, then the ball must cost five cents and the bat $1.05. While a common incorrect answer is 10 cents, then the bat would cost $1.10 and the total cost for both would be $1.20.
• (#22) The Doctor's Dilemma

  Submitted by Facebook commenter Ray Collins:

  Riddle: A man and his son are in a terrible accident and are rushed to the hospital in critical care. The doctor looks at the boy and exclaims "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son!" How could this be?

   

   

   

   

   

  Answer: The doctor is the boy's mother.
• (#23) Father And (Not) Son

  Submitted by Facebook commenter Sue Harrington:

  Riddle: I am your father, but you are not my son. Who are you to me?

   

   

   

   

   

  Answer: My daughter.
• (#8) Brothers And Sisters I Have None

  Submitted by Facebook commenter Wendie Shoemaker:

  Riddle: A man in prison has a visitor. Afterward a guard asks the inmate who the visitor was to him. The inmate replies: "Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who was the visitor to the inmate?

   

   

   

   

   

  Answer: His son.
• (#6) The Hotel Room Split

  Submitted by Facebook commenter Mike Haney:

  Riddle: Three men go into a hotel. The man behind the desk says a room is $30, so each man pays $10 and goes to the room. A while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only $25 so he sent the bellboy to the room with $5. On the way the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split $5 evenly between 3 men, so he gave each man $1 and kept the other $2 for himself.
  
  This meant that the three men each paid $9 for the room, which is a total of $27. Add in the $2 that the bellboy kept = $29. Where is the other dollar?

   

   

   

   

   

  Answer: There is no missing dollar. According to a breakdown from Snopes:

  This particular item stumps a good many people because it contains a simple error which is often overlooked due to its deceptive wording. Tracking the money through the transactions referenced in the text reveals that no money has gone missing:

  1. The three men start out with $10 each ($10 x 3 = $30).

  2. The three men pay $30 for a hotel room. Afterward, a five dollar overcharge is returned to them ($25 + $5 = $30).

  3. The bellboy divides up the $5 overcharge, returning $1 to each of the three men (for a total of $3) and keeping $2 for himself ($25 + $3 + $2 = $30).

  Where did the missing dollar go? Nowhere. A dollar only goes “missing” because the statement “each man paid $9 for the room” is wrong: each of the men paid out a total of $9, but that $9 included both the room charge and the bellboy’s tip. All in all, each man paid out a total of $9 and had $1 left over, completely accounting for the $30 they started with.

  The room cost $25, so each man paid a third of that cost ($8.33). The bellboy kept a tip of $2, so each man paid a third of that cost ($0.67) as well. Overall, each man paid out $9 ($8.33 + $0.67) for the room and bellboy tip and had a dollar left over: (3 x $9) + (3 x $1) = $27 + $3 = $30.
• (#21) Railroad Crossing

  Submitted by Facebook commenter Sue Harrington:

  Riddle: Railroad crossing, look out for the cars. Can you spell that, without any R's?

   

   

   

   

   

  Answer: T-H-A-T.

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