[Jonathan Leane]

Submit a riddle for the newsletter!​

Hi guys... We're always on the lookout for good riddles to put in our newsletter. If you know any good ones, post them in here.

If you like, you can even use the 'Spoiler' feature by hi-lighting your answer, then clicking on the three dots above and then the eye with a line through it:



For example:

Q: What has to be broken before you can use it?

A:

Spoiler

An egg

 

[Kerry]

Q: What can be touched but can't seen?

A: Someone's heart

 

[Placid]

Here's a riddle that everyone can have a crack at.

How many is two pair of twins twice?

I think we'll have a few different answers.
Tell us your answer.

 

[Maddison Dwyer]

@Placid I am very bad at riddles, but if two pairs of twins is four people, then two pairs of twins twice, is 8 people?! Or am I missing the riddle part and have I turned this into too much of a maths question

 

[Kerry]

Here's a riddle that everyone can have a crack at.

How many is two pair of twins twice?

I think we'll have a few different answers.
Tell us your answer.

8

 

[Placid]

I don't know the answer. Let me see now... twins is two. A pair of twins? 4? Two pair? 8? Two pair twice? 16?
I dunno. I'll leave it to the experts.

 

[Jonathan Leane]

How about this one from @Suederek - we're going to put it in the newsletter in a few days...

What’s long and thin covered in skin, red in parts, and goes in tarts.

Spoiler

Rhubarb

 

[Grannie Sam]

What can go up a chimney down but can't go down a chimney up?

 

[Placid]

What can go up a chimney down but can't go down a chimney up?

Easy one, but I won't spoil it for the others.

 

[Vinylted]

Here's a riddle that everyone can have a crack at.

How many is two pair of twins twice?

I think we'll have a few different answers.
Tell us your answer.

Sixteen for me... if counting individuals maybe 32..

 

[Vinylted]

How about this one from @Suederek - we're going to put it in the newsletter in a few days...

What’s long and thin covered in skin, red in parts, and goes in tarts.

Spoiler

Rhubarb

I imagine along with pieces of apple... oops

 

[Vinylted]

Easy one, but I won't spoil it for the others.

Hmmm maybe a pre-covid Santa?

 

[Jonathan Leane]

Sixteen for me... if counting individuals maybe 32..

I think we already have 3 different answers to this riddle

 

[Grannie Sam]

What can go up a chimney down but can't go down a chimney up?

Spoiler

An umbrella

 

[Jonathan Leane]

@Grannie Sam Love this one!

 

[Kerry]

My thunder rolls beneath me, my lightning flares above, I dust the crust, and when I bust, all I touch will I shove

What am I

A volcano

 

[Marie Ann]

What can go up a chimney down but can't go down a chimney up?

An umbrella?

 

[Krislo]

What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up? Umbrella

 

[Fran]

Umbrella

 

[Sherill L.]

It's an umbrella