The Despatch Summer 2024

By Jake Thurgood Riddles!

1. The more there is, the less you see. What am I?

2. Two men are in a desert. They both have backpacks on. One of the guys is dead. The guy who is alive has his backpack open and the guy who is dead has his back- pack closed. What is in the dead man ’ s backpack? 3. The person who builds me doesn ’ t want me. the person who buys me doesn ’ t use me. The person who uses me doesn ’ t know they ’ re using me.

4. There ’ s a one - story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What colour are the stairs?

5. A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn ’ t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

6. If you ’ re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?

7. Which five - letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

8. Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?

9. What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signi- fy a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire word signifies a great woman. What is the word?

10. With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?

11. What is seen in the middle of March and April that can ’ t be seen at the begin- ning or end of either month?

12. I have keys, but no locks and space, but no rooms. You can enter, but you can ’ t go outside. What am I?

13. First, think of the colour of the clouds. Next, think of the colour of snow. Now, think of the colour of a bright full moon. Now answer quickly: What do cows drink?

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