[Manuela]

Bilingualdiva. I don't know about space, it might be I suppose.
My answer is a hole. When you dig a hole, the more soil you take out the bigger it gets, the more soil you add the smaller it gets.

[Bilingualdiva]

yes Noriko it6 is the human being...

Dirt... got it manuela...

riddle: If your unlce's sister is related to you but is not your aunt what is the relation?

Riddle: Do you know if the Catholic church allows a man to marry his widow's sister?

riddle: Can someone marry hi sbrother's wife's mother in law?

enjoy .. these are great with a beginners class on family.

[Manuela]

Ccool riddles. I've just done poosessives with my beginner class.
I'll use your riddles. Very nice.
I suppose the answers are:
Your uncle's sister is your mother
A dead man cannot marry.
A man cannot marry his own mother

Some other riddles
What has got four legs but cannot walk?
What has got teeth but cannot eat?
What has got a tail but cannot wag it?

[marcebalbi]

Quote Manuela

Ccool riddles. I've just done poosessives with my beginner class.
I'll use your riddles. Very nice.
I suppose the answers are:
Your uncle's sister is your mother
A dead man cannot marry.
A man cannot marry his own mother

Some other riddles
What has got four legs but cannot walk?
What has got teeth but cannot eat?
What has got a tail but cannot wag it?

Is it a dead horse?

[Manuela]

What has got legs but cannot walk? A table, a chair, a bed etc
What has got teeth but cannot eat? A comb.
What has got a tail but cannot wag it? An aeroplane.

Pupils love writing riddles like these.

[mesmark]

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riddle: If your unlce's sister is related to you but is not your aunt what is the relation?

Riddle: Do you know if the Catholic church allows a man to marry his widow's sister?

riddle: Can someone marry hi sbrother's wife's mother in law?

1. your mother
2. ??
3. No, you can't marry your own mother.

Right on Manuela... you got it..
let's see yours...
1. a table
2. a zipper
3. a kite or a car or a pony tail??? I'm really guessing here.

I do a lot of riddles with my high school kids... but the adults in the evening are the ones who really love them.... for them I save the more mature ones...

Riddle: A man is found hanging from the center of a room... there is only a door , a window and absolutley no furniture... there is a puddle of water under the man.... how did he hang himself???

[Bilingualdiva]

Mesmark the second anser is you can't marry a dead man... if she is a widow then her husband has past away...
The unregistered reply was me as well... was in a rush and didn't sign in..

Riddle: What are 2 things people don't eat before breakfast?

Riddle:Why did the man put his watch in a safe?

Riddle:What can't be used until it is broken?

Riddles about the alphabet:
Riddle:Which letter is not me?
Riddle: which is the most sefl centered letter?
Riddle:What letter has the most amount of water?

[mesmark]

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Riddle:What letter has the most amount of water?

C

[mesmark]

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Riddle: What are 2 things people don't eat before breakfast?

lunch and dinner

I don't do many riddles with my students but it seems like fun. I'll have to check out that link.

Some of these are also a bit of nostalgia. Ah... the simple days...

Thanks for all the great riddles.

[noriko]

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Riddle:Why did the man put his watch in a safe?

Riddle:What can't be used until it is broken?

Why did the man put his watch in a safe?
-- Because it was very expensive? (I think the real answer is more sophisticated.)

What can't be used until it is broken?
-- It's a seal?

[bosco]

Which letter is not me? U
Which is the most sefl centered letter? I
What letter has the most amount of water? P

is that right?

Quote Unregistered

Right on Manuela... you got it..
let's see yours...
1. a table
2. a zipper
3. a kite or a car or a pony tail??? I'm really guessing here.

I do a lot of riddles with my high school kids... but the adults in the evening are the ones who really love them.... for them I save the more mature ones...

Riddle: A man is found hanging from the center of a room... there is only a door , a window and absolutley no furniture... there is a puddle of water under the man.... how did he hang himself???

need to know the answer to tht last riddle bout the man hanging himself

[westberg123]

Riddle: A man is found hanging from the center of a room... there is only a door , a window and absolutley no furniture... there is a puddle of water under the man.... how did he hang himself???[/quote]

he hung himself by standing on an ice cube hung himself to the cieling and the ice cube melted into a puddle

Well the man wouldn't be marrying anyone now if he has a widow,so he's dead! Ie: Reply to Q. about Catholic church

Riddle about marrying brother's wife's mother-in-law ...not really, unless he can marry his own mother!