Time Riddles (with answers) are a form of puzzles that deal with the concept of time. They challenge one’s understanding and perception of time through thought-provoking questions and scenarios. These riddles require critical thinking and problem-solving skills and often have a twist in their answer that makes them even more intriguing. Whether it’s calculating time differences, predicting future events, or reflecting on the past, Time Riddles are a fun way to exercise your brain and expand your understanding of the elusive concept of time.
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Time Riddles With Answers
1. What is harmless but can kill you? Answer: Time
2. What animal keeps the best time? Answer: A watchdog.
3. Some months have 30 days, and some months have 31 days. How many have 28? Answer: All of them.
4. Never ahead, ever behind, Yet flying swiftly past; for a child, I last forever; for an adult, I’m gone too fast. What am I? Answer: Time.
5. Every time you stand up, you lose this. What is it? Answer: Your lap.
6. Every time you lose something, you always find it in the very last place you would look. Why is this? Answer: It is the last place you would look because once you find it there is no need to keep looking.
7. During what month do people sleep the least? Answer: February, it’s the shortest month after all.
8. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it? Answer: 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.
9. A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds? Answer: 11 times. It chimes at zero and then once every second for 10 seconds.
10. What time of day, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backward and upside down? Answer: Noon.
11. What time is it when you can’t read a clock? Answer: Time to get glasses
12. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th. Answer: The time and month/date/year are 12:34, 5/6/78.
13. What did the digital clock say to its mother? Answer: Look, Ma! No hands!
14. Two people are born at the same time, but they don’t have the same birthdays. How could this be? Answer: They were born in different time zones on different days
15. Round like a biscuit, busy like a bee. Answer: A clock or watch
16. It is a place where you check the countdown for the New Year celebrations. What is it? Answer: A clock
17. I have two bodies joined together as one. When standing still, I ran and ran. What am I? Answer: Hourglass
18. I am the last thing you take off before bed. Answer: Your feet off the floor
19. How many seconds are there in January? Answer: Just one: January 2nd
20. When is 1600 plus 25 and 1700 minus 35 the same thing? Answer: Military Time
21. What time belongs to men twice a day? Answer: 5:14, Upside down on a digital clock it spells “his”
22. What has a face, but can’t smile? Answer: A clock
23. What farm animal keeps the best time? Answer: A watchdog
24. What falls but never breaks, and what breaks but never falls? Answer: Night and day
25. How can 8 + 8 = 4? Answer: When you think in terms of time. 8 AM + 8 hours= 4 o’clock.
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