General Riddles

Some months have 31 days, some have 30 days, how many months in the Gregorian calendar have 28?
All the 12 months!

What is half of 4 plus 4?
6. Explanation: Half of 4 is 2 and then plus 4 is 6.

Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.

A shepherd has 18 goats. All but 6 die. How many are left?
6 of course!

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

When can you make the following equation correct? 14+1=3
In a clock when we add 14hrs and 1hr we get 15hrs i.e. 3 o'clock

I am an eight letter word. My first four letters combine to form an atmospheric state. My third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh letters give support. My last three letters is the name of a person. Who am I?
MISTAKEN

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

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