General Riddles

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?
2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
An onion.

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