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What do you call a flying monkey?
Wordplay — "hot air baboon" sounds like "hot air balloon."
I can race like a car, but I can also go as slow as a sloth, I am very famous in a movie, but I seem like I shouldn't be, what am I?
"Turbo" references the animated snail movie character, famous for being both impossibly fast and naturally slow like other snails.
What do you call a guy who sleeps with his pet tiger?
A pun riddle where the punchline is simply the name "Claude," playing on sound association rather than direct wordplay.
Why is a conundrum like a monkey?
A "conundrum," a tricky riddle, and a monkey's antics are both described as far-fetched and nonsensical.
Two people meet inside of a zoo and after some time a child was born. The child of two people had no clue, but the two people who meet already knew. The child was the person who acted like glue. Who are the two people that met at the zoo?
The couple who met at the zoo went on to adopt a child, "acting like glue" by bringing an unrelated family together.
Cat, horse, monkey; Hat, sombrero, Cappello; Sheep, wool, haggis; Dairy, blueberry, cherry; Television, computer, phone; Which set of words doesn't belong?
Every other set shares only a category link, but the dairy/blueberry/cherry set is unique because its words also rhyme.
What is the monkey's favorite month?
Wordplay — "April" becomes "Ape-bril," fitting a monkey, a type of ape.
Tom can pet lions. What is the anagrammed word?
All the letters in "Tom can pet lions" rearrange exactly into the word "contemplation."
A lion; capture it. What is the anagrammed word?
All the letters in "A lion; capture it" rearrange exactly into the word "recapitulation."
What do you get when you mate Simba with a pair of glasses?
Wordplay — "see," as in glasses helping you see, combines with "lion," Simba, to form "sea lion."
Which would see most clearly in total darkness? A bat, a tiger, or an owl.
True total darkness has no light at all, so no creature—regardless of night vision or echolocation for sight—can actually see anything.
I've existed for Trillions of years, but only been around for 30 days. What am I?
While the moon itself is ancient, each full moon cycle only takes about 30 days to complete.
What business is King Kong in?
Wordplay — "monkey business" is a phrase for mischief, fitting a giant ape like King Kong.
A guy gets to choose how to die he has 3 choices, one to get put in the electric chair, two to get hung, and three to get thrown in a lion pit of lions that had not eaten in one thousand years. Which did he choose?
Lions that haven't eaten in a thousand years would be long dead, making that option the safest.
You walk into your house you see three doors you've never seen before. One vampire bat that will suck your blood. Two zombies that will eat your brain. Three a lion that hasn't eaten for over six months. Which one do you go through?
An animal can't survive six months without food, so the lion behind door three would already be dead and harmless.
What key is playful?
Wordplay — "monkey" contains "key" and monkeys are known for playful behavior.
Which species of lions do not hunt?
Wordplay — "dandelion" contains the word "lion" but is actually a flower that doesn't hunt.
You are in a room with three monkeys, one has a stick, one has a banana, and one has nothing. Who is the smartest in the room?
A trick question — the reader, a human, is also in the room and is inherently smarter than any monkey.
How does a penguin build houses?
Wordplay — "igloos it together" sounds like "glues it together," fitting an igloo made of ice.
Where do penguins keep their money?
Wordplay — "snow bank" sounds like a financial "bank," fitting a penguin's icy habitat.
First you see me in the grass dressed in yellow gay; next I am in dainty white, then I fly away. What am I?
A dandelion starts as a yellow flower, turns into a white puffball, and its seeds fly away on the wind.
What are the three keys that open no doors?
Wordplay — each animal name hides the word "key" inside it, but none actually opens a lock.
How was the robot gorilla fixed?
Wordplay — a "monkey wrench" is a real tool name that fits a gorilla, a type of ape.
There are three doors. In each door is a way to die. The first door has fire and lava. The second door has lions that haven't eaten in 5 years. In the third door, there is a 1,000-foot drop into alligators. Which door will you likely survive?
The trick is realizing lions can't survive five years without food, so by the time you open that door they are already dead.
Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin's egg. Why not?
The riddle relies on the geography fact that penguins live in the Antarctic (south), not the Arctic (north), so none would be found there.
What did Tony the Tiger wear to bed?
Wordplay — "paw-jamas" combines a tiger's "paws" with "pajamas."
How do monkeys make toast?
Wordplay — "gorilla" sounds like "the griller," a toasting appliance.
There are two monkeys on a tree and one jumps off. Why does the other monkey jump too?
A play on the phrase "monkey see, monkey do," describing imitative behavior.
The hand sows, the eyes harvest?
Writing is described as the hand 'sowing' words on a page, while reading is the eyes 'harvesting' meaning from them.
When was pork first introduced into the Navy?
This puns on 'Ham,' the biblical son of Noah, and 'ham,' the pork product.
You have seven pens and nine pigs. You must arrange the pens so that each pen has an even number of pigs. Zero is not allowed, nor will it work. How do you do this?
By stacking (nesting) the pens inside one another, all nine pigs can occupy the innermost pen together, an even number counted as one grouping that satisfies the puzzle's trick.
What did the falling space rock say when it landed on a pig farm?
'Meteor' puns on 'meat here', playing off the space rock landing among pigs destined to become bacon.
A pig lives on a pig farm, a cow lives on a cow farm, a sheep lives on a sheep farm, a chicken lives on a chicken farm. Where do horses live?
Breaking the pattern, horses conventionally live on a 'ranch' rather than a farm named directly after them.
My first is twice in apple but not once in tart. My second is in liver but not in heart. My third is in giant and also in ghost. Whole I'm best when I am roast. What am I?
Taking the letter 'p' from 'apple' (twice, absent in 'tart'), 'i' from 'liver' (not 'heart'), and 'g' from 'giant' and 'ghost' spells P-I-G.
My body has a dozen heads or more, My tails don't wag when you walk in the door. Count the ways you can hold me tight, Or use me for a special night! What Am I?
A piggy bank holds many coins (each with a 'head' side), doesn't wag like a real pig, and is used to save money for special occasions.
Why was the pig a bad teammate?
'Ball hog' puns on someone who selfishly keeps the ball and the animal a pig actually is.
What do you call a car made of pigs?
'Hamborgini' puns on the luxury car brand Lamborghini and ham, which comes from pigs.
What do you give a sick pig?
'Oinkment' puns on 'ointment,' a medical treatment, combined with a pig's 'oink' sound.
It is said among my people that some things are improved by death. Tell me, what stinks while living, but in death, smells good?
A live pig and its pen can smell unpleasant, but once processed into bacon or ham, it's cooked into a food many find delicious-smelling.
What do you get when you cross a pig with a dinosaur?
'Jurassic pork' puns on the movie title 'Jurassic Park' and pork from a pig.
What pen should never be used for writing?
A pig-pen is an enclosure for pigs, not a writing instrument, despite sharing the word 'pen.'
What do you get when you cross Santa Claus and a duck?
'Quacker' puns on 'cracker', as in a Christmas cracker, replacing it with the duck's quack.
What does the cow say when he agrees with the duck?
'Mootual' puns on 'mutual' by inserting the cow's 'moo' sound.
Twenty-seven ducks are going to the pond. Five of them got lost, thirteen of them are staying home, nine of them are at the pond. Where are the rest of them?
Adding 5 lost, 13 staying home, and 9 at the pond totals exactly 27, accounting for every duck with none left over.
Why did the duck get fired from his Easter job?
The pun on 'fired' (losing a job) ties into the duck pun 'quacking' replacing 'cracking' the eggs.
What time does a duck get up?
'Quack of dawn' puns on the phrase 'crack of dawn' using the duck's quack sound.
Why did Mama Duck scold her goslings?
The pun replaces 'crackers' with 'quackers,' referencing duck sounds and the mess of eating in bed.
A duck arrives near a lake. He sees a sign where it is written "No swimming allowed.", but the duck jumps into the water. Why?
The riddle's simple logical twist is that ducks are animals and cannot actually read the sign.
In what place did the rooster crow when all the world heard him?
According to the tale, Noah's Ark carried all the animals of the world, so a rooster crowing there was 'heard' by every kind of creature aboard.
What is the time-piece, That needs no winding?
A rooster crows at dawn like a natural alarm clock, with no winding required.
Why did the woolly mammoth cross the road?
The joke plays on the classic 'why did the chicken cross the road' setup but substitutes a mammoth because chickens didn't exist yet.
Why does a chicken coop have two doors?
The joke compares a coop with four doors to a four-door car (a sedan), an absurd pun on 'coupe' having two doors.
A fast-food restaurant sells chicken in orders of 6,9 and 20. What's the largest number of pieces of chicken you cannot order from the restaurant?
This is the classic "Chicken McNugget" Frobenius number problem, where 43 is the largest value that can't be made from combinations of 6, 9, and 20.
He's a boastful, puffed-up fellow, wearing spurs; eyes gleaming yellow. As he proudly struts about, he's in charge, there is no doubt. What is he?
The description matches a proud rooster strutting with spurs and bright eyes as leader of the flock.
What does a chicken say instead of good?
'EGGcelent' puns on 'excellent', replacing the 'ex' sound with 'egg', fitting for a chicken.
Why was the Easter egg hiding?
'Little chicken' puns on being scared (chicken = coward) and the egg literally being a baby chicken.
How did the chicken manage to pay for, 'A de Luxe' roost?
The pun turns "hire purchase," a payment plan, into "higher perch-ase," referencing a roosting perch.
If a rooster lays an egg on the ridge of a roof, which side will the egg fall on?
The premise is false since only hens lay eggs, never roosters.
I have a house with no doors no windows, nothing. If I want to get out I break the wall. Who am I?
The 'house' is an egg, and the only way for the chicken inside to get out is to break the shell.
A Rooster laid an Egg. Which way did it roll?
Roosters cannot lay eggs biologically, so there is no direction for it to roll.
Under no circumstances compute the number of your barnyard fowl previous to their incubation. What is the proverb?
The riddle rephrases the familiar proverb in overly formal language, calling eggs "barnyard fowl" before "incubation" (hatching).
How do chickens like to dance?
The pun replaces "cheek to cheek," a close dance style, with "chick to chick."
My call, I pray, at dawn of day, Shall rest you from your slumber, With job all done, my song all sung, I'll sit on the seat of lumber. What am I?
The description matches a rooster crowing at dawn and then perching on a wooden fence or roost.
Why was the chicken forbidden from sending e-mails?
'Fowl language' puns on 'foul language' and the bird category 'fowl' that chickens belong to.
Why did the sheriff arrest the chicken?
'Fowl language' puns on 'foul language' (cursing) and 'fowl', the category of bird a chicken belongs to.
If a rooster laid 11 eggs and the farmer took 5 of them and another rooster laid 14 eggs and 5 of them were rotten. How many eggs were left?
The entire math setup is irrelevant because roosters biologically cannot lay eggs.
Why did the chicken cross the road twice, and jump in the mud?
The pun plays on 'double-crosser' meaning both crossing the road twice and being a deceitful person, plus getting literally dirty in the mud.
What do you call a chicken with bad sunburn?
'Fried' plays on being badly sunburnt ('fried' in the sun) and the cooking method for chicken.
What do you get if you cross a hen with a guitar?
"Pluck" means both playing guitar strings and removing a chicken's feathers.
What did the scientist get when he crossed a chicken and a cow?
'Roost beef' puns on 'roast beef', mixing a chicken's roost with beef from a cow.
What's 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?
Taking the specified letter fractions from each word (CHI from chicken, CA from cat, GO from goat) spells 'Chicago.'
Why do chickens lay eggs?
The joke twists the phrasing, treating egg-laying like dropping something fragile instead of a biological process.
Where is there no south, west, nor east, and weather is not fit for man or beast?
At the South Pole, every direction from that point is north, so south, west, and east don't exist there.
As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
"Stable" beheaded becomes "table," a meeting place, beheaded again becomes "able," ready's partner, and restored becomes "stable," home to beasts like horses.
My head and the point are made from the same. I am held by what's taken apart from the grain. I am atop of a great ocean beast. My swing will let fire and lead release. What am I?
A hammer's metal head, its wooden handle from the grain of wood, and its use striking a flintlock atop a ship, the "great ocean beast", describe firing an old cannon or gun.
I'm alive and I die. When cut, I bleed I do not fear the seasons. I make my home above yet below the land. I'm a friend to man and beast, yet hunted by both. My bones are always within sight. What am I?
A tree "bleeds" sap when cut, grows both above and below ground with roots, and provides shelter and resources, its "bones" being its branches, for animals and people alike.
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. What am I?
The riddle describes an unstoppable force that wears down everything, including iron, stone, and mountains — the passage of time.
Stronger than any beast, Rougher than any sea. Steadier than a favorable wind, and of me, none shall be free. What am I?
The riddle describes the planet Earth — powerful, unpredictable in its terrain, constant in its pull, and something no living thing can escape.
Face with a tree, skin like the sea. A great beast I am, yet vermin frightens me. What am I?
The "tree" is the elephant's trunk, its wrinkled skin resembles the sea, and elephants are famously said to fear mice.
In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast of iron. It can only attack when pulled back. What is it?
A bullet sits in a dark gun barrel and is a metal projectile that only fires after the hammer or trigger is pulled back.
Why kind of entertainment does Yosemite National Park have?
Wordplay — "Bear-itones" sounds like "baritones," a type of singer, fitting for a park known for its bears.
What do kids, worms, bears, fish, and rings all have in common?
Each of these has a popular gummy-candy version: gummy bears, gummy worms, gummy fish, gummy rings, and gummy vitamins.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. What is the contradictory proverb?
While one proverb says to accept gifts graciously, the other warns that gifts can hide danger or deception, from the story of the Trojan Horse.
What do you call a bear which is fast asleep?
"Bearly awake" is a pun on "barely awake," replacing "barely" with "bear" for the animal.
What did the koala say to the bear on the phone?
Wordplay — "koala" sounds like "call ya," as in "I'll call you later."
What do you call a polar bear at the beach?
Wordplay — "Sandy Claws" sounds like "Santa Claus," combined with a bear's claws covered in sand.
What did the zombie bring to bed?
'Deaddy bear' puns on 'teddy bear,' fitting the zombie's undead ('dead') nature.
What do you call a little bear who never takes a bath?
Wordplay — "Phew," the sound made when smelling something bad, replaces "Pooh" in Winnie the Pooh's name.
How do you spell the word 'Panda' in two letters?
The word "panda" hides the word "and" inside it, so spelling out just "P" and "A" leaves "(and)a" implied.
What type of Martial Arts does Winnie the Pooh do?
Wordplay — "Kung Pooh" plays on "Kung Fu," combined with the character's name Winnie the Pooh.
What did the panda ghost say?
Wordplay — "bamboo," a panda's favorite food, is stretched out to sound like the ghostly "boo."
When are boys like bears?
Wordplay — "bare-footed," without shoes, sounds like "bear-footed."
What do you call a bear with no ear?
Removing the letters "ear" from "bear" leaves just the letter "b."
What do goblins sing in the shower?
Wordplay — "Rhythm and boos" sounds like "Rhythm and Blues" (R&B), with "boos" fitting a goblin's spooky nature.
If someone robbed you in the shower, what would you be?
Wordplay — "eye wetness" sounds like "eyewitness," fitting since you'd be wet from the shower while witnessing the robbery.
Four men were in a boat on the lake. The boat turns over...Why?
Wordplay — none of the men "went under single" (drowned alone as bachelors); the riddle plays on the word "single" versus "married."
Why did Silly Sarah race to the bathroom?
Sarah misunderstands "ring around the tub," a soap stain, as a literal engagement ring, prompting her rush.
What do angels sing in the shower?
This is a loose pun on 'soul' music, playing on angels' association with the soul, though the joke's exact wordplay is fairly obscure.
What did the faucet say to the shower?
Wordplay — "drip" describes both a leaking faucet and an insult for an annoying or foolish person.
On a fine sunny day, a ship was in the harbor...What caused the ship to sink?
As with the earlier version of this riddle, the "sinking" ship is actually a submarine intentionally diving underwater.