There is something that you own but other people use it more than you. What is it? Your name.

Hannah, age 11, USA
 

You are in a dark room and you have a candle, a gas stove and a match box with only one match stick in it. What will you light first? The match.

Ash, age 12, India
 

What five letter word can you take away two letters from and have one? The word stone.

Slinky Rox Sox, age 11, Australia
 

What has teeth but doesn't eat? A comb.

Slinky Rox Sox, age 11, Australia
 

One day you are kidnapped by a crazy king and he tells you that he is going to kill you on the night of the next full moon. On the the night of the full moon there is a huge lightning storm and the power is out. He asks you how you want to be killed, "Slowly, by a dagger or quickly by the electric chair?" Which do you choose? The electric chair, because the power is out and it won't kill you.

Slinky Rox Sox, age 11, Australia
 

A farmer has a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain. How does he get everything across the river in a boat that only can fit the farmer and 1 other thing? You can't leave the fox with the chicken or the chicken with the bag of grain. First the farmer takes the chicken across and leaves the fox and the bag of grain. Then he goes and gets the bag of grain and leaves the fox. Then he takes the chicken and goes back and takes the fox and leaves the chicken. Then he will go back to get the chicken. Then he has managed to get everything over the river safely without anything getting eaten.

Amanda, age 13, USA
Halle, age 9
 

What can't you eat for breakfast? Lunch and dinner.

Jessica, age 12, UK
 

How many months have 28 days? All of them.

Brendie, age 9, USA
 

Mr. Brown and his daughter and Mr. White and his wife went on a walk and found a robin's nest with 4 eggs in it. They each took an egg and there was 1 left. How could this be? Mr. Brown's daughter is Mr. White's wife.

Ariana, age 9, USA
 

What vegetable do you throw away the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, and throw away the inside? Corn on the cob.

Jackie, age 14, USA
 

What has lots of eyes but can't see? A potato.

Jeremy, age 7, USA
 

How deep can you go in the woods before you start out again? Halfway.

Meredith, age 10, USA
 

What is completely visible to the naked eye, seems to weigh nothing and yet the more of them you put into an empty can the lighter the can becomes? Holes.

Puplurber, age 9, Singapore
 

A big polar bear and a little polar bear were out fishing. The little polar bear was the big polar bear's son, but the big polar was not the little polar bear's father. How is this possible? The big polar bear was the little polar bear's mother.

Katie, age 10, Ireland
 

If you have a drawer full of 50 black socks and 50 brown socks, what is the minimum number of socks you would have to pull out to guarantee you'll get a matching set if it was in the dark? Three socks.

Hope, age 12, USA
 

David's father has three sons. Their names are Snap, Crackle and ? David.

Ownage, age 14, USA
 

There is a guy who wants to get a haircut. There are 2 barbers in the town. One barber had nice hair with clean floors. The other one has a choppy haircut with hair all over the floor. Which one should he go to? The one with choppy hair because he had his hair cut by the barber with a nice clean cut.

Nucky, age 9, USA
 

10 x 12 x 9 x 0 + 2 x 4 + 0 = ? O. Anything multiplied by 0 is always zero.

Allison, age 13, USA
 

What's 12 + 12 + 12 + 12 + 12? 60

Brita, age 7, Hong Kong
 

You have a log and want to cut it into 10 pieces. It takes 1 minute to cut each piece, how many minutes will it take to cut the 10 pieces? Nine minutes.

Joseph, age 10, USA
 

There was once a lazy man. His father was angry that he did not help in the fields and gave him a task to accomplish. He asked his son to bring him something to eat, something to drink, something to feed the pig and something that would grow a crop, all contained in one item. What did the son bring his father? A watermelon. The flesh to eat, the juice to drink, the rind to feed the pig and the seeds to grow a crop.

Yumi, age 12, America
 

999 x 875 + 563 + 9652 = 884,340

Ellie, age 10, UK
 

A man's wife shot her husband, dunked him under the water and hung him. Later, they went out to dinner. How can this be possible? The wife is a photographer. She shot her husband with a camera. She took his image and held it under water and hung the picture to dry.

Cutie Pie, age 12, USA
Unknown, age 11, USA
 

What's 16 + 16 + 100 - 5 + 22? 149.

Christine, age 10, USA
 

How many letters are there in the alphabet? 11. Count them, T-H-E A-L-P-H-A-B-E-T.

Shaniece, age 9, Australia
 

How many sides does a circle have? Two, the inside and the outside.

Jordaeinna, age 10, New Zealand
 

On Earth tomorrow always follows yesterday. But there is a place on Earth where yesterday always follows tomorrow. Where is this place? In the dictionary.

Jordaeinna, age 10, New Zealand
 

Which is worth more: an old 100 dollar bill or a new one and why? An old 100 dollar bill because 100 is more than one (1).

Ashlee, age 12, USA
 

The police found a man hanging from the ceiling. He was dead. The door was locked and all of the windows where shut. There was water under him. How did he die? The man stood on a large ice block and hung himself. Over time the ice block melted.

Alyssa, age 11, Australia
 

What goes up and down without moving? Stairs.

Sienna, age 8, UK
 

What gets bigger the more you take out of it? A hole.

Madeleine, age 9, USA
 

Ducks are walking in a line. There are two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck, and a duck in the middle. How many ducks are there? Three.

Daniella, age 10, United Kingdom
 

I am not alive, yet I move. I have no feelings, yet I am attracted to you. I have no expressions, but I copy your gestures. I am always bowing at your feet, but I do not admire you. What am I? A shadow.

Daniella, age 10, UK
 

What gets wet as it dries? A towel.

Vinnie, age 14, USA
Molly, age 12, Australia
 

I am a lethal weapon, yet you see me every day
I help a child to work, but I am no enemy of play
I am in a variety of colours, but one mostly sticks to one
My abilities are ancient but they've only just begun.
What am I?
A pen.

Daniella, age 10, UK
 

The man who made it didn't want it. The man who bought it didn't use it. The man who used it didn't know it. What is it? A coffin.

Julie, age 12, USA
Alyssia, age 11, USA
 

A man lives in a one story house. The walls are green, the floor is green and the furniture is green. What colour are the stairs? There are no stairs in a one story house.

Aimee, age 10, USA
 

A man lives in a flat with 14 floors. He lives on the top floor. Every morning he gets up and gets the lift down to the bottom floor and goes to work. When he comes back he takes the lift to the 7th floor then walks up the rest of the stairs. Why does he do this? The man is too short to push the button for the 14th floor.

Hayley, age 11, Scotland
 

There is a war and a plane is going to drop bombs. The pilot tells the men to open the doors to let the bombs hit the target, but when they open the doors the bombs do not fall. How is this possible? The plane is flying upside down.

Kimberly, age 12, USA
 

A man walks into a bar and says, "Ca-n I pl-eas-e ha-ve a gl-a-ss of wa-ter?" Instead of water the bartender pulls a gun from under the counter. The man says thank you to the bartender and leaves. Why is that? The man had the hiccups. When the bartender pulled the gun he scared the man's hiccups away.

Kimberly, age 12, USA
 

What comes next in this sequence 0, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, __ ? N for nine.

Simret, age 11, India
 

An electric train is travelling west, what way will the steam blow? Electric trains don't produce steam.

Ashton, age 12, Australia
 

Jane has 10 pets. She has cats, dogs, and birds. She has twice as many cats as dogs. When all the animals are together there are 38 legs. How many of each pet does she have? She has 6 cats, 3dogs, and 1 bird.

Synonyms, age 12, USA
 

What has five eyes and sleeps in a water bed? The Mississippi River.

Megan, age 11, USA
 

What word can be written forward and backward and still be the same word when read from left to right? Noon.

Metal Mouth and Gum Girl, age 11, India
 

What's 9 x 6 x 5 x 9 x 2 x 33? 160,380

Jack, age 4, USA
 

A boat has a ladder that has 6 rungs that are 12 inches apart. The tide moves up 12 inches every 15 minutes, it is now one hour until high tide. The very edge of the ladder is in the water. How many rungs will be under water all the way at the highest point of high tide? The boat moves and up and down with the tide.

Carlos, age 12, USA
 

What is green when dirty, but black when clean? A chalkboard.

Tracey, age 12, USA