Riddles 1

See if you can solve all of these riddles!

1. What is the only question you can't say 'Yes' to?

2. As I was going to St. Ives,

    I met a man with seven wives,

    Each wife had seven sacks,
    Each sack had seven cats,
    Each cat had seven kits:
    Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
    How many were there going to St. Ives?

3. A thief enters a shop and threatens the clerk, forcing him to open the safe. The clerk says, "The code for the safe is different every day, and if you hurt me you'll never get the code". But the thief manages to guess the code on his own.

4. When you know not what I am, then I am something. But when you know what I am, then I am nothing.

5. During what month do people sleep the least?

6. I'm easy to get into, but it is hard to get out of me.

7. What always eats but is always hungry?

8. Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. 

9. I'm as light as a feather yet the strongest man can't hold me for more than a minute.

10. Pronounced as one letter,

      And written with three

      Two letters there are,

      And only in me,

      I'm double, I'm single,

      I'm black blue and grey,

      I'm read from both sides,

      And the same either way. 

Put your answers in the comments!

Alec Williams talks to Year 4

Alec Williams told us the story of The Unicorn and the Wish. Do you remember how the boy got all his wishes in one wish?

He also told us some riddles. Do you remember any of the answers?

What has a bottom at the top? 

You go in one hole and come out of three holes, and when your in it you're ready to go out. 

What gets wetter as it dries?

He also had eleven books to recommend to us. Which one do you like the sound of best?

He told us the story of the thief escaping from his cell, which relies on some words with two meanings.

Then there was the good thing - bad thing story to finish off. Do you remember it?