Daily Riddle - Riddle me this - Riddle me that - Guess this riddle or perhaps not!!!!!! 12 June 2017

in #riddles7 years ago

Riddles:

  1. How many 1 foot by 1 foot bricks would it take to complete a building that's 20 feet long on all four sides and 20 feet high?
  2. What's the least number of chairs you would need around a table to sit four fathers, two grandfathers, and four sons?
  3. I am the only word that looks the same when spelled upside down. What am I ??

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  1. 800 2. 4 3. a

#2 is correct - thanks for participating

  1. 1600
  2. 2 if the sons sat on each of the fathers' knees, who then sat on each of the grandfather' knees. Damned uncomfortable though!
  3. 8 if done as a number, six if spelled.

Haha - re. # 2. Thanks for participating

Well, you didn't say how they could not be sat around the table...he, he! X

Answers :

  1. Only one; the last brick you put in will complete it.
  2. 4 - Two of the four fathers could be grandfathers and the 4 fathers are definitely sons already.
  3. swims