10 riddles to celebrate National Riddle Day (part 3)

What do you call a question that's sort of a question, but more like a confusing puzzle designed to catch you out? That's right, a riddle!

Riddles make their annual return to the Charles Fudgemuffin blog.

Tomorrow is National Riddle Day, so to celebrate, this week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog features a selection of confusing puzzles designed to catch you out. Also know as riddles!

Here's a fairly simple riddle to start things off...

1) Parent riddle

A mother and father have five daughters, and each daughter has one brother.

How many people are in the family?

2) Handy riddle

What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?

3) Political riddle

Whats the difference between a flying pig and a politician?

A horse, pictured for no reason whatsoever.
**shifty eyes**

4) Horse riddle

What sleeps with its shoes on?


Editor's note: "Charles, you've given the answer away in the riddle title!"
Charles: "Oops, sorry! Fortunately though, my readers are all extremely intelligent*, so they probably worked out the answer anyway."

* With the exception of Bob from Surrey, who is only moderately intelligent. Sorry, Bob, if I spoiled the answer for you!

5) Unseen riddle

What is always in front of you, but can't be seen?

Editor's note: "Charles, that's a wooden staircase, not a ladder."
Charles: "Who made you the ladder police!?"

6) Ladder riddle

A man fell off a twenty foot ladder, yet he wasn't hurt.

How?

7) Running riddle

What can run but never walk, has a mouth but never talks, has a head that never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

8) Numeric riddle

I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even.

What am I?

A fudge muffin.

Did this photo make you feel hungry? It did me!

9) Giving riddle

What can you give and still keep?

10) Greedy riddle

Finally, if I have ten fudge muffins, and Johnny asks me for one, how many fudge muffins do I have left?

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Scroll down the page for the answers. Unless you're extremely intelligent of course and have already worked out all the answers. In that case, you don't need to scroll down, but why not scroll down anyway, just to confirm how intelligent you are.

Only one of the daughters has been pictured with the parents.
This is to avoid giving away the answer,
and thereby avoid incurring the editor's wrath.

Editor's note: "It's okay now, Charles. This is the
'answers' section, so it's fine to give away the
answers now. In fact it's kind of obligatory."
Charles: "Make your mind up!"

Answers:

1) Parent riddle

A mother and father have five daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?

The daughters each have the same brother, so the answer is eight. The mother, the father, five daughters, and one brother.

2) Handy riddle

What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?

Your left hand.

I took this photo the day I saw a politician telling the truth.

Legal disclaimer: I didn't really. That was just an old
and tired joke implying that politicians can't be trusted.

3) Political riddle

Whats the difference between a flying pig and a politician?

The letter 'f'.

4) Horse riddle

What sleeps with its shoes on?

It may surprise you to learn that the answer to this horse themed riddle was a horse.

5) Unseen riddle

What is always in front of you, but can't be seen?

The future.

Credit: @RiddleKing

Hopefully this photo should stop
the editor from complaining.

6) Ladder riddle

A man fell off a twenty foot ladder, yet he wasn't hurt. How?

He fell off the bottom rung.

Alternatively, you could also have said he had congenital insensitivity to pain and anhydrosis (CIPA) which means he can't feel pain.

7) Running riddle

What can run but never walk, has a mouth but never talks, has a head that never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

A river.

8) Numeric riddle

I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What am I?

Seven.

9) Giving riddle

What can you give and still keep?

Your word.

A greedy monkey which, based on my own encounters
with monkeys, is very unlikely to be willing to share
its unhealthy snack with other monkeys.
Rather like myself.

10) Greedy riddle

If I have ten fudge muffins, and Johnny asks me for one, how many fudge muffins do I have left?

Ten, because I'm too greedy to share! Sorry, Johnny! Buy your own fudge muffins!

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How did you do? That's not another riddle by the way. That's just a regular question. Anyway, you can rate how you did using the chart below:

0-2    All of my readers are extremely intelligent, so nobody will have scored in this category.*
3-6    Not bad, but there's room for improvement.
7-10    Well done! That's an impressive effort! Consider yourself a riddle master!
11+   How can you score 11 points when there are only 10 questions? To clarify, that's not a riddle. It's my way of calling you a cheat!

* Editor's note: "What about Bob from Surrey?"
Charles: "Good point. For the benefit of Bob from Surrey, if you scored in this category, then that's a really poor effort and you need to work harder on your riddle solving skills."

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My short story 'The Puppet Master' features a masked puppeteer who shoots random strangers with poison darts, then sets them a riddle which they must solve in return for the antidote. But is this 'Puppet Master' crazy, or is there a method to his madness?

The Puppet Master is available for kindle from Amazon.

If your thirst for riddles is still not satisfied, then you can find more riddles in my previous blog posts:
10 riddles (part 2)
Puzzles and riddles

I generally feature riddles every National Riddle Day, so if you know any good riddles, then leave a comment, and I might include it in next year's round up of riddles.