Thursday, 12 November 2009

Riddle Time

Try to solve the following riddles:

1.What is it that the more you take away the larger it becomes?

2.What holds water yet is full of holes?

3.What is it that you will break when you name it?

4.What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?

5.The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

6.What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a hundred years?

Post your answers to the Blog.
I will post the correct answers next week.

Have a go at making up your own riddles for the following words:
an onion, a shaddow, a towel, a cold.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

1.What is it that the more you take away the larger it becomes?
Hole

2.What holds water yet is full of holes?
Sponge

3.What is it that you will break when you name it?
Silence

4.What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
My car insurance


5.The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footprints

6.What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a hundred years?
The letter M

Good Fun! - Kate

Anonymous said...

1. Hole
2. Sponge
3. Silence
4. Your name
5. Footprints
6. The letter M

Ones made up

Towel-The more it dries the wetter it gets.
by menna and Charlie.

Anonymous said...

Hi Mrs. Davies me and charlie both had a go at the riddles together in the ICT suite when we were waiting for the ICT man to come round. We had a go at them and they were fun to do we also had a go at making one up of our own!

From Menna

Anonymous said...

I could'nt get on the science and mathes website
Robin