At first I was about to say ‘O’
Then I went “Ahww, it’s not a letter in the alphabet ”
Then I went “Oh wait… It’s not a letter in ‘the alphabet’”

In other words: The letter ‘O’.

Here’s the next one; one of the first riddles I ever heard:
Two spies want to get in an enemy’s military base.In order to get in they have to give the correct countersign to the guard at the gate after he gives them the sign. So they wait hidden nearby the gate so that they will overhear the countersign from another soldier.

One soldier comes and the guard gives the sign: “6″.The soldier answers “3″.The guard lets him pass. Another soldier comes.The guard says “12″ and the soldier gives the answer “6″.The guard lets him pass. So, the first spy goes at the gate and the guard asks says “10″.The spy, sure that he knew the answer as he was, says “5″. Immediately, the guard shoots him dead.

Then the other spy, who saw that the other spy was killed when he gave the countersign, had now understood what the right answer would be, whatever the guard’s sign was.So, he walks to the gate and the guard says “8″.The spy gives the correct answer and the guard lets him in. What was the answer that the spy gave?

Oh! A candle flame! Or, you know, a match flame or something…
Here’s one I heard one time:
A man is driving. His wife is also in the car, and no one else. The car breaks down and the man goes for help, leaving his wife in the car. He locks all the doors and there is no way for anyone to get in or out. When he comes back there are two people in the car.
How?

@nick Actually his wife is pregnant. So you were right! :’) The first time a friend told me that one the only answer I could come up with was “is his wife dead…?” which was completely irrelevant. I also suggested mitosis (which, in my opinion, is also an acceptable answer).

@Julia Oh, haha, I didn’t expect that.

Well then, here’s another one. Imagine you have two ropes. Every rope, if you light one side, will burn up in exactly 1 hour. However, the burning is not proportional (So it’s NOT true that exactly half the rope will burn in 30 minutes)

How can you light your ropes in such a way that you can measure exactly 45 minutes.

EDIT: @wiiwpurple Hmm, clever thinking but no. (That also wouldn’t make a lot of sense, since someone coming into the city would then have to know what the guard said to the previous person entering).
So no, that’s not the answer.

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@Katarina That’s indeed the right method (Although that would make the answer 5, since the second spy needed to provide the countersign to ‘eight’ )

A postage stamp.

Five men were on their way to church. All of a sudden, it began to rain. Four of the men kept walking, and arrived at the church soaked through, but one of the men remained completely still, and when he got to the church, there was not a drop of water on his suit.

What was happening at the church?

(I have no answers, I just wanted to have a look and it made me realise how bad I am at riddles xD Awesome thread guys! )

Here are several chains of numbers:

15 is 7, 7 is 5, 5 is 4, 4 is the magic number.
100 is 10, 10 is 3, 3 is 5, 5 is 4, 4 is the magic number.
767 is 22, 22 is 9, 9 is 4, 4 is the magic number.

What is the pattern?

What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

The dog’s name is Yet?

I don’t have a riddle to put here right now…

Aw man….Beat me to it. I’m trying to think of a good riddle.

Got one. Pretty simple.

An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
‘That eye is like to this eye’
Said the first eye,
‘But in low place
Not in high place

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The answer is nothing; the last line throws you off.

I remember this one because I ALSO learned it from my history teacher in eighth grade!

Man 1 says to Man 2 of Man 3: “Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man’s (Man 3′s) father is my father’s son.” How are Man 1 and Man 3 related?

A fish! my riddle:

what gets bigger the more you take out?

Debt!
You whiz around the corner in your rented moped when suddenly you’re forced to come to a sudden stop.

It seems a funeral procession has stopped for a quick breather. Empathy overwhelms you and you offer your condolences to the whimpering man nearby. “Were you close?” you ask, wishing you hadn’t.

After a moment, the man replies, “Brothers and sisters I have none, that man’s father is my father’s son.”

That sounds sarcastic, you think to yourself. Maybe the guy doesn’t want to tell you, which is fine, but there’s no reason to be a smartass about it.

Or, perhaps the clever among can see this is the real answer.

Nowhere! You don’t bury survivors! =)

I don’t have a riddle right now, sorry.

An Egg. That’s one of my favorites too.

Here’s one: If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?

The answer is: Nothing!

In response to @rhyperiority ‘s , my answer is that the dead man is the speaking man’s son-in-law? Speaking man married into a family, and his brother-in-law’s son is being buried?

What’s so fragile that even a whisper can shatter it?

WARNING: This riddle involves a lot of numbers and small towns.
Alright, here is the riddle. You are driving a bus from Dallas, Texas to Olympia, Washington. You must pass through several very small towns on your way there. It takes four hours to reach Lunaville with a stop for a half hour lunch. It takes three hours to drive from Lunaville to Gourgh. Driving on the freeway, it takes five hours to drive from Gourgh to San Huanita. To drive from San Huanita to Olympia you must drive through Darestown which is exactly 1/4 of the way from San Huanita to Olympia. It takes you six hours to reach Olympia.

What color were the bus driver’s eyes?

@psychobabble192 Um. His home?

OHHHH.

I just looked it up then ahah.

Not his home?

Third base!

An oldie, but a goodie:

The man who made it, sold it.
The man who bought it didn’t use it.
The man who used it didn’t know it.
What is it?