Answers and explanations for Riddles for Adults Set 1, including exactly which assumption each of the two scene-setting riddles is relying on you to make.
What starts with an E, ends with an E, and usually contains only one letter?
Answer: an envelope
An envelope begins and ends with the letter E, and normally holds a single letter inside.
I have no life, and yet I can die. What am I?
Answer: a battery
A battery is never alive, but everyone says it has died when it runs flat.
What is always coming, but never actually arrives?
Answer: tomorrow
Tomorrow never arrives, because the moment it does it is today.
The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: darkness
The more darkness there is, the less you are able to see.
A man pushes his car until he reaches a hotel, and immediately announces that he is bankrupt. Why?
Answer: monopoly
He is playing Monopoly, and his token has landed on a hotel he cannot afford.
What can be cracked, made, told and played?
Answer: a joke
You crack a joke, make a joke, tell a joke and play a joke on someone.