Can you solve the riddle?

 

E' CLASS: RIDDLES - ΑΙΝΙΓΜΑΤΑ

Μπορείς να λύσεις τα αινίγματα;

                                          By Stamoula Ts.

It has got two hands but it cannot eat.
What is it?


The answer was found by Regina K.:the clock!

ONE MORE RIDDLE... WATCH OUT! IT'S A VERY TRICKY ONE!!!

Why can you never starve in a desert? 

(starve =  λιμοκτονώ, πεθαίνω της πείνας, desert = έρημος)


The answer was found by John K. - ''Because of the
sand which is there!'' (sandwiches)

(sand = άμμος)

I have seven letters.
The first two stand for a boy.

The first three stand for a girl.

The first four stand for a brave boy.

But all my letters stand for a brave girl.

What word am I?

The anwser: he
                        her
                             hero
                                  heroine



(brave = γενναίος-α-ο, stand for =  αντιπροσωπεύω, συμβολίζω)

A hungry donkey was tied to a rope eight metres long. About thirty metres away there was a pile of fresh carrots. The donkey wanted to eat those carrots. How did he reach them?

(was tied = ήταν δεμένος, a pile of =  ένας σωρός από, reach = φτάνω)



The answer was found by John P.  : The donkey was tied to a rope, but the rope was not tied anywhere!!!

A barrel weighed twenty kilos,  but after a man put something in it, the barrel weighed only five kilos. What did he put in it?

The answer to the riddle: He put a hole in it-it was Jim K. who found it!

What can you hold in your left hand and not in your right hand? 


... Your right hand!!! - answer given by  John K.!!!

What is it?
It has got legs and a back, but it cannot walk or run.
What is it?

The answer was given by Angel B.: a chair!!!

What am I? Of all the things in the world, I am the shortest and the longest, the swiftest and the slowest. I am the thing people waste the most. Yet, they need me more than anything else, for without me nothing can be done. What am I?



Well, Jim K. found the answer this morning: the time!!!

What am I?
I have a head, but I do not have eyes or ears. I foam at the mouth, but I never bite. I roar, but I have no tongue. I lie in a bed, but I have no back. I rise, I fall, I rush and run, but I have neither legs nor feet. I was born in the mountains, but I go down to the ocean whenever I can. I cannot keep still for a moment. I am as restless as can be. What am I?


The answer was given by Helen S. this morning: The river!!!

What can you never eat for breakfast?

The answer - found by John K. - is : Lunch or dinner!!!