Riddle/Joke of Week:

Draw a line. Without touching that line, how can you make it longer?

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Past riddles and solutions:

• Name four days of the week that start with the letter T. - Tuesday, Thursday, today, tomorrow!

• What has 4 wheels and flies? - Callan, 5th grade - A garbage truck!

• If you take the E and T out of the alphabet, how many letters are left? - Dags, 4th grade - 6 (alphabet), 7 (the alphabet) or 24 (a-z without e and t)

• What gets bigger the more you take away? - Tamanna, 4th grade - A hole! Lots of students suggested math related answers too, fractions and negative numbers, so clever!

• What has a head and a tail but no body? - Yani, 4th grade - A Coin! Other student answers included a snake and a worm.

• What is a 4 letter word, occasionally a 12 letter word and never a 5 letter word. - Ms. Jess (Ms. Jackie's Librarian friend at Thousand Oaks) - Three answers: what (4), occasionally (12), never (5).

• What is as light as air and as big as a house? - Enzo, 4th grade - A cloud! Other student answers included air that fills a house and a house's shadow.

• What word can you spell with 2 letter or 4 letters? -William 4th grade - Okay, ok!

• If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in? - Charlotte, 4th grade - You are in second place! (acting it out with puppets was a big help)

• They come out at night, they are lost in the day. Never seen by sunlight but by a moon's ray. - Amalia, 5th Grade - Stars!

• What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? -Brianna, 4th grade - The letter M!

• What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing? - William 4th grade - An elephant's shadow!

• What has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile? - Yani, 4th grade - A clock!

• David’s parents have three children: Snap, Crackle, and ? . what is the name of the third child? - Sawyer, 4th grade - The third child is David!

• What never gets wetter, even when it rains?-Franky, 5th grade - The ocean/sea/puddle/rain/water!

• What is the capital of France? -Charlotte, 4th grade - The letter F!

• There’s only one word in the dictionary that’s spelled wrong. What is it? - Tamanna, 4th grade - The word "wrong!"

• What is always coming, but never arrives? -Riddhiman, 4th grade - Tomorrow!

• How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the English language spelling of a whole number? - Nathan, 6th grade - One thousAnd! Other clever student answers: One hundred And one and A hundred.

• A bus driver was heading down a busy street in the city. He went past three stop signs without stopping, went the wrong way down a one-way street, and answered a message on his phone. But the bus driver didn’t break any traffic laws. How? - Emmett, 4th grade - The bus driver was walking!

• Which is heavier: a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers? They are equal, both a pound!

• What has a green hat and sounds like a parrot? -Jalen, 5th grade - A carrot!

• What do you find at the end of the line? - Kelsey, 5th grade - The letter E! Other student answers included a question mark and nothing.

• What has a neck but no head? - Tessa, 5th grade - A shirt/hoodie/sweater! Other student answers included a vase, a bottle, a lamp and a string instrument.

• What kind of cup can't hold water? - Alejandra, 5th grade - A Cupcake! Other student answers included a buttercup, a peanut butter cup and an upside down cup.

• There is a green house. Inside the green house is a white house. Inside the white house is a red house. Inside the red house are lots of little babies. What is it? - Davi, 5th grade - A watermelon!

• What do you always get for your birthday? -Maeve, 5th grade - You get a year older!

• I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I? - An echo. Other student answers included leaves and an instrument.

• What state is round on the edges and "high" in the middle? - Dags, 4th grade - Ohio!

• It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it? - Ruby , 5th grade - Your name!

• Some months have 30 days, some have 31 days, how many have 28 days? - Onyx, 5th grade - All 12 months have 28 days!

• Where can you find forests, cities, towns, islands, shops, and streets, but no people? - Ellie, 6th Grade - A map! Other answers by students include a Lego city and deserted town.

• What can you catch but not throw? - A cold! Make sure you wash hands! Other answers by students include ketchup and a bus/train.

• What can you throw but not catch? - A tantrum! Other answers by students include a party, throw-up (eww but true!) and a cup of water.

• What has 88 keys but can not open a single door? -Alejandra, 5th grade - A piano!

• What kind of band never plays music? - A rubber band!

• I have 6 eggs. i broke two, i cooked two, and I ate two. how many do I have left? -Callan, 5th grade - You still have 4 left because you broke, cooked and ate the same 2.

• There are 5 apples. You take away 3 apples. How many apples do you have now? - 3 (You took 3, so you have 3!)

• A chest filled with gold that's missing a lock. What is it? -Reef, 5th grade - An egg. (Reef credits this riddle to The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien)

• What do you have to break before you use it? - Also an egg! But other possible answers by students included a soda can, a glow stick and a nut.

• How can you make the number one disappear? -Add a G and it is "gone." Other possible answer by students included just erase it, erase the N and E and make it a 0/zero, and add an N and it is "none."

• What goes up and down but never moves? -Stairs! (other possible answers from students included the sun, an elevator shaft and a ladder)