The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?
I go up and I go down. I go up towards the beautiful sky and down toward the green ground. I am present tense. I am past tense too Children love me. Who Am I?
Twice ten are six of us, Six are but three of us, Nine are but four of us; What can we possibly be? Would you know more of us? Twelve are but six of us, Five are but four, do you see? What are we?
I make two people out of one. What am I?
I have a hole in my back and legs I lack. I live where I can’t breathe and I eat without teeth. What am I?
I am soft and cuddly that soothe your heart. But, If you pick my last name I am going to tear you all apart. Who am I?
They came out at night, without being called. They lost at day, without being stolen. Who are they?
What has one letter and starts with an E?
It comprises roots which nobody sees, Much taller than those trees, Up and up it goes, Still it never grows?
When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?
The word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
