You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? 

 

.nroc fo rae nA 

Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I? 

 

erif 

A farmer and his hired help were carrying grain to the barn. The farmer carried one sack of grain and the hired help carried two sacks . Who carried the heavier load and why? 

 

.ytpme htob -skcas owt deirrac ylno pleh derih ehT .niarg fo kcas a si kcas sih tub, kcas eno seirrac remraf eht elihw , skcas owt deirrac ylno pleh derih siH . reivaeh saw daol s'remraf ehT 

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. 

 

nolemretaw 

My house is not quiet, I am not loud. But for us god fashioned our fate together. I am the swifter, at times the stronger. My house more enduring, longer to last. At times I rest; my dwelling still runs; within I lodge as long as I live, should we be severed,my death is sure.  

 

.revir a ni hsiF 

I give you a group of three. One is sitting down and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns. What are they? 

 

.ekoms dna erif,evots A 

All about, but cannot be seen. Can be captured, cannot be held. No throat, but can be heard. What is it?answer below, written backwards 

 

.dniw ehT 

You can see nothing else when you look in my face, I will look you in the eye and I will never lie. 

 

.noitcelfer ruoY 

In a marble hall white as milk. Lined with silk. Skin as soft as silk. Within a fountain crystal-clear a golden apple doth appear. No doors there are to this stronghold, yet thieves break in to steal it's gold.from Mother Goose. answer below, written backwards