Fun With Words

  1. Two mothers and two daughters went fishing. They caught one big fish, one small fish and one fat fish. Each of them got to take one home. How is that possible?
  2. Pronounced as one letter but written with three, only two different letters are used to write me. I’m black, I’m blue, I’m green and I’m grey. What am I?
  3. When can you add two and eleven and get one?
  4. What gets more wet the more it dries?
  5. What grows down when it grows up?

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Bette Lyons - Vice President
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Answers

  1. There were three women in the group. A mother, a grandmother, and a daughter. The mother counts as both a mother and a daughter.
  2. An eye
  3. When you’re talking about time. Add two hours to 11:00 and you get 1:00
  4. A towel
  5. A goose