Here are some riddles and puzzles to tease your brain. So, put on your thinking cap and see how many you can solve. Scroll to the bottom of the page for the correct answers. If you have a riddle or puzzle you’d like to share with our readers, send it to editor@breadnmolasses.com.

1. I have no face,
   but everyone knows me.
   I grow stronger and
   larger as I age,
   and I am impossible to track.
   I feed off the innocent,
   and my followers are weak.
   I ruin friendships,
   relationships, and jobs.
   
   What am I?
   
2. I always fly,
   but never rest.
   I can be heard,
   but never seen.
   I can be soft or strong,
   no one has control over that.
   I can change the temperature in a snap.
   
   What am I?
   
3. Name three things that have eyes yet cannot see.
   
4. My life can be measured in hours;
   I serve by being devoured.
   Thin, I am quick,
   Fat, I am slow
   But the wind will always be my foe.
   What am I?
   
5. There's this island and there is only 1 bridge to get on and off it. The bridge can only support 200 pounds at a time. Now there's this man who has to get three jewels across the bridge. The man weighs 198 pounds and each jewel weighs a pound. The problem is how does the man get all the jewels across the bridge in only one trip?
6. What animal comes next in this sequence:
   
   GORILLA HEDGEHOG CAMEL MOUSE FOX BEAR MOLE ==?==
   
   Choose from:
   
   PORCUPINE BADGER COW GIRAFFE SQUIRREL RHINOCEROS
   
7. Professor Beaker was the shipwreck's lone survivor. Stranded on a deserted island and dying of thirst, Beaker luckily found a little pocket of fresh water on the pebbled shore which had pooled in a rock. Unfortunately, the only thing he had salvaged from the ship was a spoon which was of little use scooping out the water. Since the crevasse is too narrow to make a ladle, how does Beaker manage to spoon the water out?

Solutions:

1. Gossip or Rumours
2. The Wind
3. Needle, Storm, and Potato
4. A Candle
5. He juggles the jewels so there is always one in the air.
6. Badger; the length of the words is the same length as the months of the year. January = 8 = Gorilla. The next month required is August = 6 and Badger is the only option with 6 letters.
7. Beaker began dropping the readily available pebbles into the hole until the water level had risen enough for the spoon to be effective.