Office Riddles

Office work is already demanding as it is, not to mention the added pressure by terror boss and weekly deadlines. Fortunately, you can still enjoy working in a gloomy workplace and turn it into a wonderful space by having fun once in a while.

We highly guarantee that having fun once in a while will increase your productivity. Good thing we have the best office riddles ranging from easy ones to mind-blowing ones! These riddles would certainly keep your mind distracted for a while.

If you like office jokes, you can try to solve this by yourself or with your officemates if you are getting bored with your office tasks.

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Q: My name sounds as though I like to fight

But you will actually find I’m kinder

Because I help with your paperwork

By ensuring it goes in a binder.

A: Hole puncher

Q: Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?

A: The number 8

Q: I’m not a razor

But have a blade

I unblunt items

That have a grade

A: Pencil Sharpener

Q: If you’re needing something adhesive

As attaching stuff is your goal

Then make sure you come looking for me

As I am always on a roll.

A: Sticky tape

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Q: Filling these items with brown / black stuff

I am sure you will be agreeing

Ensures everyone in the office

Starts the day as a human being.

A: Coffee mug

Q: One inch, three inch, five inch

Choosing one is not a breeze

Because size can matter

When using one of these.

A: Binder

Q: A new medical building containing 100 offices had just been completed.

Mark was hired to paint the numbers 1 to 100 on the doors. How many times will Mark have to paint the number nine?

A: The correct answer is twenty (29, 39, and so on)

Q: Contrary to my name

I am not a queen

Hold me up to things though

And their length is seen.

A: Ruler

Q: I do not get put on a bed

Even though I am a sheet

Instead put me in a binder

To keep your desk nice and neat.

A: Paper

Q: If I am holding a bee, what do I have in my eye?

A: Beauty

Q: Fill me up with metal

And let me do my thing

Get some sheets of paper

I’ll have them attaching.

A: Stapler

Q: Despite my name

I do not bite

Having said that

I grip things tight.

A: Bulldog clip

Q: This guys office is on the 30th floor of the building. Every day, he gets off on the 25th floor and walks the extra 5 floors upstairs. Why does he walk the extra 5 floors rather than taking the elevator?
A: He is a midget. He is too small to reach any higher than the 25th button!

Q: You’re escaping a labyrinth, and there are three doors in front of you. The door on the left leads to a raging inferno. The door in the center leads to a deadly assassin. The door on the right leads to a lion that hasn’t eaten in three months. Which door do you choose?

A: The door on the right.

Q: A woman walked into an office building, looked at the guard, and said her name was Jenny. The next day she walked into the same building, looked at the same guard and said her name was Julie. What is going on?

A: The woman has Multiple Personality Disorder. This happens when a traumatic experience causes so much pain that they make another personality to cope with the situation.

Q: An old man dies, leaving behind two sons. In his will, he orders his sons to race with their horses, and the one with the slower horse will receive his inheritance. The two sons race, but since they’re both holding their horses back, they go to a wise man and ask him what they should do. After that, the brothers race again — this time at full speed. What did the wise man tell them?

A: To switch horses

Q: A farmer needs to take a fox, a chicken, and a sack of grain across a river. The only way across the river is by a small boat, which can only hold the farmer and one of the three items. Left unsupervised, the chicken will eat the grain, and the fox will eat the chicken. However, the fox won’t try to eat the grain, and neither the fox nor the chicken will wander off. How does the farmer get everything across the river?

A: The farmer must follow these steps.

1. Take the chicken across the river.
2. Come back with an empty boat.
3. Take the grain across the river.
4. Bring the chicken back.
5. Take the fox across the river.
6. Come back with an empty boat.
7. Take the chicken across the river.

Q: If you have a meeting in the office

You’ll need to know the time and place

Something that can help with one of these things

Has two or three hands over its face.

A: Clock

Q: A man is leaving on a business trip and stops by his office on the way to the airport. The night watchman stops him and says, “Sir, don’t take that flight. I had a dream last night that your plane would crash and everyone would die!”
The businessman cancels his trip and sure enough, the plane crashes, killing all the passengers.

The man gives his watchman a $10,000 reward for saving his life, then fires him. Why?

A: Because his night watchman was sleeping on the job.

Q: Lennie was cleaning up some old papers in his office and found a list with the following names:
Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
Hamilton
Jackson
Grant
The last name on the list was mostly worn away and he couldn’t make it out. What was the last name and why?

A: Franklin. Its a list of the men on U.S. currency, $1, $2, $5, $10, $20 and $50. The $100 bill has Franklin. And an interesting tidbit is that Hamilton, along with Franklin, are the only two men in the list who did not serve as president.

Q: Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?

A: Brad was so sick and tired of window washing, he opened the window and jumped inside.

What do you do when you have free time in your office? If you like to solve riddles, we have the best ones to challenge your mind!

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