1) There is a thing that is the first to pity and the last to help.
2) I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness.
You cannot express happiness without me;
yet I am in the midst of crosses.
I am always in risk, yet never in danger.
You may find me in the sun,
but I am never out of darkness.
3) My first is nothing but a name;
My second still more small;
My whole of so much smaller fame,
It has no name at all.
4) If the English alphabet goes from A to Z, what goes from Z to A?
II.事物謎：
1) At night they come
Without being fetched,
And by day they are lost
Without being stolen.
2) As round as an apple,
As deep as a pail;
It never cries out,
Till it's caught by the tail.
3) My sides are firmly laced about,
Yet nothing is within;
You'll think my head is strange indeed,
Being nothing else but skin.
4) Over the water,
And under the water,
And never touch the water.
5) I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
III.智力謎:
1) Why are Saturdays and Sundays so strong?
2)swheresdo smart dogs refuse to shop?
3) Would you rather an elephant kill you, or a gorilla?
4) When do elephants have sixteen feet？
5) Which is faster, heat or cold?
6) What's every baby's motto?-
答案：
I.字謎：1) The letter P 2)The letter S 3)Nameless 4) Zebra
II.事物謎：1)Stars 2)A bell 3)A drum 4)A girl crossing a bridge with a pail of water on her head. 5)Tomorrow
III.智力謎：
1)Because the rest are weekdays.提示：weekdays的意思是“工作日”，而week(星期)和weak(弱的)是壹對同音異義詞。
2)At flea markets.提示：flea market的意思是“跳蚤市場”(經營廉價古物、舊貨等的露天市場)。謎底把flea market曲解為“跳蚤的市場”，聰明的狗可不願長跳蚤，自然不願去有跳蚤的市場。
3)I'd rather he kill the gorilla.提示：謎面可以有兩種解釋。第壹種是“妳希望大象殺死妳，還是大猩猩殺死妳？”第二種解釋是“妳希望大象殺死妳，還是殺死大猩猩？”
4)When there are four of them.提示：因為四只大象(four elephants)有十六條腿。
5)Heat. You can catch cold.提示：catch cold的意思是“患感冒”，字面意思是“抓住冷”，但是從來沒人說catch heat。
6) If at first you don't succeed, cry, cry again.提示：孩子的格言If at first you don't succeed, cry, cry again.(壹次哭鬧不成功，哭鬧再哭鬧)是模仿諺語If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.(壹次不成功，努力再努力)杜撰而來。