Limerick Riddles

The puzzles below are riddles stated in Limerick or Haiku format. For fun, after you figure them out, try to answer the riddles in rhyme. It gives these puzzles that extra "je ne sais quoi".

1. They asked the scientist, a forensic, "Did the suspect handle this ice pick?" He said with a wince, "I can tell by the prints, You'll have trouble making this offense stick".	Answer 5
2. A man & woman their age, Showed ninety-one on a life-gauge, Twice as old is he, as she was, when he, Was as old as she this stage.	Answer 4
3. A man living on the ninth floor, Takes the lift up to only floor four. Unless it is raining - When not even straining He goes all the way to his door.	Answer 4
4. Jack and Jill are both dead! This I say - For I saw them myself yesterday. Just a small pool of water And glass, hints to slaughter. So tell me what happened, I pray.	Answer 3
5. There are three doors; you choose only one, Then the host shows the prize to be none, Behind one of the two, That you missed. What to do? Should you switch, or is it all a con?	Answer 4
6. Little Johnny was quite a bright lad, The only son Doc Johnson had had, Now using your brain, Please try and explain, How Doc Johnson was not Johnny's dad.	Answer 4
7. "New Door" has letters, which I heard, Are rearranged from only one word, If you are quick, You'll discover the trick, And show how this mapping occurred.	Answer 4
8. There once was a maggot called Jack, Who had a very special knack. With a structure around his anus, He could breathe like Janus, Can you tell the name of this crack.	Answer 4
8. There were four men of differing pace, With lamp, had to cross precipice, In mins they each took, 10, 5, 2, 1 and look, If they exceed 17 mins, they'd lose face.	Answer 4
9. A dozen a gross and a score, Plus 3 times the square root of four, Divided by seven, Plus five times eleven, Equals nine square and not a bit more.	Answer 4
10. Take a word that's plural for cow. Change a letter and that is just how. You now can eat, the cow and the meat. So tell me which words they are? Now!	Answer 4
11. A cunning old codger called Kaid, Got eighty-four bucks for some jade. His profit per cent, In cents for the gent, Was half the amount he had paid. How much was that?	Answer 4
12. There was an old lady in Sheen, Whose grandchildren numbered sixteen. Four-ninths of the boys, Were too old to want toys, So how many girls must that mean?	Answer 4
13. There was a young lady of Lee, Whose age had its last digit three. If you total the two, Which is easy to do, One less than a square you will see.	Answer 4
14. "My age?", answered Barbara Blatt, "just keep it right under your hat. Adding one to each figure, Makes it nineteen years bigger, Than half what it is. So what's that?"	Answer 4
15. "Exactly two hundred,"you say? But it's seven whole months to the day. You're fifteen days short, In your adding, old sport, For those seven months I'm away. What months would he be away?	Answer 4
16. Said a feller out felling a tree "My age I've divided by three. The result is a square, Yet my age, I declare, Is six times a cube, Glory be!"	Answer 4
17. There was a fair maid in Rabat, Who was plump, not excessively fat. The square of her weight, When divided by eight, All in pounds was a cube. How was that?	Answer 4
18. Father, Father and Son and Son, Went together for some fishing fun. Nine fishes they got, And none were cut, Please answer how the dividing is done?	Answer 4
19. Two natives you meet on the way, A liar,a truth teller they. One question you 'git', Now don't have a fit, And tell me what it is, that you say?	Answer 4
20. A body found next to a wall Lay broken, quite dead from the fall; Inspector Astute Cried out for pursuit, "Each clue should be clear to us all!"	Answer 4
21. At Elsinore, life was superb, But the Prince was uncommon perturbed; The cause of his plight 'Bout whether to fight Concerns an auxiliary verb.	Answer 4
22. A farmer must cross A river, flowing quickly With three animals. Our farming hero Only takes one animal For there is one boat He therefore leaves the Other two behind, but lo! One may eat his friend The fox and goose must Be apart, for if they are Together, fox feasts. Goose, corn together Must necessarily make A lack of the corn "Oh," the farmer thinks, As the golden sun descends, "I have a thought!"	Answer 4

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