Can You Solve These 20 Hard Riddles?
Think you're good at riddles? These 20 hard riddles will test how clever, logical, and persistent you really are.
Some are lateral thinking. Some are wordplay. All are designed to stump.
No hints. No tricks. Just brain vs. riddle. Let’s go. 👇
🤯 Can You Solve These 20 Hard Riddles?
What disappears the moment you say its name?
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
A man describes his daughters: 'They are all blonde, but two; all brunette, but two; and all redheaded, but two.' How many daughters does he have?
What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward, or upside down and still be read from left to right?
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
The person who makes it sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The person who uses it doesn’t know it. What is it?
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
What English word retains its pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
What gets sharper the more you use it?
A man is pushing his car along a road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, ‘I’m bankrupt!’ Why?
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. What am I?
What has cities with no people, rivers with no water, and forests with no trees?
What can’t be burned in a fire nor drowned in water?
A man builds a rectangular house with all four sides facing south. A bear walks by the house. What color is the bear?
I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I?
What begins and ends with an E but only has one letter in it?
Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
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