Hard Riddles with Answers for Adults

Two fathers and two sons enter a room, yet only three chairs are filled. How?

I have cities but no houses, mountains but no trees, water but no fish. What am I?

I speak without a mouth, hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

You measure my life in hours, I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when thin, slow when fat. What am I?

The more you take away from me, the larger I become. What am I?

I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?

What flies without wings and is gone when the sun rises?

I build up castles, I tear down mountains, I make some men blind, I help others to see. What am I?

Forward I’m heavy, backward I’m not. What am I?

I have branches yet no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?

What disappears the moment you say its name?

I’m taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case, from which I’m never released, and yet I’m used by almost every person. What am I?

I am seen in the water; if seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, a jay’s blue eye. What am I?

I travel all around the world but always stay in the same spot. What am I?

I can run but never walk, have a mouth but never talk, have a bed but never sleep. What am I?