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Family Riddles (with Answers)
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Family riddles are meant for mixed ages: clear language, a fair twist, and a payoff that works whether you are eight or eighty. They are ideal for dinners, reunions, and quiet evenings when you want a shared puzzle without a competitive edge. Answers are shown with every riddle so grandparents, kids, and teens can all check reasoning together.
Use the questions below as conversation starters rather than tests. If someone gets stuck, read the line that names a relationship or quantity again—family riddles often hide the turn in a word you stopped noticing. For more specialized collections, jump to kids riddles for gentler setups or adult riddles when the group wants a harder edge, always with solutions attached.
Riddles in this collection
- A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
- A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?
- A boy is walking down the road with a doctor. While the boy is the doctor’s son, the doctor is not the boy’s father. Then who is the doctor?
- A man rode in to town on Tuesday, and left two days later on Tuesday. How so?
- A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds?
- A farmer had seventeen sheep, all but nine died, how many did he have left?
- A boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room. The ER doctor saw the boy and said, “I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son.” But the doctor was not the boy’s father. How could that be?
- A woman shot her husband. Then she held him underwater for 5 minutes, then she finally hung him. 5 minutes later they both walked out and enjoyed a nice dinner. How is this possible?
- A man moved into a new house and decided he was tired after the journey and turned of all the lights and went to bed. The next morning he had killed 365 people how could this be? he does not sleep wa…
- At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?
- A certain number has three digits. The sum of the three digits equals 36 times this number. Seven times the left digit plus 9 is equal to 5 times the sum of the two other digits. 8 times the second d…
- A man was stabbed in the heart, no one tried to save him but he didn’t die. How is that possible?
- A man is lying shot on the road. The police come to investigate. Right away, they know who shot him. Why?
- A woman is sitting in her room at night. She has no lights on, no candle, no lamp, no light at all and yet she is reading. How is that possible?
- A man is in his car. He sees three doors. A golden one, a diamond one and a silver one. Which door does he go through first?
- A man and his boss have the same parents, but are not siblings. How is this possible?
- A man is discovered dead sitting at his desk, alone in the locked office. He did not commit suicide and there was no weapons in the room. The only clue is a sealed envelope on the desk in front of hi…
- A prisoner is told 'If you tell a lie we will hang you; if you tell the truth we will shoot you.' What can he say to save himself?
- A blue house is made of blue bricks. A yellow house is made of yellow bricks. A red house is made of red bricks. An orange house is made of orange bricks. What would a green house be made of?
- A man was going to buy a $5000 car, but he didn't pay a penny for the car, how is this possible?
- A man goes out drinking every night, returning to his home in the wee hours of every morning. No matter how much he drinks, he never gets a hangover. This drink is very well known, but is rarely cons…
- A woman proves in court that her husband was murdered by her sister, but the judge decides that the sister cannot be punished. Why?
- At night they come without being fetched, And by day they are lost without being stolen.
- A beggar's brother died, but the man who died had no brother. How could this be?
- A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later?
- A man was found dead out in a field of snow. The only tracks that were left was a set of footprints between two parallel lines. Who should the police be looking for?
- Be you ever so quick, with vision keen, by your eyes, we are never seen. Unless perchance it should come to pass, you see our reflection in a looking glass. What are we?
- A sharpshooter hung up his hat and put on a blindfold. He then walked 100 yards, turned around, and shot a bullet through his hat. The blindfold was a perfectly good one, completely blocking the man'…
- A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds?
- At the sound of me, men may dream, Or stamp their feet. At the sound of me, women may laugh, Or sometimes weep.
- A hundred feet in the air, but it's back is on the ground. What is it?
- A rubber ball is tossed off the top of a 90 foot building. Every time it bounces, it goes back up half way. How many bounces will the ball take before it stops?
- A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another?
- A man was born in 1898 He is still alive now at the age 33 How is this possible ?
- A man takes a barrel that weighs 20 pounds, and then puts something in it. It now weighs less than 20 pounds. What did he put in the barrel?
- A man is in a solid metal room. Solid metal floor, ceiling and walls. The ONLY thing in the room is a table. How does he get out?
- As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was it?
- A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can thi…
- A man is late for an appointment and, in his haste, takes a corner so fast that only two wheel were on the pavement. A police man is standing on the corner, but he did not give him a ticket. Why?
- a man and his son were driving to meet there mom when they got in a car wreck. on the way to the ER the man past away. the surgeon said i cant operate on this boy he is my son. how ca n this be?
- A girl is twice as old as her brother and half as old as her father. In 50 years, her brother will be half as old as his father. How old is the daughter now?
- A young boy needs to cross a bridge that can only hold 100 pounds of weight. The young boy weighs 98 pounds. The young boy also has 3 balls that each weigh 1 pound each. The yougn boy needs to get ac…
- A hiker comes to a fork in the road and doesn't know which way to go to reach his destination. There are two men at the fork, one of whom always tells the truth while the other always lies. The hiker…
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