Riddles with Answers
This is the full index of riddles we publish as standalone pages, every one with an answer and explanation. It is the broadest hub: use it when you want to browse everything we have released for static generation, sorted in a stable order for predictable crawling.
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Narrower hubs like tricky-riddles, logic-riddles, or kids group riddles by intent so you can explore a theme without scanning the entire set. Category hubs (such as food or sports) still work the same way they always have. This page simply mirrors the complete list for people who search for “riddles with answers” in the generic sense.
Riddles in this collection
- Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
- In a year, there are 12 months. Seven months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?
- Jimmy’s mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child?
- Which is heavier? A pound of feathers or a pound of rocks?
- What is full of holes but can still hold water?
- A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
- I do not have any special powers, but I can predict the score of any football game before it begins. How can I do this?
- Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
- What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?
- First, I threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside and threw away the inside. What did I eat?
- You are a cyclist in a cross-country race. Just before the crossing finish line, you overtake the person in second place. In what place did you finish?
- 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 man left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two masked men. Who…
- Your dad tells you that he will pay you $6.00 an hour for the 6 seconds that you take to wash your hands before dinner. How much did you make washing your hands?
- Guess the next three letters in the series GTNTL.
- 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?
- Joseph and Lena are found dead on the floor with some water around. The windows are open and a strong wind draft is blowing the curtains around. How did they die?
- What has a mouth, but cannot eat; moves, but has no legs; and has a bank, but cannot put money in it?
- A man condemned to death has the option of picking one of the mentioned three rooms. The first room is a furnace filled with flames. The second has armed men with loaded guns, while the third has lio…
- Your parents have six sons including you and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
- What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
- I travel all over the world, but always stay in my corner. What am I?
- What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
- What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
- How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?
- What do you break before you use it?
- A man rode in to town on Tuesday, and left two days later on Tuesday. How so?
- Why can’t someone living in Maine be buried in Florida?
- Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you’ll die. What is it?
- I have a head but no body, a heart but no blood. Just leaves and no branches, I grow without wood. What am I?
- What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?
- If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
- How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide?
- If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
- If you were in a dark room with a candle, a woodstove, a match and a gas lamp which do you light first?
- 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?
- Can a man legally marry his widow's sister in the state of California?
- I have keys but no locks. I have a space but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I?
- I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. What am I?
- 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?
- Beth’s mother has three daughters. One is called Lara, the other one is Sara. What is the name of the third daughter?
- What’s full of holes but still holds water?
- If an electric train is going east at 60 miles an hour and there is a strong westerly wind, which way does the smoke from the train drift?
- How can you throw a ball as hard as you can, to only have it come back to you, even if it doesn’t bounce off anything?
- I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
- I have a large money box, 48 centemeters square and 42 centemeters tall. Roughly how many coins can I place in my empty money box?
- I say everything I hear to others around. I'm not an animal, nor part of the human race. I will, immediately, repeat after you; But only if my tail is in place. What am I?
- 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 was shot to death while in his car. There were no powder marks on his clothing, which indicated that the gunman was outside the car. However, all the windows were up and the doors locked. After…
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