Riddles with Answers (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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Riddles in this collection
- Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
- 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?
- 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?
- First, I threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside and threw away the inside. What did I eat?
- 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…
- 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?
- 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…
- How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?
- A man rode in to town on Tuesday, and left two days later on Tuesday. How so?
- Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you’ll die. What is it?
- What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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…
- Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
- When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?
- It speaks with a hard tongue, it cannot breathe, for it has no lung. What is it?
- A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and lo…
- 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?
- I always follow you around, everywhere you go at night. I look very bright to people, but I can make the sun dark. I can be in many different forms and shapes. What am I?
- 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…
- It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. What is it?
- A man was stabbed in the heart, no one tried to save him but he didn’t die. How is that possible?
- Every night and every morning I am told what to do and I do it, yet everyone is still mad at me? What am I?
- It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you’ll die. What is it?
- A one-seeded fruit I may be, but all of your calendars are full of me. What am I?
- A pizza weighs ten pounds plus half its own weight. How much does the pizza weigh?
- 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 shimmering field that reaches far. Yet it has no tracks, And is crossed without paths.
- A tasty reward given to well behaved dogs and kids
- For some I go fast for others I'm slow. To most people, I'm an obsession relying on me is a well practiced lesson. What am I?
- 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 train was on its way to Florida and derailed. Where would they bury the survivors?
- You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?
- Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the buildi…
- 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…
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