50 Hard Riddles with Answers That Will Challenge Even Adults
These aren’t your average kids’ riddles. Each one has been carefully chosen to make even the smartest people pause, think, and sometimes groan when they finally get the answer.
Riddle: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp
Riddle: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo
Riddle: The person who makes it sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The person who uses it never knows they’re using it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin
Riddle: I have cities but no houses, mountains but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map
Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
Riddle: I’m light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold me for much longer than a minute. What am I?
Answer: Breath
Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps
Riddle: I have a head and a tail but no body. What am I?
Answer: A coin
Riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M
Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
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Extremely Tricky Logic Riddles
Riddle: If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?
Answer: A secret
Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light
Riddle: I’m where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow never comes. What am I?
Answer: A dictionary
Riddle: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence
Riddle: I have keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go inside. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard
Riddle: What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle
Riddle: I’m always hungry and must be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Answer: Fire
Riddle: What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer: A clock
Riddle: I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire
Riddle: What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone
Mind-Bending Lateral Thinking Riddles
Riddle: A man is found hanging in a locked room with a puddle beneath him. How did he die?
Answer: He stood on a block of ice, which melted
Riddle: A woman has five daughters. Each daughter has one brother. How many children does she have?
Answer: Six — five girls and one boy
Riddle: You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. Why?
Answer: Because they are all married
Riddle: What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly
Riddle: I’m a three-letter word that becomes a two-letter word when you remove one letter. What am I?
Answer: Few (remove F → ew)
Riddle: If two is company and three is a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine
Riddle: What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
Answer: Your left hand
Riddle: I’m always running but never move. What am I?
Answer: A refrigerator
Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: A leg
Riddle: I follow you all day long, but when the night or rain comes, I’m gone. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow
Insanely Difficult Riddles With Answers
Riddle: What is seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
Answer: The letter R
Riddle: I’m a word of five letters. Remove two and only one remains. What am I?
Answer: Stone (remove S and T → one)
Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single door?
Answer: A piano
Riddle: I’m taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I’m never released, yet I’m used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead (graphite)
Riddle: The man who invented it doesn’t want it. The man who bought it doesn’t need it. The man who needs it doesn’t know it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin
Riddle: I have branches but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank
Riddle: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise
Riddle: I am not alive, but I can die. What am I?
Answer: A battery
Riddle: What has a golden head and a golden tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
Riddle: I am always coming but never arrive. What am I?
Answer: Tomorrow
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Even Harder Riddles to Test Your Genius
Riddle: A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long trip for a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
Answer: Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away
Riddle: What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck
Riddle: I’m a word that means a type of boat and also a type of shift. What am I?
Answer: Grave (gravy boat / graveyard shift)
Riddle: What has six faces but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes but cannot see?
Answer: A dice
Riddle: I’m in every house but never in a home. What am I?
Answer: The letter “H”
Riddle: What is at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The letter W
Riddle: I’m a fruit that when you take away my first letter, I become a crime. What am I?
Answer: Grape (remove G → rape)
Riddle: What has a neck but no head, a body but no legs, and arms but no hands?
Answer: A shirt
Riddle: I am born big but grow smaller the more I’m used. What am I?
Answer: A bar of soap
Final Set of Brain-Melting Riddles
Riddle: I’m a seven-letter word that contains dozens of words without repeating any letter. What am I?
Answer: Mailbox (contains “mail,” “box,” etc.)
Riddle: What has no beginning, end, or middle?
Answer: A doughnut
Riddle: I’m weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I’ll make it lighter. What am I?
Answer: A hole
Riddle: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock
Riddle: I’m full of holes but still hold water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge
Riddle: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river
Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What am I?
Answer: Seven (remove S → even)
Riddle: What has no content yet it’s valuable when it’s full?
Answer: A wallet
Riddle: I’m a word that begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it. What am I?
Answer: Teapot
Riddle: The more there is, the less you see. What am I?
Answer: Darkness
