Featured Riddle of the Day
How many times a day do the hands of a clock overlap?
Riddle #1: The Key Problem
What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
Riddle #2: The Falling Problem
What falls but never breaks, and breaks but never falls?
Riddle #3: The Magic Word
What 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Riddle #4: The Nail and Hair Riddle
What grows when it eats but dies when it drinks?
Riddle #5: The Simple Math
If you divide 30 by half and add 10, what do you get?
Riddle #6: The Time Question
What goes up but never comes down?
Riddle #7: The Visible Riddle
What can you see in the middle of March and April that you can't see at the beginning or end of either month?
Riddle #8: The Tall Boy
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Riddle #9: The Weightless Mystery
What is always coming but never arrives?
Riddle #10: The Dining Problem
What has many teeth but can't bite?
Riddle #11: The Burning Rope Problem
You have two identical ropes that burn irregularly. Each rope takes exactly 60 minutes to burn completely. How can you measure 45 minutes?
Riddle #12: The Pointed Question
What's full of holes but still holds water?
Riddle #13: The Single Word
What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
Riddle #14: The Forest Problem
What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?
Riddle #15: The Impossible Escape
You are trapped in a room with three doors. One leads to a room of blazing fire, one to a room with assassins with loaded guns, and the third to a room with lions that haven't eaten in three years. Which door do you open?
Riddle #16: The Path of Truth
What's in a forest but never grows, is in rivers but never flows, is in a valley but never blows, is in the present but never grows?
Riddle #17: The Growing Problem
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Riddle #18: The Walking Puzzle
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Riddle #19: The Clothing Riddle
What gets wet while drying?
Riddle #20: The Poisoned Wine
A king has 1000 bottles of wine. A neighboring queen plots to kill him and has poisoned one of the bottles. The poison is so potent that even if diluted by a million, it would still kill the king. The poison takes 24 hours to take effect. The king has 10 servants. How can he determine which bottle is poisoned in just one day?
Riddle #21: The Invisible Traveler
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Riddle #22: The Merchant’s Challenge
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Riddle #23: Always Running
I run all day but never walk. I have a mouth but never talk. I have a bed but never sleep. I have a head but never weep. What am I?
Riddle #24: The Feather Problem
What has many keys but can't open a single lock?
Riddle #25: The Neighbor’s Dilemma
What building has the most stories?
Riddle #26: The Walking Riddle
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Riddle #27: The Puzzle of Existence
What can you catch but never throw?
Riddle #28: The Burning Question
What can burn the eyes without touching them?
Riddle #29: The Word Problem
I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest person can't hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?
Riddle #30: The Candle Problem
A man is found dead in a circular room with no windows and no doors. There is a table and a puddle of water on the floor. How did he die?
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The Age Puzzle
A father is 4 times as old as his son. In 20 years, the father will be twice as old as his son. How old are they now?
Riddle #1: The Light Mystery
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Riddle #2: The Calendar Problem
What can go up and never come down?
Riddle #3: The Invisible Traveler
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Riddle #4: The Counting Mystery
How many months have 28 days?
Riddle #5: The Elemental Riddle
I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
Riddle #6: The Ancient Conundrum
I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Riddle #7: The Word Problem
I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest person can't hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?
Riddle #8: The Speaking Question
Take off my skin and I won't cry, but you will. What am I?
Riddle #9: The Poisoned Wine
A king has 1000 bottles of wine. A neighboring queen plots to kill him and has poisoned one of the bottles. The poison is so potent that even if diluted by a million, it would still kill the king. The poison takes 24 hours to take effect. The king has 10 servants. How can he determine which bottle is poisoned in just one day?
Riddle #10: The Family Question
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 is in the photograph?
Riddle #11: The Key Problem
What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
Riddle #12: The Tree Problem
Everyone has it but no one can lose it. What is it?
Riddle #13: The Pointed Question
What's full of holes but still holds water?
Riddle #14: The 100 Doors
There are 100 closed doors in a row, numbered 1 to 100. A person walks by each door, opening every door. A second person walks by each door, closing every second door (doors 2, 4, 6, ...). A third person walks by, toggling every third door (closing open doors, opening closed doors). This continues for 100 people. After all 100 people have walked by, which doors are open?
Riddle #15: The Strawberry Patch
If 5 cats can catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how many cats would be needed to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?
Riddle #16: The Letter Game
What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward, or upside down, and still be the same word?
Riddle #17: The Reflection
I'm not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Riddle #18: The Penny Riddle
A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Riddle #19: Tricky Windows
I have cities without houses, forests without trees, and rivers without water. What am I?
Riddle #20: The Fence Riddle
A boy fell off a 30-foot ladder but didn't get hurt. How is this possible?
Riddle #21: The Spelling Riddle
What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Riddle #22: The Falling Problem
What falls but never breaks, and breaks but never falls?
Riddle #23: The Magic Word
What 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Riddle #24: The Shoe Mystery
What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
Riddle #25: The Odd One Out
What can you keep after giving to someone?
Riddle #26: The House Problem
What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?
Riddle #27: The Rainy Friend
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can't touch me or catch me. What am I?
Riddle #28: The Water Jug Problem
You have a 3-gallon jug and a 5-gallon jug. How can you measure exactly 4 gallons of water?
Riddle #29: The Philosophical Puzzle
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Riddle #30: The Identical Issue
They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
The father is 40 years old, and the son is 10 years old.
The Odd One Out
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Riddle #1: The Philosopher’s Puzzle
What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
Riddle #2: The Talking Question
What gets wetter as it dries?
Riddle #3: The Color Riddle
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Riddle #4: The Animal Riddle
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Riddle #5: The Riddle of Knowledge
What grows the more it is shared?
Riddle #6: The Color Mystery
It's red, blue, purple and green. No one can reach it, not even the queen. What is it?
Riddle #7: The Clock Problem
A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half hour. How long will the pills last?
Riddle #8: Future Sight
What's always in front of you but can't be seen?
Riddle #9: The Wet Problem
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Riddle #10: The Blind Men and Elephant
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Riddle #11: The Drinking Question
What has a neck but no head?
Riddle #12: The Weightless Mystery
What is always coming but never arrives?
Riddle #13: The Clothing Riddle
What gets wet while drying?
Riddle #14: The Counting Mystery
How many months have 28 days?
Riddle #15: The Key Problem
What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
Riddle #16: Missing Nine
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Riddle #17: The Twins Puzzle
Two fathers and two sons went fishing. Each caught exactly one fish and brought it home. There were only three fish in total. How is this possible?
Riddle #18: The House Problem
What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?
Riddle #19: The Prisoner’s Hat Puzzle
Three prisoners are lined up single file, all facing forward. A wall separates the first prisoner from the other two. They are told that they will have either a black or a white hat placed on their head. Each prisoner can see the hats of the people in front of them, but not their own hat or the hats behind them. The third prisoner (at the back) can see the hats of the two people in front. The second person can see only the hat of the first person. The first person can't see any hats. They are asked to identify the color of their own hat. If they guess wrong, they will be executed. If they refuse to guess, they will be imprisoned for life. How can they maximize the number of people who correctly identify their hat color?
Riddle #20: The Burning Question
What can burn the eyes without touching them?
Riddle #21: The Prisoner Dilemma
You're in a prison with 2 doors. One leads to freedom, the other to execution. There are 2 guards, one by each door. One guard always tells the truth, the other always lies. You don't know which is which. You can ask one question to one guard to determine the door to freedom. What do you ask?
Riddle #22: The Letter Box
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Riddle #23: The Sound Riddle
What breaks but never falls, and what falls but never breaks?
Riddle #24: The Calendar Riddle
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Riddle #25: The Silent Brother
I am your brother but you are not my brother. Who am I?
Riddle #26: The Office Mystery
What building has the most stories?
Riddle #27: The Four Brothers
Four brothers run around the world, but never meet each other. Who are they?
Riddle #28: The Whisper Riddle
What can you hold in your right hand but not in your left?
Riddle #29: The Elevator Riddle
A man lives on the 10th floor of a building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the ground floor to go to work. When he returns in the evening, he takes the elevator to the 7th floor and walks up the stairs to his apartment on the 10th floor. However, on rainy days, he takes the elevator all the way to the 10th floor. Why?
Riddle #30: The Counting Problem
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
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The Magic Word
What 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Riddle #1: The Walking Riddle
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Riddle #2: The Quiet House
The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it, never uses it. The person who uses it, never sees it. What is it?
Riddle #3: The Ancient Conundrum
I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Riddle #4: The Pointed Question
What's full of holes but still holds water?
Riddle #5: The Egg Problem
I'm tall when I'm young, and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?
Riddle #6: The Tree Problem
Everyone has it but no one can lose it. What is it?
Riddle #7: The Snake in the Box
What gets bigger the more you take away?
Riddle #8: The Path of Truth
What's in a forest but never grows, is in rivers but never flows, is in a valley but never blows, is in the present but never grows?
Riddle #9: The 100 Doors
There are 100 closed doors in a row, numbered 1 to 100. A person walks by each door, opening every door. A second person walks by each door, closing every second door (doors 2, 4, 6, ...). A third person walks by, toggling every third door (closing open doors, opening closed doors). This continues for 100 people. After all 100 people have walked by, which doors are open?
Riddle #10: The Forest Problem
What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?
Riddle #11: The Light Mystery
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Riddle #12: The Weighing Puzzle
You have 9 identical looking balls but one weighs slightly more than the others. Using a balance scale, what's the minimum number of weighings to find the heavier ball?
Riddle #13: The Letter Box
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Riddle #14: The Multiplication Mystery
If eight men can build eight walls in eight hours, how many men could build four walls in four hours?
Riddle #15: The Pencil Riddle
I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest person can't hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?
Riddle #16: The Open Question
What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
Riddle #17: The Key Problem
What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
Riddle #18: The Riddle of Knowledge
What grows the more it is shared?
Riddle #19: The Name Riddle
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water. What am I?
Riddle #20: The Weightless Mystery
What is always coming but never arrives?
Riddle #21: The Speaking Question
Take off my skin and I won't cry, but you will. What am I?
Riddle #22: The Traveler’s Riddle
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Riddle #23: The Heavy Word
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Riddle #24: The Sunrise Riddle
I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Riddle #25: The Basketball Dilemma
A basketball player scores 18 points in a game. All of his shots were either 2-pointers or 3-pointers. He scored exactly twice as many 2-pointers as 3-pointers. How many 2-pointers did he score?
Riddle #26: The Dark Room Puzzle
You are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?
Riddle #27: The Linguistic Puzzle
I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Riddle #28: The Night Problem
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Riddle #29: The Magic Word
What 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Riddle #30: The Merchant’s Challenge
What has a head and a tail but no body?
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