Hard Riddles Challenge

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it -- and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do it without coaching. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck -- don't blow your cool!

You want to boil a two-minute egg. If you only have a three-minute timer (hourglass), a four-minute timer and a five-minute timer can you boil the egg for only two minutes?

What walks on its head all day?

You ride on me every day but barely notice, I'm hot and cold at the very same time, I'm the densest of my clan, And my first three help you enjoy music. What am I?

Name a 15-letter English word with fifteen different letters?

A thousand colored folds stretch toward the sky, Atop a tender strand, Rising from the land, 'Til killed by maiden's hand, Perhaps a token of love, perhaps to say goodbye.

I am a five letter word and I am a fruit. Take the first letter out and I am a crime, take out the first and second letter and I am a animal, take out the first and last letter and I am a type of music. What am I.

An eye in a blue face Saw an eye in a green face. "That eye is like to this eye" Said the first eye, "But in low place, Not in high place."

What has one head, one foot and four legs?

Find an English word that uses all of the following letters: PNLLEEEESSSSS

Alone I am 24th, with a friend I am 20. Another friend and I am unclean. What am I?

A sundial is the type of timepiece that has the fewest moving parts. What type of timepiece has the most moving parts?

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen; First of all figures, the first of all letters, Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring Before you the name of an eminent king.

Two people are born at the same moment, but they don't have the same birthdays. How could this be?

The shorter I am, the bigger I am. What am I?

We travelled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly. How can that be possible?

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

Each letter in the below equation stands for a different number, and each time the same letter appears, it is the same number. What is the only set of numbers that makes this equation correct? SEND + MORE = MONEY

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

Scythe of darkness, Shadow's light. Guiding eye Of thirteenth sight.

What time of day, when written in a capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?

Before any changes I'm a garlic or spice. My first is altered and I'm a hand-warming device. My second is changed and I'm trees in full bloom. The next letter change makes a deathly old tomb. Change the fourth to make a fruit of the vine. Change the last for a chart plotted with lines. What was I? What did I become? What did I turn out to be?

A man was born in 1964 and died in 1984 at the age of 25. How is this possible?

As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. How is this possible?

Think of words ending in GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

I am a word of 5 letters and people eat me. If you remove the first letter I become a form of energy. Remove the first two and I'm needed to live. Scramble the last 3 and you can drink me. What am I?

Without it, I'm dead. If I'm not, then then I'm behind. What am I?

I turn around once. What is out will not get in. I turn around again. What is in will not get out. What am I?

A train pulls in alongside a crowded platform. It is precisely on schedule. The train is not full, and yet nobody boards it. All trains that stop at the platform travel to the same destinations. Why then did nobody board the train?

What is round on both ends and hi in the middle?