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...

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...

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. Wh...

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 s...

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...

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 a...

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...

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 t...

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 c...

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 somethin...

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...

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 platfor...

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