286 hard riddles with progressive hints and detailed explanations
An old man wanted to leave all of his money to one of his three sons, but he didn't know which one he should give it to. He gave e...
It's true I bring serenity, And hang around the stars But yet I live in misery; You'll find me behind bars With thieves and villai...
What question can you never honestly answer yes to?
What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?
When you went into the woods you got me. You hated me yet you wanted to find me. You went home with me cause you couldn't find me...
I drift forever with the current down these long canals they've made, Tame, yet wild, I run elusive Multitasking to your aid. Befo...
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...
I am, in truth, a yellow fork From tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dropped The awful cutlery cry. Of mansions never quite...
It is in the rock, but not in the stone; It is in the marrow, but not in the bone; It is in the bolster, but not in the bed; It is...
I am black of eye and bright of hair And my feet are firmly in the ground. I love the sun upon my face And I follow it around. Whe...
I am the part of the bird that is not in the sky, who can drown in the ocean and yet remain dry. A last vestige of man that refuse...
We are such little tiny creatures; all of us have different features. One of us in glass is set; One of us you'll find in jet. Ano...
Little trotty hetty coat in a long petticoat and a red nose the longer she stands the shorter she grows. What is it?
Curtail me thrice, I am a youth; Behead me once, a snake; Complete, I'm often used, in truth, When certain steps you'd take. What...
Many many years ago when I was twenty three, I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daugh...
How can the number four be half of five?
My first letter is in the spell, but not the book My second letter is in the fright and also the shook My third letter is in the c...
The land was white the seed was black it'll take a good scholar to riddle me that. What is it?
The state of holding a person in your person.
I never was, am always to be, No one ever saw me, nor ever will And yet I am the confidence of all To live and breathe on this ter...
My tines are long. My tines are short. My tines end ere My first report. What am I?
Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth. What is it?
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
What is it that no man ever yet did see, which never was, but always is to be?