286 hard riddles with progressive hints and detailed explanations
Crimson I am born, yellow I dance, ebony I die. What am I?
A detective finds a coded message at a crime scene: 710 57735 34 5508 51 7718. There are 3 suspects: Bill, John, and Todd. Who is...
An evening there was a murder in the home of a married couple, their son and daughter. One of these four people murdered one of th...
A Japanese ship captain left his ring by his bunk for 10 minutes. When he returned it was gone. The cook said he was preparing din...
As destructive as life, as healing as death; an institutioner of strife, just as prone to bless. It is all that is good, yet with...
A man went into a party and drank some of the fruit punch. He then left early. Everyone at the party who drunk the fruit punch sub...
A detective who was mere days from cracking an international smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing. While inspecting his last-k...
A man forgot the secret code to open his locker. But he remembers the following clues: Fifth number plus the third number equals...
You have two ropes. Each rope can burn in exactly one hour. The ropes are not of the same length or width. Both ropes are also not...
An intelligent trader travels from one place to another with 3 sacks having 30 coconuts each. No sack can hold more than 30 coconu...
Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see each other?
When the postman arrived at the Smith home to deliver mail through a slot in the front door, he was surprised to find the Smiths h...
The number 8549176320. What makes it unique?
A man was born in 1964 and died in 1984 at the age of 25. How is this possible?
Name a 15-letter English word with fifteen different letters?
Susan and Lisa decided to play tennis against each other. They bet $1 on each game they played. Susan won three bets and Lisa won...
What makes my left hand, my right hand?
Rearrange the letters: NOR DO WE to make one word.
Each letter in the below equation stands for a different number, and each time the same letter appears, it is the same number. Wha...
What walks on its head all day?
A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 12 pounds?
Three spies, suspected as double agents, speak as follows when questioned: Albert: "Bertie is a mole." Bertie: "Cedric is a mole....
I am the shortest complete sentence in the English language. What am I?
If it were three hours later than it is now, it would be twice as long until midnight as it would be if it were four hours later....