286 hard riddles with progressive hints and detailed explanations
Without it, I'm dead. If I'm not, then then I'm behind. What am I?
When do we say "ten" if we look at 2?
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 th...
I see without seeing, to me, darkness is as clear as daylight. What am I?
What is the next letter in the series below, and why? B, C, D, E, G, P
A train pulls in alongside a crowded platform. It is precisely on schedule. The train is not full, and yet nobody boards it. All t...
A golden treasure that never stays; The coin whose face gives wealth to all. Strands, nuggets, and dust of gold are all bought...
Can you name the largest number that can be written with four 1's?
A strange attraction compels me to hold your things most dear, yet I know it not, and feel no warmth in my holding. My brothers an...
Fifteen decades by a tree Cryptically expresses me - A garment worn in times of old, Five letters long, I keep out cold.
I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while you are away. I take you by night, by day take you back, Non...
If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to rea...
Placed above it makes greater things small. Placed beside it makes small things greater. In matters that counts it always comes fi...
I'm pleasing to the eye A tool for many absent of mind A tapestry of fickle lies Blind to even the most pensive spies I'm often th...
Always invisible, yet never out of sight. What are they?
Within, I clean all that is bad and is old. I make juice that's the colour of gold. Should I die, a filter machine would you need...
My only timepiece is a wall clock. One day I forgot to wind it and it stopped. I went to visit a friend who has a watch which is a...
How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the English language spelling of a whole number
What travels alone but is never alone, has a name but doesn't exist
Tom and his younger sister were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting and decided to punish them by making them stand o...
A red cap on my head, a stone in my throat, if you tell me the answer, I'll give you a Groat. What am I?
I have the same name as a porcelain face, yet I carry great loads from place to place.
There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his...
Creatures of power, creatures of grace, Creatures of beauty, creatures of strength. As for their lives, they set everything's pace...