Hard Riddles — Can You Solve Them?

Question: If you randomly choose one of the following answers to this question, what is your chance of getting it right? A) 50% B) 25% C) 0% D) 25%

My sister has two children. I had two children. My brother has two children. My cousin has two children. Wow, that's a lot of children! How many children are th...

A king has no sons, no daughters, and no queen. For this reason he must decide who will take the throne after he dies. To do this he decides that he will give a...

Take 9 from 6, 10 from 9, 50 from 40 and leave 6.

There is a party of 100 high-powered politicians. All of them are either honest or liars. You walk in knowing two things: - At least one of them is honest. - I...

A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?

You see a boat filled with people. You look again, but this time you don't see a single person on the boat. Why? Hint: The boat has not sunk

A man is writing a letter. The power goes off and he dies. Why?

What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.

If half of five was two what would a third of ten be?

George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?

First tell me who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, give me the sound often heard during the search for a hard-to-find w...

There are two doors and there is one guard for each door. One door leads to life and the other leads to death. You have only one question to ask and you can onl...

Walking home one day, you take a short cut along the train tracks. The tracks cross a narrow bridge over a deep gorge. At the point you are 3/8 of the way acros...

You start with 1000 then add 40 add another 1000 then add 30 add another 1000 then add 20 add one more 1000 then add 10 what is your answer?

Four people come to an old bridge in the middle of the night. The bridge is rickety and can only support 2 people at a time. The people have one flashlight, whi...

Of all the numbers whose literal representations in capital letters consists only of straight line segments (for example, FIVE), only one number has a value equ...

A snail is at the bottom of a 20 meters deep pit. Every day the snail climbs 5 meters upwards, but at night it slides 4 meters back downwards. How many days doe...

You came to a fork in the road. One path leads to your destination, the other to a cliff 200 km away. There are two people there standing next to a sign. One wh...

What row of numbers comes next? 1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 13112221

What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

There are nine metal dice. 1 die is slightly lighter than the other 8. If you had a balance scale and only two attempts, how could you figure out which die weig...

A man wants to enter an exclusive club, but he doesn't know the password. Another man walks to the door and the doorman says 12, the man says 6, and is let in....

Stealthy as a shadow in the dead of night, Cunning but affectionate if given a bite. Never owned but often loved. At my sport considered cruel, But that's becau...