286 hard riddles with progressive hints and detailed explanations
There is a party of 100 high-powered politicians. All of them are either honest or liars. You walk in knowing two things: - At le...
A man is in an area where blue-backed frogs are quite common. He finds one and it then begins to rain quite hard, to which he bec...
An interesting formula for generating a good many (but not all) primes is n2 + n + 41. If we plug in consecutive integers 1, 2, 3,...
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 chil...
You want to hire a temporary employee for one month. You offer him reasonable wages, but the employee suggests an alternative. For...
In a pond there are some flowers with some bees hovering over the flowers. How many flowers and bees are there if both the followi...
A thief enters a shop and threatens the clerk, forcing him to open the safe. The clerk says, "The code for the safe is different e...
A man was to be sentenced and the judge told him you may make a statement. If you tell the truth I'll sentence you to 4 years, how...
Can you find the last number in the number sequence given below? 10 : 10 : 20 : 45 : 110 : 300 : ?
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...
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 p...
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 q...
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 h...
What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.
A man is writing a letter. The power goes off and he dies. Why?
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?
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...
Of all the numbers whose literal representations in capital letters consists only of straight line segments (for example, FIVE), o...
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 bac...
What row of numbers comes next? 1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 13112221
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 yo...
First tell me who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, give me the sound often heard during t...
What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?