Hard Riddles — Can You Solve Them?

A thousand colored folds stretch toward the sky, Atop a tender strand, Rising from the land, 'Til killed by maiden's hand, Perhaps a token of love, perhaps to s...

When there is fire in me then I am still cold. When I own your true love's face then you will not see me. To all things I give no more than I am given. In time...

To unravel me You need a simple key, No key that was made By locksmith's hand, But a key that only I Will understand.

I am a word of 5 letters and people eat me. If you remove the first letter I become a form of energy. Remove the first two and I'm needed to live. Scramble the...

A woman shoots her husband, then holds him under water for five minutes. Finally, she hangs him. Five minutes later they enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How...

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. Are these sentences true or false?

Carol is traveling by ship from south of the equator to the north. She has a nice little second class cabin which has a bathroom, but no window. Carol has no co...

With thieves I consort, With the vilest, in short, I'm quite at ease in depravity; Yet all divines use me, And savants can't lose me, For I am the center of gra...

I am three words, Two of them appear the same, Two are pronounced the same. One is the third person use of "capable" or "permit". One means to sleep, but only f...

Before any changes I'm a garlic or spice. My first is altered and I'm a hand-warming device. My second is changed and I'm trees in full bloom. The next letter c...

Some cogs are tigs. All tigs are bons. Some bons are pabs. Some pabs are tigs. Therefore, cogs are definitely pabs. - True or False?

Scythe of darkness, Shadow's light. Guiding eye Of thirteenth sight.

Jack is a farmer and owns some chickens. One day, he took a basket of fresh eggs to the market to sell. The first person bought half of all the eggs in the bas...

Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still.

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 What was it?

What question can you never honestly answer yes to?

There is one word that stands the test of time and holds fast to the center of everything. Though everyone will try at least once in their life to move around t...

I drift forever with the current down these long canals they've made, Tame, yet wild, I run elusive Multitasking to your aid. Before I came, the world was darke...

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 their stations between. Join a...

Reaching stiffly for the sky, I bare my fingers when it's cold In warmth I wear an emerald glove And in between I dress in gold

Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I?

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 villains I consort In prison I'll be...

What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it -- and in...