286 hard riddles with progressive hints and detailed explanations
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...
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 poin...
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...
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...
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,...
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"....
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...
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...
Some cogs are tigs. All tigs are bons. Some bons are pabs. Some pabs are tigs. Therefore, cogs are definitely pabs. - True or Fal...
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him under water for five minutes. Finally, she hangs him. Five minutes later they enjoy a w...
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, t...
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.
Stealthy as a shadow in the dead of night, Cunning but affectionate if given a bite. Never owned but often loved. At my sport cons...
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...
A thousand colored folds stretch toward the sky, Atop a tender strand, Rising from the land, 'Til killed by maiden's hand, Perhaps...
Scythe of darkness, Shadow's light. Guiding eye Of thirteenth sight.
Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still.
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 h...
Three brothers share a family sport: A non-stop marathon The oldest one is fat and short And trudges slowly on The middle brother'...
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
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...
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 nothi...
Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I?