Medium difficulty riddles sit in the sweet spot: challenging enough to make you think, but not so hard that you give up. These require a bit more lateral thinking, wordplay awareness, or logical deduction than easy riddles. They are ideal for group problem-solving sessions, date nights, or whenever you want a satisfying mental challenge.
188 medium riddles

I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away a...

What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?

Soft and fragile is my skin, I get my growth in mud I'm dangerous as much as pretty, for if not careful, I draw blood.
If you break me I do not stop working, If you touch me I may be snared, If you lose me Nothing will matter.

Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen.

All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard.
James ordered a fishing rod, priced at $3.56. Unfortunately, James is an Eskimo who lives in a very remote part of Greenland and the import rules there forbid a...

With the numbers 123456789, make them add up to 100. They must stay in the same order. You can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Remember...

I saw an unusual book: The foreword comes after the epilogue; The end is in the first half of the book; The index comes before the introduction. Name the book.

Sometimes I am loved, Usually by the young. Other times I am dreaded, Mostly by the old ones. I am hard to remember, Also hard to forget. And yet if you do, You...
A man is on the run from the police, after stealing large gold bars. He has 3 gold bars in his arms - each weighing 10kg each. The problem is, as he runs from t...

There is a green house. Inside the green house there is a White house. Inside the White house there is a red house. Inside the red house there are lots of babie...
There is something blue flying through the air, something red is falling of the roof, and at the same moment the phone rings... What is it?

You do not want me but If you get me you do not want to lose me

What has 10 S's and 1 C

I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I build bridges out of silver, Make crowns out of gold, But everyone is afraid of me Even the young and...

Runs over fields and woods all day Under the bed at night sits not alone, With long tongue hanging out, A-waiting for a bone." What am I?

I will be nice, if you see pics thrice. I bear fruit of trees, sometimes in 3's. I am but an arm's length in front of you. What am I?

Fill my bucket, spill my bucket, Over a plane of snow. Black the track as I look back, My footsteps talk but make no sound. What am I?

Each of these ends in a kettle full of precious metal and the double variety is quite awesome.

I sit on a bridge. Some people will look through me while others wonder what I hide. What am I?

Though liquid in nature, don't push me too far for then I will break, and the damage may scar. What am I?

What lies in bed, and stands in bed, first white then red. The plumber it gets, the better the old woman likes it?

I cover what's real; hide what is true, but sometimes bring out the courage in you. What am I?