Logic Riddles & Puzzles
Logic riddles challenge you to use deductive and inductive reasoning to arrive at the answer. Unlike wordplay riddles, these require careful analysis of the facts presented in the puzzle. They often involve scenarios with characters, situations, or constraints that you must reason through step by step.
204 riddles
A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed.
What is taken before you can get it?
As I was going to St Ives I met a man with seven wives Each wife had seven sacks Each sack had seven cats Each cat had seven kits Kits, cats, sacks, wives How m...
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...
What is always slow to come, but never actually happens?
What needs to be broken before it can be used?
There were two men walking around on a deserted island with no food or water. One of the men got so hungry that he killed and ate the other man. No one discover...
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...
There is a low railroad bridge in your town. One day you see a large truck stopped just before the underpass. When you ask what has happened, the driver tells y...
An intelligent trader travels from one place to another with 3 sacks having 30 coconuts each. No sack can hold more than 30 coconuts. On the way, he passes 30 c...
A man builds a house with all 4 sides facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but...
An old man wanted to leave all of his money to one of his three sons, but he didn't know which one he should give it to. He gave each of them a few coins and to...
At a local bar, three friends, Mr. Green, Mr. Red and Mr. Blue, were having a drink. One man was wearing a red suit; one a green suit; and the other a blue suit...
A man is in a maze, suddenly the power shuts off. He walks on and it gets colder and colder. He comes to a set of doors numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. He walks through...
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...
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...
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...
My only timepiece is a wall clock. One day I forgot to wind it and it stopped. I went to visit a friend who has a watch which is always correct, stayed a while,...
In the land of the green glass door there are riddles but no answers, sheets but no blankets, and books but no words. Name something found in the land of the gr...
A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
Jenna wrote all the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper. How many times did she write the digit 3?
A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and...