Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

What has a Heart but no other organs?

A "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?

There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, t...

I'm usually round I'm as light as a feather Thousands of men cannot carry me What am i?

I can slash but I have no knife, I can dash but I have no legs, I can pound but I have no hammer, I can star but I have no stag...

What has hands but can not clap?

I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?

I shrink smaller every time I take a bath. What am I?

You want to boil a two-minute egg. If you only have a three-minute timer (hourglass), a four-minute timer and a five-minute timer...

I have no voice and yet I speak to you, I tell of all things in the world that people do. I have leaves, but I am not a tree, I ha...

There is a man in a 4 story building. He jumps out of the window and is unharmed. He used no padding, and had no harm done. How?

I am a fruit. If you take away the first letter of my name I become a crime. Take away the first two letters of my name I become a...

Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all. What am...

What falls often but never gets hurt?

I come right in front of Earth, at the end of time, and twice in a week. What am I?

What are the next two letters in the series? D E J A F E M A A P M A J U J U _ _

There was a plane crash every single person died. Who survived?

Open me, and you can't see me without a mirror. Close me and you can't see me at all. What am I?

Some will use me, while others will not, some have remembered, while others have forgot. For profit or gain, I'm used expertly, I...

You're both in and outside of me; You guide me but don't ride me; I can make a statement with a tongue but no mouth. What am I...

A man is trapped in a room. The room has only two possible exits: two doors. Through the first door there is a room constructed fr...

I am a being with many faces. My first is peaceful and calm, but can kill you. My second is strong enough to smash ships but sti...

Two girls ate dinner together. They both ordered ice tea. One girl drank really fast and finished 5 in the time that took the othe...