Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

I have five little workers, busy all day. They help you grab and hold things your way. What am I?

What can pierce one's ears without a hole?

A man lived on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he took the elevator down to the ground floor. When he returned, he took t...

What can eat a lot of iron without getting sick?

A detective breaks into a crime scene. The victim is slumped dead on a chair with a bullet hole in his head. A gun lies on the flo...

What two periodic elements, when combined, heal?

What has a head and a tail but no body?

What has a Heart but no other organs?

These are a part of your body. Sometimes they're large, sometimes they're little. They're white and they can be broken, and in som...

A man died and went to heaven where there were millions of people. Everyone was naked and looked as they did at age 21. He saw a c...

No legs have I to dance, no lungs have I to breathe, no life have I to live or die, and yet I do all three. What am I?

I protect your brain, hard and white. Without me, it wouldn't be alright. What am I?

A man hijacks a plane with 8 passengers and valuable cargo. He takes the cargo and demands nine parachutes. He puts on one and jum...

I touch your face, I am in your words, I am a lack of space, and beloved by birds. What am I?

What grows only upwards and can never come down?

I am excellent to taste, but horrible to smell. What am I?

Your body has two of these, but they cannot give a kiss. You use them to help you walk, and twelve inches make up this. What are t...

I am a unit of chemical elements, but I can never be trusted. What am I?

Two friends ordered the same drink. One drank hers fast, finishing five drinks in the time it took the other to finish one. The dr...

A dead body is found outside a multistory building. The detective goes to the first floor, walks to the window facing the body, op...

What has feet and legs and nothing else?

This body has no ears or tongue, so he's not able to use phones. Tickling doesn't work on him because he's only made of bones. Who...

What can go up and come down without moving?

A couple went to Hawaii on their honeymoon. The husband returned alone, saying his wife died in a boating accident. Police spoke t...