Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

What can pierce one's ears without a hole?

You will find 206 inside adult human bodies. Together they're a skeleton. Ligaments connect all of these. What are they?

You are in a room with 3 monkeys. One has a banana, one has a stick, one has nothing. Which primate in the room is the smartest?

Alexander is stranded on an island covered in forest. Lightning strikes the west end and starts a fire. The wind blows east, drivi...

I walk on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs at noon, and 3 legs at night. What am I?

What has a head and a tail but no body?

What can eat a lot of iron without getting sick?

What can be measured, but has no length, width, or height?

What two periodic elements, when combined, heal?

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...

Which weighs more, a ton of concrete or a ton of feathers?

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

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?

What period of time weighs the least?

What can go up and come down without moving?

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?

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...

Tarun is found dead at his desk. Police find his wristwatch on his right arm, a torn picture of his wife on the floor, and a calen...