Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

Cathy has six pairs of black gloves and six pairs of brown gloves in her drawer. In complete darkness, how many gloves must she t...

I'm teary-eyed but never cry. Silver-tongued, but never lie. Double-winged, but never fly. Air-cooled, but never dry. What am I?

What has four eyes but can't see?

What is a word made up of 4 letters, yet is also made up of 3. Sometimes is written with 9 letters, and then with 4. Rarely consis...

A natural state, I'm sought by all. Go without me, and you shall fall. In times past you'd me when you spend, and use me when you...

It's hard to give up. Remove part of it and you still have a bit. Remove another part, but bit is still there. Remove another and...

A man was driving a black car. His lights were off. The moon shown no light. A cat was in the middle of the road. How did he know...

A young man walks through the forest. He comes to a bridge. In front of the bridge is a large man carrying an axe. The man says, "...

My sister has two children. I had two children. My brother has two children. My cousin has two children. Wow, that's a lot of chil...

An interesting formula for generating a good many (but not all) primes is n2 + n + 41. If we plug in consecutive integers 1, 2, 3,...

A doctor in Boston has a brother in New York who is also a doctor, but the doctor in New York does not have a brother in Boston, w...

Of all the numbers whose literal representations in capital letters consists only of straight line segments (for example, FIVE), o...

Where can one stand up straight, but still be considered sideways?

There are two doors and there is one guard for each door. One door leads to life and the other leads to death. You have only one q...

Walking home one day, you take a short cut along the train tracks. The tracks cross a narrow bridge over a deep gorge. At the poin...

What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.

What is as light as a feather but impossible to hold for 20 minutes?

If an electric train was going north at 100 miles/per hour which way would the smoke blow?

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

What grows in grass and shrinks in water.

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...

What would you father's only sister's sister-in-law be to you?

If half of five was two what would a third of ten be?

Is there a number which, when written as a word has same number of letters as its numerical value?