Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

A snail is at the bottom of a 20 meters deep pit. Every day the snail climbs 5 meters upwards, but at night it slides 4 meters bac...

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...

First tell me who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, give me the sound often heard during t...

Your in a place called Bobby's world and there is only one Law. There is a mirror, but no reflection. There is pizza with cheese,...

You're in a room with no windows and no doors. All that's in there is a table and a mirror. How do you get out?

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 p...

A man leaves home. He goes a little ways and turns a corner. He goes a while and turns another corner. Soon, he turns one more cor...

Name 10 Body Parts with 3 letters each (no profane words).

In the Tour de France, what is the position of a rider, after he passes the second placed rider?

Do you say, "Nine and five is thirteen," or "Nine and five are thirteen" ?

I am four times as old as my daughter. In 20 years time I shall be twice as old as her. How old are we now?

George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?

You have two coins that add up to thirty cents and one is not a quarter. What are the 2 coins?

Is it legal in New York for a man to marry his widow's sister ?

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

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

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

What row of numbers comes next? 1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 13112221

What grows in grass and shrinks in water.

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

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

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

A man is writing a letter. The power goes off and he dies. Why?

There are nine metal dice. 1 die is slightly lighter than the other 8. If you had a balance scale and only two attempts, how could...