Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

What is always slow to come, but never actually happens?

What needs to be broken before it can be used?

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...

In the land of the green glass door there are riddles but no answers, sheets but no blankets, and books but no words. Name somethi...

A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?

What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

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

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...

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...

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?

A simple peasant is has bought a number of camels and is taking them to his farm. As he rides contentedly along he counts them, he...

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,...

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 grows in grass and shrinks in water.

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