Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

What needs to be broken before it can be used?

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...

Which word is the odd one out: First, Second, Third, Forth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth.

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...

You came to a fork in the road. One path leads to your destination, the other to a cliff 200 km away. There are two people there s...

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?

There were two men walking around on a deserted island with no food or water. One of the men got so hungry that he killed and ate...

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

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...

Die without me, Never thank me. Walk right through me, never feel me. Always watching, never speaking. Always lurking, never seen.

I am three words, Two of them appear the same, Two are pronounced the same. One is the third person use of "capable" or "permit"....

I make you weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe, I keep you fine. I make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold, I...

I heard of an invading, vanquishing army sweeping across the land, liquid-quick; conquering everything, quelling resistance. With...

I look flat, but I am deep, Hidden realms I shelter. Lives I take, but food I offer. At times I am beautiful. I can be calm, angry...

Scythe of darkness, Shadow's light. Guiding eye Of thirteenth sight.

A man went on a trip with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. He came upon a stream which he had to cross and found a tiny boat to...

Before any changes I'm a garlic or spice. My first is altered and I'm a hand-warming device. My second is changed and I'm trees in...

There is a man lying dead in his office. He is all alone and the doors and windows are locked from the inside. There are no marks...

A man wants to enter an exclusive club, but he doesn't know the password. Another man walks to the door and the doorman says 12, t...

A man decides to buy a nice horse. He pays $600 for it and he is very content with this strong animal. After a year the value of t...