Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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

A woman had two sons born at the same hour, on the same day, of the same month, in the same year. But they were not twins. How is...

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

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...

What two periodic elements, when combined, heal?

No legs have I to dance, no lungs have I to breathe, no life have I to live or die, and yet I do all three. What am I?

Andy is put in a cell with a dirt floor and only one window, too high to reach. The only thing in the cell is a shovel. He has two...

A man died and went to heaven where there were millions of people. Everyone was naked and looked as they did at age 21. He saw a c...

Two friends ordered the same drink. One drank hers fast, finishing five drinks in the time it took the other to finish one. The dr...

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

A man lived on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he took the elevator down to the ground floor. When he returned, he took t...

A woman on trial for killing her husband claims she's innocent. Her lawyer announces that the husband will walk through the courtr...

A Japanese ship captain left his ring by his bunk for 10 minutes. When he returned it was gone. The cook said he was preparing din...

I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

What has a head and a tail but no body?

Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die. What is it?

What has a Heart but no other organs?

What breaks but never falls?

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...

When the son of the water returns to the parent, it dies. What is it?

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always...

In a large, completely empty wooden barn, a dead man hangs from the middle of the central rafter by a rope. The nearest wall is 20...

A man walked into a bar and asked the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender pulled out a gun and pointed it at the man. Th...