Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

You can't see me, but I can see you. To be more specific, I see through. What am I?

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

This body has no ears or tongue, so he's not able to use phones. Tickling doesn't work on him because he's only made of bones. Who...

What can go up and come down without moving?

I have five little workers, busy all day. They help you grab and hold things your way. What am I?

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...

What can pierce one's ears without a hole?

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

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?

Crimson I am born, yellow I dance, ebony I die. What am I?

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...

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...

You are in a room with 3 monkeys. One has a banana, one has a stick, one has nothing. Which primate in the room is the smartest?

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?

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...

What can eat a lot of iron without getting sick?

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...

A serial killer gave each of five victims two pills and a glass of water. He told each to take one pill, warning that one was pois...

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

A chemist was murdered in his lab. The only clue was a note listing chemical substances: nickel, carbon, oxygen, lanthanum and sul...