Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

A claustrophobic lady gets on a train. The train enters a tunnel just as it is leaving the station. Where should she sit?

I have joy in bringing two together, but darning my existence! My life hangs by a thread, filled with ups, downs and resistance!

If you eat me, my sender will eat you. What am I?

What jumps higher than a building?

Slayer of regrets, old and new, sought by many, found by few.

I am the only organ that named myself. What am I?

You can easily touch me, but not see me. You can throw me out, but not away.

Looks like water, but it's heat. Sits on sand, lays on concrete. People have been known, To follow it everywhere. But it gets them...

What is it something that you always have but you always leave behind?

I can bring tears to your eyes; resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an instant but I last a lifetime....

What's orange and sounds like a parrot?

I cannot hear or even see, but sense light and sounds there may be. Sometimes I end up on the hook, or even deep into a book. Wha...

All day long it's in and out. I discharge loads from my shaft. Both men and women go down on me. What am I?

Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns and never falls.

Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble

Three people check into a room. The bill is $30. They split it 3 ways. Later on the hotel realizes they should have charged $25 so...

You are playing a game of dodge ball with two other people, John and Tom. You're standing in a triangle and you all take turns thr...

I go into the water black and come out red. What am I?

An athlete is able to jump FOREVER. However, every time that she jumps she gets a bit more tired, and every jump goes 1/2 as far a...

Use the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the symbols + and = to make a true equation.

In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the ent...

If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?