Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

When I am released to the wind, you look away and you pretend, but away your friends I will send. What am I?

If you have 30 white socks, 22 black socks and 14 blue socks scattered across the floor in the dark, how many would you have to gr...

There's a place in the world where the wind blows south then suddenly north. Where is it?

Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?

If three men can chop down three trees in three hours, how many men will it take to chop down six trees in six hours?

What unusual property do the words FLOUR, TERN, and THIRSTY have in common?

Each letter in the below equation stands for a different number, and each time the same letter appears, it is the same number. Wha...

Mr. Mark went to the market with his dog. He rode on a horse to the market, Yet walked. The horse's name was Victory and the dog w...

A monkey, a squirrel and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel o...

There are 25 red balls, 47 green balls and 3 blue balls in a basket. There is a blind man. What is the minimum number of balls tha...

Two dogs are sitting on a porch -- a fat dog and a thin dog. The little dog is the son of the fat dog, but the fat dog is not the...

Seven months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?

Two men are in a desert. They both have packs on. One of them is dead. The other man has his pack open, and the man who is dead ha...

You have lost me a million times, yet you still have me. I am always at your side. What am I?

A farmer has seventeen sheep. All but nine died. How many sheep does he have left?

An intelligent trader travels from one place to another with 3 sacks having 30 coconuts each. No sack can hold more than 30 coconu...

Rearrange the letters: NOR DO WE to make one word.

You have 12 black socks and 12 white socks in your drawer. What is the minimum number of socks that you have to take out to make s...

It takes one word to separate them; otherwise they are inseparable. What are they?

What walks on its head all day?

I am what most people fear, I can strike without warning for I cannot be stopped. Everyday I do things to people that rip apart th...

I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall...

When the postman arrived at the Smith home to deliver mail through a slot in the front door, he was surprised to find the Smiths h...

Three times what number is no larger than two times that same number?