Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

Railroad crossing without any cars. Can you spell that without any R's?

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

What word has 5 letters but is pronounced like only one letter?

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...

In what year did Christmas and New Year fall on the same year?

What has no content, yet you can see it?

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

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...

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...

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...

An apple is 40 cents, a banana is 60 cents and a grapefruit is 80 cents. How much is a pear?

No matter how hard you try, I can open what you can't. If it wasn't for me, on your front porch you would stand. What am I?

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

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

There was once a soldier who had a brother that was wounded in battle. But the wounded man did not have a brother. How could that...

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...