Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

What walks on its head all day?

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?

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

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

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...

What is it that you should keep after giving it to someone else?

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

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...

In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

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...

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

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

What has no content, yet you can see it?

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...