Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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

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

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

What makes my left hand, my right hand?

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

A horse is on a 24 foot chain and eats an apple that is 26 feet away. How did the horse get to the apple?

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

What walks on its head all day?

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...

What has no content, yet you can see it?

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...

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...