Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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...

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...

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

What has no content, yet you can see it?

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

What makes my left hand, my right hand?

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

What has one head, one foot and four legs?

I am a ship that can be made to ride the greatest waves. I am not built by tool, but built by hearts and minds. What am I?

I drive men mad for love of me, easily beaten, never free. What am I?

What is unusual about the following words: revive, banana, grammar, voodoo, assess, potato, dresser, uneven?

Where does success come before work?

I am a small room but no life lives inside, no matter what weather looms, very cold my residents reside. What am I?

There are 12 kids in a classroom. 6 kids are wearing socks and 4 are wearing shoes. 3 kids are wearing both. How many are bare fee...