Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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

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

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...

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?

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

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...

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...

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...

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?

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...

What makes my left hand, my right hand?

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

Name a 15-letter English word with fifteen different letters?

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

How can you place a pencil on the floor so that no one can jump over it?

A king, queen and two twins all lay in a large room. How are there no adults in the room?

All men take off their hats to one person. Who is this person?

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

What can be opened but cannot be closed?

What is drawn by everyone without a pen or pencil?

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

How many books can you put into an empty backpack?