Section: «Riddles with Answers»
A riddle is a short description of an object or phenomenon, often in poetic form, containing an intricate task in the idea of an explicit (direct) or implied (hidden) question. The content of riddles reflects a person's life. The world around him: living and inanimate nature, phenomena of reality, objects of labor and everyday life, and more.
Riddle: A new medical building containing 100 offices had just been completed. Mark was hired to paint the numbers 1 to 100 on the doors. How many..
Riddle: A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no..
Riddle: I am four letters long, I can be seen in the sky, I am the ocean & I am the sea. Can you guess me?Answer: The color Blue.
Riddle: Two sentries were on duty outside a barracks. One faced up the road to watch for anyone approaching from the North. The other looked down the..
Riddle: Dynamite is a tool that can be used to cut down trees. Cutting a tree 18 inches in diameter requires five sticks of dynamite: one on the..
Riddle: A traveler, on his way to Miami, reaches a road junction, where he can turn left or right. He knows that only one of the two roads leads to..
Riddle: Mr. and Mrs. Smith were walking home from the shopping mall with their purchases when Mr. Smith began to complain that his load was too..
Riddle: My age today is three times what it will be three years from now minus three times what my age was three years ago. How old am I?Answer:..
Riddle: A man decides to buy a nice horse. He pays $600 for it, and he is very content with this strong animal. After a year, the value of the horse..
Riddle: There are two numbers whose product added to the sum of their squares is 109, and the difference of whose squares is 24. What are the two..
Riddle: Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn't figure out..
Riddle: What is the shape of a kiss?Answer: Elliptical—a-lip-tickle.
Riddle: What is that which is less tired the longer it runs?Answer: A wheel.
Riddle: What animal keeps the best time?Answer: A Watchdog.
Riddle: If a fender cost six dollars, what will a ton of coal come to?Answer: To ashes.
Riddle: Trains travel from one town to another town all day, always on the same track, always going nonstop and at the same speed. The noon train..
Riddle: I'm a word that's hardly there. Take away my start, and I'm an herbal flair. What am I?Answer: Sparsely (No S = Parsley).
Riddle: NASA was considering sending canaries into space to study them under zero gravity. The project was scrapped when someone realized that in..
Riddle: A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip..
Riddle: A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have..
Riddle: A man went on a trip with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn. He came upon a stream that he had to cross and found a tiny boat to use to..
Riddle: A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left alive?Answer: 9. All but nine die.
Riddle: A guy was waiting at home, he swung a metal pole then took 3 left turns and on his way back home there was a masked man waiting for him. What..
Riddle: A hiker comes to a fork in the road and doesn't know which way to go to reach his destination. There are two men at the fork, one of whom..
Riddle: You are on an island in the middle of a lake. The lake is in a remote part of the country and there has never been a bridge connecting the..