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150 Hard Riddles Riddles
I am always coming, but I never arrive. What am I?
Answer: Tomorrow.
The more of me you share, the less of me you have. What am I?
Answer: A secret.
I grow a new ring every year, yet I wear no jewelry. What am I?
Answer: A tree.
I am full of holes, but I can still hold water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge.
I have a bed but never sleep, and a mouth but never speak. What am I?
Answer: A river.
I am taken before you can see me, and I never make a sound. What am I?
Answer: A photograph.
I get sharper the more you use me, yet I have no blade. What am I?
Answer: Your mind.
I am spelled incorrectly in every dictionary, yet no one ever fixes me. What am I?
Answer: Incorrectly.
I follow you all day but vanish when the lights go out. What am I?
Answer: A shadow.
I am always in front of you, but you can never see me. What am I?
Answer: The future.
I can be cracked, made, told, and played, but I never break on purpose. What am I?
Answer: A joke.
I am not alive, but I grow. I have no lungs, yet I need air, and water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
I show you everything, but I keep nothing for myself. What am I?
Answer: A mirror.
I have a thousand ears but cannot hear a thing. What am I?
Answer: A cornfield.
I wear a cap but never take it off, and I am green before I am brown. What am I?
Answer: An acorn.
I am a room with no doors and no windows, yet I hold the whole world. What am I?
Answer: A mushroom.
I am a word that gets shorter when you add two letters to me. What am I?
Answer: The word short.
I can be broken without ever being touched. What am I?
Answer: A promise.
I have a spine but no bones. What am I?
Answer: A book.
I am bought by the yard but worn by the foot. What am I?
Answer: A carpet.
I go around the world but stay in a corner. What am I?
Answer: A stamp.
I go up and down but never move. What am I?
Answer: A staircase.
I have a heart that never beats. What am I?
Answer: An artichoke.
I begin with T, end with T, and have T in me. What am I?
Answer: A teapot.
I have one eye but cannot see. What am I?
Answer: A needle.
I have a tongue but cannot talk. What am I?
Answer: A shoe.
I have legs but cannot walk. What am I?
Answer: A table.
I come down but never go up. What am I?
Answer: Rain.
I am black when I am clean and white when I am dirty. What am I?
Answer: A chalkboard.
I am the end of everything. What am I?
Answer: The letter G.
I am the only common English word with three pairs of letters standing side by side. What am I?
Answer: Bookkeeper.
I am five letters long, yet you can take away four of me and still say me the same way. What am I?
Answer: Queue.
I begin with E, end with E, and hold only one letter. What am I?
Answer: An envelope.
I have four letters, sometimes I have nine, and I never have five. What am I?
Answer: What.
I am the longest word in the dictionary, with a mile between my first and last letter. What am I?
Answer: Smiles.
I read the same forwards and backwards, and so does my name. What am I?
Answer: A palindrome.
I have a ring but no finger, and I sit on a desk waiting to be picked up. What am I?
Answer: A telephone.
I have bark but never bite, and I shed my skin every year. What am I?
Answer: A tree.
I have one foot but no legs, and I carry my home wherever I go. What am I?
Answer: A snail.
I have a head but never think, and I can be struck but never feel pain. What am I?
Answer: A match.
I have teeth but never bite, and I keep your jacket closed on cold days. What am I?
Answer: A zipper.
I am always open, I have days but no story, and I hang on your wall. What am I?
Answer: A calendar.
I have a stem but I am not a plant, and I hold your drink. What am I?
Answer: A wine glass.
I have four corners and a view, but I am not a painting. What am I?
Answer: A window.
I go up when the rain comes down. What am I?
Answer: An umbrella.
I am taken from a mine, locked in a wooden case, and never set free, yet nearly everyone uses me. What am I?
Answer: A pencil.
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. What am I?
Answer: A chick in an egg.
I am a bridge between two eyes, and I carry no cars. What am I?
Answer: Your nose.
I am a coat that is never worn, yet I cover your whole house. What am I?
Answer: Paint.
I am a box that holds the world, yet I fit in your pocket and light up when you touch me. What am I?
Answer: A smartphone.
I have a handle but no door, and I hold your morning brew. What am I?
Answer: A mug.
I am a house with no walls, built by birds in the spring. What am I?
Answer: A nest.
I flip but never fall, and I live in the kitchen but am never eaten. What am I?
Answer: A spatula.
I am a wheel that never turns, but I hold your car off the ground. What am I?
Answer: A spare tire.
I am a ladder with no rungs, and I take you to the top floor. What am I?
Answer: An elevator.
I am a staircase that never ends, and I carry you up without a single step. What am I?
Answer: An escalator.
I am a door that opens by itself and never needs a key. What am I?
Answer: An automatic door.
I am a light that never burns, and I guide ships home. What am I?
Answer: A lighthouse.
I am a bell that never rings, but I grow in your garden. What am I?
Answer: A bluebell.
I am a crown that never sits on a king, but I grow on a pineapple. What am I?
Answer: A pineapple crown.
I am a bow that never shoots an arrow, and I appear after the rain. What am I?
Answer: A rainbow.
I am a river with no water, and cars sail on me all day. What am I?
Answer: A road.
I am a mountain that grows in your sink and shrinks when you wash. What am I?
Answer: A pile of dirty dishes.
I am a forest with no trees, and I grow on your head. What am I?
Answer: Hair.
I am a garden of white stones that grows in your mouth. What am I?
Answer: Your teeth.
I am a library with no books, and I live in your head. What am I?
Answer: Your memory.
I tell time with no hands, using only the sun. What am I?
Answer: A sundial.
I am a ship that sails on land, and I carry your groceries. What am I?
Answer: A shopping cart.
I am a horse that never eats, and I rock all day. What am I?
Answer: A rocking horse.
I am a bird that never flies, and I live at the South Pole. What am I?
Answer: A penguin.
I am a snake that never bites, and I measure your waist. What am I?
Answer: A tape measure.
I am a bee that never stings, and I spell my name with a buzz. What am I?
Answer: The letter B.
I am a butterfly that never flies, and I mark your place in a book. What am I?
Answer: A bookmark.
I am a worm that never crawls, and I live inside your computer. What am I?
Answer: A computer virus.
I am a mouse that never squeaks, and I click all day. What am I?
Answer: A computer mouse.
I am a keyboard that never makes music, but I type your thoughts. What am I?
Answer: A computer keyboard.
I am a cloud that never rains, and I store your photos. What am I?
Answer: The cloud.
I am a web that no spider spins, and I catch the whole world. What am I?
Answer: The internet.
I am a bug that no spray can kill, and I live in your code. What am I?
Answer: A software bug.
I am a number that looks the same upside down. What am I?
Answer: The number 8.
What comes next in this sequence: 2, 3, 5, 9, 17?
Answer: 33.
I am three-sevenths chicken, two-thirds cat, and one-half goat. What city am I?
Answer: Chicago.
I have thirteen hearts but no organs. What am I?
Answer: A deck of cards.
I am a number shaped like a ring, and I am worth nothing. What am I?
Answer: Zero.
I am the only even prime number. What am I?
Answer: The number 2.
I am a number that, when you multiply me by any other number, the answer is always me. What am I?
Answer: Zero.
What do you get when you multiply every number on a telephone keypad together?
Answer: Zero.
How many months have at least 28 days?
Answer: All 12.
In what counting system does one plus one equal ten?
Answer: Binary.
I am the only month that can pass without a single full moon. What am I?
Answer: February.
If a rooster lays an egg on the peak of a roof, which side does it roll down?
Answer: Roosters do not lay eggs.
A plane crashes on the border of the United States and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
Answer: You do not bury survivors.
How many animals did Moses take on the ark?
Answer: None, it was Noah.
If you have three apples and take away two, how many do you have?
Answer: Two.
A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half hour. How long until you have taken them all?
Answer: One hour.
How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?
Answer: Once.
What is the next number in this sequence: 2, 3, 5, 9, 17?
Answer: 33.
What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Answer: They weigh the same.
If a rooster lays an egg on a roof, which way does it roll?
Answer: Roosters do not lay eggs.
If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would 100 machines take to make 100 widgets?
Answer: 5 minutes.
You are in a race and pass the person in second place. What place are you in?
Answer: Second.
A man lives on the top floor of a tall building. Every morning he rides the lift all the way down, but every evening he rides it only halfway up and walks the rest, unless it is raining. Why?
Answer: He is too short to reach the top button, so he uses his umbrella to reach it when it rains.
A woman shoots her husband, holds him under water for five minutes, and then hangs him. Yet they enjoy a lovely dinner together that evening. How is this possible?
Answer: She took his photograph and developed it.
A man is found dead in a field with a pack on his back. How did he die?
Answer: His parachute failed to open.
A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender pulls out a gun. The man says thank you and leaves. Why?
Answer: He had the hiccups.
A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays three days, and leaves on Friday. How is that possible?
Answer: His horse is named Friday.
A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he is bankrupt. Why?
Answer: He is playing Monopoly.
I am a word that can mean both to split apart and to stick together. What am I?
Answer: Cleave.
I can be seen in the middle of March and April but not at the beginning or end of either month. What am I?
Answer: The letter R.
I appear once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day. What am I?
Answer: The letter E.
I am at the end of a rainbow. What am I?
Answer: The letter W.
I am the center of gravity. What am I?
Answer: The letter V.
I have a back but no front, and I hold you up all day. What am I?
Answer: A chair.
I am always behind you, but you can never see me. What am I?
Answer: The past.
I am black and white and red all over. What am I?
Answer: A newspaper.
I am orange and I sound like a parrot. What am I?
Answer: A carrot.
I am the richest nut of all, because I am full of cash. What am I?
Answer: A cashew.
What do you call a fish with no eyes?
Answer: A fsh.
What do you call a bull that is a detective?
Answer: Sherlock Moos.
I am a light that never burns, and I guide you home at night. What am I?
Answer: The moon.
I am a star that never twinkles, and I rise every morning. What am I?
Answer: The sun.
I am a blanket that covers the earth, and I melt in the spring. What am I?
Answer: Snow.
I am a river that falls from the sky, and I make the flowers grow. What am I?
Answer: Rain.
I am a sea with no water, and I am full of sand. What am I?
Answer: A desert.
I am a mountain that breathes fire, and I sleep for centuries. What am I?
Answer: A volcano.
I am a worm that never wriggles, and I am made of gummy candy. What am I?
Answer: A gummy worm.
I am a bear that never growls, and I am made of honey. What am I?
Answer: A honey bear.
I am a pig that never oinks, and I am made of clay. What am I?
Answer: A piggy bank.
I am a duck that never quacks, and I float in your bathtub. What am I?
Answer: A rubber duck.
I am a star that never shines, and I live in the sea. What am I?
Answer: A starfish.
I am a horse that never runs, and I live in the sea. What am I?
Answer: A seahorse.
I am a cow that never moos, and I live in the sea. What am I?
Answer: A sea cow.
I am a lion that never roars, and I live in the sea. What am I?
Answer: A sea lion.
I am a tree that never grows, and I build islands in the sea. What am I?
Answer: Coral.
I am a flower that never blooms, and I live in the sea. What am I?
Answer: A sea anemone.
I am a rock that never sinks, and I float on water. What am I?
Answer: Pumice.
I am a light that never burns, and I live in the deep sea. What am I?
Answer: An anglerfish.
I am a house that never has a roof, and I am built by a spider. What am I?
Answer: A web.
I am a net that catches no fish, but I catch flies. What am I?
Answer: A spider web.
I am a thread that is stronger than steel, and I am spun by a tiny artist. What am I?
Answer: Spider silk.
I am a king that never wears a crown, and I rule the jungle. What am I?
Answer: A lion.
I am a queen that never wears a crown, and I rule the hive. What am I?
Answer: A queen bee.
I am a prince who was turned into a frog by a witch’s spell. Who am I?
Answer: The Frog Prince.
I am a princess who slept for a hundred years. Who am I?
Answer: Sleeping Beauty.
I am a witch who never rides a broom, and I live in a gingerbread house. Who am I?
Answer: The witch from Hansel and Gretel.
I am a giant who never grows, and I live at the top of a beanstalk. Who am I?
Answer: The giant from Jack and the Beanstalk.
I am a wolf who never howls, and I blow down houses. Who am I?
Answer: The Big Bad Wolf.
I am a pig who never oinks, and I build my house of bricks. Who am I?
Answer: The third little pig.
I am a bear who loves porridge and sleeps in a cottage in the woods. Who am I?
Answer: Papa Bear.
I am a boy who never grows up, and I live in Neverland. Who am I?
Answer: Peter Pan.
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