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Easy Math Puzzles
Counting and Geometry
1. Three ants are positioned on separate corners of a triangle. If each ant moves along an edge toward a randomly chosen corner, what is the chance that none of the ants collide?
25% (All ants must move clockwise or counterclockwise; 2 safe ways out of 8 possible moves: 2/8 = 1/4.)
2. How can you measure the diagonal of a brick without using any formula, if you have three bricks and a ruler?
Stack two bricks vertically, place the third beside the bottom one, and measure the empty diagonal space with the ruler.
3. You start with a round tortilla. Divide it into eight equal pieces using only straight cuts. What’s the minimum number of cuts needed?
1 (Fold the tortilla in half three times and make one cut through all layers.)
4. Alice and Bob each make 3 straight cuts on a pie. How many pieces can they make at most?
7 (Each cut intersects all previous cuts: 1 cut = 2, 2 cuts = 4, 3 cuts = 7 pieces.)
5. You have 24 ounces of ball bearings and a balance with no weights. How can you measure exactly 9 ounces?
Divide into 12, then 6, then 3 ounces using the balance, and combine 6 + 3 = 9 ounces.
6. You have a gold bar marked into 7 equal pieces and can make 2 cuts. Pay an employee 1 piece per day for 7 days. How?
Cut into 1, 2, and 4 pieces; trade daily to give 1 piece each day. (e.g., Day 1: give 1; Day 2: trade 2 for 1, etc.)
7. Alice and Bob have 3 tasks (copying, auditing, faxing), each taking 40 minutes, with one person per task at a time. How quickly can they finish?
60 minutes (Split tasks into 20-minute intervals: e.g., Alice audits 0-40, Bob faxes 0-20, copies 20-60.)
8. Measure 9 minutes for a science experiment using a 4-minute and 7-minute hourglass.
Start both; flip 4 at 4; flip 7 at 7; flip 7 again at 8; stop at 9.
Probability
9. You have an unfair coin. How can you make a fair coin toss using it?
Toss twice; HT = heads, TH = tails, repeat if HH or TT. (Equal chances for HT and TH.)
10. An iPhone passcode is 4 digits (0-9). What’s the probability of guessing it correctly in one try?
1/10,000 (10 choices per digit, 10^4 = 10,000 possibilities.)
11. A lady claims she can tell if tea or milk was poured first. She identifies 4 out of 4 cups correctly. What’s the chance if guessing randomly?
1/16 (2 choices per cup, 2^4 = 16 outcomes, 1 correct.)
12. A committee of 3 votes; each has a 2/3 chance of approving. What’s the chance the decision passes (majority yes)?
19/27 (Binomial: 3 yes = (2/3)^3, 2 yes = 3*(2/3)^2*(1/3), total = 19/27.)
13. Roll two dice. What’s the probability the sum is 7?
1/6 (6/36 outcomes: (1,6), (2,5), (3,4), (4,3), (5,2), (6,1).)
14. How often does it rain if the chance is 1/3 each day, over 3 days?
1 day on average (Expected value: 3 * 1/3 = 1.)
15. In ping pong, you win with probability 1/2 each rally. What’s the chance you win in 2 rallies?
1/4 (Win both: (1/2)^2 = 1/4.)
Strategy and Game Theory
16. In a bar coaster game, place numbers 1-5 on 5 coasters so no two adjacent numbers differ by 1. How many ways?
8 (Sequences like 1-3-5-2-4 or 2-4-1-3-5; total permutations adjusted for constraint.)
17. Bob is trapped in a room with 2 doors: one safe, one deadly. Two guards (one always lies, one always truths) say, “The other says this door is safe.” Which door is safe?
The door neither points to (Contradiction ensures it’s safe.)
18. In chess, you have a king and rook vs. a king. Can you force a win?
Yes (Use rook to limit king’s movement, force checkmate.)
19. In math dodgeball, hit a target numbered 1-10. What’s the expected score?
5.5 (Average of 1 to 10: (1+10)/2 = 5.5.)
20. Players pick rows in a 2x2 matrix (e.g., 1,0; 0,1). What’s the determinant strategy?
Choose rows to maximize determinant (e.g., 1-0 = 1.)
21. Six employees have salaries from $20K to $70K. What’s their average salary?
$45K (Assuming linear spread: (20+70)/2 = 45.)
22. In a race to 1 million, double your score or add 10 each turn, starting at 0. What’s the fastest way?
20 turns (Double 10 times from 1,000: 1K to 1M.)
23. Guess a number 1-100; closest wins. What’s the best guess?
50 (Middle maximizes chance of being closest.)
Medium Math Puzzles
Counting and Geometry
1. An elevator moves up 8 floors or down 11 floors, starting at floor 1 in a 65-floor building. Can it reach every floor?
Yes (Solve 8x - 11y = k; gcd(8,11) = 1, so all floors are reachable.)
2. An ant crosses a 30x12x12 inch box from 1 inch below the middle of one side to 1 inch above the opposite side. What’s the shortest path?
40 inches (Unfold box; path is hypotenuse of a 32x24 triangle: √(32² + 24²) = 40.)
3. Transport 3,000 bananas 1,000 km with a camel carrying 1,000 max, eating 1 per km. Max bananas delivered?
533 1/3 (Move 200 km with 5 trips, 333 1/3 km with 3 trips, then 466 2/3 km with 1 trip.)
4. Toss a 1-inch coin onto a grid of 1.5-inch squares. What’s the chance it lands inside one square?
1/9 (Winning area: (1.5-1)² / 1.5² = 0.5² / 2.25 = 1/9.)
5. Rope A fits snugly around Earth’s equator (25,000 miles). Rope B is 1 foot above. How much longer is B?
6.28 feet (Circumference difference: 2π(r+1) - 2πr = 2π ≈ 6.28 feet.)
6. Divide a rectangle with a smaller rectangle removed into two equal areas with one straight line. How?
Line through centers of both rectangles (Bisects both areas equally.)
7. Divide an L-shaped plot into 4 equal parts with straight lines. How?
Four scaled-down L-shapes (Subdivide symmetrically into identical shapes.)
8. Cross a 20-foot moat with two 19-foot planks, no nailing. How?
Place one plank diagonally at a corner, the second atop it to span 28.3 feet.
Probability
9. In a game, bet $1 to double or lose it, expected win infinite. What’s the paradox?
St. Petersburg Paradox (Expected value infinite, but real payout limited.)
10. Down 0-2 in a 7-game series, win probability 1/2 per game. Chance of winning series?
1/16 (Must win 4 of 5 remaining games: (1/2)⁴ * 1/2 = 1/16.)
11. Free throw success is 2/3. Win by making 2 before missing 2. Chance of winning?
16/19 (Various sequences sum to 16/19.)
12. Video roulette spins 0-36. Bet on 1 number. Expected spins to win?
37 (Geometric distribution: 1/(1/37) = 37.)
13. Pick 2 cards in the dark from 52. Chance both are same suit?
1/4 (13/52 * 12/51 = 1/17; 4 suits = 4/17 ≈ 1/4.)
14. 5 people line up by birthday. Chance they’re in order (increasing or decreasing)?
2/120 = 1/60 (2 orders out of 5! = 120 permutations.)
15. Deal a 52-card deck. Expected cards to first ace?
10.6 (Uniform distribution: (52+1)/5 ≈ 10.6.)
Strategy and Game Theory
16. 5 pirates divide 100 coins. Top pirate proposes; 50%+ must agree or he’s replaced. Max coins for top pirate?
98 (Buy 2 votes with 1 coin each, keep 98.)
17. In a target precision game, two players aim at a target 100 meters away, moving 10 meters closer per miss. Optimal turn to aim?
Turn 5 (50 meters) (Balance accuracy vs. opponent’s move; simplified model.)
18. Auction $1; bids cost $1, highest wins. Optimal bid strategy?
Bid once, stop if outbid (Avoid sunk cost trap.)
19. Bottle imp paradox: Buy for $1,000, must sell cheaper or lose all. Sell price?
Never buy (Infinite regress; no rational price.)
20. 100 people guess 2/3 of the average guess (0-100). Equilibrium guess?
0 (Iterated reasoning: all converge to 0.)
21. Pick numbers 1-100, eliminate multiples. Last number standing?
1 (Sieve process leaves 1.)
22. 3 players, red/blue hats, guess vertex. Best win chance?
75% (Bet against two outcomes, e.g., red-blue-red.)
23. 8 people at a round table. How many seating orders (relative positions)?
5,040 ((8-1)! = 7! = 5,040 circular permutations.)
Hard Math Puzzles
Counting and Geometry
1. Two bowls (1 gallon each) mix 1 cup of juice back and forth once. Which has more of the other juice?
Equal (Both end with 1 gallon; swapped volumes are equal.)
2. How many seating orders for 8 people at a round table (relative positions)?
5,040 ((8-1)! = 7! = 5,040.)
3. Cut a string into 5 pieces. How many cuts?
4 (Each cut increases pieces by 1: 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5.)
4. Walk 1 mile south, 1 mile east, 1 mile north, back to start. Where are you?
North Pole (or near South Pole with specific east loops; spherical geometry.)
5. Two trains 200 miles apart approach at 100 mph each. A fly zigzags at 150 mph. Distance flown?
150 miles (Time to collision: 1 hour; fly speed: 150 mph.)
6. Pick up a friend at a train station, arriving randomly within 60 minutes. Wait 10 minutes. Chance of meeting?
11/36 (Geometric area: 1,100/3,600.)
7. Cut confetti randomly into 4 pieces. Chance they form a square?
Very small (Exact probability complex; requires precise cuts.)
Probability
8. Roll a die until two 6s in a row. Expected rolls?
42 (Markov chain: E = 6 + 6*6 = 42.)
9. Break a stick into 3 pieces. Probability they form a triangle?
1/4 (Triangle inequality in unit interval: area = 1/4.)
10. Date 100 suitors, pick best after rejecting some. Optimal strategy?
Reject first 37, pick next better than all seen (Approximates 1/e ≈ 37%.)
11. Lace a shoe with 5 holes per side. Min crosses over the tongue?
4 (Minimum crossings for connectivity.)
12. Flip a coin until heads. Expected flips?
2 (Geometric: 1/(1/2) = 2.)
13. Roll two dice. Chance sum is 7 before two 1s?
6/7 (P(7) = 6/36, P(1,1) = 1/36; 6/7 first.)
14. Secret Santa with 5 people. Chance no one picks self?
44/120 = 11/30 (Derangements: !5/5! = 44/120.)
15. Deal 52 cards. Expected position of first ace?
10.6 ((52+1)/5 ≈ 10.6.)
Strategy and Game Theory
16. Alice picks a polynomial with nonnegative integer coefficients. Bob asks p(a) and p(b). Can he always guess it?
Yes (Ask p(1), p(p(1)+1); convert p(p(1)+1) to base p(1)+1 for coefficients.)
17. Meet a friend between 12-1 am, each waits 10 minutes. Optimal meeting strategy?
Both arrive at 12:30 (Iterated elimination: 100% chance.)
18. Auction an item worth $500-$1,000, $10 per bidder. Optimal bidders for second-highest bid?
9 (Max profit: 500 + 500*(n-1)/(n+1) - 10n at n=9.)
19. Cannibals eat missionaries if outnumbering them. Max missionaries saved?
3 (With 3 cannibals, 3 missionaries survive via boat strategy.)
20. Guess x^(1/3) of average guess (0-100). Equilibrium?
0 (Iterated reasoning converges to 0.)
21. Race to 1 million: double or add 10, start at 0. Min turns?
20 (Double 10 times from 1,000.)
22. Clock hands overlap 11 times in 12 hours. How often in 24 hours?
22 (Every 12 hours = 11 overlaps; 24 hours = 22.)
Riddles and Answers
Easy Riddles
Medium Riddles
Hard Riddles
Logic Riddles
Riddle Challenge - Crack the Code!
Easy Riddles
Objects/Things
1. What kind of cup doesn't hold water?
Cupcake (It’s a play on “cup”—a cupcake isn’t for holding liquid.)
2. Tear one off and scratch my head, what once was red is black instead!
A match (Strike it, and the red tip turns black.)
3. I have Eighty-eight keys but cannot open a single door? What am I?
A piano (Keys refer to piano keys, not door keys.)
4. Tool of thief, toy of queen. Always used to be unseen. Sign of joy, sign of sorrow. Giving all likeness borrowed.
Mask
5. What has a big mouth, yet never speaks?
A jar
6. What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
Cards (You cut a deck of cards, not food.)
7. I have a pet, his body is full of coins.
A piggy bank
8. What goes through a door but never goes in and never comes out?
A keyhole
9. What’s made of wood but can’t be sawed?
Sawdust (It’s already wood particles.)
10. What has holes on each side, but can still hold water?
A sponge
Nature/Animals
11. There is a kind of fish that can never swim. What is that?
Dead fish
12. A very pretty thing I am, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?
Butterfly
13. He’s small but he can climb a tower.
An ant
14. Four feet, jagged teeth, fleet of movement, water and land. I have no mood; to me you’re food as I drag you under.
Alligator
15. What can go up a drainpipe down but not down a drainpipe up?
An umbrella (It opens upward in a pipe.)
16. When they are caught, they are thrown away. When they escape, you itch all day.
Fleas
17. I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I’m not alive. It is your strength that determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I’m never thrown. What am I?
An arrow
18. What kind of tree is carried in your hand?
A palm tree (Referring to your palm.)
19. With pointed fangs I sit in wait, with piercing force I serve out fate. Grabbing bloodless victims, proclaiming my might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?
A stapler
20. I have many ears, this may be true, but no matter how you shout, I’ll never hear you. What am I?
Cornfield (Corn has “ears” but can’t hear.)
Wordplay/Letters
21. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
Queue (Sounds like “Q” when shortened.)
22. What starts with a P, ends with an E and has a million letters in it?
Post-Office (It holds countless letters.)
23. What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
SWIMS
24. What’s that 7-letter word with thousands of letters in it?
A mailbox
25. What always ends everything?
The letter g (Last letter of “everything.”)
26. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter M
27. What starts with the letter t, is filled with t and ends in t?
A teapot
28. Name an eight-letter word that has kst in the middle, in the beginning, and at the end.
Inkstand (inKSTand fits the pattern.)
29. What comes once in a century, twice in a lifetime and never in a thousand years?
The letter E
30. What heavy seven-letter word can you take two away from and be left with eight?
Weights (Remove “w” and “s,” think “eight.”)
People/Roles
31. Who gets paid when they drive away their customers?
A taxi driver
32. A man shaves several times a day, yet he still has a beard. Who is this man?
He’s a barber (He shaves others, not himself.)
33. Wednesday, Tom and Joe went to a restaurant and ate dinner. When they were done they paid for the food and left. But Tom and Joe didn’t pay for the food. Who did?
Their friend Wednesday (Wednesday is a name here.)
34. He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
A priest
35. A father’s child, a mother’s child, yet no one’s son.
Daughter
36. A man stands outside in the rain. He has no hat, raincoat, or umbrella. His clothes are soaked, but his hair isn’t wet. How is this possible?
He is bald
37. I’m a king that speaks for my country. At birth I’m protected by no one. As I grow my father gives me 2 soldiers to protect me. As I get matured many more are given to me. And at my full age my father gives me 32 white soldiers to guard me and protect me. What am I?
A tongue (Teeth as soldiers.)
38. I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I?
Dentist
39. I cannot be other than what I am, until the man who made me dies, power and glory will fall to me finally, only when he last closes his eyes.
A prince
40. There’s a boy. What’s his name?
There or What (Trick question—could be the words in the riddle.)
Concepts/Abstractions
41. What can be swallowed, but can swallow you?
Pride
42. Everyone has me but nobody can lose me. What am I?
A shadow
43. What is so delicate that even mentioning it breaks it?
Silence
44. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your name
45. Never ahead, ever behind, yet flying swiftly past; for a child I last forever, for adults I’m gone too fast.
Childhood
46. You can only have it once you have given it.
Respect
47. What is it that no man wants, but no man wants to lose?
A lawsuit
48. The more you take from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
A hole
49. What can you throw but not catch?
A party
50. What gets broken without being held?
A promise
Places/Structures
51. What building has the most stories?
A library (Stories as in books.)
52. What type of house weighs the least?
A lighthouse (Play on “light.”)
53. What kind of room doesn’t have physical walls?
A chat room
54. What has roots you cannot see, up up it goes, yet never grows?
A mountain
55. I have lakes with no fish. I have roads with no cars.
A map
56. Halo of water, tongue of wood, skin of stone, long I’ve stood. My fingers short reach to the sky, inside my heart men live and die.
A castle
57. Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns and never falls.
A lantern
58. What has everything inside it? Everything you can imagine even God, wind, world, sky, heaven, earth and everything that comes to your mind?
The alphabet (All words are made from it.)
59. Round as an apple, deep as a cup, and all the kings’ horses can’t fill it up. What is it?
A well
60. Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, but even a river can’t fill it up. What is it?
A strainer
Food/Drink
61. What’s round and sweet, but hard to bite?
A peach pit
62. What’s green and hides in the leaves?
A lime
63. What lies in bed, and stands in bed? First white then red. The plumper it gets the better the old women like it?
A strawberry
64. What grows round and juicy under the warm sun?
A melon
65. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.
Ear of corn
66. Flour of England, fruit of Spain, met together in a shower of rain; put in a bag tied round with a string, if you’ll tell me this riddle, I’ll give you a ring.
Plum pudding
67. I ate one and threw away two.
Oyster (Eat the meat, discard the shells.)
68. A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I?
A coconut
69. The virgin gave birth to a child and threw away the blanket.
Banana (Peel as blanket.)
70. What’s yellow and grows underground?
A potato
Paradoxes/Trick Questions
71. How many months have 28 days?
All twelve months
72. What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?
A chalkboard (More chalk dust makes it whiter.)
73. What do you get if you put a radio in the fridge?
Cool music
74. What’s always full but never overflows?
A lake
75. What has 6 wheels and flies?
A garbage truck (Flies as in insects.)
76. What happens when you throw a blue rock into the yellow sea?
It sinks
77. What goes in the water black and comes out red?
A lobster (It turns red when cooked.)
78. What climbs high but stays in place?
A ladder
79. What becomes lighter the bigger it grows?
A balloon
80. What kind of table has no legs?
A multiplication table
Body Parts
81. What has a foot but no leg?
A ruler
82. What has one eye but cannot see?
A needle
83. What has 4 eyes but can’t see?
Mississippi (Four “i”s in the word.)
84. What tastes better than it smells?
A tongue
85. Thirty white horses on a red hill, first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.
Teeth
86. The part of the bird, that is not in the sky, which can swim in the ocean and always stay dry. What is it?
A bird’s shadow
87. I have no life, but I can die, what am I?
A battery
88. Although my cow is dead, I still beat her. What a racket she makes!
A drum (Made from cowhide.)
89. I’m a king that speaks for my country. At birth I’m protected by no one. As I grow my father gives me 2 soldiers to protect me. As I get matured many more are given to me. And at my full age my father gives me 32 white soldiers to guard me and protect me. What am I?
A tongue (Teeth as soldiers.)
90. I have a mouth on my head and eat everything. What am I?
A backpack (Mouth as the opening.)
Miscellaneous
91. What always goes to bed with its shoes on?
A horse
92. What moves fast but stays in one place?
A wheel
93. What goes up and never comes down?
Your age
94. What’s always coming, but never arrives?
Tomorrow
95. What is something you will never see again?
Yesterday
96. Why can’t the Tyrannosaurus rex clap?
They are extinct
97. What makes a sound when it falls but not when it rises?
A pebble
98. What has six letters and keeps things cool?
A freezer
99. What falls gently but covers the ground?
Snow
100. What stays where it is when it goes off?
An alarm clock
Medium Riddles
Objects/Things
1. I have a thousand wheels, but move I do not. Call me what I am, call me a lot.
Parking lot
2. Precious stones in a pack of cards.
Diamonds
3. I go around in circles, but always straight ahead, never complain, no matter where I am led.
Wheel
4. I have hands that wave you, though I never say goodbye. It’s cool for you to be with me, especially when I say HI. What am I?
An electric fan
5. Shoot at me a thousand times and I may still survive; one scratch from you and me will find your prospects take a dive. What am I?
An eight ball (Pool game reference.)
6. It can be cracked, it can be made, it can be told, it can be played. What is it?
A joke
7. I go in dry and come out wet, the longer I’m in, the stronger I get. What am I?
Tea bag
8. I’m so simple I only point, yet I guide people all over the world. What am I?
A compass
9. I’m named after nothing, though I’m awfully clamorous. And when I’m not working, your house is less glamorous. What am I?
A vacuum cleaner (From “vacuum” meaning nothing.)
10. Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all. What am I?
A scissors
Nature/Animals
11. I’m tall and spotted, with a neck so long, I eat from the trees where others can’t belong.
Giraffe
12. I come in many colors, some are blue and white. While some people annoy me, I am not much for the fight. I live where people rarely tread, but you will find me close to bed. What am I?
Whales
13. When it was young, it had a tail. When it grew up, it had knees.
Frog
14. I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me; lower light I never see. What am I?
A cloud
15. Who is it that rows quickly with four oars but never comes out under his own roof?
A turtle
16. Armless, legless, I crawl around when I’m young. Then the time of changing sleep will come. I will awake like a newborn, flying beast, ‘til then on the remains of the dead I feast.
Maggot
17. I am flora, not fauna, I am foliage, not trees, I am shrubbery, not grass, what am I?
A bush
18. Which tree is the most difficult to get along with?
A crab tree (Play on “crabby” nature.)
19. I saw a strange creature, long, hard, and straight, thrusting in a round, dark opening, preparing to discharge its load of lives...
A subway train
20. What can an elephant and a shrimp both be?
Jumbo (A size descriptor.)
Wordplay/Letters
21. What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?
A stone (Remove “s” and “t,” leaves “one.”)
22. I’m a word, six letters long; I sometimes enter with a gong. All in order from A to Z, I start with the letter B. What is the word?
Begins
23. There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
Heroine (He, her, hero, heroine.)
24. What 11-letter English word is always pronounced incorrectly?
Incorrectly (It describes itself.)
25. What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?
Wholesome (Take “whole,” leaves “some.”)
26. I have one, you have one. If you remove the first letter, a bit remains. If you remove the second, bit still remains. After much trying, you might be able to remove the third one also, but it remains. What am I?
The word Habit (Habit → abit → bit → it.)
27. Rearrange the letters OWONDER to make one word.
One Word (A playful trick answer.)
28. What starts with an e but only has a single letter in it?
An envelope (Contains one letter.)
29. Is there a number which, when written as a word has same number of letters as its numerical value?
The number four (F-o-u-r has 4 letters.)
30. What time is spelled the same forwards and backwards?
Noon
People/Roles
31. A man in prison has a visitor. Afterward a guard asks the inmate who the visitor was to him. The inmate replies: brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son. Who was the visitor to the inmate?
His son
32. You will know that I am coming from the jingle of my bell, but exactly who I am is not an easy thing to tell. Children, they adore me for they find me jolly, but I do not see them when the halls are decked with holly. My JOB often leaves me frozen, I am a man that all should know, but I do not do business in times of sleet or ice or snow. I travel much on business, but no reindeer haul me around, I do all my traveling firmly on the ground. I love the time of Christmas, but that's not my vocational season, and I assure that is because of a sound economic reason. Who am I?
Ice Cream Man
33. I work hard most every day, not much time to dance and play, if I could reach what I desire, all like me would now retire. What am I?
A doctor
34. I’m someone you call when your house needs care, fixing pipes and leaks with skill so rare.
A plumber
35. A man is playing a game 4 miles away from his house. After 5 minutes, he ran home in 13 seconds. He doesn’t have super powers, and the game doesn’t require moving closer to his house. How is this possible?
He’s playing baseball (Running bases in a game.)
36. I saw a man in white, he looked quite a sight. He was not old, but he stood in the cold. And when he felt the sun, he started to run. Who could he be? Please answer me.
A snowman
37. Some try to hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, we always will meet. Try as you might, to guess my name, I promise you’ll know when you I do claim. Who am I?
Death
38. A truck driver is going opposite traffic on a one-way street. A police officer sees him but doesn’t stop him. Why didn’t the police officer stop him?
He was walking
39. A man is writing a letter. The power goes off and he dies. Why?
He is skywriting (Plane crashes when power fails.)
40. He stands beside the road in a purple cap and tattered green cloak. Those who touch him, curse him.
Thistle
Concepts/Abstractions
41. At the sound of me, men may dream or stamp their feet. At the sound of me, women may laugh or sometimes weep.
Music
42. Some are quick to take it. Others must be coaxed. Those who choose to take it gain and lose the most.
Risk
43. Journey without it and you will never prevail, but if you have too much of it you will surely fail.
Confidence
44. Everyone has it. Those who have it least don’t know that they have it. Those who have it most wish they had less of it, but not too little or none at all.
Age
45. I can bring tears to your eyes; resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an instant but I last a lifetime. What am I?
A memory
46. Slayer of regrets, old and new, sought by many, found by few.
Redemption
47. What can’t you see that is always before you?
The future
48. I am greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have me, the rich don’t, and if you eat me, you’ll die. What am I?
Nothing
49. What can lift you up but never holds you tight?
A breeze
50. If you have me, you want to tell me. If you tell me, you don’t have me.
Secret
Places/Structures
51. I’m where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?
A dictionary (Alphabetical order.)
52. On my way to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St. Ives?
One (Only “I” was going.)
53. A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I’m the torment of man.
Rain
54. All day long it’s in and out. I discharge loads from my shaft. Both men and women go down on me. What am I?
An elevator
55. I live in a busy place in the city, I’ll let you stay with me for a while, if you don’t feed me, I can get you into trouble. What am I?
A parking meter
56. I have lasted many years and still feel young. I have lasted depressions, recessions and even millenniums. I’m richer than the richest of men. You can visit me, but not my owners. I’ve been shown on T.V. and I can take and give you what is yours, but only if you ask me to. So tell me who or what I am?
A bank
57. Shifting, shifting, drifting deep. Below me great and mighty cities sleep. Swirling, scurlling, all around. I’m only where no water will be found.
A desert
58. I can be as thin as a picture frame but my insides have many things you can see.
Television
59. My step is slow, the snow’s my breath, I give the ground a grinding death...
A glacier
60. I stare at you, you stare at me. I have three eyes, yet can’t see...
A traffic light
Food/Drink
61. I have seven letters and am something you eat. My only anagram can help your pain...
Sausage (Anagram: assuage, to soothe.)
62. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house...
A watermelon
63. What gets bigger as you take out of it?
A hole
64. What’s smooth and white, keeping your smile bright?
Toothpaste
65. I am not alive but I grow. I don’t have lungs but I need air. What am I?
Fire
66. What is gold when old and silver when new, hard to find but easy to lose, cost a lot but it’s free?
A friend
67. Within, I clean all that is bad and is old. I make juice that’s the color of gold...
Kidney
68. What can you fold but not crease?
Poker hand
69. A fruit on a tree. A tree on a fruit.
Pineapple
70. What’s orange and juicy, a morning delight?
An orange
Paradoxes/Trick Questions
71. If I say, "Everything I tell you is a lie," am I telling you the truth or a lie?
Paradox
72. When is 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same thing?
Military time (15:20 = 16:00 - 40 minutes.)
73. What’s the difference between a well-dressed man on a bicycle and a poorly-dressed man on a tricycle?
A tire (Bicycle has 2, tricycle has 3.)
74. What can you give away but still keep in your heart?
A smile
75. A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado...
He was walking
76. What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon and 3 legs at night?
A human (Life stages: crawling, walking, cane.)
77. What goes up and down without moving?
Stairs
78. How can you physically stand behind your friend as he physically stands behind you?
Back to back
79. How do you share 17 apples with 18 people?
Make applesauce
80. What kind of street does a ghost like best?
A dead end
Body Parts
81. I have a tongue but cannot taste. I have a soul but cannot feel. What am I?
A shoe
82. Shorter than my four siblings, but easily the strongest, sometimes I wear a funny hat.
A thumb
83. What has a head yet it never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps, can run but cannot walk, and has a bank but not a cent to its name?
A river
84. I don’t exist unless you cut me, but if you stab me I won’t bleed. I hate no one yet am abhorred by all. What am I?
A fart
85. I have four legs, a back, but no head. What am I?
A chair
86. I grow for a surface, even if you cut me. I continue to grow even after death.
Human hair
87. I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought...
Your fingernails
88. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A penny
89. I have joy in bringing two together, but darning my existence! My life hangs by a thread...
A sewing machine
90. What do you have when you’re sitting down that you don’t have when you’re standing up?
A lap
Miscellaneous
91. What makes a loud noise when changing its jacket, becomes larger but weighs less?
Popcorn
92. What do people want the least on their hands?
Handcuffs
93. What demands an answer, but asks no question?
A telephone
94. What goes over all the hills and hollows, bites hard, but never swallows?
Frost
95. Hickory-Dickory-Dock! The mouse ran up the clock...
A guillotine
96. I have many legs that move as one, I crawl along until my day is done.
A centipede
97. What goes around all the places; cities, towns and villages, but never come inside?
A street
98. Black we are and much admired, men seek us if they are tired...
Coal
99. What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage...
Noise
100. Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, grown in the darkness, a lady’s delight.
Pearl
Hard Riddles
Objects/Things
1. It’s got twists and turns, but has no curves. Twist it to fix it, turn it to ruin it. What is it?
A Rubik’s cube
2. What has wings, but cannot fly. Is enclosed, but can outside also lie. Can open itself up, or close itself away. Is the place of kings and queens, and doggerel of every means. What is it upon which I stand? Which can lead us to different lands.
A stage
3. Without a bridle, or a saddle, across a thing I ride a-straddle. And those I ride, by help of me, though almost blind, are made to see. What am I?
Spectacles
4. I have an end but no beginning, a home but no family, a space without room. I never speak but there is no word I cannot make. What am I?
A keyboard
5. What must be in the oven yet cannot be baked? Grows in the heat yet shuns the light of day? What sinks in water but rises with air? Looks like skin, but is fine as hair?
Yeast
6. I have no brain but am still smarter than the average human. What am I?
Calculator
7. Has a blade of jagged cut. Keeps the quickest hand out shut. Goes in darkness. Wears a ring. One is quiet. Many sing.
Key
8. No thicker than your finger when it folds. As thick as what it’s holding when it holds.
A sack
9. Screaming, soaring, seeking sky. Flowers of fire flying high, Eastern art from ancient time, name me now and solve this rhyme.
Fireworks
10. An open-ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!
A thimble
Nature/Animals
11. I’m long and green, in gardens I’m seen, I twist and climb where the sun has been.
A vine
12. I saw a strange creature, his stomach stuck out behind him, enormously swollen. A stalwart servant waited upon him...
Bellows
13. Born at the same time as the world, destined to live as long as the world, and yet never five weeks old. What is it?
A moon
14. Stars awash in a sheen of light, it calls out loud in vile delight. Listeners endure in fright...
A werewolf
15. I am a seed, three letters in the name, take away two and I sound quite the same. What am I?
Pea
16. Slowly stretching my arms, I rise up, and move towards warmth. Bursting in colors, my sisters and I. What are we?
Flowers
17. What flies without wings and hums in the breeze?
A kite
18. From that which comes within itself, it builds its table on my shelf.
Spider
19. I saw the dead bring forth the living. I saw the living bring forth the dead. Who or what did I see?
A funeral
20. For our ambrosia we were blessed, by Jupiter, with a sting of death. Though our might, to some is jest, we have quelled the dragon's breath. Who are we?
Bees
Wordplay/Letters
21. My first is in wield, sever bones and marrow. My second is in blade, forged in cold steel...
Weapon
22. My first is in FLOWER and in ROSE, my second is in FORK and well as HOSE...
Rockery
23. I’m in cooper but not in dog, I’m in percent but not in MONEY. What I’m I?
Letter C
24. My first is in blood and also in battle, my second is in acorn, oak, and apple...
BARREL
25. Three little letters, a paradox to some. The worse that it is, the better it becomes.
Pun
26. The shorter I am, the bigger I am. What am I?
Temper
27. I am the center of Gravity.
V
28. Made of ten but two we make, when assembled others quake...
A fist
29. The one who makes it sells it. The one who buys it doesn’t use it. The one who’s using it doesn’t know he’s using it.
A coffin
30. Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?
Counterfeit money
People/Roles
31. A man is wearing all black. A black car is approaching towards the man. How did the driver managed to stop in time?
It’s daytime
32. I’m that which is seen only in darkness, swiftest of all, and near as old as time...
Starlight
33. I have one eye, see near and far, I hold the moments you treasure...
A camera
34. Begotten, and born, and dying with noise, the terror of women, and pleasure of boys...
A cannon
35. In my life I die twice, once wrapped in silk, once covered in dust.
A caterpillar
36. I guide you through tales with pages I turn, in quiet rooms my lessons you learn.
A teacher
37. I do not listen to reason, but I hear every siren's song and will try to steer us towards the rocks if you let me take the wheel. Who am I?
Ego
38. I’m almost next to Merlin when it comes to his fame...
Beard
39. Faster than a twitch! Fly with me to the Pitch!...
Broom
40. I weigh a lot but backwards I am not. What am I?
Ton
Concepts/Abstractions
41. Large as a mountain, small as a pea, endlessly swimming in a waterless sea.
Asteroids
42. I am born in fear, raised in truth, and I come to my own in deed...
Courage
43. I am and yet cannot. I am an idea, yet can rot...
Paradox
44. What disappears coming from there to here and reappears going from here to there?
The letter T
45. To give me to someone I don’t belong to is cowardly, but to take me is noble...
Blame
46. It may only be given, not taken or bought, what the sinner desires, but the saint does not.
Forgiveness
47. Born of sorrow, grows with age, you need a lot to be a sage. What is it?
Wisdom
48. I am everywhere. Nothing can compare. Run and hide and I will still be there...
Space
49. I can be told and can make you crazy, most people don’t like me and think I’m harmful.
A lie
50. When you do not know what I am, then I am something. But when you know what I am, then I am nothing.
A riddle
Places/Structures
51. You will always find me in the past. I can be created in the present...
History
52. In the night a mountain in the morning a meadow. What am I?
A bed
53. Wounded I am, and weary with fighting; gashed by iron, gored by the point of it...
Armor
54. I open to close but I close to open. I’m surrounded by water but I’m never soaking.
A drawbridge
55. In my place, I am the figure of authority. I housed evil unknowingly...
Cole
56. I stand tall with branches wide, offering shade where birds reside.
A tree
57. What goes up, but at the same time goes down? Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground...
A see-saw
58. The restraining hand, it keeps us from going, from doing horrible things, hard to live with...
Guilt
59. If you stay below me, you’ll never go through, but usually that is not what people do.
Doorway
60. I start at the finish and finish on the start. How?
I turned around
Food/Drink
61. As beautiful as the setting sun, as delicate as the morning dew...
Snowflakes
62. What can be felt yet has neither length, breadth nor thickness?
A kiss
63. It produces a flower but it is not its fruit; it produces branches which are its fruit.
Sweet corn
64. I am green but not a tree, and I grow around the world. What am I?
I am grass
65. Not born, but from a Mother’s body drawn, I hang until half of me is gone...
Cheese
66. Long and slinky like a trout, never sings till its guts come out. What is it?
A gun
67. Apples for leather, leather for silk, silk for tobacco, all to get milk.
Bartering
68. What is it that makes tears without sorrow and takes its journey to heaven?
Smoke
69. I wear a red coat and have a stone in my throat.
A cherry
70. What runs around the yard without moving?
A fence
Paradoxes/Trick Questions
71. If a chicken says, all chickens are liars is the chicken telling the truth?
Chickens cannot talk
72. In the sky it roams, as a dark cloud in the sky, yet much faster...
Swarm of birds
73. Name any word that becomes shorter even when you add 2 more letters to it?
Shorter
74. What is lengthened by being cut at both ends?
A ditch
75. If a man carried my burden, he would break his back. I am not rich, but I leave silver in my track.
A snail
76. The higher I climb, the hotter I engage, I cannot escape my crystal cage.
A thermometer
77. When I’m used, I’m useless, once offered, soon rejected...
A poor alibi
78. There are 3 words in the English language. These three words all end in -gry...
The English Language
79. Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again.
A record
80. What is something to everybody and nothing to everyone else?
Your mind
Body Parts
81. Half of the population uses me, and you lose me all the time...
Bobbypins
82. My sides are firmly laced about, yet nothing is within...
A drum
83. I have three hundred cattle, with a single nose cord.
Beads
84. I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness...
The letter S
85. I wear a red coat and have a stone in my throat.
A cherry
86. I’m not the sort that’s eaten, I’m not the sort you bake...
Pi (3.14)
87. What can be measured but has no length, width or height?
Temperature
88. I’m a bearer of darkness. I’m feared and often hated...
Grim
89. Deep, deep, do they go. Spreading out as they go...
Roots
90. I have a thing, which I twine and twine and it is covered.
Weaving spool
Miscellaneous
91. When pronounced, it sounds nothing like the word.
A sentence
92. What asks but never answers?
An owl
93. I’m round and bright, glowing at night, guiding ships with steady light.
A lighthouse
94. Nothing specific, but more than a few. This many clustered, together will do.
Bunch
95. A harvest sown and reaped on the same day...
A war
96. I’m a gift that you’ll hate. I’m tough to create...
Weasley Sweater
97. It can only exist between any two things...
Distance
98. Alight or in dark, my face is a leer...
Pumpkin
99. One simple click, one simple flash...
A photograph
100. With sharp edged wit and pointed poise...
A sword