Riddles are fun because it looks simple and feels so laid out yet it gives a real headache to find the right answer. The individual effort to crack the answer is just a sight to rejoice.
Challenge your family members to find the answers as they lay cozy on the couch, devouring delicious snacks during holidays and gatherings.
Here are 120 hardest riddles in the world with answers. Check how clever you are by trying to solve these funny and challenging ones.
What is brown and has a tail, a head and no legs?
Answer: A Penny
What was the highest mountain on Earth before Mount Everest was discovered?
Answer: Mount Everest
What is stronger than steel but can’t handle the sun?
Answer: Ice
If all Wibbles are Criggles, all Borkins are Kwumblins, no Hoggles are Borkins, and all Criggles are Borkins, is it true that all Borkins are Criggles?
Answer: No. Because all wobbles are not Kwumblins, no Hoggles are Borkins, and all Criggles are Borkins.
Two cars were involved in an accident in the center of town. Driver of the little green car had overtaken a big black car. But he misjudged the distance between him and had to swerve back in, causing the black car to crash into a shop window. When the occupants of the cars were examined everyone in the green car was okay, but in the black car was one dead man. But the driver of green car was not charged, why?
Answer: The black car had a coffin carrying a dead body to the funeral.
You can carry it everywhere you go but it never gets heavy. What is it?
Answer: Your Name
Extracted From A Mine, Closed In A Wooden Case and never released but used by everybody. What is it?
Answer: Pencil Lead
Why are 1999 dollar bills worth more than 1998 dollar bills?
Answer: Because it has one more. Just like 3 is greater than 2.
A man was killed in the shop, two friends Mary and Stacy found the body and called the police. Mary got frightened and hysterical when cops arrived while Stacy didn't even look at the body. Stacy was happy and only noticed the number of the policeman. The next day she killed Mary. Why?
Answer: She fell in love with the policeman and wanted him to come back.
I am big and yellow and come in the morning to make moms day. What am I?
Answer: School Bus
I have no flesh, bones, feathers, or scales but I have my own fingers and thumbs. What am I?
Answer: Gloves
I am as light as a feather but no man can hold me for long. What am I?
Answer: Breath
I am tall when I am young and short when I'm old. What am I?
Answer: A Candle
I have branches but I don't have a trunk, leaves, or fruits. What am I?
Answer: A Bank
I travel around the world but always stay in a corner. What am I?
Answer: A Stamp
I have keys but no doors. I have space but no rooms. You can enter but you can't leave. What am I?
Answer: A Keyboard
I am light but you can't hold me. What am I?
Answer: Your Breath
What bird do you associate with lifting weight?
Answer: A Crane
I have a head and a tail but I don't have a body. What am I?
Answer: A Coin
I can fly but have no wings. I cry but have no eyes. What am I?
Answer: Cloud
I shave every single day. Yet my beard stays the same. What am I?
Answer: A Barber
You can catch me but you cannot throw me. What am I?
Answer: A Cold
I can make sounds but I cannot be played. What am I?
Answer: Your Voice
I have many teeth but I cannot bite. What am I?
Answer: A Comb
I am at the beginning of everything and the end of everywhere. What am I?
Answer: The Letter 'E'
People use me for dinner and lunch but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A Plate
I have many keys but I cannot open a single lock. What am I?
Answer: A Piano
I have streams with no water, mountains with no trees, and cities with no buildings. What am I?
Answer: A Map
You go on the red and stop at the green. What am I?
Answer: Watermelon
I am easy to pick but very hard to throw. What am I?
Answer: A Feather
You don't know me yet you always miss me when I'm gone. What am I?
Answer: Time
Forward I am heavy, but backward, I'm not. What am I?
Answer: Ton
I don't have a life yet I die. What am I?
Answer: A Battery
I have four fingers and a thumb but I am not a hand. What am I?
Answer: A Glove
There came a bird featherless and sat on the trees leafless. There came a Maiden speechless and ate the bird featherless, from off the trees leafless. What is it?
Answer: Snow
Which of the month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All 12 months.
What is it that has many holes but still holds water?
Answer: A Sponge
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of Cards
How many apples can you eat on an empty stomach?
Answer: One (no more empty stomach)
In a race, if you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Answer: Second place
What building has the most stories of all?
Answer: A Library
Which ship is it that has two mates but no captain?
Answer: A Relationship
Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short
What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?
Answer: A Soap
It comes once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What is it?
Answer: Letter 'e'
It can fill the room but doesn't take up space. What is it?
Answer: Light
You bury it when it's alive and dig it when it's dead. What is it?
Answer: A Plant
It never walks but it always runs. What is it?
Answer: A River
Which band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band
What is it that has words but never speaks?
Answer: A Book
If you say its name it will break. What is it?
Answer: Silence
What room has no door or window?
Answer: A Mushroom
What is at the very end of the rainbow?
Answer: Letter 'w'
You don't want to have it but you don't want to lose it. What is it?
Answer: A Lawsuit
It tears whatever falls in its toothless mouth into small pieces. Put your fingers in its eyes, it will immediately prick up its ears. What is it?
Answer: Scissors
What three numbers give the same answer when added or multiplied?
Answer: 1, 2, and 3
What has three feet but cannot walk?
Answer: A Yardstick
Jack works at a butcher's shop. He is six feet tall and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat
Which tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A Palm
It is always on its way but it never arrives. What is it?
Answer: Tomorrow
It begins with an 'e' and contains only one letter. What is it?
Answer: An Envelope
You throw it when you need it but take it back when you don't need it. What is it?
Answer: An Anchor
It has five letters. Take away the last four letters and it still sounds the same. What is it?
Answer: Queue
What runs around the fence but never moves?
Answer: A Fence
If it takes one hour to dry a shirt, how many hours does it take to dry 12 shirts?
Answer: One hour
Why does the Math book always seems so sad?
Answer: Because it has many unsolved problems
Two people were born at the same moment, yet they have birthdays on different days, why?
Answer: They were born in different time zones
If you have three apples and you take away two, how many apples will you have?
Answer: Two
Why did the bullet lose its job?
Answer: Because it was fired
Five birds were sitting on a tree. A hunter shot down one bird. How many birds are left?
Answer: None (remaining flew away)
It has 88 teeth but never brushes them. What is it?
Answer: Piano
What did the hamburger buy for his sweetheart?
Answer: An onion ring
What is it that every people overlook, no matter how smart?
Answer: Their Nose
Where do the books sleep?
Answer: Under their cover
It ties two people but it touches only one. What is it?
Answer: Wedding Ring
The faster you run, the harder it is to catch. What is it?
Answer: Your Breath
Two ducks are walking in front of a duck, two ducks following behind a duck, and a duck in the middle. How many ducks are there in total?
Answer: Three
A man walks into a bar but immediately falls unconscious, why?
Answer: It was an iron bar
It never asks you a single question yet you always answer, What is it?
Answer: The Telephone
Which one is correct, "The yolk of the egg is white", or The yolk of the egg are white?"
Answer: None. Because yolks are yellow
Your uncle's sister is not your aunt. Then who is she?
Answer: Your Mother
I am served at the table at a gathering of two or four people. I am small, round, and white. What am I?
Answer: A ping-pong ball
The more you take away from me, the more I become. What am I?
Answer: A Hole
What kind of coat always gets wet when you put it on?
Answer: A Coat of Paint
How can you change the number six into an odd number?
Answer: Drop the 's' (it becomes 'IX')
What is it that breaks and never falls, and what is it that falls but never breaks?
Answer: Day Breaks and Night Falls
How can a person go about 26 days without sleep?
Answer: He sleeps at night
It is a seven-letter word. The first two letters denote a male, the first three letters denote a female, the first four letters represent greatness and the entire word denotes a popular woman. What is it?
Answer: Heroine
It appears in the middle of March and April but disappears at the beginning and end of both of the months. What is it?
Answer: Letter 'R'
There is a boat in the lake filled with people but if you observe closely there is no single person in the boat. How?
Answer: All of them were married
No matter the age, you can always be younger. How?
Answer: By adding 'ng' to you
A person was 15 years old in 1990. That same person turned 10 in 1995. How?
Answer: Because it was in B.C.
Do you know what happened when the wheel was invented?
Answer: It caused a revolution
Sam realized that his pocket was empty and yet there was still something in it. What was it?
Answer: A Hole
A is the father of B. But B is not the son of A. Then who is B?
Answer: Daughter
How can you drop an egg on the concrete without breaking it?
Answer: Concrete is pretty hard to crack
It is a box without hinges, a keyhole, or a lid. Yet, a golden treasure inside it hid? What is it?
Answer: An Egg
What is more useful when it's broken?
Answer: An Egg
Answer: Chicago
What is it that is always in front of you but you can't see?
Answer: The Future
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your Age
It breaks even if you can't touch it. What is it?
Answer: A Promise
You can keep it after you give it. What is it?
Answer: Your Word
Everybody needs it and asks for it but nobody ever takes it. What is it?
Answer: An Advice
It is yours but everybody uses it. What is it?
Answer: Your Name
What is the question you can never answer 'yes' to?
Answer: Are you asleep?
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A Bottle
What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A Towel
Where does Today come before Yesterday?
Answer: The Dictionary
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't kept me. What am I?
Answer: A Secret
It goes up and down but it never moves. What is it?
Answer: A Staircase
What is it that has needles but cannot sew?
Answer: A Christmas Tree
It has hands but can't clap. What is it?
Answer: A Clock
The more it is there, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness
It is black when it's clean and white when it's dirty. What is it?
Answer: A Chalkboard
It goes through cities and fields yet it never moves. What is it?
Answer: A road
Why do the Teddy Bears never get hungry?
Answer: Because they are stuffed
What part of London is also in France?
Answer: Letter 'N'
A house based on a foundation like the skies. One enters it blind but leaves it seeing. What is it?
Answer: A School
Thirty white horses on a red hill - first they champ, then they stamp, and they stand still. What are they?
Answer: Teeth
