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Updated 6 months ago,November 14, 2024
These are some of thehardest riddlesfor ages 18+.
These will be more fittingand maybe even funfor adults who want to elevate their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Start off with the tricky riddles and then ease into the more challenging riddles.
Youll use logical thinking and problem-solving skills to figure out the answers.
The more difficult puzzles have a clue or a hint to help solve the answer.
Get started by trying to solve the first riddle and puzzle below.
Solving hard riddles and brain teasers will make you feel like a genius, so try solving riddles today!
Tricky Riddles
Riddle:Mr. Taylor has four daughters and each has a brother.
In total, how many children does Mr. Taylor have?
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Answer:Five children because all of his daughters have the same brother.
Riddle:I possess a halo of water, walls of stone, and a tongue of wood.
Long I have stood; what am I?
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Answer:A river.
Answer:An electric train doesnt emit smoke.
Riddle:How many letters are in the alphabet?
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Answer:Eleven letters are in the alphabet.
Answer:Throw the ball straight into the air.
Riddle:I am the beginning of the end of time and space that surrounds everything and every place.
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Answer:The letter E.
Riddle:What has only two words, but thousands of letters?
Answer:A Post Office.
Intelligent Riddles
Riddle:There are 6 sisters.
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Each sister has 1 brother.
How many brothers are in the sisters family?
Riddle:What can fill an entire room without taking up any space?
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He tries to find her but has no luck.
A few weeks later, he kills his sister.
Why does he kill his sister?
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Answer:He kills his sister in hopes of seeing the woman at her funeral.
Riddle:What has ten letters and starts with gas?
Answer:An automobile.
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Riddle:People in poverty have this.
If you eat this you will die.
Riddle:A is the brother of B.
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B is the brother of C. C is the father of D. How is D related to A?
Answer:A is Ds aunt.
What color is the carpet on the stairs in this house?
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Answer:There are no stairs, its a one-story house.
Riddle:A woman shoots her husband and then holds him underwater for five minutes.
Next, she hangs him but right after, they enjoy a nice dinner together.
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How is this possible?
Answer:She took a photo of her husband and then developed it in her darkroom before dinner.
Clever Riddles
Riddle:What has roots that no one sees and looms much taller than trees?
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Up it goes but yet it never grows; what is it?
Riddle:I am laced twice in eternity and always within sight.
What could I be?
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Answer:The letter T.
Riddle:Two fathers and two sons come home from the mall.
Yet when they arrive home, only three people get out of the car.
How is this possible?
Answer:They are a grandfather, father, and son.
Answer:An umbrella.
Which room should he choose?
Answer:The room with the lions because if they havent eaten in years then theyre already dead.
In the room with you is a light, a mirror, and a log of wood.
How do you get out?
Answer:You turn on the light and look into the mirror.
Witty Riddles
Riddle:What jumps when walking and sits when standing?
Answer:A kangaroo.
Riddle:If you eat me, my sender will eat you.
Riddle:Steve was murdered on Saturday afternoon.
His wife said she was reading.
The doorman said he was in the shower.
The chef said he was making breakfast.
The gardener was pruning hedges.
From the information given, who committed the murder?
Riddle:A man is trapped in a room that contains only two exits.
The second exit includes a fire breathing dragon that is bound and determined to kill.
How does the man escape?
Answer:He waits until nighttime and then runs through the first exit.
Riddle:I can shave every day but my beard never changes.
Answer:A barber.
How is this possible?
Answer:The two girls are a part of a set of triplets.
Riddle:Three different doctors said that Paul is their brother yet Paul claims he has no brothers.
Answer:No one is lying because the three doctors are Pauls sisters.
Answer:You dont bury the survivors.
Riddle:How is it possible to drop an egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Answer:Concrete floors wont crack from an egg dropping on them.
Riddle:I exemplify a rare case where today comes before yesterday.
Answer:A dictionary.
Answer:Letter as it is the only one that does not spell another word when its written backward.
Riddle:Which word has three consecutive double letters?
Riddle:I am born tall and grow short with age.
What could I be?
Answer:A pencil.
Riddle:My buddies and I were inseparable mates until one by one we were split.
My teacher then gave me a smack on the head so off in the corner I sit.
Answer:A staple.
Riddle:The more these are taken, the more they are left behind.
Riddle:I eat to live and drink to die.
What could I be?
How are the men related?
Answer:The man in the picture is his son.
Riddle:I promise, I offend, I direct, and I fight.
Answer:A hand.
Riddle:I am a five-letter word.
I sound the same when you remove my first letter.
I sound the same when you remove my third letter.
What word am I?
Answer:Empty (empty, emty, emp-t, m-t).
Riddle:What is caught but never thrown?
Answer:A cold.
Answer:An anchor.
Riddle:Humans purchase me to eat but then never eat me.
Answer:Plates and silverware.
Who is wearing the mask?
Answer:The man in the mask is a catcher because this is a game of baseball.
Riddle:I fly without wings and cry without eyes.
Wherever I lead, darkness follows.
What could I be?
Answer:A cloud.
Answer:Corn on the cob.
Riddle:What is it that no one wants but no one wants to lose?
Riddle:The answer is yes but the intent means no.
What is the question?
Answer:Do you mind?
Riddle:I am a five-letter word and people eat me.
If you remove the first letter I become an energy form.
If you remove the first two letters, I am needed to live.
Scramble the last three letters and I am a drink.
What word am I?
Answer:Wheat (heat, eat, tea).
The Best Riddles
Riddle:We hurt without moving and poison without touching.
We bear truth and lies but are no judged by size.
Riddle:John and Kelly are long-distance lovers and John has just purchased an engagement ring for Kelly.
However, John has locks and Kelly has locks but neither has a key to each others locks.
Answer:John puts a lock on the package and sends it to Kelly.
Kelly puts a lock on the package as well and sends it back to John.
Once John has the package again he can remove his lock from it and send it back to Kelly.
Riddle:A woman is sitting in her hotel room when someone knocks at the door.
She opened the door to find a man shes never seen before.
He says, Oh Im sorry, I made a mistake and thought this was my room.
He then ran away and got into an elevator so the woman shut her door and phoned security.
What made the woman so suspicious?
Answer:You dont knock on your own hotel room door.
Riddle:My first is in chocolate but no in ham.
My second is in cake and also in jam.
My third at tea-time is easily found.
Altogether, this is a friend who is often around.
Whats the correct amount of brothers and sisters?
Answer:Four sisters and three brothers.
Answer:The door will never be reached because each move will always only get you half the distance.
Riddle:I have two coins that equal fifteen cents but one of them is not a nickel.
What two coins are they?
How old are they?
Riddle:Whats unique about this number: 854, 917, 632?
Answer:Its the numbers 1 through 9 in alphabetical order.
Riddle:A mother and father have four daughters that each have a brother.
How many people are in the family?
Answer:Seven; each of the daughters has the same brother.
Riddle:Which version is correct: 18 plus 19 is 36 or, 18 plus 19 are 36?
Answer:They are both incorrect because 18 + 19 = 37.
However, the man is only 6 feet tall and the rope was only 2 feet long.
Answer:The man stood on a block of ice and waited for it to melt to be hung.
The riddle is about the closed sections of a number.
For example, the top of a nine is closed so 9999 has four closed parts.
Similarly, the top and bottom of an eight are closed so 8888 has eight closed parts.
The best way to solve this brain teaser is through logic and deductive reasoning.
Think you’ve got the option to solve it?
Riddle:Five houses painted five different colors stand in a row.
One person of a different nationality lives in each house.
Here are the clues:
Now, the question is,who owns the fish?
Answer:Five houses painted five different colors stand in a row.
One person of a different nationality lives in each house.
BONUS: A Fun Riddle Game
This riddle wordplay game is known as the Green Glass Door.
It can be played at parties, in classrooms, and just as a fun icebreaker.
Youll be sure to stump but also entertain your students with this tricky, yet funny riddle game.
Game Rules:
Were those easy riddles?
