Agood riddleis one that challenges and elevates yourcritical thinkingandlateral thinkingskills.
Its abrainpuzzlethat can be afunlearning technique forkids.
Easy Riddles
Here are some easyshort riddles.
Some of these might betrick questions, but yourbrainwill be sure to find the answers no problem!
What color is the staircase?
There are no stairs.
No candles burn longerthey all burn shorter.
Davids father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and…?
A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree.
Who gets to the banana first the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?
There are no bananas at the top of a coconut tree!
All 5 sisters are busy.
What is the 5th sister doing?
Shes playing chess, of course!
If you multiply me by any other number, theanswerwill always remain the same.
What number am I?
A king, a queen, and two twins all lay in a large room.
How are there no adults in the room?
Samuel was out for a walk when it started to rain.
He did not have an umbrella and he wasnt wearing a hat.
His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet.
How could this happen?
Because Samuel is bald!
Which is correct: 18 plus 19 is 36.
Or 18 plus 19 are 36?
Actually, both are incorrect 18 plus 19 is 37!
Whichwordis least like the others?
Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth?
A persons age
What has two humps and is found at the North Pole?
During which month do people sleep the least?
February (There are fewer days!)
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Tricky Riddles
These are sometricky brain teasersthat will force anyone to really use theirbrainin search of theanswer.
What would you light first?
Im the beginning of the end and the end of time and space.
I am in everything and surround every place.
Whatwordin theEnglish languagehas three consecutive double letters?
(Clue: its a compoundword.)
Amanwas found murdered on Sunday morning.
His wife immediately called the police.
The police instantly arrested the murderer.
Who did it and how did they know?
It was the Maid.
She said she was getting the mail but theres no mail on Sundays!
I am awordof 5 letters and people eat me.
If you remove the firstletter, I become a form of energy.
Remove the first two and Im needed to live.
Scramble the last 3 and you could drink me.
Wheat, heat, eat, tea
Amanis asked what his daughters look like.
How many daughters does he have?
One is blonde, one is brunette, and one is a redhead.
A plane crashed between the border of Canada and America.
Where do you bury the survivors?
They are survivors, you dont bury them.
Who is the youngest?
The baby of the pregnant lady.
What has thirteen hearts but no other organs?
A deck of cards.
I am afive letter word.
I sound the same when you remove my firstletter.
I sound the same when you remove my 3rdletter.
Empty, mpty, emty, emp-t, m t.
A boy and an engineer were fishing.
The boy is the son of the engineer but the engineer is the father of the boy.
Then who is the engineer?
The engineer is the boys mother.
A woman is sitting in her hotel room when there is a knock at the door.
She opened the door to see amanwhom she had never seen before.
He said, Oh Im sorry.
I have made a mistake.
I thought this was my room.
He then went down the corridor and in the elevator.
The woman went back into her room and phoned security.
What made the woman so suspicious of thisman?
You dont knock on your own hotel room door!
How can you drop a raw egg on the concrete floor without cracking it?
The egg wont crack the concrete floor!
A man is trapped in a room.
The room has only two possible exits: two doors.
Through the first door, there is a room constructed from magnifying glasses.
The blazing hot sun instantly fries anything or anyone that enters.
Through the second door, there is a fire-breathing dragon.
How does the man escape?
He waits until night time and then goes through the first door.
Poor people have it.
Rich people need it.
If you eat it you die.
A is the brother of B.
B is the brother of C. C is the father of D. So how is D related to A?
A is Ds aunt.
Jeff is younger than Rodney but older than Debbie.
Larry is older than Erica who is older than Jeff.
Rodney is older than Larry.
Who is the middle child?
You are participating in the swimming finals at the Olympics.
In the final few seconds of the race, you narrowly pass the swimmer who was in third place.
What place did you get?
Jimmys mother had three children.
The first was called April, the second was called May.
What was the name of the third?
A murderer is condemned to death.
Which room is the safest?
The room with the lions because the lions are already dead.
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Amanis found murdered in his office.
The suspects are Peter, Julie, Jason, Molly, and Brian.
In the office is a calendar with the numbers 6,4,9,10,11 written in blood.
Who is the killer?
Jason is the killer.
The numbers indicate months and the firstletterof each month spells the name of the murderer, e.g.
When I am alive I do not speak.
Anyone who wants to takes me captive and cuts off my head.
They bite my bare body.
I do no harm to anyone unless they cut me first.
Then I soon make them cry.
Tim and Mel are long-distance lovers.
Tim has just purchased an engagement ring for Mel and wants to mail it to her.
Tim has locks and Mel has locks but neither have keys for each others locks.
How can they ensure the ring isnt stolen?
Tim places a lock on the package and sends it to Mel.
Mel places one of her locks on the package and sends it back to Tim.
Tim removes his lock and sends the package back to Mel.
TheanswerI give is yes, but what I mean is no.
There are 3 switches outside of a room, all in the off setting.
One of them controls a lightbulb inside the room, the other two do nothing.
Flip the first switch and keep it flipped for five minutes.
Then unflip it, and flip the second switch.
Go into the room.
If the lightbulb is off but warm, the first switch controls it.
If the light is on, the second switch controls it.
If the light is off and cool, the third switch controls it.
Thepersonwho makes it has no need of it; thepersonwho buys it has no use for it.
Thepersonwho uses it can neither see nor feel it.
You walk into a creepy house by yourself.
There is no electricity, plumbing or ventilation.
Inside you notice 3 doors with numbers on them.
Once you launch the doors you will die a particular way.
Door #1 Youll be eaten by a lion who is hungry.
Door #2 Youll be stabbed to death.
Door #3 There is an electric chair waiting for you.
Which door do you pick?
Door #3, Since There Is No Electricity To Harm You.
How much money did the dog get?
How much does the bag of onions weigh?
35 lbs (1/7th of 35 is 5; 1755)
Never was, am always to be.
No one ever saw me, nor ever will.
And yet I am the confidence of all, to live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
Future
You throw away the outside, eat the inside, then throw away the inside.
Corn on the cob.
Turn me on my side and I am everything.
Cut me in half and I am nothing.
BonusLogic Riddles
Here are some bonusbrainteasersthat might be a bit more challenging.
The best way to find theanswerto thisbrain teaseris throughlogicand deductive reasoning.
Think you’re free to solve it?
Five houses painted five different colors stand in a row.
Onepersonof a different nationality lives in eachhouse.
Here are the clues:
Now, thequestionis…Who owns the fish?
Think you figured out theanswerto thisdifficult riddle?
Well, here it is:
The German inhouse#4 owns the fish.
The Sphinx claimed that whoever failed theriddlewould be killed, and evidently, not pass through to the city.
(Morning, day and night are representative of the stages of life.)
Here are some other fun riddles if youre up for it:
