If you want to test the smarts of your students, throw one of these hard riddles their way.
These riddles arent ideal for kids looking for something simple.
Some of these be a bit too hard for them.
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!
Joe has ten coins totaling $1.19.
What are the coins?
A half-dollar, a quarter, four dimes, and four pennies.
How many letters are in the alphabet?
There are 11 letters in the alphabet.
What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Davids father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and…?
If you multiply me by any other number, the answer will always remain the same.
What number am I?
0
Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly
If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?
One cup of sugar.
What would you light first?
No candles burn longerthey all burn shorter.
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.
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.
How can you drop a raw egg on the concrete floor without cracking it?
The egg wont crack the concrete floor!
All 5 sisters are busy.
What is the 5th sister doing?
Shes playing chess, of course!
We hurt without moving and poison without touching.
We bear truth and lies but are not judged by size.
What is the word?
I occur twice in eternity, and Im always within sight.
The letter M
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Long, Challenging Riddles (With Answers)
A man is 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 first letter of each month spells the name of the murderer, e.g.
A man is found hanging dead from the ceiling of a room.
The rooms dimensions are 15 x 15 x 15.
The man is only 6ft tall and the rope was only 2ft long.
There are no windows and only one door into the room.
The door is bolted shut from the inside and there is a puddle of water under the man.
How did he kill himself?
The man stood on a block of ice.
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 nighttime and then goes through the first door.
A murderer is condemned to death.
Which room is the safest?
The room with the lions because the lions are already dead.
A woman is sitting in her hotel room when there is a knock at the door.
She opened the door to see a man whom 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 this man?
You dont knock on your own hotel room door!
How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.
Three doctors said that Robert is their brother.
Robert says he has no brothers.
No one is lying Robert has 3 sisters who all happen to be doctors.
Poor people have it.
Rich people need it.
If you eat it you die.
What is something you’ve got the option to keep after giving to someone?
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car.
They are a grandfather, father, and son.
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.
What can go up a chimney down, but cant go down a chimney up?
The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
A coffin
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him underwater for five minutes.
Next, she hangs him.
Right after, they enjoy a lovely dinner.
She took a picture of him and developed it in her darkroom.
A man is asked what his daughters look like.
How many daughters does he have?
One is blonde, one is brunette, and one is a redhead.
One of them is not a nickel.
What are the two coins?
A dime and a nickel.
One of the coins is not a nickel, but the other one is.
The combined age of a father and son is 66 years.
The age of the father is the age of the son, but with the digits reversed.
How old are they?
51 and 15, or 42 and 24, or 60 and 6.
Which is correct: 18 + 19 = 36.
Or 18 + 19 = 36?
Actually, both are incorrect 18 + 19 = 37!
What is special about the number 854,917,632?
Its the numbers from 1-9 in alphabetical order.
Mom and dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother.
How many people are in the family?
How many moves will it take to reach the door?
You will never reach the door, it will always be half the distance, no matter how small!
The best way to solve this hard puzzle is through logic and deductive reasoning.
One person of a different nationality lives in each house.
Here are the clues:
Now, the question is…Who owns the fish?
The German in house #4 owns the fish.
