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112 riddles foundA man writes something on a piece of paper, places it face down on the table, and then flips a coin. He shows you the paper — his …
A woman looks at a calendar and says, 'The day before yesterday I was 25, but next year I will be 28.' How is this possible?
Two twins are born on the same day to the same mother, in the same year, at the same hospital, but they are not twins. How is this…
Two trains are on the same track heading toward each other. One goes 60 mph, the other 40 mph. They are 100 miles apart. They do n…
A grandfather clock strikes six in five seconds. How long does it take to strike twelve?
A man shoots an arrow at another man. The arrow hits an apple on the second man's head. Both men are happy. Why?
You are a bus driver. At the first stop, five people get on. At the second, three get off and seven get on. At the third, two get …
A man carries an umbrella every day but never uses it when it rains. Why?
A woman stopped driving her car forever after a perfectly normal trip to the grocery store. Nothing bad happened during the trip. …
A man wears two watches on the same wrist every day. Both work perfectly. Why does he wear two?
A man attends a funeral and smiles the entire time. Nobody thinks he is being disrespectful. Why is he smiling?
Two twins were born on the same day, in the same year, from the same mother, at the same hospital, but they have different birthda…
A clock hangs on a wall and tells the time accurately, but it has no hands. Is it battery-powered?
A man drinks from a bottle every single day, yet the bottle never gets empty. Is the liquid inside water?
A girl uses scissors every day at work, but they never cut anything. Does she work in an office?
A boy carries a coin in his pocket every day but he can never buy anything with it. Is the coin fake?
A woman looks at a broken clock that has stopped. She smiles and leaves for work, arriving exactly on time. She never checked any …
Two twins were born on the same day, same year, same mother, same father, but they are not identical and not fraternal twins. How …
A photographer takes a picture of a completely dark room with no flash and no light source. When the photo is developed, you can c…
A man offers you a bet. He flips a coin 10 times and gets heads every single time. He then bets you that the next flip will also b…
A woman was born in 1990 but she only celebrated her 7th birthday in 2018. How is this possible?
Four people need to cross a dark bridge at night with only one flashlight. The bridge can hold at most two people at a time. Perso…
A woman carries a heavy suitcase through the airport. At security, the officers scan it and find nothing unusual. She boards the p…
You are running a race and you overtake the person in second place. What position are you in now?
A train sits on the tracks but never moves. People visit it every day. What is it?
A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every thirty minutes. How long do the pills last?
How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A photographer spends hours in a completely dark room every day. Is there something wrong with the lights?
An actor dies on stage every night but shows up to work the next morning. Is he a ghost?
A chef cooks the same meal every day but never eats it. He loves the dish and is not on a diet. Why?
A doctor gives a patient three pills and tells him to take one every half hour. How long until all pills are taken?
A satellite sends a signal to Earth. The signal travels at the speed of light, yet the message arrives before it was sent. Is this…
Two trains start at the same time from cities 300 km apart, heading toward each other. One goes 60 km/h, the other 90 km/h. A bird…
A programmer sets a password that is impossible to type on a keyboard. Yet she logs in every day without any special hardware. How…
A clock stops at exactly 3:15. The owner looks at it twice, six hours apart, and both times believes it shows the correct time. Ho…
A bridge can only hold one vehicle at a time. Two cars enter from opposite ends simultaneously, yet both cross safely. How?
A pilot flies over an island every day. One day the island is gone but it hasn't sunk. What happened?
A woman swims across a lake but her hair stays completely dry. She wears no cap or helmet. How?
A safe has a five-digit code. The owner never memorized it and has no written copy. Yet he opens it instantly every time. How?
A man enters a room that gets smaller every minute. After an hour, the room is tiny but he is unharmed. How?
A woman lives on the 25th floor. Every morning she takes the elevator down. Every evening she takes it to the 20th floor and walks…
Two friends drink the same poisoned iced tea. One drinks it fast and survives. The other sips slowly and dies. Why?
A man driving a black car with headlights off speeds down a dark street. A black cat crosses the road. No streetlights. He stops i…
A man finds a coin dated 46 BC. He takes it to an expert who immediately says it's a fake. How does the expert know?
Twins are born minutes apart, but they celebrate their birthdays on different days. How?
A man flies the same route every Monday for a year. One Monday he arrives at the airport but refuses to board even though the flig…
A student gets a perfect score on every test but is expelled at the end of the year. The school admits she did nothing wrong. Why?
A woman eats at the same restaurant every day for a month. On the last day, the chef comes out and cries. She never spoke to the c…
A man sits on a boat in the middle of a lake every morning, but he never gets wet and the boat never moves. Is this possible?
A woman is found dead in her home, and the cause of death is drowning. There is no water anywhere in the house. Was she murdered?
There is a full-grown tree inside a room. The room has no windows and the door was never wide enough to bring the tree in. How did…
A very rich man gives away all his money every day, yet he always has more money the next morning. He has no job, no business, no …
A man is caught stealing from his employer and is immediately dismissed. The next day, he shows up for work and the employer allow…
A boy blows out all the candles on his birthday cake in one breath and gets everything he wished for. His wish was for everyone in…
A man finds a note in a bottle washed up on shore. The note says: 'I dropped this bottle 10 miles out at sea at noon on July 4th.'…
A man swam uphill for an hour and was not exhausted. No pump, no machinery, no current assisted him. How?
A stopped clock is right more often than a clock that loses one minute per day. How?
A musician performs a sold-out concert in a packed hall. He plays for an hour. Nobody in the audience hears a single note — yet th…
A man's clock is broken — it stopped completely and shows the wrong time. He refuses to replace or repair it. Yet twice every day …
A man genuinely loves Mondays more than any other day of the week. He is not unusual in any medical way, does not work weekends, a…
A woman has worked at a company for 15 years. One day she is fired. She clears her desk, leaves the building, and is never seen at…
A man reads a book with great difficulty. The book has no words, no pictures, no diagrams, and no braille. He is not illiterate an…
A man watching the night sky notices something moving faster than the speed of light. He is not mistaken, there is no error, and i…
A man places a coin on a table in full view of three people. Nobody moves. Nobody touches anything. One minute later the coin is g…
A man buys a horse on Monday for $60, sells it on Tuesday for $70, buys it back on Wednesday for $80, and sells it again on Thursd…
A man shaves ten times a day and still has a beard. How?
A man was born in 1970 and turned 40 in 1990. How is this possible?
A scientist spends thirty years studying a single tree, and when she dies, the tree is younger than when she began. How?
A woman looks at a clock on her wall and it changes her life forever. The clock has not moved in years. Is she happy?
A man reads a newspaper and immediately knows that someone has been murdered. He was not at the scene, and the newspaper does not …
A tree sings every day at the same time. There is no wind and no animals nearby. Is someone playing music?
A woman receives a phone call from her husband who died three years ago. Is she dreaming or mentally ill?
An artist creates a sculpture that he knows will be destroyed. He is not upset about this. Is it vandalism?
A fisherman catches fish every day without ever being near water. Does he use a net?
A woman has a birthday every four years, yet she celebrated her 18th birthday this year. Is she 72 years old?
A prisoner escapes from a maximum security prison and walks straight to the warden's office. Is he recaptured?
A man knows for certain that he will die in exactly one hour. He smiles and feels at peace. He is not suicidal, terminally ill, or…
A man shaves several times a day, every day, yet he always has a beard. How?
I run all day and all night but never go anywhere. What am I?
I come once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years. What am I?
A man shaves several times a day yet always has a beard. How is this possible?
What has hands but cannot clap?
A woman was born in 1960 and celebrates her 18th birthday in the year 2000. How is this possible?
I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?
A chef prepares hundreds of meals every day but never eats a single one. He is not on a diet and there is nothing wrong with the f…
A newspaper has been delivered to a house every day for thirty years. No one in the house has ever read it. The residents are not …
A man is accused of murder committed at noon. He says he was watching a sunset at the time. Three witnesses confirm he was watchin…
A man shaves himself more than once a day, every day. He is not a barber and he is the only one doing the shaving. His face is alw…
Two brothers are born from the same mother on the same day in the same year, but they are not twins. They have never been apart. H…
A priceless painting is sold at auction. The next day, it is sold again at another auction for the same price. The second buyer is…
A man tosses a coin on the surface of the Moon. It comes up heads every single time for one hundred tosses. The coin is fair. He i…
A sailor finds a sealed bottle with a message inside. The message says it was written one thousand years ago. The sailor knows the…
A man is terrified of rain. One rainy day he walks outside without any protection and gets soaked. He smiles and is deeply relieve…
A man was officially declared dead at 9 am. At noon the same day, he signed a legal document. Neither declaration was wrong. How?
A single tree caused an entire forest to die. The tree itself survived. No disease, fire, or human was involved. How?
A man shaves every single day yet always has a beard. He does not use a fake beard. How?
A man possessed a photograph of himself taken before cameras were invented. The photograph was genuine and he had not travelled th…
A prisoner had an unlocked cell with an open door. He was free to leave at any time. He chose to stay. His captors were happy abou…
An animal cast no shadow at noon on a bright sunny day in an open field. The animal was real and the sun was shining. How?
A man owned a clock that he knew showed the wrong time, yet it gave him the correct time twice a day, every single day. He never c…
A building was called a library and contained no books at all. This was not a mistake. People came to it every day and always foun…
A man shaves several times every day, yet he always has a beard. How is this possible?
A man is found dead in a cabin on a mountain. There are no windows, no doors, and no damage to the walls or roof. He is holding a …
A woman was born in 1990 and turned 25 years old twice. How is this possible?
A woman hears a piece of music and immediately runs home. When she gets there, she finds her husband drowned. How did she know?
Four people need to cross a rope bridge at night. They have one torch. The bridge holds only 2 people at a time. They must use the…
A doctor says that twins were born on the same day but have different birthdays. How is this possible?
A man's watch stopped working two weeks ago. Every time he looks at it, he can tell the exact time. How?
A snowman is built on a cold winter day. By the next morning it has grown larger even though no one added to it and temperatures s…
You have two ropes that each burn completely in exactly one hour, but they burn unevenly. How do you measure exactly 45 minutes us…
A man wakes up, looks at the clock in the mirror, and thinks it is 6:10. He decides to sleep more. He wakes again two hours later …
Every day a man picks up a free newspaper from a pile outside a shop. One day the pile is gone. He goes inside and pays for a news…