#wordplay
45 riddles foundA woman is found dead in her apartment. The only witness is her parrot, but the parrot never says anything useful to the police. H…
There was no moon and no artificial lights, yet the night sky was bright enough to read a book outdoors. What caused the brightnes…
A man receives a letter in the mail. The envelope has his address written correctly, proper postage, and a return address. He open…
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 woman boards a plane with a ticket in her name, sits in her assigned seat, and doesn't break any rules. Yet the flight attendant…
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What is it?
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 can read every book in the library except one. That book has his name on the cover. Why can he not read it?
A castaway sends a message in a bottle. Rescuers find the bottle, read the message, and immediately know exactly where the castawa…
A man opens a dictionary, finds the word he is looking for, and reads the definition. The definition is completely wrong — but the…
A cartographer spends 20 years making the most accurate map ever created of a country. The government officially certifies it as t…
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 reads a newspaper and immediately goes blind. He is not ill, and nothing is wrong with his eyes. Why?
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 reads a newspaper and immediately knows that someone has been murdered. He was not at the scene, and the newspaper does not …
A woman wins a race and bursts into tears. She trained for years and this was her dream. Is she unhappy with her result?
A man publishes a book with no words in it and becomes famous. Is the book fiction?
A man cannot read, yet he makes a living writing books. Is he a fraud?
A dog crosses a wide river without getting wet and without using a bridge, boat, or tunnel. Did someone carry it?
A prisoner escapes from a maximum security prison and walks straight to the warden's office. Is he recaptured?
A teacher gives a lesson in silence. No words are spoken, no videos shown, no music played. Every student learns something new. Is…
A man is sitting in a completely dark room. There is no lamp, no candle, no flashlight, and no other source of light. Yet he is re…
What gets shorter the more you add to it?
I have cities, but no houses live there. I have mountains, but no trees grow there. I have water, but no fish swim there. I have r…
I come once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years. What am I?
A man reads a newspaper and immediately goes blind. He is not startled, not sick, and the newspaper is perfectly normal. Why did h…
What has hands but cannot clap?
I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
A woman cannot read her own name even though she is perfectly literate and her name is written clearly in large letters right in 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 book has sold five million copies but nobody has ever read it. The book is not defective. People own it and keep it in their hom…
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 hotel has been fully booked every night for fifty years. Every room is always occupied. Yet the hotel has never turned away a si…
A wedding took place with no guests at all. The bride and groom were both happy about this. Why?
Millions of people have read this book, yet no one has ever written a single word in it. What is it?
A man possessed a photograph of himself taken before cameras were invented. The photograph was genuine and he had not travelled th…
A newspaper published a story about its own death. This was not a mistake or satire. The story was accurate. How?
A man reads a newspaper and immediately goes blind. He is not ill and nothing is wrong with his eyes. Why?
A man shaves several times every day, yet he always has a beard. How is this possible?
It is always in front of you but can never be seen. What is it?
A man walks into a diner and orders coffee. The waitress places an overturned cup in front of him. He stands up and leaves without…
A man screams at the top of his lungs in a library. Everyone smiles and claps. No one shushes him. Why?
A soccer team of eleven players wins a match. After the game, only ten players appear in the team photo. No one was injured or sen…