Tricky Riddles
Tricky Riddles
Tricky Riddles
Here is a great list of tricky riddles (with answers) for you to solve.
Some of these riddles are funny and good for kids.
1
There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall,
and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
2 I'm where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle.
What am I?
3 What starts with the letter T, is filled with T and ends in T?
4
What building has the most stories?
5 What is so delicate that even mentioning it breaks it?
6 What has to be broken before you can use it?
7
What gets broken without being hold?
8 Timmy's mother has three children. The first was named April. The
next was named May. What is the final one's name?
9 Susan and Lisa decided to play tennis against each other. They bet
$1 on each game they played. Susan won three bets and Lisa won
$5. How many games did they play?
10 There is a boat with a ladder attached to it, the ladder is eight feet
tall. If the water rises four feet how much of the ladder will be on
top of the water?
11 A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the
ball. How much does the ball cost?
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12 Divide 20 by half and add 30, what do you get?
13 There are two fathers and two sons. They walk into a candy store
and each buys a candy bar for 50 cents. The total for all of the
candy bars was $1.50. How is that possible?
14 In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles
in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake,
how long would it take for the patch to cover half the lake?
15
How can you add eight 8's to get the number 1000?
16
Mr. Smith has 4 daughters. Each of his daughters has a brother.
How many children does Mr. Smith have?
17
There are 25 red balls, 47 green balls and 3 blue balls in a basket.
There is a blind man. What is the minimum number of balls that the
blind man has to pick to make sure that there are at least 2 balls of
different colors?
18 Place three matches on a table. Tell a friend to add two more
matches to make eight.
19
If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance
half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach
the door.
20
The more you have of me, the less you see. Who am I?
21
I shave several times a day, yet I still have a beard. Who am I?
22
You can hold it without using your hands or your arms. What is it?
23 What tastes better than it smells?
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24 It's been around for millions of years, but is never more than a
month old. What is it?
25 What can you keep after giving it to someone?
26
What cannot talk but will always reply when spoken to?
27
Take away my first letter, then take away my second letter. Then
take away the rest of my letters, yet I remain the same. What am I?
28
It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is
it?
29
What breaks on the water but never on the land?
30
The sun bakes them,
The hand breaks them,
The foot treads them,
The mouth tastes them.
31
I turn around once. What is out will not get in. I turn around again.
What is in will not get out. What am I?
32 Look at me one way and I weigh a whole lot; turn me around and
you’ll see that I am not. What am I?
33
What turns everything around but does not move?
34
What's higher than the king?
35
Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die. What am I?
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36
If you were standing directly on Antarctica's South Pole facing north,
which direction would you travel if you took one step backward?
37
I met a man and drew his name. He tipped his hat and played my
game. What is his name?
38
What is never eaten before lunch?
39
What follows a dog wherever it goes?
40
What is the end of everything?
41 What has three feet but no arms or legs?
42
What is the largest living ant on earth?
43
John's mom had three children. The first child was April. The second
child was May. What was the third Child's name?
44
How can the letters OWONDER be rearranged to make one word?
45
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 run away. How many are left?
46 What is between heaven and earth?
47
If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a
empty piggy bank?
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48
Where can you add 2 to 11 and get 1?
49
What is round on both ends and hi in the middle?
50 I you were to take two apples from three apples, how many would
you have?
51
What was was, before was was was?
52
What part of a fish weighs most?
53
How many letters are in the alphabet?
54
What is at the end of a rainbow?
55 Besides Paris, what is the capital of France?
56
What word is that, which, deprived of its first letter, leaves you sick?
57
2 people in front of 2 people. 2 people behind 2 people, and 2
people beside 2 people. How many people are there?
58
What's at the head of an elephant and at the tail of a squirrel?
59
Mom and dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one
brother. How many people are in the family?
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60
Where is the ocean deepest?
61
You are in a room with 3 monkeys. One monkey has a banana, one
has a stick, and one has nothing. Who is the smartest primate?
62
David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and?
63
I run around the city, but I never move.
64
What is half of two plus two?
65
Sophie's mother had 2 sons and 1 daughter. The sons names were
George and John. What was the daughter's name?
66
Some adults still use these to count.
67
You have three stoves: A gas stove, a wood stove, and a coal stove,
but only one match. Which should you light first?
68
How many sides does a circle have?
69
How many 9's are there between 1 and 100?
70
A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half an
hour. How long will the pills last?
71
What is the word that even in plain sight remains hidden?
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72
If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many
do you have?
73
The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Saturday.
What day is it today?
74
What king can you make if you take the head of a lamb, the middle
of a pig, the hind of a buffalo, and the tail of a dragon?
75
What do pandas have that no other animal has?
76
In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10
years old. How can this be?
77
A man says: "Brothers and sisters, have I none, but that man's
father is my father's son." Who is he pointing at?
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Tricky Riddles Answers
1. meat 41. yard
2. dictionary 42. elephant
3. teapot 43. john
4. library 44. one word
5. silence 45. nine
6. egg 46. and
7. promise 47. one
8. Timmy 48. clock
9. They played eleven games. 49. Ohio
10. Eight feet, the ladder is attached 50. 2
to the boat. 51. is
11. The ball costs 5c. Not 10c. One 52. scales
dollar more than 10c is $1.10, 53. eleven
$1.10 + 10c is $1.20 One dollar 54. W
more than 5c is $1.05. The sum 55. F
of which is $1.10. 56. music
12. 70. 20 divided by 1/2 + 30 = 70 57. four
13. There was a grandfather, a father 58. el
and a son. 59. seven
14. The patch doubles in size every 60. bottom
day and so on the 47th day the 61. you
patch will be half the size it is on 62. David
the 48th day. 63. wall
15. 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000 64. three
16. five 65. Sophie
17. 48 balls. There is a small chance 66. finger
he may pick up 47 green balls in 67. match
a row. 68. 2
18. Add two matches to make a 69. 20
roman numeral eight. 70. one hour
19. You will never reach the door, it 71. hidden
will always be half the distance, 72. one
no matter how small!. 73. Friday
20. darkness 74. lion
21. barber 75. baby pandas
22. Your breath. 76. The person was born in 2005 B.C.
23. tongue (Before Christ). Therefore, he
24. The Moon. was 5 years old in 2000 B.C, 10
25. Your word. in 1995 B.C, and 15 in 1990 B.C.
26. echo 77. son
27. postman
28. name
29. wave
30. grapes
31. key
32. A ton.
33. mirror
34. crown
35. fire
36. north
37. Andrew
38. dinner
39. tail
40. G
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