Riddles are fun because it looks simple and feels so laid out yet it gives a real headache to find the right answer. The individual effort to crack the answer is just a sight to rejoice.
Challenge your family members to find the answers as they lay cozy on the couch, devouring delicious snacks during holidays and gatherings.
Here are 90 hardest riddles in the world with answers. Check how clever you are by trying to solve these funny and challenging ones.
Funny Riddles
- What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
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A piano - What has hands but can’t clap?
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A clock - What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
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The letter "M" - What can you catch but not throw?
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A Cold - What has four wheels and flies?
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A Garbage Truck - What gets wetter the more it dries?
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A Towel - What kind of room has no doors or windows?
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A Mushroom - What has a bottom at the top?
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Your Legs - Why is six afraid of seven?
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Because seven eight (ate) nine - What do you call a bear with no teeth?
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A Gummy Bear
Math Riddles
11. I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit, and my hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?Click for Answer
194
12. When I add five to nine, I get two. The answer is correct, but how?Click for Answer
It’s a clock—9 AM + 5 hours = 2 PM
13. What 3 positive numbers give the same answer when multiplied and added together?Click for Answer
1, 2, and 3
14. Divide 30 by ½ and add 10. What is the answer?Click for Answer
70
15. How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?Click for Answer
Once, because after subtracting once, it’s no longer 100
16. A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but nine run away. How many are left?Click for Answer
Nine
17. A man is twice as old as his little brother. Five years ago, he was three times his brother's age. How old is he now?Click for Answer
10 Years Old
18. I am a number. Multiply me by 4, then subtract 6, and you get 18. What am I?Click for Answer
6
19. What is the next number in this sequence: 2, 6, 12, 20, __?Click for Answer
30. (Pattern: Add 4, then 6, then 8, then 10)
20. If you have a basket with 3 apples and take away 2, how many do you have?Click for Answer
2 (because you took 2 apples)
Word Riddles
21. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?Click for Answer
The word “ton” (Not backward)
22. What word looks the same backward and upside down?Click for Answer
NOON
23. What English word has three consecutive double letters?Click for Answer
Bookkeeper
24. Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?Click for Answer
Incorrectly
25. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?Click for Answer
Short
26. What word begins and ends with an "e," but only has one letter?Click for Answer
Envelope
27. What word contains all 26 letters?Click for Answer
Alphabet
28. If you remove one letter from me, I still remain the same. Remove another, and I remain unchanged. Remove yet another, and I remain the same. What am I?Click for Answer
A postman (removing "post" still means a "man")
29. What starts with “P”, ends with “E”, and has thousands of letters?Click for Answer
Post Office
30. The more you take away from me, the bigger I get. What am I?Click for Answer
A hole
Nature Riddles
31. What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees?Click for Answer
A mountain
32. What falls but never rises?Click for Answer
Rain
33. What is full of holes but still holds water?Click for Answer
A sponge
34. What can run but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps?Click for Answer
A River
35. What is as light as a feather, yet no person can hold it for long?Click for Answer
Your breath
36. I can be hot or cold, seen or invisible, and I move with the wind. What am I?Click for Answer
Air
37. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?Click for Answer
A Joke
38. What starts with a ‘G’ and ends with an ‘S’, and is found in your garden?Click for Answer
Grass
39. I grow taller in the summer and shorter in the winter. What am I?Click for Answer
A Tree
40. I can be white, blue, or gray, and I float across the sky. What am I?Click for Answer
A Cloud
Time Riddles
41. What has hands but can’t clap?Click for Answer
A Clock
42. I go up, but never come down. What am I?Click for Answer
Your Age
43. What can be measured but not seen?Click for Answer
Time
44. The more I tick, the less you have. What am I?Click for Answer
Time
45. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?Click for Answer
Lunch And Dinner
46. What time is it when the clock strikes 13?Click for Answer
Time to get the clock fixed
47. What has 12 faces but no body?Click for Answer
A Clock
48. The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?Click for Answer
Darkness
49. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?Click for Answer
Footsteps
50. What can travel around the world while staying in the same spot?Click for Answer
A Stamp
Animal Riddles
51. What has ears but can’t hear?Click for Answer
A cornfield
52. What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?Click for Answer
A kangaroo
53. What has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night?Click for Answer
A human (crawls as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult, uses a cane in old age)
54. What has a tail and a head, but no body?Click for Answer
A Coin
55. What animal can you always find at a baseball game?Click for Answer
A Bat
56. I sleep through the day and come out at night. I have wings but am not a bird. What am I?Click for Answer
A Bat
57. What has two feet but can’t walk?Click for Answer
A Snail
58. I have a mane but am not a lion. I have hooves but am not a cow. What am I?Click for Answer
A Horse
59. What animal has the most letters in its name?Click for Answer
A Butterfly
60. I can swim in the ocean and walk on land, but I start my life as a fish. What am I?Click for Answer
A Frog
Philosophy & Life Riddles
61. The more you share me, the less you have. What am I?Click for Answer
A secret
62. What can fill a room but takes up no space?Click for Answer
Light
63. I am not alive, but I grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?Click for Answer
Fire
64. What belongs to you but is used by others?Click for Answer
Your Name
65. I have no legs, but I run. I have no voice, but I speak. What am I?Click for Answer
A River
66. The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?Click for Answer
Darkness
67. What is something you can never hold but always carry?Click for Answer
A conversation
68. What can break without being touched?Click for Answer
A Promise
69. The more you give, the more you have. What am I?Click for Answer
Love
70. What question can you never answer "yes" to?Click for Answer
"Are you asleep?"
Plants & Food Riddles
71. What has rings but no fingers?Click for Answer
A Tree
72. What has skin but no bones?Click for Answer
A Fruit
73. What is a vegetable that always loses?Click for Answer
A beet (because it gets "beaten")
74. I have ears but can’t hear. What am I?Click for Answer
Corn
75. I am green when I am young, yellow when I am old, and brown when I die. What am I?Click for Answer
A Banana
76. What fruit can be found on calendars?Click for Answer
Dates
77. The more you peel me, the more you cry. What am I?Click for Answer
An Onion
78. I’m red but not a stop sign, round but not a ball, and juicy but not a watermelon. What am I?Click for Answer
A Tomato
79. What comes in a pod but isn’t a spaceship?Click for Answer
A Peas
80. What is sweet but comes from a bug?Click for Answer
Honey
Mystery Riddles
81. I disappear the moment you say my name. What am I?Click for Answer
Silence
82. I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?Click for Answer
The Future
83. What has a head and tail, is made of metal, but has no body?Click for Answer
A Coin
84. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?Click for Answer
An Echo
85. I follow you everywhere, but I disappear in the dark. What am I?Click for Answer
Your Shadow
86. What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?Click for Answer
A Map
87. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?Click for Answer
A Joke
88. You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How?Click for Answer
Everyone is married
89. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?Click for Answer
A River
90. What has an eye but can’t see?Click for Answer
A Needle
