If you can figure out even half of these brain-twisting riddles in under 10 seconds, then you are
a master of the mind!
Coming up, 25 Riddles That Will Test Your Brain Power!
Number 25.
"Lazy Cops" Either someone is not doing their job or someone
is getting special privileges can you get to the bottom of this crime-related riddle?
The Riddle: "A limo driver is going the wrong way down a one way street.
He goes fast four police officers along the way, yet none of them stop him.
One even smiled and waved.
Why didn't the police stop him?"
The Answer: Because the limo driver was walking, not driving.
Number 24.
"Mind-Bender" See if you can guess this thing-a-ma-jig that
can bend, and straighten out every which way.
The Riddle: "You should keep me as straight as can be, yet very few do.
Most of the time I am slightly bent or curved.
Your sadness usually causes me to bend further, but don't bend me for too long or I may never
be able to fully straighten out again.
What am I?"
The Answer: Your Posture.
Number 23.
"Family Shopping" In riddles most things aren't what they seem
but what could be so puzzling about a family excursion to the mall?
The Riddle :"A grandmother, two mothers and two daughters went shopping together and everyone
bough one purse each.
How many purses did they bring home all together?"
The Answer: Three.
The grandmother is also a mother and the mother is also a daughter.
Number 22.
"Land or Sea" This one seems to have some deep dark philosophical
meaning but careful, if think too hard you will miss it!
The Riddle: I'm always there, some distance away.
Somewhere between land or sea and sky I lay.
You may move towards me, yet distant I stay.
The Answer: The Horizon.
Number 21.
"Fire Starters" This next one is a good brain buster for those
solo adventurers that are afraid of the dark.
The Riddle: "You are all alone in a dark room with a match and matchbox.
Nearby you have three objects: a candle, an oil lamp and a log of firewood.
Which thing do you light first?"
The Answer: The match.
Number 20.
"The Rainbow House" Can you get past the bizarre color scheme
and solve this tricky riddle about this rainbow painted house?
The Riddle: "In a one story house at the corner of the road, the bedrooms were yellow, the
kitchen was blue, the living room was orange, the garage was green, the entry hall was red
and the sitting room was purple.
What color were the stairs?"
The Answer: There are none.
It is a one story house.
Number 19.
"Amazing River" Take a trip deep into the jungles of South
America for this riddle about a raging river.
The Riddle: "What was the longest river in the world before the Amazon River was discovered?"
The Answer: The Amazon, because it was still the longest before it was discovered.
Number 18.
"Shirtless Tourist" This next riddle combines traffic signals,
house painting and a famous body of water in the Middle East to create utter confusion.
The Riddle: "If you paint a brown house white it will become a white house, if the stop
light changes from red to green then the light is green.
So, if you throw a white shirt into the Red Sea, what will it become?"
The Answer: The shirt will become wet.
It won't change from white to red because the Red Sea...isn't actually red.
Number 17.
"Six Feet High And Rising" There seem to be a lot of riddles about being
stuck in rooms with matches but this one ups the ante on the peril-meter.
The Riddle: "Imagine that you are trapped inside a windowless building, during a hurricane
with nothing but a box of matches, three candles and a ceramic mug.
The flood waters are rising in the room and are currently up to your neck.
The door is hopelessly locked and there is no one within 500 miles of you.
How can you get out of this situation?"
The Answer: Stop imagining.
Number 16.
"Riddles In The Dark" This one comes straight from J.R.R.
Tolkien's fantasy novel 'The Hobbit' and is one of the riddles that Gollum asks Bilbo
Baggins when he is trapped in his lair.
See if you can figure out this while remembering the stakes aren't as high for you as they
were for Bilbo.
The Riddle: "This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron,
bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain
down."
The Answer: Time.
Number 15.
"Mary and Jackie" Some riddles test your patience as much as
they test your brain power.
The answer to this next riddle has an answer so cringeworthy and cheesy that it belongs
on a Laffy Taffy wrapper--But you probably still can't figure it out.
The Riddle: "Mary and Jackie went on a vacation.
They both got 2 separate hotel rooms.
The rooms have no heating and Jackie was really cold but Mary was not.
Without adding any clothing or wrapping herself in any other material or using any fire for
heat, what did Mary do to stay warm in that cold empty room?"
The Answer: Mary huddles in the corner of the room where it is always 90 degrees...Get
it?
Like a right angle?
Ha..ha...Sorry about that one.
Number 14.
"Mistreated Object" This 'what am I' riddle revolves around something
that has seemingly been through a gauntlet of destruction, yet somehow survives.
Can you figure out what it is?
The Riddle: "I can break, I can be clogged, I can be attacked, I can be given, I can be
kept, I can be crushed yet I can be whole at the same time.
What am I?"
The Answer: A heart.
Number 13.
"Whirlwind Romance" This next one also revolves around matters
of the heart more specifically it appears someone is going around breaking them recklessly.
The Riddle: "I married your friend, I married your coworker, I may have even married you,
and I married every girl that asks me to, yet I am still single.
Who am I?"
The Answer: A priest.
Number 12.
"Needed Yet Mistreated" This riddle also involves an object, animal
or person that comes in contact with many yet isn't quite respected the way it should
be.
The Riddle: "Each day many people from all over the world come and visit me, however,
they usually only stay for a few minutes.
I am considered by many to be very dirty yet few people would want to live without me.
And, whenever people come see me, they reveal to me a part of themselves that they rarely
show to others.
What or who am I?"
The Answer: A toilet.
Number 11.
"Dangerous Drinks" This brain buster involves what could have
been the perfect crime if it hadn't been for one of the intended victim's hastiness.
The Riddle: "Two women ate dinner together.
They both ordered lemonade.
One woman drank them very fast and finished five in the time it took the other to drink
just one.
The woman who drank just one lemonade quickly perished while the other survived.
All of their drinks had been poisoned.
How did the woman who drank the most survive?"
The Answer: The poison wasn't in the lemonade, but in the ice.
So it was released upon the ice melting.
Therefore because the survivor drank her drinks fast she wasn't poisoned because the ice didn't
melt.
Number 10.
"Sound and Vision" Cryptic and mysterious, this riddle will blow
your mind and leave your jaw-dropped like the moment Neo learned Kung-Fu in the Matrix.
The Riddle: "Many have heard me, but no one has seen me, and I will not speak back until
spoken to.
What am I?"
The Answer: An echo.
Number 9.
"Skyscraper Slip-up" If your job is cleaning very tall buildings
you should always make sure you are properly prepared, unless you are this lucky man and
have a trick up your sleeve.
The Riddle: A window cleaner is cleaning a window on the 25th floor of a skyscraper when,
suddenly, he slips and falls.
He has no safety equipment and nothing to soften his fall and yet he is not hurt.
How can this be?"
The Answer: He was cleaning the windows from the inside.
Number 8.
"Heaven and Earth" The answer to this one may seem profound as
if it that of a cosmic, religious or fantasy realm but remember the answer is sometimes
easier than it seems.
The Riddle :"I am the first on earth, the second in heaven.
I appear twice in a week, though you can only see me once in a year.
What am I?"
The Answer: The Letter E.
Number 7.
"Fishing Trip" Sometimes the difficulty of a riddle can be
all in the set-ups persuasion.
The answer for this one will either be completely obvious or have you scratching your head at
how you could have fallen for a riddle so dumb.
The Riddle: "Four men were fishing in a boat on the lake.
The boat turned over and all four men sank to the bottom of the lake.
And yet, not one single man got wet.
How is this possible?"
The Answer: All of the four men were married.
Number 6.
"The Letter Trade" We won't blame you for pausing the video if
you need more than ten seconds to figure out this one, as we couldn't figure it out without
a pen and paper.
The Riddle: "If it's information you seek, come and see me.
If it's pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three.
What am I?"
The Answer: A bookkeeper.
The word has three pairs of letters in a row.
Number 5.
"Truth and Lies" This riddle is something you might expect
to hear from slam poet at a coffee shop open mic or from your friend who thinks they can
get a job with a philosophy degree.
The Riddle: "We hurt without moving.
We poison without touching.
We bear the truth and the lies.
We are not to be judged by our size.
What am I?"
The Answer.
Words…..Far out, man.
Number 4.
"Mother and Father" At first this one might seem quite perplexing
but the simple answer will have you thinking 'how could I have missed that'?
The Riddle: I am a mother and a father, but have never given birth.
I'm rarely still, but I never wander.
What am I?
The Answer: A tree.
Number 3.
"6 Sisters" This one has the makings of a math riddle
but you shouldn't need a calculator to get the solution here.
The Riddle: There are 6 sisters.
Each sister has 1 brother.
How many brothers are in the sisters family?
The Answer.
1 brother.
Number 2.
"Food Chain" Why is it that some of the simplest riddles
are the most difficult?
Perhaps humans are just prone to overthinking.
Here's a simple one that will give you a complex headache.
The Riddle: If you eat me, my sender will eat you.
What am I?
The Answer: A fish hook.
Number 1.
"Five Letter Word" Some of the best riddles and most fun to figure
out involve the construction of words and the way the English language works.
Well, our last riddle is one of those and don't be embarrassed if it takes you some
time to figure out, because unless you are a walking dictionary, it's pretty hard.
The Riddle: I am a five-letter word.
I sounds the same when you remove my first letter.
I sound the same when you remove my 3rd letter.
I sound the same when you remove my last letter, and I sound the same when you remove all three.
Which word am I?
Answer: Empty.
As whether you spell it, 'mpty', 'emty', 'emp-t', or 'm.t.'
they all sound the same!
What's the silliest or hardest riddle you've ever heard?