Riddles are loved by many people and they have good reasons for that. Solving challenging riddles is a fun activity for anyone of any age group. There is a sense of accomplishment that you are going to feel after a successful attempt at solving riddles. Unlike math, riddles do not always require someone’s knowledge about difficult matters. You need sound logic in order to solve them correctly. There are many lists of good riddles with answers like this one. It is highly possible to play riddle guessing with another person. That will be a super fun social activity that also sharpens your brain.

You can find riddles for adult and children pretty easily. There are riddles that sound like rhymes. There are also ones that are in question formats instead. Some of them can be fun and entertaining that you will be left guffawing for the rest of the day. Other riddles can be downright confusing. You may require days to solve them. Oftentimes, very difficult riddles like them do not have complicated solutions. However, problem solver must try to approach the answers creatively. Let’s check the samples of good riddles with answers that you can enjoy with family and friends in your spare time.

Good Riddles with Answers

Only one color, but not one size,

Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.

Present in sun, but not in rain,

Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.

What is it?

You have me today, Tomorrow you’ll have more;

As your time passes, I’m not easy to store;

I don’t take up space, But I’m only in one place;

I am what you saw, But not what you see.

What am I?

I can be flipped and broken but I never move. I can be closed, and opened, and sometimes removed. I am sealed by hands. What am I?

I’m the son of water but when I return to water, I die. Who am I?

I am always in front of you and never behind you. What am I?

I come in many colors and I am very thin, I am found in every country, even in your home, I am very important, you can be very creative with me, I can even help you learn. What am I?

How do you spell candy in 2 letters?

People see through me, but none pass through without killing me. I can be anywhere, and can be seen double or single. What am I?

Not chest or box is now discussed. Money can be held in it, but just as we test its metal, within it there is rust. What is it?

I am a kind who is good at measuring things. What am I?

Never resting, never still.

Moving silently from hill to hill.

It does not walk, run or trot,

All is cool where it is not.

What is it?

What has six faces, But does not wear makeup. It also has twenty-one eyes, But cannot see?

When I’m born, I stay in the sun. A little time, and I make crazy. When I’m old, I’m worth a fortune. What am I?

What costs more than riches but doesn’t cost a penny; that’s also hard to find yet easy to lose?

I get whiter the dirtier I get. What am I?

Good Riddles for Adult

I may be simple, I may be complex;

I may have a name, but no gender or sex;

I am often a question, or statements as a setup;

I tend to have an answer, ’til you find it I won’t let up.

What am I?

I can be English, Roman, Latin or Greek. I come in different amounts and you can mix and match me and I can take on an almost infinite number of forms. What am I?

What types of words are these: madam, civic, eye, level?

What is black and white and red all over?

I am slim and tall,

Many find me desirable and appealing.

They touch me and I give a false good feeling.

Once I shine in splendor,

But only once and then no more.

For many I am “to die for”.

What am I?

I love sugars and treats, I am a little critter and I sound a lot like your Mom and Dad’s sister. What am I?

From the beginning of eternity,

To the end of time and space,

To the beginning of every end,

And the end of every place.

What am I?

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?

I can be crushed to pieces but only if I am given away first, I can be clogged and attacked but that’s usually my own doing. No matter how many problems I have, you wouldn’t dare let me go. What am I?

I’m where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow’s in the middle. What am I?

Brothers and sisters I have none but this man’s father is my father’s son. Who is the man?

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Riddles with Answers for Kids

What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter?

What goes up and down but never moves?

What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

Everyone has it and no one can lose it, what is it?

What is the last thing you take off before bed?

Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

You can you serve it, but never eat it? What is it?

It lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots on top? What is it?

What do you call a fairy that has not taken a bath for a week?

What has a neck but no head?

What goes around and around the wood, but never goes into the wood?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

The Always-Fun “What Am I?” Riddles

I shoot but never kill. What am I?

Look at me. I can bring a smile to your face, a tear to your eye, or even a thought to your mind. But, I can’t be seen. What am I?

I eat, I live. I breathe, I live. I drink, I die. What am I?

I start with a “V” and every woman has one. She can even use me to get what she wants. What am I?

I am higher without the head than with it. What am I?

I have a heart, but no other organs. What am I?

I can be found in water but never get wet. What am I?

I’m not clothes but I cover your body. The more I’m used, the thinner I become. What am I?

I am always hot even when put in a fridge. What am I?

I can fly but have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?

I go in the water black and come out red. What am I?

I live in my little house all alone. There are no windows or door and if I want to go out I have to break through the wall. What am I?

Tricky Riddles with Answers

I can shave everyday, but my beard will stay the same. Who am I?

I’m very tempting, so it’s said,

I have a shiny coat of red,

and my flesh is white beneath. I

smell so sweet, taste good to eat,

and help to guard your teeth.

Have you heard about the restaurant on the moon?

There are two plastic jugs filled with water. How could you put all of this water into a barrel, without using the jugs or any dividers, and still tell which water came from which jug?

What breaks on water but never on land?

I met a man and drew his name. He tipped his hat and played my game. What is his name?

Who is the fastest runner in the whole world?

Name the most recent year in which New Year’s came before Christmas.

Soldiers line up, spaced with pride,

Two long rows lined side by side,

One sole unit can decide,

If the rows will unite or divide.

What is it?

What’s at the head of an elephant and at the tail of a squirrel?

Why did the bumblebee put honey under his pillow?

How can you lift an elephant with one hand?

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Dirty Riddles We All Like Plus Answers

I can be dirty, I can be clean, I can be delicate, I can be rough. People sometimes shake me or smack me against my own kind. What am I?

What starts with “p” and ends with “orn” and is really popular in the movie industry?

I have a stiff shaft. My tip penetrates. I come with a quiver. What am I?

What is hairy on the outside, but soft and wet on the inside. It starts with the letter “c” and ends with a “t”?

What has a head, a shaft, is shaped like a stick and is long and hard?

It’s fun to do but you hate knowing your parents do it too. What is it?

If I miss, I might hit your bush. It’s my job to stuff your box. When I come, it’s news. What am I?

What gets longer if pulled, fits snugly between breasts, slides neatly into a hole, chokes people when used incorrectly, and works well when jerked?

My load is sometimes soft, sometimes hard, is usually warm, and I am sometimes long and sometimes short. What am I?

What does a man have in his trousers that a lady doesn’t want in her face?

I come in a lot of different sizes. Sometimes, I drip a little. If you blow me, it feels really good. What am I?

Over 1000 people went down on me. I wasn’t a maiden for long. Something really big and hard ripped me open. What am I?

Long and Clever Riddles

The host of a game show offers the guest a choice of three doors. Behind one is a expensive car, but behind the other two are goats. After you have chosen one door, he reveals one of the other two doors behind which is a goat (he wouldn’t reveal a car). Now he gives you the chance to switch to the other unrevealed door or stay at your initial choice. You will then get what is behind that door. You cannot hear the goats from behind the doors, or in any way know which door has the prize. Should you stay, or switch, or doesn’t it matter?

Four men walk into the desert. Suddenly all four are simultaneously knocked out. They awake buried to their heads in the sand unable to look anywhere but straight ahead. They are positioned so that each man sees another’s head before him.

However between the first and second man there is a separating wall. So the first man sees only desert. The second man sees only wall. The third man sees another’s head and a wall. The fourth man sees two heads and a wall.

On top of each mans head is a hat. The underside of each cap is black, but the outside of each cap is either blue or white. Before any of the men can speak, their captors tell them if they speak, they die.

However, if any of them can guess the color of their cap on the first try they go free. The captors tell them that there are two blue caps and two white caps. Being an omniscient observer of the situation, we know that the order of the caps are: blue, white, blue, white.

So knowing the perspective of each man in the sand, and that they can only see the color of caps/wall/desert in front of them, which of the four men knows for certain the color of his own cap. More importantly: why?

The store room of your house is locked with a certain kind of padlock that can be closed without a key but requires a key to open which you own and there is no duplicate key. You decide to move your old stuff to the storeroom. After keeping the things carefully, you lock it back again perfectly. The next day, a dead body is found in your closed store room.

Since only you have the key to the store room and you live alone, the police suspect you as the murderer. You can’t understand anything when suddenly a thought strikes your mind. There is a possible way using which the dead body could have been placed by someone else.

Can you find that way so that you can tell the police and prove yourself to be innocent?

In the kingdom of skull, King Norse did not allow any citizen to visit the world outside. Also only a person with a proper paperwork was allowed to enter or he was sent back. A wooden bridge was what connected the kingdom to the world. The king had appointed a sharpshooter who would check every five minutes on the bridge to check. After checking, he would go back to his hut and return exactly after five minutes again. The bridge took 9 minutes to cross.  A merchant was able to escape the kingdom without harming the shooter. How did he do it?

Two spies want to get in an enemy’s military base. In order to get in they have to give the correct countersign to the guard at the gate after he gives them the sign. So, they wait hidden nearby the gate so that they will overhear the countersign from another soldier.

One soldier comes and the guard gives the sign: “6”. The soldier answers “3”. The guard lets him pass. Another soldier comes. The guard says “12” and the soldier gives the answer “6”. The guard lets him pass. So, the first spy goes at the gate and the guard says “10”.The spy, sure that he knew the answer as he was, says “5”. Immediately, the guard shoots him dead.

Then the other spy, who saw that the other spy was killed when he gave the countersign, had now understood what the right answer would be, whatever the guard’s sign was. So, he walks to the gate and the guard says “8”.The spy gives the correct answer and the guard lets him in. What was the answer that the spy gave?

A wealthy wise old woman feared that her daughter was lazy and, as a result, rather stupid. When the old woman died, her will stipulated that her assets were to be liquidated and a check was to be written for the full amount.

The check was to be placed in one of three envelopes. The other two envelopes would contain a blank piece of paper. If the daughter could determine from the writing on the envelope which envelope contained the check, she would inherit her mother’s fortune. Otherwise, the fortune would go to the old woman’s favorite charity for animals.

The daughter was not allowed to touch the envelopes. Her decision had to be made based on the writing on the envelopes. The daughter was told that only one envelope had a true statement and that the other two statements were false.

The envelopes had the following writing:
1. This envelope does not have the check.
2. This envelope has the check.
3. The second envelope does not have the check.

Which envelope should the daughter pick?

A man is sitting in a pub feeling rather poor. He sees the man next to him pull a wad of £50 notes out of his wallet. He turns to the rich man and says to him, “I have an amazing talent; I know almost every song that has ever existed.”

The rich man laughs. The poor man says, “I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady’s name of your choice in it.”

The rich man laughs again and says, “OK, how about my daughter’s name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?” The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich.

What song did he sing?

It is Halloween and your friends dare you to go into a haunted house. You creep up to the door, a little scared wondering what is behind the door. You go in and there is a long hallway leading out into a dark musty room with three doors. You’re kind of scared once you are inside. You try to turn back, to get back outside, but when you turn around the door is closed and locked. You yell for help but there is only silence.

The room is dark and you look for a light source. You see a light switch and try to turn it on. Sadly the power is out. You are terrified but have no choice but to follow the long hallway to the three doors in the pitch black. Behind one door is a bottomless pit with no end. Behind another door is an electric chair which you must sit in. Behind the last door is a pool full of acid. You must go in one of the rooms to the danger. Which one should you go through?

There is a row of soldiers that is 1km in length and they walk with a constant speed in a straight line, in one direction. All the way at the end walks a messenger. He has to bring a message to the captain walking all the way at the beginning of the row.

The messenger starts walking past the soldiers and immediately turns around when arriving at the captain and walks back to the end of the row. When the messenger is back at the end, the whole group of soldiers have traveled a distance of 1 km.

The soldiers and captain are walking at the same constant speed. The messenger (walking faster then the soldiers) is also walking a a constant speed. You don’t know anything about time or speed. How far did the messenger travel from the end of the row to the beginning and back?

Easy Riddles for Kids with Answers

I have wings, I am able to fly, I‘m not a bird yet I soar high in the sky. What am I?

We are twins, We are close together, But we will not touch, But far apart, We become one. What are we?

What is the easiest way to double your money?

I am a number. When you add the letter G to me, I disappear into thin air. What number am I?

I go up and I go down, I am blazing and hot.

If you look right at me, your eyes will wish you had not.

What am I?

I am used in most sports, have four holes, come in many different colors and there is a state that shares my name. What am I?

I am so simple, that I can only point yet I guide men all over the world.

I have no eyes, no ears, and legs, and yet I help move the earth. What am I?

I use my ear to speak and my mouth to hear. What am I?

What is sometimes long and other times short, thick or thin, full or sparse, and you can color it anything you want?

I am a fruit, I am a bird and I am also a person. What am I?

Thousands lay up gold within this house, but no man made it.

Spears past counting guard this house, but no man wards it.

What runs but never walks,

often murmurs but never talks,

has a bed but never sleeps,

has a mouth but never eats?

We are brothers from the same mother, but we’ve never met.

What kind of music do bunnies like when they are hopping and jumping around?