We collected 75 hard riddles for children and adults. Not everyone can solve them all. Check what you can do!
Hard Riddles for Kids
How far can a dog run into the woods?
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Only halfway, after that, he's running out of the woods.
What is bought by the yard by is worn by the foot?
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Carpet.
With pointed fangs it sits in wait,
with piercing force it doles out fate,
over bloodless victims proclaiming its might,
eternally joining in a single bite.
What is it?
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Stapler.
What has a foot but no leg?
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Ruler.
What can you hold in your left hand and not in your right?
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Your right elbow.
What stays where it is when it goes off?
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Alarm clock.
What has a big mouth, yet never speaks?
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Jar.
The more you take the more you leave behind.
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Steps.
Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing.
What am I?
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The number 8.
What has a mouth but can't talk?
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River.
What gets bigger the more you take away?
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Hole.
What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
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River.
It's shorter than the rest, but when you're happy, you raise it up like it's the best.
What is it?
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Thumb.
Green but not a lizard, white without being snow, and bearded without beingaman.
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Leek.
What has green hair, a round red head and a long thin white beard?
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Radish.
I am not alive but seem so, because I dance and breathe with no legs or lungs of my own.
What am I?
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Flame.
How can you make six into an odd number?
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Remove the letter S and you have IX, which is 9 in Roman numerals.
What water can you eat and chew?
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Watermelon.
What is there one of in every corner and two of in every room?
What grows up while growing down?
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A goose or duck.
What can you fill with empty hands?
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Gloves.
What time of day is spelled the same forwards and backwards?
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Noon.
What cannot talk but will always reply when spoken to?
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An echo.
Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth.
What is it?
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Echo.
What do you answer even though it never asks you questions?
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A doorbell or a phone.
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What moves across the land but never has to steer?
It has delivered our goods year after year.
What is it?
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Train.
What has golden hair and stands in the corner?
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A broom.
My rings are not of gold, but I get more as I get old.
What am I?
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A tree.
I beam, I shine, I sparkle white.
I'll brighten the day with a single light.
I'll charm and enchant all.
I'll bring the best in you all.
What am I?
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Smile.
Tickle with your fingers and a song it will sing.
Be careful, though, you may break a string.
What is it?
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Guitar.
What do pandas have that no other animal has?
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Baby pandas.
I twist and turn and leaves a loop. What am I?
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Shoelace.
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
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Your breath.
They are two brothers. However much they run, they do not reach each other.
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Wheels.
What is it that no man ever saw, which never was, but always will be?
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Tomorrow.
I go around and in the house, but never touches the house.
What am I?
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Sun.
What day, within a week of today, does not end in "Y"?
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Tomorrow.
I am known for my natural tuxedo and marching.
What am I?
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Penguin.
What is full of holes, but still holds a lot of water?
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A sponge.
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Logic PuzzlesHard Riddles for Adults
What can you lose that will cause other people to lose theirs too?
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Temper.
The shorter I am, the bigger I am. What am I?
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Temper.
What stinks when living and smells good when dead?
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Bacon.
What is the longest fruit?
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Longan.
Which eight-letter word still remains a word after removing each letter from it?
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Staring (starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, 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?
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Deal.
Once I'm 24. Twice I'm 20. Three times I'm inappropriate.
What am I?
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The letter "X".
I am the beginning of everything, the end of time and space,
the beginning of every end, and the end of every place.
What am I
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The letter "E".
Born in an instant.
I tell all stories.
I can be lost.
But I never die.
What am I?
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Memories.
A prisoner is told: "If you tell a lie, we will hang you and if you tell the truth, we will shoot you".
What did the prisoner say to save himself?
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"You will hang me".
What is deaf, dumb and blind but always tells the truth?
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A mirror.
What can you keep after giving it to someone?
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Your word.
What word looks the same upside down and backward?
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Swims.
I have two legs, but they only touch the ground while I'm at rest.
What am I?
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Wheelbarrow.
I cause involuntary movements in your vehicle.
What am I?
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Tow truck.
What word describes a woman who does not have all her fingers on one hand?
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Normal. She would not be so if she had all of her ten fingers on one hand.
I have branches. yet I have no leaves, no trunk, and no fruit.
What am I?
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A bank.
The more you take, the more you leave behind.
What am I?
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Fingerprints.
I can flutter and take your breath away.
I can take a beating, but do not bruise.
If I stopped you would be sure to lose.
All day and night, I am with you.
What am I?
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Your heart.
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I am always in front of you, but you will never see me.
What am I?
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Future.
What must take a bow before it can speak?
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Violin.
What word in the English language does the following:
the first two letters signify a male,
the first three letters signify a female,
the first four letters signify a great,
while the entire world signifies a great woman.
What is the word?
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Heroine.
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him underwater for five minutes.
Next, she hangs him. Right after, they enjoy a lovely dinner.
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She took a picture of him and developed it in her dark room..
I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always.
Everyone uses me. What am I?
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Pencil lead.
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
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Silence.
Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands?
What is it?
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A shirt.
How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the English language spelling of a whole number.
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One thousand.
What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?
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A choice.
I move very slowly at an imperceptible rate,
although I take my time, I am never late.
I accompany life, and survive past demise,
I am viewed with esteem in many women's eyes.
What am I?
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I am your hair.
Different lights do make me strange,
thus into different sizes I will change.
What am I?
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I am the pupil of an eye.
My thunder comes before the lightning;
My lightning comes before the clouds;
My rain dries all the land it touches.
What am I?
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A volcano.
Without a bridle, or a saddle, across a thing I ride a-straddle.
And those I ride, by help of me, though almost blind, are made to see.
What am I?
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Eye glasses.
You can see me in water, but I never get wet.
What am I?
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A reflection.
Which part of a boat, does a shopaholic like the most?
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The sail.
You do not want me when you don’t have me,
but when you have me you don’t want to lose me.
What am I?
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A lawsuit.
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