Do you think you are smart? If you think so, we are going to put your intelligence to the test here. People are different. So that some people might find a particular fact hard to get while some will get them quickly. The type of smartness that these tricky riddles might need can be called ‘out of the box’ or ‘street smart.’
Are you ready to be riddled?
Riddles vary from quick and easy to solve to serious brain teasers, and we have gathered a couple of the latter for your riddling delight. The big brain teasers on this list may need some serious brainpower to address it, and definitely feel good when you do!
1. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
Answer: Mount Everest itself (it still had the highest elevation even before it was discovered).
2. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.
3. A doctor and a bus driver loved the same girl who was very attractive whose name is Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a lengthy bus journey that would be a week long. Before he left, he gifted Sarah seven apples. Why?
Answer: An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
4. They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they?
Answer: Gloves.
5. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal.
6. What is seen in the middle of March and April that can not be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
Answer: The letter R.
7. What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper.
8. A woman shoots her husband, then holds him underwater for five minutes. Next, she hangs him. Right after, they enjoy a lovely dinner. Explain.
Answer: She took a photograph of him and developed it in a darkroom.
9. I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
10. A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Answer: Three brothers and four sisters.
11. What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel.
12. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
13. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
14. How can you physically stand behind your father while he is standing behind you?
Answer: Stand back-to-back.
15. How is seven different from the rest of the numbers between one and ten?
Answer: Seven has two syllables, whereas all other numbers from one to ten have only one.
16. First, you eat me, then you get eaten. What am I?
Answer: A fishhook.
17. Voiceless it cries and wingless flutters, toothless bites, and mouthless mutters. What am I?
Answer: The wind.
18. Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly.
19. What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
Answer: Your left hand (or left elbow/forearm).
20. First, think of the color of the clouds. Next, think of the color of snow. Now, think of the color of a bright full moon. Now answer quickly; what do cows drink?
Answer: Water.
21. This belongs to you, but everyone else uses it.
Answer: Your name.
22. What are the subsequent three letters in this combination? OTTFFSS
Answer: E, N, T (representing Eight, Nine, Ten; following One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven).
23. How many letters are in the alphabet?
Answer: 11 letters (in the phrase "the alphabet").
24. A is the brother of B. B is the brother of C. C is the father of D. So how is D related to A?
Answer: A is D's uncle.
25. What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Answer: Silence.
26. How can the number four be half of five?
Answer: IV is the Roman numeral for four, which makes up half the letters of the word "five".
27. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo.
28. You measure my life in hours, and I serve you by expiring. I'm quick when I'm thin and slow when I'm fat. The wind is my enemy.
Answer: A candle.
29. You are escaping a labyrinth, and there are three doors in front of you. The door on the left leads to a raging inferno. The door on the center leads to a deadly assassin. The door on the right leads to a lion that has not eaten in three months. Which door do you choose?
Answer: The right door (a lion starved for three months would already be dead).
30. I have cities but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
31. You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but you do not see a single person on the boat when you look again. Why?
Answer: All the people aboard were married.