Many people love riddles when they are very easy. But, you should challenge yourself with the following difficult riddles. You can share them with your friends and make a competition who will find the answers faster. This is a nice way to spend time together with friends and make your brains work a bit. In this collection, you will find a lot of creative and very difficult riddles, which will entertain all your friends, even the one who consider themselves to be very clever.
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Difficult riddles
You walk up to a mountain that has two paths. One leads to the other side of the mountain, and the other will get you lost forever. Two twins know the path that leads to the other side. You can ask them only one question. Except! One lies and one tells the truth, and you don’t know which is which. So, What do you ask?
Answer:
You ask each twin What would your brother say?. This works because…. Well let’s say the correct path is on the left side. So say you asked the liar “”What would your brother say?”” Well, the liar would know his brother was honest and he would say the left side, but since the liar lies, he would say right. If you asked the honest twin the same question, he would say right, because he knows his brother will lie. Therefore, you would know that the correct path was the left!
Give me food, and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What Am I?
Answer:
Fire.
Name 50 words that do not contain the letter A in 20 seconds.
Answer:
The numbers 1-50.
A group of campers have been on vacation so long, that they’ve forgotten the day of the week. The following conversation ensues.
Darryl: What’s the day? I don’t think it is Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
Tracy: Well that doesn’t narrow it down much. Yesterday was Sunday.
Melissa: Yesterday wasn’t Sunday, tomorrow is Sunday.
Ben: The day after tomorrow is Saturday.
Adrienne: The day before yesterday was Thursday.
Susie: Tomorrow is Saturday.
David: I know that the day after tomorrow is not Friday.
If only one person’s statement is true, what day of the week is it?
Answer:
It is Wednesday. If it was any other day of the week, more than one statement would be true. To solve the riddle, evaluate each person’s statement and write down what day it could be according to the statement. David’s statement indicates it could be any day of the week except for Wednesday. When you list the days that it could be according to everyone’s statement, it turns out Wednesday is the day mentioned only one time. Darryl: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday Tracy: Monday Melissa: Saturday Ben: Thursday Adrienne: Saturday Susie: Friday David: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday”
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer:
The Letter “M”.I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
Answer:
Pencil lead.
Hard riddles
Do you like to challenge yourself? Discover a lot of interesting but quite hard riddles, which will make all your friends very busy. You can be sure that they have never seen such hard riddles with answers. However, you should keep the answers for yourself.
Not far off shore a ship stands with a rope ladder hanging over her side. The rope has 10 rungs. The distance between each rung is 12 inches. The lowest rung touches the water. The ocean is calm. Because of the incoming tide, the surface of the water rises 4 inches per hour. How soon will the water cover the third rung from the top rung of the rope ladder?
Answer:
When a problem deals with a physical phenomenon, the phenomenon should be considered as well as the numbers given. As the water rises, so does the rope ladder. The water will never cover the rung.
What color is the black box on a airplane?
Answer:
Orange, so it is easier to find.
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 are we?
Answer:
Words.
A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment.
Can you explain why?
Answer :
The man is a of short stature. He can’t reach the upper elevator buttons, but can push is with his umbrella.
Suppose you want to send in the mail a valuable object to a friend. You have a box which is big enough to hold the object. The box has a locking ring which is large enough to have a lock attached and you have several locks with keys. However, your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. You cannot send the key in an unlocked box since it may be stolen or copied. How do you send the valuable object, locked, to your friend – so it may be opened by your friend?
Answer:
Send the box with a lock attached and locked. Your friend attaches his or her own lock and sends the box back to you. You remove your lock and send it back to your friend. Your friend may then remove the lock she or he put on and open the box.
Hardest riddle ever
We can bet you have never seen the hardest riddle ever like they are presented in this collection. This is a real challenge for you and your friends.
You’re escaping a labyrinth, and there are three doors in front of you. The door on the left leads to a raging inferno. The door in the center leads to a deadly assassin. The door on the right leads to a lion that hasn’t eaten in three months. Which door do you choose?
Answer:
The door on the right.
A soccer fan, upset by the defeat of his favorite team, slept restlessly. In his dream a goalkeeper was practicing in a large unfurnished room, tossing a soccer ball against the wall and then catching it.
But the goalkeeper grew smaller and smaller and then changed into a ping-pong ball while the soccer ball was swelled up into a huge cast-iron ball. The iron ball circled round madly, trying to crush the ping-pong ball, how did the ping-pong find safety without leaving the floor?
Answer:
If the ping-pong ball rolls flush against the wall, the cast-iron ball cannot crush it.
Those who know geometry can determine that if the diameter of a large ball is at least 5.83 (3+2(square root of 2) times as large as the diameter of a little ball, then the little ball will be safe if it hugs the wall.
A cast-iron ball that is larger than a soccer ball is more than 4.83 times as large in diameter as a ping-pong ball.
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?
If you throw me from the window, The letter ‘n’.
wiNdow – widow
door – doNor.
I will leave a grieving wife.
Bring me back, but in the door, and
You’ll see someone giving life!
What am I?
Hard riddles for adults
Leave easy riddles for your children and discover the following hard riddles for adults. They are awesome and will make many of your friends busy finding the correct answers.
No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
Answer:
Silence!
Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?
Answer:
The number 8.
My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events of today. What am I?
Answer:
Current.
What is an instrument you can play, hear, and enjoy but cannot see?
Answer:
Your voice.
When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don’t have me. What am I?
Answer:
A Secret.
Many-manned scud-thumper, Maker of worn wood, Shrub-ruster, Sky-mocker, Rave! Portly pusher, Wind-slave.
What am I?
Answer:
The ocean!
If I am holding a bee, what do I have in my eye?
Answer:
Beauty.
What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
Answer:
Queue.
Do you like to send such difficult brain teasers to your friends? This collection is full of interesting and quite challenging riddles and brain teasers.
I do not speak unless spoken to, many have heard me but none have seen me what am I?
Answer:
An Echo!
Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it wants it not
Answer:
Counterfeit money.
You can carry it everywhere you go, and it does not get heavy. What is it?
Answer:
Your name.
Do you know how he can do it?
Answer:
To do this, he has to push the cork inside the bottle and then take out the coin.
A: I do not know your number.
B: Neither do I know your number.
A: Now I know.