Best Riddles 😎 in 2023
The best riddles come from all topics and styles, and are enjoyed by a wide range of people. Even the definition of what makes one the best over others can be different based on who is asked and what kind of riddle they prefer, making the best ones ultimately those that are agreed upon by the most people.
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I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
What can you keep after giving to someone?
What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
A woman is sitting in her hotel room when someone knocks at the door. She opened the door to find a man she’s never seen before. He says, “Oh I’m sorry, I made a mistake and thought this was my room.” He then ran away and got into an elevator so the woman shut her door and phoned security. What made the woman so suspicious?
What is full of holes but still holds water?
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
I’m filled with keys but can’t open a lock. What am I?
Mr. Taylor has four daughters and each has a brother. In total, how many children does Mr. Taylor have?
When things go wrong, what can you always count on?
What is the laziest mountain in the world?
I sometimes run but cannot walk. You follow me around. What am I?
When I’m ripe, I’m green, when you eat me, I’m red, and when you spit me out, I’m black. What am I?
A boy and his father get into a car accident. When they arrive at the hospital, the doctor sees the boy and exclaims, “that’s my son!” How can this be?
What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?
The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great person, while the entire word signifies a great woman.
It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
What question can you never answer yes to?
You bought me for dinner but never eat me. What am I?
What do you call a cat who loves to swim?
I’m the father of fruits. What am I?
What goes up but never comes back down?
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
How many months in the year has 28 days?
What can you catch but not throw?
Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother — how many children does Mary have?
Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?
Mississippi, Rhine, Amazon, Colorado, Nile, and Rio Grande. What are all of these?
How do you make the number one disappear?
My first is in chocolate but no in ham. My second is in cake and also in jam. My third at tea-time is easily found. Altogether, this is a friend who is often around. What is it?
What belongs to you but is used by everyone else?
What makes more as you take them?
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
What goes up but never comes down?
What begins with T, finishes with T, and has T in it?
If you took two apples from a pile of three apples, how many apples would you have?
I’m a bird, a person, and a fruit. What am I?
If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle, hard all around. What am I?
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
What happens once in a lifetime, twice in a moment, but never in one hundred years?
Using only addition and eight eights, how do you get 1,000?
Light as a feather, there’s nothing in it, but the strongest man can’t hold it much more than a minute.
A doctor and a boy are together. The boy is the doctor’s son, but the doctor is not the boy’s father. How
Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Bill actually have?
What goes through towns and over mountains but never moves?
Mr. Blue lives in the blue house. Mrs. Yellow lives in the yellow house. Mr. Orange lives in the orange house. Who lives in the White House?
What is full of holes but still holds water?
You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make it a longer line?
How can a leopard change its spots?
What bank never has any money?
What goes in your pocket but keeps it empty?
Why did the kid bury his walkie talkie?
What is always in front of you, but can’t be seen?
What has a neck but no head?
What question can you never answer yes to?
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
What has to be broken before you can use it?
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
What gets wet while drying?
You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
What has to be broken before you can use it?
What is the richest nut?
Why did the fruit salad skip its own wedding?
Why did the citrus tree go to the hospital?
You cut me, slice me, dice me, and all the while, you cry. What am I?
What has many ears but cannot hear?
What did the Mom tomato say to the dawdling Baby tomato?
I’m red or green and grow on a vine. I’m dried to make raisins and squeezed to make wine. What am I?
If I add six to 11, I get five. How?
What has hands but doesn’t clap?
I have legs but cannot walk. What am I?
I can fill up a room without taking any space what am I?
What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
If a brother, his sister, and their dog weren’t under an umbrella, why didn’t they get wet?
I am so simple, that I can only point, yet I guide men all over the world.
David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle and…?
Two fathers and two sons sit down for breakfast. They eat exactly three eggs, and yet each person ate an egg. How?
What always comes into a house through the keyhole?
If a red house is made of red bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
What has a neck but no head?
A cowboy comes into town on Friday. He stays two nights at a local hotel. He leaves on Friday. How is this possible?
I possess a halo of water, walls of stone, and a tongue of wood. Long I have stood; what am I?
If an electric train is moving north at 55 mph and the winds blowing east at 70 mph, which way does the smoke blow?
I am the beginning of the end of time and space that surrounds everything and every place. What am I?
There are 6 sisters. Each sister has 1 brother. How many brothers are in the sister’s family?
What can fill an entire room without taking up any space?
What has ten letters and starts with gas?
People in poverty have this. If you eat this you will die. What is it?
We hurt without moving and poison without touching. We bear truth and lies but are no judged by size. What are we?
You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. But never Neptune, or Venus. What am I?
What has an eye but cannot see?
What is white when it’s dirty?
What month of the year has 28 days?
What is full of holes but still holds water?
You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
What month of the year has 28 days?
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
What kind of beer won’t get you drunk?
What kind of poultry is always going to the bathroom?
After a train crashed, every single person died. Who survived?
What becomes wetter the more it dries?
What has a neck but no head and arms but no hands?
What travels around the world but stays in one spot?
What belongs to you, but other people use it more?
What has four eyes but can’t see?
What room do ghosts avoid?
Come up and we go, drop and we stay. What am I?
I go up and down stairs without moving. What am I?
What begins with an E but only has one letter?
What answer can you never answer yes to?
What’s black, white, and blue?
What word is spelled wrong in the dictionary?
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
What can run but never walk, have a mouth but never talk, have a head that never weeps, and a bed that never sleeps?
There is a single-story blue house where everything is blue; the doors, windows, couch, television, kitchen, etc. are blue. What color is the carpet on the stairs in this house?
What has ten letters and needs gas to start?
No one has ever walked this way. What is it?
What gets wet while it dries?
What disappears as soon as you say it’s name?
What has a ring with no finger?
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
What kind of apples do computers prefer?
A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains, what is it?
The more of this there is, the less you see. What am I?
What has eyes, a tongue, and a soul but can’t see, taste, or die?
What has only two words, but thousands of letters?
A is the brother of B. B is the brother of C. C is the father of D. How is D related to A?
A woman shoots her husband and then holds him underwater for five minutes. Next, she hangs him but right after, they enjoy a nice dinner together. How is this possible?
What has legs but cannot walk?
I’ve married many people, but I’ve always been single. Who am I?
What has teeth but cannot bite?
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?
A phone and case cost $110 total. The phone costs $100 more than the case. How much is the phone?
A man attending his mother’s funeral, sees a woman in another pew, and experiences love at first sight. He tries to find her but has no luck. A few weeks later, he kills his sister. Why does he kill his sister?
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
What kind of vegetables are the most fun at parties?
What is the capital in France?
How can you throw a ball as hard as you can only to have it come back to you without it bouncing off of anything?
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?
What Makes Them the Best?
The definition of the best will vary by who is asked. Some think the best are logic riddles, others math riddles, and still others will prefer holiday versions. Many people will prefer the easy riddles or the difficult riddles, and each of these areas will have some that are deemed the best of that topic or style.One of the determining factors is how much they make people think. The more that a riddle causes people to think, to discuss, to converse with each other, and the more that it is shared for those very reasons, the bigger a difference it will make, and those are the best riddles.
The Most Fun Riddles
Just as every individual’s idea of what is fun differs, so does what they think makes riddles the most fun. To be funny it must be funny to a large group of people, and those with shared interests are most likely to find similar riddles fun. As part of the enjoyment comes from the challenge of solving it, and the easy ones are not hard to solve, and therefore many do not make the list of the top riddles.The best riddles are often funny riddles, for teens, or funny riddles for kids, and sometimes the best are impossible riddles to solve. They encourage focus, attention to detail, and the challenge of them is fun to conquer. Beating one of the hardest, best riddles, can be a moment of pride for anyone and can boos the confidence of the person who solves it.
Working in groups to solve the best difficult riddles will help to bring a group together and will form a bond between them. This can create a group of friends that find other thins in common, enjoy solving puzzles together, and that will find support and encouragement with their friends. The most fun riddles bring people together in many different ways, friends and family alike.
Ways to Enjoy Riddles
While the most straight forward way to enjoy a riddle is of course to read it or hear it from someone and then try to solve it, but even this can be done in many ways. Board games have been created around solving the riddle I whatever form they are presented in, whether they be created based upon a pun, a play on words, a synonym, or other. Competitions between groups of people racing to solve riddles are enjoyed in bars and small pubs, and around the dinner table, or even at schools to encourage the kids to work together and find solutions.Books have been written that are full of riddles, some straight forwards riddle books that are full of premade riddles to share, and others are stories or parables that are written with the entire book being one huge riddle for the reader to solve. These are both popular as people enjoy the process of solving any riddle they come across.
Television shows and movies have been created around the basis of one riddle, woven in threads throughout the entire story and the ending finally solving the question that was set up in the beginning and hinted throughout. These are often popular shoes that help to entertain people when they have down time and allow them to enjoy their time off.
Riddles, Parables, and Puns
Many ways of presenting information are connected to each other, are similar in their presentation, and weave together. Parable and puns are often found within riddles, or presented as riddles, and they answers are the lessons they represent. Listening for the pun or remembering the lesson of a parable may be the key to solving the riddle.Puns that are built into riddles are the figure of speech that leads to the solution, and where a synonym is used it is often the key to unlocking the whole puzzle.