Riddles

Test your intelligence with 1400 riddles and answers, including easy, short and funny riddles for kids and some of the really best and hard riddles for adults. Not forgetting math and logic riddles for the left-brained people.

Written with Three, Two Letters There Are

Pronounced as one letter and written with three. Two letters there are and two only in me. I’m double, I’m single, I’m black, blue and gray, I’m read from both ends and the same either way. What am I?

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Subtract 5 from 25

How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?

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300 Foot Train

A 300 foot train is travelling at 300 foot per minute and must travel through a 300 foot long tunnel.

How long will it take the train to travel through the tunnel?

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The train will take 2 minutes to travel through the tunnel.

The front of the train will take 1 minute to travel through the tunnel. The back of the train would have just entered the tunnel after 1 minute and it would take another 1 minute for the back of the train to travel through the tunnel.

Slice My Head and Weep Beside Me

You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?

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Weightless but You Can See Me

I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I’ll make it lighter. What am I?

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