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.

12 Black Socks and 12 White Socks

You have 12 black socks and 12 white socks in your drawer. What is the minimum number of socks that you have to take out to make sure that you have a matching pair?

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Shorter 5-letter Word

What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

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In British Columbia You Cannot Take a Picture

In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

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Two Fathers and Two Sons Leave Town

Two fathers and two sons leave town. This reduces the population of the town by three. How is this possible?

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Bookworm and 3 Books

A bookworm starts at the outside of the front cover of volume I of a certain set of books and eats his way to the outside of the back cover of volume III.

If each volume is one inch thick, how much distance did the bookworm travel?

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