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 Marbles

A box contains 12 marbles of three different colours: green, yellow and blue — 4 each. If you were to close your eyes and pick them at random, how many marbles must you take out to be sure that there are at least two of one colour among the marbles picked out?

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Only One Remains

What word has five letters but only one remains when two letters are removed?

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The Blind Beggar

A blind beggar had a brother who died. What relation was the blind beggar to the brother who died? (“Brother” is not the answer.)

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Mother’s Mother-in-law

A woman pointed at a picture of a man and said: “That man’s mother was my mother’s mother-in-law.”

What relationship is the woman to the man in the picture?

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In Through One Hole

You go in through one hole, you come out through three holes. Once you’re inside you’re ready to go outside, but once you’re outside you’re still inside. What is it?

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