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.

Nail in Tree

When James was nine years old he hammered a nail into a tree to mark his height. Ten years later, James returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by four inches each year, how much higher would the nail be?

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Go up a Chimney down

What can go up a chimney down but can’t go down a chimney up?

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Closest Time to Midnight?

What is the closest time to midnight?

1. 11.55 a.m.
2. 12.06 a.m.
3. 11.50 a.m.
4. 12.03 a.m.

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Rungs of a Ladder

The rungs of a 10 foot ladder attached to a ship are 1 foot apart. If the water is rising at the rate of one foot an hour, how long will it take until the water covers over the ladder?

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Happens Only in the Middle of Each Month

What happens only in the middle of each month, in all of the seasons, except summer and happens only in the night, never in the day?

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