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.

8 Coins 1 Counterfeit

You have 8 identical-looking coins. One of these coins is counterfeit and is known to be lighter than the others. You also have a two-pan balance scale. How can you identify the fake coin by using the scale only twice?

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Cake 3 Cuts 8 Pieces

You must cut a birthday cake into eight equal pieces, but you’re only allowed to make three straight cuts, and you can’t move pieces of the cake as you cut. How can you do it?

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Unpunishable Crime

A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?

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Catch but Not Throw

What can you catch but not throw?

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Petri Dish Puzzle

A scientist puts a bacteria in a petri dish at exactly noon.

Every minute the bacteria divides into two and doubles in size. At exactly 1 PM the petri dish is full.

At what time was the dish half full?

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