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.

Appleland to Bananaville

You have been given the task of transporting 3,000 apples 1,000 miles from Appleland to Bananaville. Your truck can carry 1,000 apples at a time. Every time you travel a mile towards Bananaville you must pay a tax of 1 apple but you pay nothing when going in the other direction (towards Appleland).

What is highest number of apples you can get to Bananaville?

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Campers’ Dilemma

A group of campers have been on vacation so long, that they’ve forgotten the day of the week. The following conversation ensues.

Darryl: What day is it? I don’t think it is Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
Tracy: Well that doesn’t narrow it down much. Yesterday was Sunday.
Melissa: Yesterday wasn’t Sunday, tomorrow is Sunday.
Ben: The day after tomorrow is Saturday.
Adrienne: The day before yesterday was Thursday.
Susie: Tomorrow is Saturday.
David: I know that the day after tomorrow is not Friday.

If only one person’s statement is true, what day of the week is it?

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Anna’s Picture

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess named Anna. Anna’s father, the King, wanted to be sure his daughter married an intelligent man.

To test his daughter’s suitors the King hid Anna’s picture in one of three boxes. The suitor had to be able to select the box with Anna’s picture on one try and within twenty seconds.

The following messages were written on the boxes.

Gold box: Anna’s picture is in this box.
Silver box: Anna’s picture is not in this box.
Bronze box: Anna’s picture is not in the gold box.

The King would tell each suitor, “Only one of the three messages is correct.” Which box contained Anna’s picture?

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