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Hard Riddles - Good Brain Teasers
Has it been a real long time, since you have 'troubled' your brain in finding the right answer to a question? This Buzzle article gives you some good brain teasers to tease your brain and have a good laugh too.
Try your answers for each trick question before clicking the "Show Answer" link. Enjoy the ride!
1. What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything?
Show AnswerYour shadow.
2. Two cannibals were chatting as they had their dinner. One complained that he really quite disliked his new mother-in-law. What was the advice given to him by his companion?
Show AnswerSo just finish your vegetables!
3. Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
Show AnswerMeat.
4. What types of words are these: madam, civic, eye, level?
Show AnswerThey are palindromes; they read the same both ways.
5. What ends everything always?
Show AnswerThe alphabet 'g'.
6. When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don't have me. What am I?
Show AnswerA secret.
7. A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?
Show AnswerHis horse's name is Friday.
8. The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?
Show AnswerA coffin.
9. It is an insect, and the first part of its name is the name of another insect. What is it?
Show AnswerBeetle.
10. 2 fathers and 2 sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they bring home only 3 fish?
Show AnswerBecause the fishing group comprises a grandfather, his son, and his grandson - hence just three people.
11. Which is the longest word in English?
Show AnswerSmiles - Because a 'mile' exists between the two S's. While that is a good answer to the riddle, the actual longest English word is 'Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' - the meaning of which is a lung disease, that is caused due to inhalation of very fine silica particles, which turn cause inflammation of the lungs. The other long English word is 'floccinaucinihilipilification'- which means to describe something as worthless, or turning something into being worthless by deprecating it.'
12. You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?
Show AnswerYour breath.
13. What do the letter 't' and an island have in common?
Show AnswerBoth are in water - WaTer.
14. Which is the word in English that has nine letters, and remains a word at each step even when you remove one letter from it, right up to a single letter remaining. List each letter as you remove them, along with the resulting word at each step.
Show Answer'Startling' is the word. Begin by removing 'l', which makes it 'starting', then take away the 't', making it 'staring', and so on - string; sting; sing; sin; in; and, I.
15. Complete this sequence of letters: o, t, t, f, f, s, s, _, _, _.
Show Answere, n, t - The first letter of the numbers from one to ten.
16. From the beginning of eternity
To the end of time and space
To the beginning of every end
And the end of every place.
What am I?
Show AnswerThe letter 'e'.
17. I go all around the world but I still stay in a corner. Who am I?
Show AnswerA postage stamp.
18. What's black and white and red all over?
Show AnswerAn embarrassed zebra.
19. I can run but I can't walk, a mouth but I can't talk, a head but I can't think, a bed but I can't sleep. Who am I?
Show AnswerA river.
20. I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?
Show AnswerA dictionary.
21. Until I am measured,
I am not known.
Yet how you miss me,
When I have flown!
What am I?
Show AnswerTime.
22. What does man love more than life?
Fear more than death or mortal strife?
What do the poor have, what the rich require,
And what contented men desire?
What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save,
And all men carry to their graves?
Show AnswerNothing.
23. I stand when I'm sitting, and jump when I'm walking. Who am I?
Show AnswerA kangaroo.
24. A certain five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it. What is the word?
Show AnswerShort.
25. How long is the answer to this question.
Show AnswerHow long. :P
I am sure after reading through these riddles you would have traveled into the past. These were a mere drop in the endless ocean of riddles that test your wit, tickle your funny bone. There are many riddles in English poetry as well, which are a great amount of fun to solve. Before I end this write-up, the answer to the question I asked in the first paragraph is 'queue'. Hope you had fun. So long then!