Tricky Riddles That Will Make You Think Twice

Penny (Grey) Kilpatrick

Level 1 (Easy):

• You can see me in water but I never get wet, what am I?

• Imagine you are in a dark room, how do you get out?

• What is full of holes but can still hold a lot of water?

• What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

• The more you have of it the less you see. What is it?

• What is as big as you are but does not weigh a thing?

• What can only go up and never come down?

• What has to be broken before you can use it?

• What can you break even if you never pick it up or touch it?

• What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?

Level 2 (Medium):

• What is light as a feather, yet the stronger person in the world can’t hold it for more than a minute?

• When you have me you feel like sharing me. But, if you share me you don’t have me. What am I?

• How much dirt is there in a hole that is 3 ft. deep, 6 ft. long and 4 ft. wide?

• Where does today come before yesterday?

• It belongs to you but other people use it more than you do. What is it?

• What has a head and a tail but no body?

• What has 13 hearts but no other organs?

• What begins with T, ends in T, and has T in it?

• What has four fingers and a thumb but is not living?

• What question can you never answer yes to?

Level 3 (hard):

• If a red house is made of red bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?

• It’s as round as an apple, deep like a cup, but all of the king’s horses can’t pull it up?

• I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but can’t go inside. What am I?

• Give me food and I will live, give me water and I will die. What am I?

• You use a knife to behead me, yet you weep over my death. What am I?

• When you do not know what I am then I am something. When you know what I am, I am nothing. What am I?

• The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is saturday. What day is it?

• What starts with E, ends in E but only has one letter in it?

• A horse jumps over a castle without getting hurt. How is this possible? 

• You’re stuck in an empty room with no windows. The only way to escape it through one of 3 doors. Behind door number one is a fire breathing dragon. Behind door number two is a room full of needles. And behind door number three is a lion that has not eaten in three years and is starving. How do you escape?

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