45 Hard and Funny Riddles for Adults

45 Hard and Funny Riddles for Adults

1.People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?

Answer

Money.


2What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

Answer

Day, and night.


3.What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?

Answer

A road.


4.A man looks at a painting in a museum and says,

"Brothers and sisters I have none,

but that man’s father is my father’s son."

Who is in the painting?

Answer

The man’s son.


5.What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife;

that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require;

the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?

Answer

Nothing.


6.A hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half.

How many eggs does one hen lay in one day?

Answer

If 1.5 hens lay 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days, it must be that one hen would lay one egg in the same time period: 1.5 days. Now, if one hen lays one egg in 1.5 days, it means that one hen would lay only ⅔ of an egg in one day. So the answer is ⅔ of an egg.

 

7.NASA was considering sending canaries into space to study them under zero gravity. The project was scrapped when someone realized that in spite of having sufficient water supplies, they could die of dehydration within a few hours. Why?

Answer

Birds, unlike humans, need gravity to swallow. Humans can swallow even while hanging upside down.


8.A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed.

What is it?

Answer

Suicide.


9.I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry;

On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with little sound.

What am I?

Answer

A Windmill.


10.What can be touched but can't be seen?

Answer

Someone's heart.


11.Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, grown in the darkness, a lady's delight.

What am I?

Answer

A Pearl.


12.I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul.

What am I?

Answer

A Piano.

  

13.Four cars come to a four way stop, all coming from a different direction.

They can't decide who got there first, so they all go forward at the same time.

They do not crash into each other, but all four cars go.

How is this possible?

Answer

They all made right-hand turns.


14.I weaken all men for hours each day.

I show you strange visions while you are away.

I take you by night, by day take you back,

None suffer to have me, but do from my lack.

What am I?

Answer

Sleep.


15.My life is often a volume of grief, your help is needed to turn a new leaf.

Stiff is my spine and my body is pale, but I'm always ready to tell a tale.

What am I?

Answer

A book!


16.Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts,

often bites but seldom bit, to use me well you must have wit.

What am I?

Answer

Your tongue.


17.What has no hands but might knock on your door, and if it does you better open up?

Answer

Opportunity.

  

18.What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?

Answer

Pride.


19.What can be driven although it doesn't have wheels, sliced but stays whole?

Answer

A golf Ball.


20.Two men were playing tennis.

They played five sets and each man won three sets.

How can this be possible?

Answer

The two men were partners playing doubles.


21.A group of privates were standing in the blistering sun facing due west.

Their sergeant shouted at them: Right turn! About turn! Left turn!

In which direction are they now facing?

Answer

East.


22.Why is a bullet like a tender glance?

Answer

Because it pierces hearts.


23.A man is discovered dead sitting at his desk, alone in the locked office.

He did not commit suicide and there was no weapons in the room.

The only clue is a sealed envelope on the desk in front of him.

How did he die?

Answer

The envelope glue was poisoned and when the man licked the envelope to seal it, he died.


24.Where is there is no south, west, nor east, and weather not fit for man or beast?

Answer

The South Pole.


25.Thirty white horses on a red hill,

First they champ,

Then they stamp,

Then they stand still.

Answer

Teeth.


26.What goes up but never comes down?

Answer

Your age.


27.A king, queen and two twins all lay in a large room.

How are there no adults in the room?

Answer

They’re all beds!


28.How can you drop a raw egg on the concrete floor without cracking it?

Answer

The egg won’t crack the concrete floor!


29.In a bus, there is a 26-year-old pregnant lady,

a 30-year-old policeman, a 52-year-old random woman,

and the driver who is 65 years old.

Who is the youngest?

Answer

The baby of the pregnant lady.


30.What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

Answer

A palm.


31.If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?

Answer

There is no smoke; it is an electric train!

 

32.They come out at night without being called,

and are lost in the day without being stolen.

What are they?

Answer

Stars.


33.What is the best cure for dandruff?

Answer

Baldness.


34.What do you call a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand?

Answer

Normal – You have fingers on both hands!


35.I don’t have eyes, ears, nose and tongue, but I can see, smell, hear and taste everything.

What am I?

Answer

A brain.


36.I do not speak, cannot hear or speak anything, but I will always tell the truth.

What am I?

Answer

A mirror.


37.I can't be bought, but I can be stolen with a glance.

I'm worthless to one, but priceless to two.

What am I?

Answer

Love.


38.When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands.

What is it?

Answer

Birthday candles.


39.Thousands lay up gold within this house, But no man made it.

Spears past counting guard this house, But no man wards it.

Answer

A beehive.


40.I don't have eyes, but once I did see.

Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

Answer

Skull.


41.What is bought by the yard by is worn by the foot?

Answer

Carpet.


42.What travels from house to house and is sometimes narrow and sometimes wide but always stays outside?

Answer

Path.


43.What can go through glass without breaking it?

Answer

Light.


44.What has 3 feet but cannot walk?

Answer

Yardstick.


45.What's as small as a mouse but guards a house like a lion?

Answer

Lock.

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