100+ Hardest Riddles Ever — Can You Solve Them?

Riddles are fun because it looks simple and feels so laid out yet it gives a real headache to find the right answer. The individual effort to crack the answer is just a sight to rejoice.

Challenge your family members to find the answers as they lay cozy on the couch, devouring delicious snacks during holidays and gatherings. 

Here are 120 hardest riddles in the world with answers. Check how clever you are by trying to solve these funny and challenging ones.

1. What is brown and has a tail, a head and no legs?
   Answer: A Penny

2. What was the highest mountain on Earth before Mount Everest was discovered?
   Answer: Mount Everest

3. What is stronger than steel but can’t handle the sun?
   Answer: Ice

4. If all Wibbles are Criggles, all Borkins are Kwumblins, no Hoggles are Borkins, and all Criggles are Borkins, is it true that all Borkins are Criggles?
   Answer: No. Because all wobbles are not Kwumblins, no Hoggles are Borkins, and all Criggles are Borkins.

5. Two cars were involved in an accident in the center of town. Driver of the little green car had overtaken a big black car. But he misjudged the distance between him and had to swerve back in, causing the black car to crash into a shop window. When the occupants of the cars were examined everyone in the green car was okay, but in the black car was one dead man. But the driver of green car was not charged, why?
   Answer: The black car had a coffin carrying a dead body to the funeral.

6. You can carry it everywhere you go but it never gets heavy. What is it?
   Answer: Your Name

7. Extracted From A Mine, Closed In A Wooden Case and never released but used by everybody. What is it?
   Answer: Pencil Lead

8. Why are 1999 dollar bills worth more than 1998 dollar bills?
   Answer: Because it has one more. Just like 3 is greater than 2.

9. A man was killed in the shop, two friends Mary and Stacy found the body and called the police. Mary got frightened and hysterical when cops arrived while Stacy didn't even look at the body. Stacy was happy and only noticed the number of the policeman. The next day she killed Mary. Why?
   Answer: She fell in love with the policeman and wanted him to come back.

10. I am big and yellow and come in the morning to make moms day. What am I?
    Answer: School Bus 

11. I have no flesh, bones, feathers, or scales but I have my own fingers and thumbs. What am I?
    Answer: Gloves

12. I am as light as a feather but no man can hold me for long. What am I?
    Answer: Breath

13. I am tall when I am young and short when I'm old. What am I?
    Answer: A Candle

14.  I have branches but I don't have a trunk, leaves, or fruits. What am I?
    Answer: A Bank

15. I travel around the world but always stay in a corner. What am I?
    Answer: A Stamp

16. I have keys but no doors. I have space but no rooms. You can enter but you can't leave. What am I?
    Answer: A Keyboard

17. I am light but you can't hold me. What am I?
    Answer: Your Breath

18. What bird do you associate with lifting weight?
    Answer: A Crane

19. I have a head and a tail but I don't have a body. What am I?
    Answer: A Coin

20. I can fly but have no wings. I cry but have no eyes. What am I?
    Answer: Cloud

21. I shave every single day. Yet my beard stays the same. What am I?
    Answer: A Barber

22. You can catch me but you cannot throw me. What am I?
    Answer: A Cold

23. I can make sounds but I cannot be played. What am I?
    Answer: Your Voice

24. I have many teeth but I cannot bite. What am I?
    Answer: A Comb

25. I am at the beginning of everything and the end of everywhere. What am I?
    Answer: The Letter 'E'

26. People use me for dinner and lunch but never eat me. What am I?
    Answer: A Plate

27. I have many keys but I cannot open a single lock. What am I?
    Answer: A Piano

28. I have streams with no water, mountains with no trees, and cities with no buildings. What am I?
    Answer: A Map

29. You go on the red and stop at the green. What am I?
    Answer: Watermelon

30. I am easy to pick but very hard to throw. What am I?
    Answer: A Feather

31. You don't know me yet you always miss me when I'm gone. What am I?
    Answer: Time

32. Forward I am heavy, but backward, I'm not. What am I?
    Answer: Ton

33. I don't have a life yet I die. What am I?
    Answer: A Battery

34. I have four fingers and a thumb but I am not a hand. What am I?
    Answer: A Glove

35. There came a bird featherless and sat on the trees leafless. There came a Maiden speechless and ate the bird featherless, from off the trees leafless. What is it?
    Answer: Snow

36. Which of the month of the year has 28 days?
    Answer: All 12 months. 

37. What is it that has many holes but still holds water?
    Answer: A Sponge

38. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
    Answer: A deck of Cards

39. How many apples can you eat on an empty stomach?
    Answer: One (no more empty stomach)

40. In a race, if you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
    Answer: Second place

41. What building has the most stories of all?
    Answer: A Library

42. Which ship is it that has two mates but no captain?
    Answer: A Relationship

43. Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
    Answer: Short

44. What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?
    Answer: A Soap

45. It comes once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What is it?
    Answer: Letter 'e'

46. It can fill the room but doesn't take up space. What is it?
    Answer: Light

47. You bury it when it's alive and dig it when it's dead. What is it?
    Answer: A Plant

48. It never walks but it always runs. What is it?
    Answer: A River

49. Which band never plays music?
    Answer: A rubber band

50. What is it that has words but never speaks?
    Answer: A Book

51. If you say its name it will break. What is it?
    Answer: Silence

52. What room has no door or window?
    Answer: A Mushroom

53. What is at the very end of the rainbow?
    Answer: Letter 'w'

54. You don't want to have it but you don't want to lose it. What is it?
    Answer: A Lawsuit

55. It tears whatever falls in its toothless mouth into small pieces. Put your fingers in its eyes, it will immediately prick up its ears. What is it?
    Answer: Scissors

56. What three numbers give the same answer when added or multiplied?
    Answer: 1, 2, and 3

57. What has three feet but cannot walk?
    Answer: A Yardstick

58. Jack works at a butcher's shop. He is six feet tall and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
    Answer: Meat

59. Which tree can you carry in your hand?
    Answer: A Palm

60. It is always on its way but it never arrives. What is it?
    Answer: Tomorrow

61. It begins with an 'e' and contains only one letter. What is it?
    Answer: An Envelope

62. You throw it when you need it but take it back when you don't need it. What is it?
    Answer: An Anchor

63. It has five letters. Take away the last four letters and it still sounds the same. What is it?
    Answer: Queue

64. What runs around the fence but never moves?
    Answer: A Fence

65. If it takes one hour to dry a shirt, how many hours does it take to dry 12 shirts?
    Answer: One hour

66. Why does the Math book always seems so sad?
    Answer: Because it has many unsolved problems

67. Two people were born at the same moment, yet they have birthdays on different days, why?
    Answer: They were born in different time zones

68. If you have three apples and you take away two, how many apples will you have?
    Answer: Two

69. Why did the bullet lose its job?
    Answer: Because it was fired

70. Five birds were sitting on a tree. A hunter shot down one bird. How many birds are left?
    Answer: None (remaining flew away)

71. It has 88 teeth but never brushes them. What is it?
    Answer: Piano

72. What did the hamburger buy for his sweetheart?
    Answer: An onion ring

73. What is it that every people overlook, no matter how smart?
    Answer: Their Nose

74. Where do the books sleep?
    Answer: Under their cover

75. It ties two people but it touches only one. What is it?
    Answer: Wedding Ring

76. The faster you run, the harder it is to catch. What is it?
    Answer: Your Breath

77. Two ducks are walking in front of a duck, two ducks following behind a duck, and a duck in the middle. How many ducks are there in total?
    Answer: Three

78. A man walks into a bar but immediately falls unconscious, why?
    Answer: It was an iron bar

79. It never asks you a single question yet you always answer, What is it?
    Answer: The Telephone

80. Which one is correct, "The yolk of the egg is white", or The yolk of the egg are white?"
    Answer: None. Because yolks are yellow

81. Your uncle's sister is not your aunt. Then who is she?
    Answer: Your Mother

82. I am served at the table at a gathering of two or four people. I am small, round, and white. What am I?
    Answer: A ping-pong ball

83. The more you take away from me, the more I become. What am I?
    Answer: A Hole

84. What kind of coat always gets wet when you put it on?
    Answer: A Coat of Paint

85. How can you change the number six into an odd number?
    Answer: Drop the 's' (it becomes 'IX')

86. What is it that breaks and never falls, and what is it that falls but never breaks?
    Answer: Day Breaks and Night Falls

87. How can a person go about 26 days without sleep?
    Answer: He sleeps at night

88. It is a seven-letter word. The first two letters denote a male, the first three letters denote a female, the first four letters represent greatness and the entire word denotes a popular woman. What is it?
    Answer: Heroine

89. It appears in the middle of March and April but disappears at the beginning and end of both of the months. What is it?
    Answer: Letter 'R'

90. There is a boat in the lake filled with people but if you observe closely there is no single person in the boat. How?
    Answer: All of them were married

91. No matter the age, you can always be younger. How?
    Answer: By adding 'ng' to you

92. A person was 15 years old in 1990. That same person turned 10 in 1995. How?
    Answer: Because it was in B.C.

93. Do you know what happened when the wheel was invented?
    Answer: It caused a revolution 

94. Sam realized that his pocket was empty and yet there was still something in it. What was it?
    Answer: A Hole

95.  A is the father of B. But B is not the son of A. Then who is B?
    Answer: Daughter

96. How can you drop an egg on the concrete without breaking it?
    Answer: Concrete is pretty hard to crack

97. It is a box without hinges, a keyhole, or a lid. Yet, a golden treasure inside it hid? What is it?
    Answer: An Egg

98. What is more useful when it's broken?
    Answer: An Egg

99. It is 3/7 part a Chicken, 2/3 part a cat, and 2/4 part a goat. What is it?
    Answer: Chicago

100. What is it that is always in front of you but you can't see?
     Answer: The Future

101. What goes up but never comes down?
     Answer: Your Age

102. It breaks even if you can't touch it. What is it?
     Answer: A Promise

103. You can keep it after you give it. What is it?
     Answer: Your Word

104. Everybody needs it and asks for it but nobody ever takes it. What is it?
     Answer: An Advice

105. It is yours but everybody uses it. What is it?
     Answer: Your Name

106. What is the question you can never answer 'yes' to?
     Answer: Are you asleep?

107. What has a neck but no head?
     Answer: A Bottle

108. What gets wet while drying?
     Answer: A Towel

109. Where does Today come before Yesterday?
     Answer: The Dictionary 

110. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't kept me. What am I?
     Answer: A Secret

111. It goes up and down but it never moves. What is it?
     Answer: A Staircase

112. What is it that has needles but cannot sew?
     Answer: A Christmas Tree

113. It has hands but can't clap. What is it?
     Answer: A Clock

114. The more it is there, the less you see. What is it?
     Answer: Darkness

115. It is black when it's clean and white when it's dirty. What is it?
     Answer: A Chalkboard

116. It goes through cities and fields yet it never moves. What is it?
     Answer: A road

117. Why do the Teddy Bears never get hungry?
     Answer: Because they are stuffed

118. What part of London is also in France?
     Answer: Letter 'N'

119. A house based on a foundation like the skies. One enters it blind but leaves it seeing. What is it?
     Answer: A School

120. Thirty white horses on a red hill - first they champ, then they stamp, and they stand still. What are they?
     Answer: Teeth