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Best Riddles (with Answers) to Solve
Welcome! You have started in our favorite place. Here is our collection of the 100 best riddles and brain teasers for your intellectual pleasure. For the next top, 100 riddles check out the good riddles, and furthermore, our next top 100 medium riddles. You may find that this trilogy of the top riddles is the perfect way to elevate yourself to the title "Riddle Master".
A Good riddle should be thought-provoking, challenging, and entertaining.
Riddle:
The more you take, the more you leave behind. "What am I?"
Answer: You take footsteps and leave footprints.
Riddle:
What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Answer: The word is "starting". Remove the middle "T" and you have "staring", Remove the "A" and you get "string", remove the "R" then you have "sting", remove the "T" and you get "sing". Remove the "G", and you get "sin", remove the "S" and you're left with "in", and finally, remove the "N" and you're left with "I".
Riddle:
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A Penny.
Riddle:
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
Riddle:
A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
Answer: An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
Riddle:
What room do ghosts avoid?
Answer: The living room.
Riddle:
What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle:
You live in a one story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?
Answer: What stairs? You live in a one-story house.
Riddle:
I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
Riddle:
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
Answer: The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.
Riddle:
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
Riddle:
Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?
Answer: There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy, and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.
Riddle:
What has 88 keys, but can't even open a single door?
Answer: A piano.
Riddle:
I make two people out of one. What am I?
Answer: A mirror.
Riddle:
What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? "What is it?"
Answer: A die (dice).
Riddle:
What is more useful when it is broken?
Answer: An egg.
Riddle:
A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him underwater for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
Answer: The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
Riddle:
Why is Europe like a frying pan?
Answer: Because it has Greece at the bottom.
