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The best riddles are enigmas wrapped up in a puzzle and shrouded in mystery. It is up to you to unravel the secret and solve the riddles until that “A-ha!” moment that leaves you feeling so satisfied. The best riddles are the ones that challenge your mind and require your ability to look beyond the words and if the riddle stumps your friends that’s a bonus! We are always adding intriguing new riddles so check back often!
A riddle is a question or statement with a veiled meaning that is posed as a puzzle to be solved, requiring careful thought to uncover the answer.
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What's the least number of chairs you would need around a table to sit four fathers, two grandfathers, and four sons?
Answer: Four. The four fathers could be grandfathers and are definitely sons already.
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How many seconds are there in one year?
Answer: 12. Every month has a 2nd.
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Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What is it?
Answer: It's a shadow!
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The more you take, the more you leave behind. "What am I?"
Answer: You take footsteps and leave footprints.
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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".
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What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A Penny.
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David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
Answer: David.
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Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
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I am between things; in teeth, in time, in fences; I can be wide or tiny. What am I?
Answer: Gap. It’s pointing to “gap” because a gap is the space between things. In teeth: a diastema is the gap between teeth. In time: a time gap is the interval between events. In fences: gaps are openings between slats or posts. “Wide or tiny” fits because gaps can vary in size. So the riddle lists places where “a space between” shows up, and “gap” is the common thread.
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I'm not the alphabet, but I have letters. I'm not a pole, but I have a flag. What am I?
Answer: A Mailbox. A “mailbox” has “letters,” but they’re mail, not alphabet characters. It also has a “flag,” the small lever you raise to signal outgoing mail, even though it isn’t a pole with a flag. So both clues fit a mailbox through wordplay.
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I can be shouted to claim, dug for riches, or buried to maim, three meanings packed in one short word. What am I?
Answer: Mine.
“Mine” carries three distinct meanings that match each clue: Shouted to claim: someone yells “Mine!” to assert ownership. Dug for riches: a mine is a place where minerals, coal, or gems are extracted. Buried to maim: a land mine is an explosive device concealed underground. The riddle packs these homonyms into one word, making “mine” the perfect answer.
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I have your ohs and your wishes, Your life force and your death gasp. You can visit me, or we can get stuck together; Either way, you'll arrive pale and leave quenched. What am I?
Answer: A well.
“Your ohs”: The interjection “oh, well” uses “well” as a conversational filler. “Your wishes”: A “wishing well” is where people toss coins and make wishes. “Your life force”: Wells hold water, essential for life; drinking from a well sustains you. “Your death gasp”: “Farewell” (said at life’s end) contains “well,” and grief often “wells up” as tears. “You can visit me”: A literal water well is a place you go to draw water. “We can get stuck together”: “As well” means “together/also,” and “well… well” is a phrase people repeat when stuck or hesitating. “Arrive pale and leave quenched”: A pun on “pail/pale”—you come with a pail to the well and leave with thirst quenched and the pail filled; or you come looking drained (“pale”) and leave revived by water. All clues point to “well” through its literal meaning (water source) and its many idiomatic uses.
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I follow soap to clear its trace, I wash away what suds embrace. What am I?
Answer: Water. Water is used to rinse away suds and residue after using soap.
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I am between things; in teeth, in time, in fences; I can be wide or tiny. What am I?
Answer: Gap. It’s pointing to “gap” because a gap is the space between things. In teeth: a diastema is the gap between teeth. In time: a time gap is the interval between events. In fences: gaps are openings between slats or posts. “Wide or tiny” fits because gaps can vary in size. So the riddle lists places where “a space between” shows up, and “gap” is the common thread.
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There are two monkeys on a tree and one jumps off. Why does the other monkey jump too?
Answer: Monkey see monkey do.
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Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
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How do you spell COW in thirteen letters?
Answer: SEE O DOUBLE YOU.
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Why is Europe like a frying pan?
Answer: Because it has Greece at the bottom.
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Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #2 Series 1
Answer: Hot dog, they won.
Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #10 Series 1
Answer: As time goes by.
Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #11 Series 1
Answer: Time on my hands.
Lucky Bottle Cap Puzzle #16 Series 1
Answer: May I have this dance?
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