Logic Riddles - Riddles about Logic
Funny logic riddles from the original Riddles website. These are the best logic riddles, jokes, and brain teasers for kids and adults. Entertain your classmates or share with your family.
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1. George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?
Answer: Elizabeth is drinking coffee. The letter E appears twice in her name, as it does in the names of the others that are drinking coffee.
2. Tomorrow Is Neither Wednesday Nor Thursday. Yesterday Was Not Friday Or Saturday. Today Is Not Thursday Nor Monday Nor Sunday. What Day Is Today?
Answer: Friday. Answer Explained: The riddle’s answer is Friday because it is the only day that satisfies all three conditions: tomorrow (Saturday) is not Wednesday or Thursday, yesterday (Thursday) is not Friday or Saturday, and today (Friday) is not Thursday, Monday, or Sunday. This is derived by systematically evaluating each possible day of the week against the riddle’s constraints, ruling out all days except Friday through logical elimination.
3. What can be seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
Answer: The letter R. This wordplay ties to April Fools' Day by focusing on the month of April, encouraging clever thinking typical of pranks.
4. Why does a person who is sick lose his sense of touch?
Answer: Because he does not feel well.
5. I'm under your face, I'm outside your mind; A biological case, Pressure brings pain sometimes. What am I?
Answer: Your skull.
6. What is always traveling, has life, has sense but doesn't live?
Answer: The Earth!
7. An old billionaire offers a million-dollar prize to whoever can guess what he is thinking of. Plenty of people tried but they old got it wrong, until one young boy came up. Soon after, the boy walked away a millionaire. What did he guess?
Answer: The boy said, "You are thinking of something you thought I wouldn't guess". The boy was right by technicality.
8. I can sense your touch, but can't feel it. What am I?
Answer: A touchscreen.
9. A guy bet his neighbor 50 bucks that his dog could jump higher than a house. Thinking this was not possible, the neighbor took the bet and lost. Why did he lose the bet?
Answer:
A house can not jump!
10. You use me everyday but let me rest at night. I have an identical twin beside me all the time. For some reason you always cover me up. I am not alive but I have a soul. What am I?
Answer: Your Feet.
11. Which word does not belong with the others? niart, emag, tluda, mom, dad, mistag, yub, or sega
Answer: Mistag. It is the only one that backwards does not make sense. Train, game, adult, mom, dad, gatsim, buy, and ages.
12. I peel to heal this pain I feel. What am I?
Answer: "Sunburn" - Reasoning: Sunburn peels when healing, to get rid of damaged skin tissue. Thus, it peels to heal the pain of the sunburn.
13. I can provide a blessing, a curse, or clarity. I am always running, but I am stuck in a loop. And though I will rule you for most of your life, you will always look up to me. What am I?
Answer: "A Clock" - Reasoning: Seeing the time on a clock can bring you relief, (e.g. your work shift nearly being over), a curse, (e.g. how long you still have left of a work shift), or simple clarification of what time it is. A clock is always running but always returns to where it began, to repeat. Thus, it is stuck in a loop. And as punching at work, appointments, taking to children to daycare, watching a film at the cinema, et cetera, all require you to be at a place at a certain time, time, which you read on a clock, does rule your life. The only exception is when you do not have a schedule to keep. And traditionally, clocks are usually placed on a wall, above eye level, so many people can look at it to see the time
14. Adored by few, Feared and hated by many. Mistress of the entire universal reason, Master in the art of numbers. Some may have solved many of your mysteries, But there still much of them to find. What are they?
Answer: Mathematics.
15. I make hair stand on end, whisper between radio stations, and yet I refuse to change. What am I?
Answer: Static. Static electricity makes hair stand on end. “Whisper between radio stations” points to the hissing noise called radio static. “Refuse to change” uses the other meaning of static: something fixed or unchanging. The riddle hinges on the word “static” having both electrical and descriptive senses.
16. Every country has one, though we are not the same. Waving to our citizens, throughout the wind and rain. What is it?
Answer: "A Flag" - Reasoning: Every country has a flag, to represent it, and as such no 2 countries flags are alike. As they tend to be flown up on flag poles, they wave in the wind.
17. While I live my counter will always survive, the absence of me; our enemy shall thrive. I'm cast upon all I touch to divine, no emotions or senses but set to always shine. What am I?
Answer: Unanswered
18. My veins of green may go unseen, Til on the ground I lay around. What am I?
Answer: "Leaves" - Reasoning: Leaves contain veins to transport water through the leaf, and as people would need to be up close to see them. Hence, these veins go unseen as they spend most of their time up in trees attached to branches. You only really get to see them when they fall to the ground.
19. A light aloft alone in shadow, I light the way for paths you follow. What am I?
Answer: "Lampost" - Reasoning: Often, a street lampost will be a source of light above paths that are often travelled at night, hence it the reference to this lonely light guiding you on paths through the darkness.
20. Where once there were many, now there are none. Time has done ticking; the hours are done. For now is an end, but also beginning, For darkest is now, but soon shall be thinning. What is it?
Answer: "Midnight" - Reasoning: The riddle is all about following something through to the end - a day. Once the day reaches its end, at midnight, when all the hours of the day are gone, right down to the last second, the clock resets. Thus, it marks both the end of a day and the beginning of a new one.
21. I cease to be after I commence, Here I am, then back once more. A simple treat for another sense. Given, taken, or stolen, a thing you can’t ignore. What am I?
Answer: A glance.
22. In this place, people lie, people cry, and people ask why. In this place, people sleep, people weep, and people's solitude, they keep. What is it?
Answer: "Graveyard" or "Cemetery" - Reasoning: Both "people lie" and "people sleep" are indications of many people using this place to lie down, or to sleep, which in itself is an odd thought. Crying and weeping indicate that this is a sad place, and the continued use of "people" allows this to mean not just those who are lying down or sleeping, but those who come to visit them there, (i.e. mourners). People come to ask the person grave why they did what they did that resulted in their death, as a form of mourning, or to ask their chosen God or Gods why they took that person to their grave. And peoples solitude refers to people sleeping on their own, or the mourners usually coming the mourn privately.
23. Thursday, Nick and Rick went to a restaurant for dinner. The bill came out to $27. Nick and Rick each paid $9…but then, who paid the remaining $9?
Answer: The guys' friend, Thursday, paid the remaining $9. This riddle wouldn't make any sense if I said, "On Thursday, Nick and Rick…" anyway.
24. I am coming here with a sense of unity and a cup of tea. What am I forming?
Answer: A community.
25. Why is a manhole cover round and not square? Can you guess the two reasons?
Answer: 1: It can't fall through the hole like a square one could. 2: It can easily be moved by rolling.
26. What two reasons why whispering in company is not proper?
Answer: It is not aloud (allowed).
27. Endlessly, I hunger, Lazily, I sleep. Murderous, I thunder, Desires, I do seek. Hoarding countless treasures, so my stature I retain, Envious of others whose feet on Earth remain. What am I?
Answer: "The Seven Deadly Sins" - Reasoning: Each sentence structure portrays one of the seven deadly sins from Christian theology, with the exception of the final 5 words. In order according to the riddle, these are; gluttony, sloth, wrath, lust, greed, pride and envy. The final 5 words, "whose feet on Earth remain", act in conjunction with the section on envy, demonstrating the perspective of a sinner in hell, who is envious of those still alive, and thus can still repent for their sins in order to enter Heaven.
28. Whiling away the hours of flowers, Walking through fields of gold. Preening and pruning in lights fading hours, For petals to freeze in the cold. What is it?
Answer: "The Four Seasons" - Reasoning: This riddle takes the perspective of plant life during these times of the year, where each line represents one of the four seasons of the year; Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Spring - where flowers are blooming - Summer - where fields of farm crop mature and turn golden in colour, before being harvested - Autumn - where the tree's shed their leaves and days grow shorter - and Winter - where the cold leaves frost and freezes plants.
29. I am known everywhere as a criminal, yet I have never done anything illegal. I always have an inside angle on you, and there are two of me for every one of you. What am I?
Answer: I am... the crook of an elbow! The crook is called a crook (obviously), and as your arms are on the side of your body, the insides of your elbows most nearly always have an inside angle on you; it's not psychological at all! And for every arm is an elbow, so two elbows means two crooks of an elbow per person.
30. Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?
Answer: The same reason seven dollars is more than six. Because there is one more.
31. If I say I am lying, am I telling the truth?
Answer: This is impossible to solve, because if I were telling the truth, then I would be lying, which doesn't make sense since I am telling the truth. If I am lying, then what I said was true and that doesn't make sense either.
32. In olden days, the student of logic was given this problem: If half of 5 were 3, what would one-third of 10 be?
Answer: It would be 4.
33. Many things can create one, it can be of any shape or size, it is created for various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time. What is it?
Answer: A Hole
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