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You thought you were going to be able to give your brain a rest while browsing the internet all day, didn’t you? To give you the daily mental workout we all certainly could use, here are 21 of the greatest riddles of all time. They come with various degrees of difficulty that’ll have those brain cells flexing and strutting around in no time.
21 Of The Greatest Riddles Of All Time:
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1. You’re running a race and pass the person in 2nd place. What place are you in now?
2. Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?
3. Who makes it, but has no need of it.
Who buys it, but has no use for it.
Who uses it but can neither see nor feel it.
What is it?
4. You answer me, but I never ask you a question. What am I?
5. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
6. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first was named April and the second was named May. What was the name of the third child?
7. Some months have 30 days, and some months have 31 days. How many have 28?
8. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, but never in a thousand years?
9. If there are three apples and you take two away, how many apples do you have?
10. What has no beginning, end, or middle?
11. There is a word and six letters it contains. Take one away and twelve is what remains. What word is it?
12. If you have me, you want to share me. But if you share me, you no longer have me. What am I?
13. How much dirt is there in a hole that’s four feet by five feet by six feet?
14. Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they’re not twins. How can this be?
15. At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?
16. What is so delicate that even saying its name will break it?
17. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
18. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?
19. What goes up a chimney down but can’t come down a chimney up?
20. What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
21. The more it dries, the wetter it gets. What is it?
Answer Key for the greatest riddles:
1. You’re in second place. You didn’t pass the person in first.
2. Stop imagining.
3. A coffin
4. A telephone
5. A stamp
6. Johnny
7. All of them
8. The letter M
9. You took two apples, so you now have two of them.
10. A doughnut
11. Dozens
12. A secret
13. There is no dirt in a hole or it wouldn’t be a hole.
14. They’re in a set of triplets
15. The stars
16. Silence (And probably Derrick Rose’s knee)
17. An ear of corn
18. Incorrectly
19. An umbrella
20. Fire
21. A towel
