113 Riddles for Adults – Hard Riddles for Adults (with Answers)

Welcome to my collection of 113 riddles for adults! I have spent weeks scouring forums, websites, and hidden corners of the internet to bring you this list. It’s packed with tricky challenges, clever wordplay, and a few easier ones to keep you going. These riddles are designed to make you think, laugh, and maybe scratch your head a little. I lover riddles, so I have chosen the best ones. Ready to test your brainpower? Let’s go!

Riddles for Adults (with Answers).

I have written the answer shown below each riddle. So, if you want to test yourself, then keep your hand or a piece of paper covering the answer while you scroll down. Or, only scroll down to the riddles, without scrolling all the way to the answer. Enjoy!

My Favorite Riddles for Adults:

I will start out with my personal Top 13 favorite riddles for adults. For these riddles, I don’t want to spoil the fun, so the answers are at the bottom of the page, so you need to scroll down. After these favorites, the answers will be directly under the riddles.

1) What five letter word written in all caps can be read right side up and upside down?

(See the answer at the bottom of the page)

2) Tread on the living, they make not a mumble. Tread on the dead, they mutter and grumble.

(See the answer at the bottom of the page)

3) One night four men sat down to play;
They played all night ’til break of day.
They played for gold and not for fun
With separate scores for everyone.
When it came time to square accounts,
All men had made quite fair amounts.
Can you the paradox explain,
If no man lost, how could all gain?

(See the answer at the bottom of the page)

4) Kevin’s father has three sons, Snap, Crackle and __________.
(See the answer at the bottom of the page)

5) What do you find at the end of a rainbow?
(See the answer at the bottom of the page)

6) There is a windowless room with only a single door. Inside the room is a lamp, when the lamp is on no light escapes the room. Outside the room are 3 switches one of which operates the lamp. You can use the switches in any order any number of times. The door can only be opened once and after you enter the room you can immediately know which switch turns on the light. How is it possible?
(See the answer at the bottom of the page. Tricky, logical riddle..)

7) Two boys are born to the same mother but they are not twins. How is this possible?
(See the answer at the bottom of the page).

8) How many letters are there in the alphabet?
(See the answer at the bottom of the page)

9) A woman lives in a one-story house where everything is green. The carpet is green, the tile is green, the cabinets are green…what color are the stairs?
(See the answer at the bottom of the page)

10) What month has 28 days?
(See the answer at the bottom of the page)

11) You leave home, take three left turns, and return home. Who are the two masked men waiting for you?
(See the answer at the bottom of the page)

12) It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. It is the start of every end, the end of every place.
(See the answer at the bottom of the page)

13) What has 4 letters, sometimes has 9, but never has 5.
(See the answer at the bottom of the page)

Funny Riddles for Adults (Easy):

1. Riddle: What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?
   Answer: An umbrella.
2. Riddle: What kind of band never plays music?
   Answer: A rubber band.
3. Riddle: What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?
   Answer: Time to fix the fence.
4. Riddle: What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
   Answer: Your left hand.
5. Riddle: What has one eye, but can’t see?
   Answer: A needle.
6. Riddle: What question can you never say yes to?
   Answer: “Are you asleep?”
7. Riddle: What gets wet while drying?
   Answer: A towel.
8. Riddle: Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
   Answer: Mount Everest, it just wasn’t discovered yet.
9. Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?
   Answer: Your legs.
10. Riddle: What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
    Answer: A stamp.

Challenging Riddles for Adults:

21. Riddle: Spelled forward, I’m what you do every day; spelled backward, I’m something you hate. What am I?
    Answer: Live.
22. Riddle: The person who makes it has no need for it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
    Answer: A coffin.
23. Riddle: What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?
    Answer: An anchor.
24. Riddle: Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?
    Answer: A match.
25. Riddle: Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?
    Answer: The letter “R.”
26. Riddle: Sara has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Sara have?
    Answer: Five, each daughter has the same brother.
27. Riddle: If your uncle’s sister is not your aunt, what relation is she to you?
    Answer: Your mother.
28. Riddle: What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
    Answer: A teapot.
29. Riddle: No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?
    Answer: A calendar.
30. Riddle: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
    Answer: Silence.

Easy Riddles for Adults:

40. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
    Answer: An egg.
41. Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
    Answer: Short.
42. Riddle: What runs around the whole yard without moving?
    Answer: A fence.
43. Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
    Answer: A piano.
44. Riddle: What has 10 letters and starts with gas?
    Answer: Automobile.
45. Riddle: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
    Answer: A promise.
46. Riddle: What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
    Answer: A coat of paint.
47. Riddle: Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
    Answer: “C.”
48. Riddle: What flowers are kissable?
    Answer: Tulips.
49. Riddle: What has hands, but can’t clap?
    Answer: A clock.

Popular Riddles for Adults (from Reddit):

57. Riddle: How much dirt is in a hole that’s 2 feet long by 3 feet wide?
    Answer: None, it’s a hole.
58. Riddle: Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
    Answer: They weigh the same.
59. Riddle: What’s at the end of the rainbow?
    Answer: The letter “W.”
60. Riddle: What has words, but never speaks?
    Answer: A book.
61. Riddle: What has three feet but can’t walk?
    Answer: A yardstick.
62. Riddle: What has a head and a tail but no body?
    Answer: A coin.
63. Riddle: How many bricks does it take to complete a brick building?
    Answer: One—the last one.
64. Riddle: I am weightless, but put me in a bucket, and I will make it lighter. What am I?
    Answer: A hole.
65. Riddle: You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?
    Answer: The letter “E.”

Clever Riddles for Adults:

72. Riddle: Forward, I am heavy; backward, I am not. What am I?
    Answer: Ton.
73. Riddle: Jared’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and…?
    Answer: Jared.
74. Riddle: What has a neck but has no head?
    Answer: Guitar.
75. Riddle: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
    Answer: Queue.
76. Riddle: The cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for five days and left on Friday. How?
    Answer: The horse’s name is Friday.
77. Riddle: Where does today come before yesterday?
    Answer: In the dictionary.
78. Riddle: What do you lose the moment you share it?
    Answer: A secret.
79. Riddle: What has many hearts but no other organs?
    Answer: A deck of cards.
80. Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
    Answer: Light.

Logic Riddles for Adults:

91. Riddle: What grows when you feed it but dies when you water it?
    Answer: A fire.
92. Riddle: What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?
    Answer: A bar of soap.
93. Riddle: What type of cheese is made backward?
    Answer: Edam.
94. Riddle: What’s always on the ground but is never dirty?
    Answer: A shadow.
95. Riddle: What do you bury when it’s alive and dig up when it’s dead?
    Answer: A plant.
96. Riddle: What is taken before you can get it?
    Answer: A photo.
97. Riddle: What do you buy to eat but never consume?
    Answer: Flatware.
98. Riddle: What has many teeth but cannot bite?
    Answer: A comb.
99. Riddle: What’s full of holes but still holds water?
    Answer: A sponge.
100. Riddle: What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
     Answer: An echo.

Answers to My Favorite Riddles.

1) Answer: SWIMS

2) Answer: Leaves.

3) Answer: They are musicians, playing instruments. they read scores (sheet music). They were all paid by the listeners.

4) Answer: Kevin

5) Answer: The letter “w.”

6) Answer: Turn on the first switch, wait a few minutes. Turn the first off and the second on. Enter the room. If the light is on, it is the second switch. If it is off, touch it. If it is hot, it’s the first switch, and if it is cold, it is the third.

7) Answer: They have another sibling – they are triplets.

8) Answer: 11 are in “the alphabet”

9) Answer: It’s a one-story house, there are no stairs.

10) Answer: All of them.

11) The umpire and the catcher (baseball).

12) Answer: The letter E.

13) ‘What’ (the word), has 4 letters, ‘sometimes’ (the word) has 9, but ‘never’ (the word) has 5.

Hope you enjoyed them. Add a riddle in the comment section.