90 Hard Riddles For Only The Smartest People In The World

Riddles are great because they make you feel like the smartest kid in school. There's no better feeling than when someone asks you, "What weighs more? A ton of feathers or a ton of bricks?" and you victoriously respond that they weigh the same. In theory, that means that this list of really difficult riddles is gonna make you feel like a damn genius. You're welcome!

The answers are under each riddle so that you can use the list to quiz your friends, but we left a lot of space between them in case you want to treat this like a regular quiz too. Just hide the answers as you scroll!

1. You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy. What am I?

2. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?

3. What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?

4. A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?

5. I have keys, but no locks and space, and no rooms. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?

6. How many letters are in the alphabet?

7. This belongs to you, but everyone else uses it.

8. What is always in front of you, but yet you cannot see it?

9. What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify the great, while the entire word signifies a great woman. What is the word?

10. I’m the rare case when today comes before yesterday. What am I?

11. What has four fingers and a thumb, but isn’t alive?

12. What two words, when added together, contain the most letters?

13. What always ends everything?

14. The man who invented it doesn’t need it. The man who bought it doesn’t want it. The man who needs it doesn’t know. What is it?

15. What can you touch with your left hand, but not your right?

16. It stalks the countryside with ears, but can’t hear. What is it?

17. What kind of coat is best put on wet?

18. Feed me and I live. Give me a drink and I die. What am I?

19. If you eat me, my sender will eat you. What am I?

20. What travels around the world while staying in a corner?

21. What do an island and the letter T have in common?

22. A cop saw a truck driver going the wrong way down a one-way street, but didn't pull him over. Why not?

23. What has a head and a tail but no body?

24. Walk on the living, they don’t even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble. What are they?

25. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

26. Mary's mother had four children; April, May, and June were the first three. What's the name of the 4th child?

27. There are two coins that add up to six cents total. One of them is not a nickel. What are they?

28. I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?

29. What must you give, before you can keep it?

30. I am the first in Earth and the second in heaven. I appear two times in a week, but you can only see me once in a year. What am I?

31. What goes up and down but remains in the same place?

32. If you have me, you will want to share me. If you share me, you will no longer have me. What am I?

33. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

34. You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?

35. What English word has three consecutive double letters?

36. A woman shoots her husband, then holds him underwater for five minutes. Next, she hangs him. Right after, they enjoy a lovely dinner. How can you explain it?

37. I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I?

38. What disappears as soon as you say its name?

39. How can the number four be half of five?

40. A is the brother of B. B is the brother of C. C is the father of D. So how is D related to A?

41. What are the next three letters in this combination: OTTFFSS?

42. First, think of the color of the clouds. Next, think of the color of snow. Now, think of the color of a bright full moon. Answer quickly: What do cows drink?

43. How is seven different from the rest of the numbers between one and ten?

44. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

45. Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?

46. What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?

47. How can you physically stand behind your father while he is standing behind you?

48. What is able to go up a chimney when down but unable to go down a chimney when up?

49. Three different doctors said that Paul is their brother yet Paul claims he has no brothers. Who is lying?

50. Who has married many women but never been married?

51. You can ask this question all day long and get a different answer each time, yet all the answers will be correct. What is the question?

52. What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night?

53. I have a head like a cat and feet like a cat, but I am not a cat. What am I?

54. What has hands but cannot clap?

55. Paul's is six feet tall, works at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

56. Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?

57. They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

58. People crack me, make me, tell me, and play me. What am I?

59. A man goes out for a walk during a storm with nothing to protect him from the rain. He doesn’t have a hat, a hood or an umbrella. But by the end of his walk, there isn’t a single wet hair on his head. Why is that?

60. What is something that no one wants to have, but no one wants to lose either?

61. When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?

62. What gets bigger the more you take away?

63. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

64. I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?

65. Take off my skin — I won't cry, but you will! What am I?

66. What has a bottom at the top?

67. Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?

68. People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?

69. Melissa has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Melissa have?

70. How much dirt is in a hole that's two feet by three feet?

71. A cowboy rides into town on Friday. He stays three days, then rides out of town on a Friday. How?

72. What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?

73. What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

74. A plane crashed between the border of France and Belgium. Where were the survivors buried?

75. What begins with an "e" and only contains one letter?

76. What do you buy to eat but never consume?

77. What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?

78. What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?

79. Spelled forwards, I’m what you do every day; spelled backward, I’m not good. What am I?

80. What can you put in a bucket to make it weigh less?

81. What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?

82. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

83. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?

84. If you throw a blue stone into the Red Sea, what will it become?

85. What has three feet but can't walk?

86. What 5-letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?

87. What is taken before you can get it?

88. What's bought by the yard and worn by the foot?

89. Two people are born at the same moment, but they don't have the same birthdays. How?

90. If you are running a race and pass the person in second, then what place are you in?