Really hard riddles for adults with answers

Last updated: Sep 20, 2022

These are the difficult riddles that require your brain thrusters to be at maximum capacity!

Get ready to think!  Some are harder than others so dig deep, hunker down and enjoy an evening of riddles! 

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Riddle: I am something people love or hate. I change peoples appearances and thoughts. If a person takes care of them self I will go up even higher. To some people I will fool them. To others I am a mystery. Some people might want to try and hide me but I will show. No matter how hard people try I will Never go down. What am I?

Answer: Age.

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Really hard riddles for adults with answers
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Ends Life Riddle

Riddle: It can't be seen, can't be felt, can't be heard, and can't be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, and kills laughter. What is it?

Answer: The dark.

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Playing Cards

Riddle: Three playing cards in a row. Can you name them with these clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the left of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade. Now, identify all three cards.

Answer: Ace of Diamonds, King of Hearts, Two of Spades.

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Coffee Or Soda

Riddle: 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.

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Really hard riddles for adults with answers

Hard riddles for adults with answers

Hard riddles for adults to test your brainpower! How many can you solve?

Riddle me this:

Really hard riddles for adults with answers

What water can you eat and chew?

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A watermelon.

Really hard riddles for adults with answers

What five letter word stays the same when you take away the first, third and last letter?

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Empty.

Riddle me this:

Really hard riddles for adults with answers

4 fathers, 2 grandfathers and 4 sons went to watch a movie.

What is the minimum number of tickets they need to buy?

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Four tickets for four people in total.

Explanation.

2 grandfathers: Each grandfather is also a son and a father. So this makes 2 grandfathers, 2 fathers and 2 sons.

2 fathers: Each father is also a son. So this makes 2 fathers and 2 sons.

Really hard riddles for adults with answers

What kind of table does not have legs?

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Periodic and multiplication tables.

Really hard riddles for adults with answers

Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.

What am I?

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Teeth.

Really hard riddles for adults with answers

What word looks the same backwards and upside down?

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SWIMS.

Riddle me this:

Really hard riddles for adults with answers

What has six faces but does not wear makeup and has twenty one eyes, but cannot see?

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A dice.

When I was 6 years old, my sister was half of my age and my brother was twice of my age 5 years later.

What is the sum of my siblings ages?

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8 + 17 = 25.

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Jimmy’s mother had three children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday. What is the name of the third child?

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Jimmy, because Jimmy’s mother had 3 children.

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I am a ball that can be rolled but never bounced or thrown.

What am I?

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An eyeball.

A prisoner is told : ”If you tell a lie, we will hang you and if you tell the truth we will shoot you”.
What did the prisoner say to save himself?

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The prisoner said: ”You will hang me”.

I am a seed with three letters in my name. Take away the last two and I still sound the same.

What am I?

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Pea.

Really hard riddles for adults with answers

If Mother’s name is Mrs Sixty Two

Son’s name is Fifty Two

Daughter’s name is Forty Two

What is name of Father?

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The Father’s name will be Sixty Two. Mother’s name is mentioned as Mrs Sixty Two, her original name is not mentioned anywhere.

Once I’m 24, twice I’m 20. Three times I’m inappropriate.

What am I?

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The letter ”X”.

Mr. Smith had four daughters, each daughter had a brother. How many children does Mr. Smith have?

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He now has zero children. The use of word ”had” creates all the difference here.

Stronger than steel yet lighter than cotton

Found in a corner forever forgotten

I bother so many but marvel a few

You can’t seem to make me

I’m a mystery to you

What am I?

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A spider web.

I sound like one letter, but I’m written with three. 

I show you things, when you look through me.

What am I?

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An eye.

When I point up it’s bright, but when I point down it’s dark.

What am I?

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A light switch.

The faster you run, the harder it is to catch me.

What am I?

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Breath.

They made me a mouth but didn’t give me breath.
Water gives me life but the sun brings me death.

What am I?

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A snowman.

There’s a bathtub full of water in front of you.

You have a bucket, a spoon and a cup.

Which is the fastest way to empty the tub?

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By pulling out the plug…

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

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The future.

John’s father has five sons.

The names of four sons are Papa, Pepe, Pipi and Popo respectively.

What is the name of the fifth son?

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John’s father has five children and four of them have already been named above. The fifth son is John himself.

I turn everything around while standing still.

What am I?

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A mirror.

What has 88 keys but cannot open a single door?

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A piano.

How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?

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It has a hole.

I run, it runs, I stop, it runs.

What is it?

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A watch.

Solve me this:

Really hard riddles for adults with answers

Without being called, we came out at night.
Without being stolen, we get lost in the day.
Who are we?

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The stars.

What word has five letters but sounds like it only has one?

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Queue.

Look at me one way and I weigh a whole lot

Turn me around and you’ll see that I am not.

What am I?

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A ton.

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