Category: Medium Riddles

George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?

“How old are your daughters?” Fred asked a friend one day.“The product of their ages is 36,” replied his friend.“You are not giving me enough information,” protested Fred.“The sum of their ages is the age of your oldest son.”“I still need more information.”“All right, then. I can tell you that the oldest daughter, who is…

This is an annoying paragraph, in which you try and work out what is unusual about it. This paragraph has a quandary though. A solitary word has found a way to slink into this paragraph, to fox your fun, by going against all my jazzy plans. What is that word? Don’t try to run a…

Though small I am, yet, when entire,I’ve force to set the world on fire.Take off a letter, and ’tis clearMy punch will hold a herd of deer:Dismiss another, and you’ll findI once contained all humankind.

How can I stretch my hands apart, having a coin in each hand, and without bringing my hands together, cause both coins to come Into the same hand?

While eating out, my brother-in-law Paul found a fly in his coffee. After taking the cup away, the waiter came back with a different cup of coffee. My brother-in-law got upset and returned it, saying that the coffee in the second cup was the same as in the first one. How did he know?

Five friends with suitable names-Doe, Deer, Hare, Boar, and Roe, are coming back from a hunting party with five animals of the same names; each has killed one animal, not corresponding to his own name, and each has missed another differently named animal, again not corresponding to his own name. The deer was killed by…

Brown, Clark, Jones, and Smith are the names of the men who hold, though not necessarily respectively, the positions of accountant, cashier, manager, and president in the First National Bank of Fairport. Although the cashier beats him consistently, the president will play chess with no one else in the bank. Both the manager and the…

A woman lives in a skyscraper thirty-six floors high and served by several elevators which stop at each floor going up and down. Each morning she leaves her apartment and goes to one of the elevators. Whichever one she takes is three times more likely to be going up than down. Why?

The Chief of the Narcotics Squad studied the photo of the three men who were leaning against the ship’s railing. “What do we know about these characters?” he asked. “Not much,” his assistant answered. “One of them is from Denmark, one from Germany and the other from, Sweden. They’ve been operating a dope ring in…