Miscellaneous Riddles

Here you will find interesting and fun miscellaneous riddles, sayings and puzzles of all kinds. To solve the puzzles, you have to let your imagination run wild and see beyond logic to find the correct answer!

A lemon and an orange were on a high diving board. The orange jumped off. Why didn’t the lemon?

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Because it was yellow

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Color, Fruit

A man was driving a black truck. His lights were not on. The moon was not out. A lady was crossing the street. How did the man see her?

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It was a bright, sunny day.

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Vehicle, Woman

A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?

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They are all boys

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Children

A woman has six daughters and they each have a brother. How many children does she have?

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Seven

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Child, Family

Anyone can hold me, even without their hands, yet no one can do it for long. What am I?

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Breath

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Breath

At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

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The stars

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Night, Space

Brothers, all pair up; Bodies firm and tall. You only care to eat the solid food, And don’t care to eat the soup.

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Chopsticks

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Family, Food

Find me who am I. I am the building with number stories.

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A Library

Category: Miscellaneous Riddles, Who Am ITopics: Building

For what crime can an offender be arrested for attempting, but not committing?

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Suicide

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Crime

Had at work day and night, it counts the numbers over and over. Although it counts all its life, it never gets past twelve.

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Clock

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Life, Time

How many cookies can you eat on an empty stomach?

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One

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Cookie

How many months have 28 days?

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All twelve of them

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Time

How many species of each animal did Moses take aboard the ark?

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Moses didn't have an Ark, Noah

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Bilble

I am a solitary word, 5 letters long. Behead me once, I am the same. Behead me again, I am still the same.

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Alone

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Word

I am lighter than a feather yet no man can hold me for long.

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Breath

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Breath

If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?

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One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big one.

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Farmer

If a south bound electric train is travelling at a rate of 66 miles per hour and the wind is blowing to the north at 35 miles per hour, which way will the smoke blow?

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Electric trains don't blow smoke.

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Train

If Fortune had a daughter, what would her name be?

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Misfortune - (Miss Fortune).

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Family

If money really did grow on trees, what would be everyone’s favorite season?

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Fall

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Money, Tree

Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?

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Stop imagining.

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Dark

It looks green, it opens red. What you eat is red, but what you spit out is black.

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Watermelon

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Color, Food, Fruit

Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?

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If you answered Nunu, you are wrong. It’s Mary!

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Family

Red through and through, it has no mouth. But it eats many things; it fears water but not wind.

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Fire

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Color, Fear, Water

Scientists are trying to find out what is between earth and heaven. Can you find me?

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And

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Earth, Heaven

Small boats, 5 guests in each; sail on land but never on water; Busy during the daytime, anchored at night. What I Am?

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Shoes

Category: Miscellaneous Riddles, What I AmTopics: Clothing, Water