Saturday, October 17, 2020

The Best Riddles That People Know


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the best riddles that people have ever stumbled across. At the very least this collection of prime riddles will keep your brain occupied, distracted from the present dystopian world that we all find ourselves muddling through. Just take deep breaths and approach each riddle with the patience that they require. Frustration can be a blinding thing. 

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Text - InfiniteOutfield • 2h You leave home, take three left turns, and return home. Who are the two masked men waiting for you? Reply 244 ...

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Text - nousernamesbeleft • 4h What has four wheels and flies? I am stiff.l may have a mouth,though I never talk.I have a million arms.What am I? Reply 82 ...

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Text - Underwhelming Twin • 5h The maker doesn't want it. The buyer doesn't use it. The user doesn't know it.

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Text - TCKline01 • 4h 1 Award What has 4 letters, sometimes has 9, but never has 5? Reply 437 ...

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Text - enchanter177• 7h What word begins with e, ends with e, and only has one letter, but is not the letter e. Reply 157

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Text - Back2Bach • 6h It's thrown away when needed most, yet brought back when done with it. Reply 81 ...

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Text - Bullseye61 • 3h Two girls went to dinner together and both ordered iced tea. One girl pounded down five of them in about a minute, and the other took her time drinking one. The girl who drank one died, while the girl who drank five survived. However, all of the drinks that were served turned out to contain poison. Why did the girl that drank more iced tea survive? Reply 80 ...

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Text - Obscurity3 • 3h A farmer has a stray dog, a chicken, and a bag of grain he's taking to his farm. He gets to the river he needs to cross to get to the farm, but his canoe will only fit one item other than himself. He can't leave the dog alone with the chicken or it will eat the chicken, he can't leave the chicken alone with the grain or it will eat the grain, and the same rules apply on the other side of the river because the farm is still a few miles away. How does he get everything acros

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Text - wisedoormat • 7h 1 Award Three guests check into a hotel room. The manager says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the realizes the bill should only have been $25. To manager rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 as five one-dollar bills to return to the guests. On the way to the guests' room to refund the money, the bellhop realizes that he cannot equally divide the five one-dollar bills among the three guests. As the guests aren't aware of the total of the revised bill, the

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Text - HiGuyslmBroken • 3h Four men walk into the desert. Suddenly all four are simultaneously knocked out. They awake buried to their heads in the sand unable to look anywhere but straight ahead. They are positioned so that each man sees another's head before him. However between the first and second man there is a separating wall. So the first man sees only desert. The second man sees only wall. The third man sees another's head and a wall. The fourth man sees two heads and a wall. On top of e

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Text - Noimnotasimpstfu • 5h there are 12 men on an island. they alle weight the same. exept one, he can be heavier or lighter ( this has nothing to do with the solution) you dont know who is heavier/lighter. there is no scale, only a seesaw. you can use the seesaw only 3 times how can you find out who is heavier/lighter Reply 185 ...

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Text - collectorofsouls5a7d • 3h Totally solve-able, but try to do it without writing it down or using outside resources. This is best done strictly verbal. You have a 3 gallon bucket and a five gallon bucket and an unlimited supply of water. You must get EXACTLY four gallons in one of the buckets, or you will be executed. You have no other way of measuring the water, and no other tools, aside from the two buckets. How do you achieve precisely 4 gallons? Reply 1 29 ...

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Text - SpawnicusRex • 1h It is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. It is the beginning of the end, the end of every place. What is it? I love this one because it is so simple but some people have struggled with it for days lol. It works best when spoken out loud rather then written out. Seeing it written makes it easier to solve because the answer to the riddle, is contained within the riddle itself. Reply

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Text - Plus1that • 3h I breathe, yet am not alive, My licks are never those of love, The more you feed me, the hungrier I become. What am I? Reply ...

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Text - AndrijKuz • 3h You're on a game show with three doors. Only one has a prize. You pick Door 3. They show you Door 2 is empty. Do you stay with Door 3, or switch to Door 1?

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Text - IAmTheGreybeardy • 1h This thing, all things devours, birds, beasts, trees, flowers. Gnaws iron. Bites steel. Grinds hard stones to meal. Slays king. Ruins town. Beats high mountain down. What is it? Reply 1 4 ...

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Text - Dr-Figgleton • 2h Ooh, I heard a good one. With pointed fangs and in plain sight, my bloodless victims are bound by my bite. What am 1? Reply 3 ...

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Text - Red-7134 • 1h Four prisoners are arrested for a crime, but the jail is full and the jailer has nowhere to put them. He eventually comes up with the solution of giving them a puzzle so if they succeed they can go free but if they fail they are executed. The jailer puts three of the men sitting in a line. The fourth man is put behind a screen (or in a separate room). He gives all four men party hats. The jailer explains that there are two black and two white hats; that each prisoner is wear

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Text - DrClay23 • 2h This one cant be told online but is an absolute brain bender irl. A farmer has 30 cows, 28 chickens...how many didn't? The answer is 10 because 28 is actually "twenty ate", but people have 28 in their heads and have a hard time solving it. Reply ↑ 28 ...

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Text - NerdyVocals • 2h A man who is mute decides to take a train to visit his cousin for the day. At the station, he sees that a round trip ticket is $1 while a one way ticket is 50 cents. Without signing with his hands, nor pointing at the price sign, he gives a dollar to the teller, who gives him a round trip ticket. How did the teller know he wanted a round trip ticket, and not a one way with 50 cents change? Reply 1 34 ...

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Text - PugC • 4h Heard this one a long time ago and I still think of it at times: There are two train stations in Boston. They are not of equal size. Yet neither is the biggest. Why not? Reply 16 ...

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Text - Metaencabulator • 49m Disclaimer: This riddle needs to be spoken, not written. Reading it here will give it away. Two penguins are kayaking through the desert. One turns to the other and says, "Where's your paddle?" The other replies, "Sure does." From experience, people go nuts trying to figure out why that's the response. Just repeat the whole thing to them while they try to figure it out. (The answer is, the first penguin is actually saying, "Wears your paddle." Trying to paddle a kaya

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