Easy Riddles
Easy riddles will help you get started thinking about problem-solving in a new way. Once you are
comfortable with these riddles, you can move on to some more difficult ones.
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A farmer is travelling with a fox, a sheep and a small sack of hay. He comes to a river with a ...
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Bruce is an inmate at a large prison, and like most of the other prisoners, he smokes cigarettes. ...
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Two men ride their horses to the town blacksmith to ask for his daughter's hand in marriage. To ...
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You have two normal U.S. coins that add up to 35 cents. One of the coins is not a quarter. What are ...
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In the final stretch of a road race, you pass the 2nd-place runner right before crossing the finish ...
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Lateral Thinking | ||
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A man is found hanging in a room 30 feet off the ground. There is nothing else in the room except ...
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A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies instantly, and the son is taken to the ...
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A man and woman run through a field holding hands. They bound toward the sunset, happy as can be. ...
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Two soldiers, William and Ethan, are assigned to guard a bridge, which connects the West and East ...
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There is a small town in the midwest with exactly 2 barbershops, one on each side of town. The ...
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Why are manhole covers round? Do manhole covers really need to be circular?
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This is an old classic: As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives The seven wives had ...
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A blind man walks into a hardware store to buy a hammer. There are hammers hanging behind the front ...
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Language | ||
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This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It ...
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Count the number of times the letter "F" appears in the following paragraph: FAY FRIED FIFTY POUNDS ...
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Can you spot what's wrong with the following sentence? PETER WAS ANGRY AT HIMSELF BECAUSE HE ...
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Math | ||
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How can you place the numbers 1 through 9 in a 3x3 grid such that every row, column, and the two ...
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Consider the following explanation for why 1=2 : 1. Start out Let y = x 2. Multiply through by x ...
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In a bouquet of flowers, all but two are roses, all but two are tulips, and all but two are ...
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Spatial | ||
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Look at the 9 dots in this image. Can you draw 4 straight lines, without picking up your pen, that ...
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Chess | ||
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In chess, queens can move horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, as far as they like, as shown in ...
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What does this stand for: 7 W of the W
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What does this stand for: The 7 D S
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What does this stand for: 26 Ls of the A
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What does this stand for: SW and the 7 Ds
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What does this stand for: 50 S in the USOA
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Detective | ||
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A grandfather is telling his grandson war stories. "At the end of World War 1, I was awarded for my ...
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