Reasoning Riddles
Reasoning riddles are solved by clever thinking and experimentation. Given a reasoning riddle, you will want to think outside of the box and try different approaches to come to a solution. These types of riddles are some of the most difficult to solve, but they are also some of the most fun and rewarding.
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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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You have two lengths of rope. Each rope has the property that if you light it on fire at one end, ...
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You are standing in a pitch-dark room. A friend walks up and hands you a normal deck of 52 cards. ...
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Two trains are traveling toward each other on the same track, each at 60 miles per hour. When they ...
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You are standing in a house in the middle of the countryside. There is a small hole in one of the ...
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There are 3 switches outside of a room, all in the 'off' setting. One of them controls a lightbulb ...
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Your friend pulls out a perfectly circular table and a sack of quarters, and proposes a game. ...
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You have twelve balls, identical in every way except that one of them weighs slightly less or more ...
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You have just purchased a small company called Company X. Company X has N employees, and everyone ...
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You have two jugs, one that holds exactly 3 gallons, and one that holds exactly 5 gallons. Using ...
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You are walking down a path when you come to two doors. Opening one of the doors will lead you to a ...
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Three people check into a hotel room. The bill is $30 so they each pay $10. After they go to the ...
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Four people come to an old bridge in the middle of the night. The bridge is rickety and can only ...
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A man needs to send important documents to his friend across the country. He buys a suitcase to put ...
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A man comes to a small hotel where he wishes to stay for 7 nights. He reaches into his pockets and ...
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At a dinner party, many of the guests exchange greetings by shaking hands with each other while ...
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A king has 100 identical servants, each with a different rank between 1 and 100. At the end of each ...
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You have two sand hourglasses, one that measures exactly 4 minutes and one that measures exactly 7 ...
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This is a harder version of the famous riddle, A Liar and a Truth Teller. You should try that ...
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You have 25 horses. When they race, each horse runs at a different, constant pace. A horse will ...
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A guard is stationed at the entrance to a bridge. He is tasked to shoot anyone who tries to cross ...
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There are 100 ants on a board that is 1 meter long, each facing either left or right and walking at ...
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A monk leaves at sunrise and walks on a path from the front door of his monastery to the top of a ...
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Bill and Stacie are delighted when their new baby, Patrick, is born on February 29th, 2008. They ...
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A frog is at the bottom of a well. It is a 30 foot climb to get out. Each morning, the frog jumps 3 ...
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You are visiting NYC when a man approaches you. "Not counting bald people, I bet a hundred bucks ...
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A deliveryman comes to a house to drop off a package. He asks the woman who lives there how many ...
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100 men are in a room, each wearing either a white or black hat. Nobody knows the color of his own ...
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You are the janitor at a prison with 100 prisoners locked in separate, soundproof and windowless ...
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You meet a magician and his assistant, who decide to show you a trick. The assistant leaves the ...
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There is a prison with 100 prisoners, each in separate cells, which are sealed off, soundproof and ...
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100 people find themselves at the gates of hell. The devil tells them that they'll have a chance to ...
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Ten pirates find a buried treasure of 100 pieces of gold. The pirates have a strict ranking in ...
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Three kids, Writey, Fruity, and Spicy, are standing around. Their friend, Bob, proposes a ...
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People are waiting in line to board a 100-seat airplane. Steve is the first person in the line. He ...
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You are given a mystery ball and are told that it has a whole-number weight between 1 and 40 lbs ...
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