GETTY IMAGES 101 Riddles for Adults That Will Test Your Smarts.

GETTY IMAGES 101 Riddles for Adults That Will Test Your Smarts.

Answer: A chair.

51. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.

52. What runs around the whole yard without moving?
Answer: Fence.

53. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase.

54. What is harder to catch the faster you run?
Answer: Your breath.

55. What flowers are kissable?
Answer: Tulips.

56. What has hands, but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.

Next, give your brain a workout by trying to solve these tricky

 

57. Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: They weigh the same.

58. How much dirt is in a hole that’s 2 feet long by 3 feet wide?
Answer: None, it’s a hole.

59. You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “E.”

60. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in 1,000 years?
Answer: The letter “M.”

61. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness.

62. What has words, but never speaks?
Answer: A book.

63. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.

 

64. I am weightless, but put me in a bucket, and I will make it lighter. What am I?
Answer: A hole.

65. How many letters are in the alphabet?
Answer: Eleven, “t-h-e-a-l-p-h-a-b-e-t.”

66. What’s at the end of the rainbow?
Answer: The letter “W.”

67. What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?
Answer: A relationship.

68. What has three feet but can’t walk?
Answer: A yardstick.

69. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke.

70. An electric train is going south at 200 mph. Which way is the smoke blowing?
Answer: There’s no smoke—it’s an electric train.

71. How many bricks does it take a complete a brick building?
Answer: One—the last one.

Ready to really stretch out your brain

 

72. What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?
Answer: A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells.
73. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
74. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.

75. What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it?
Answer: Your name.

76. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine.

77. What word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly.

78. What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue.

79. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.

 

80. Forward, I am heavy; backward, I am not. What am I?

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