Today's Riddles

Challenge yourself with riddles at every difficulty level — easy, normal, and challenging. New brain teasers added daily with answers and community voting.

Most for the palate, some for the eye, A gift to say "sorry", "congrats", and "goodbye", I'm cotton, a name, and halloween, too. Taken with planning, or on the fly.

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A man is exploring the jungle, and comes across a native tribe. The tribe members take him to their chief, and the chief speaks: We don't allow trespassers, so we'll have to kill you. But you can say a final statement. If I judge your statement to be true, you'll be speared to death. If I judge it to be false, you will be burned at the stake. The man agrees and calmly says his final statement. We don't allow trespassers, so we'll have to kill you. But you can say a final statement. If I judge your statement to be true, you'll be speared to death. If I judge it to be false, you will be burned at the stake. The man agrees and calmly says his final statement. After some puzzling by the chief and the other tribe members, they had no choice but to let him go. What was the man's statement?

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easy

Number of renown and infamy, I am an odd multiple of three. Change my orientation and I may stay the same. Each time I'm referenced, the responses do not change.

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normal

What 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and still make a word, and continue doing so until you have one letter left?

normal

Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever drinking; all in mail, never clinking. What am I?

easy

I travel East then travel South, I tell a story with my mouth. I sit and soak to take a break, Then back to work, the ground I rake. Some people study the trail I leave, Searching not for me but the tale I weave.

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A man who sits on a throne has it blue. You can’t get it out of a stone. If it boils there’s fury. If there’s none there’s no foul. It freezes when horror is known.

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challenging

Today's Riddles

Used to fix mistakes, I am often referred to as the colour I bleed. What am I?

You can catch me but you can't throw me. What am I?

What has many rings but no fingers?

What kind of band never plays music?

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

First you eat me, then you get eaten. What am I?

What comes at the end of everything?

Most for the palate, some for the eye, A gift to say "sorry", "congrats", and "goodbye", I'm cotton, a name, and halloween, too. Taken with planning, or on the fly.

Number of renown and infamy, I am an odd multiple of three. Change my orientation and I may stay the same. Each time I'm referenced, the responses do not change.

What 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and still make a word, and continue doing so until you have one letter left?

Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever drinking; all in mail, never clinking. What am I?

I travel East then travel South, I tell a story with my mouth. I sit and soak to take a break, Then back to work, the ground I rake. Some people study the trail I leave, Searching not for me but the tale I weave.

A man who sits on a throne has it blue. You can’t get it out of a stone. If it boils there’s fury. If there’s none there’s no foul. It freezes when horror is known.

Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside. What is it?