Complex riddles with answers
Challenging riddles- When a woman lifts her leg, what do you see? Five letters, starts with P and ends with A.
Answer: Heel
What elongates when you take it in your hands, pass it between your breasts and insert it into the hole?
Answer: Seat belt
What is on a woman's body, on a Jew's mind, is used in hockey and on the chessboard?
Answer: Combination
What has a head but no brain?
Answer: Cheese, onion, garlic
What comes first in Russia and second in France?
Answer: Letter "R"
A tin can was placed on the edge of the table, tightly closed with a lid, so that 2/3 of the can hung from the table.
After some time, the can fell. What was in the jar?
Answer: A piece of ice
There were 90 apples growing on a birch tree. A strong wind blew and 10 apples fell. How much is left?
Answer: Apples don’t grow on birch trees
You are competing and have passed the runner in second position. What position do you take now?
Answer: You passed the second runner and took his place, so you are now in second position
You passed the last runner, what position are you in now?
Answer: This is impossible
Do not write anything or use a calculator, and remember - you must answer quickly. Take 1000.
Add 40. Add another thousand. Add 30. Another 1000. Plus 20. Plus 1000. And plus 10. What happened?
Answer: The answer is 5000? No. The correct answer is 4100
Mary's father has five daughters: 1 - Chacha, 2 - Cheche, 3 - Chichi, 4 - Chocho. Question: What is the name of the fifth daughter?
Answer: Mary. Read the question again
Run, run - you won’t get there,
Fly, fly - not reach.
Answer: Horizon
Little blue fur coat -
Covered the whole world.
Answer: Sky
Blue field
Silver is strewn.
Answer: Stars in the sky
Blue scarf,
Red bun
Rolling on a scarf
People smile.
Answer: Sky and sun
White cat
Climbs through the window.
Answer: Rays of the sun
Gray boars covered the entire field.
Answer: Fog
No arms, no legs,
And he opens the gate.
Answer: Wind
An eagle flies across the blue sky:
Wings spread out
Found the sun.
Answer: Cloud
I'll look out the window:
Long Antoshka is coming.
Answer: Rain
Red rocker
It hung across the river.
Answer: Rainbow
No arms, no legs,
And he can draw.
Answer: Frost
The tablecloth is white
I dressed the whole world.
Answer: Snow
It flows, it flows, it won’t flow,
He runs, he runs, but he won’t run out.
Answer: River
Doesn't burn in fire
Doesn't sink in water.
Answer: Ice
101 trick questions.
Target: development of logical connectionsCan be used for classroom hours, for fun competitions, competitions and competitions, at the Feast of Laughter.
Intended for children of primary school age and older.
1. What does Boris have in front, and what does Gleb have behind? (letter "b")
2. The grandmother was carrying a hundred eggs to the market, one (and the bottom) fell. How many eggs are left in the basket? (none because the bottom fell out)
3. When is a person in a room without a head? (when he sticks it out the window)
4. How do day and night end? (soft sign)
5. Which clock shows the exact time only twice a day? (who stopped)
6. Which is lighter: a kilogram of cotton wool or a kilogram of iron? (same)
7. Why do you go to bed when you want to sleep? (by gender)
8. What needs to be done so that four guys remain in one boot? (take off a boot from each person)
8. The crow is sitting, and the dog is sitting on its tail. Could it be? (the dog sits on its own tail)
9. When is the easiest time for a black cat to get into the house? (when the door is open)
10. In which month does chatty Mashenka speak the least? (in February, it is the shortest)
11. Two birch trees are growing. Each birch tree has four cones. How many cones are there in total? (cones don’t grow on birch trees)
12. What will happen to the blue scarf if you put it in water for five minutes? (gets wet)
13. How to write the word "mousetrap" in five letters? (cat)
14. When a horse is bought, what type is it? (wet)
15. A person has one, a crow has two, a bear has none. What is this? (letter "o")
16. A flock of birds flew into the grove. They sat down two at a time on a tree - one remained; They sat down one at a time - they didn’t get one. How many trees are there in the grove, and how many birds are there in the flock? (three trees, four birds)
17. A woman was walking to Moscow, three old men met her, each old man had a bag, and in each bag there was a cat. How much did it go to Moscow? (one woman)
18. Four birch trees have four hollows, each hollow has four branches, each branch has four apples. How many apples are there in total? (apples don’t grow on birch trees)
19. Forty wolves ran, how many necks and tails did they have? (Tails do not grow near the neck)
20. What fabric cannot be used to make shirts? (From the railway station)
21. What three numbers, if added or multiplied, give the same result? (1, 2 and 3)
22. When are hands pronouns? (You-we-you)
23. What female name consists of two letters that are repeated twice? (Anna, Alla)
24. Which forests have no game? (In construction)
25. Which car wheel does not rotate while driving? (Spare)
26. What can’t mathematicians, drummers, and even hunters do without? (No fraction)
27. What belongs to you, but others use it more often than you? (Name)
28. When does a car move at the same speed as a train all the time? (When he is on the platform of a moving train)
29. One egg takes 4 minutes to cook, how many minutes should 6 eggs be cooked? (4 minutes)
30: Which flower is masculine and feminine? (Ivan da Marya)
31. Name five days without giving numbers or names of days. (The day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow)
32. Which bird, having lost one letter, becomes the largest river in Europe? (Oriole)
33. Which city is named after a big bird? (Eagle)
34. What is the name of the first woman in the world to master an aircraft? (Baba Yaga)
35. From the name of which city can you make a filling for sweet pies? (Raisin)
36. In what year do people eat more than usual? (In leap year)
37. In what geometric body can water boil? (Cubed).
38. Which river is the scariest? (Tigris River).
39. Which month is the shortest? (May - three letters).
40. Where is the end of the world? (Where the shadow begins).
41. Can an ostrich call itself a bird? (No, because he can't speak).
42. What is under a person’s feet when he walks across a bridge? (Shoe sole).
43. What can you easily pick up from the ground, but cannot throw far? (Pooh)
44. How many peas can fit into one glass? (Not a single one - everything must be put down).
45. What comb can’t comb your head? (Petushin).
46. How can you carry water in a sieve? (Frozen)
47. When is the forest a snack? (When he's cheese)
48. How to pick a branch without scaring a bird? (Wait for the bird to fly away)
49. What stones are not in the sea? (Dry)
50. What is it that freezes in the room in winter, but not outside? (Window glass)
51. Which opera consists of three conjunctions? (Ah, and, yes - Aida)
52. Whoever does not have it does not want to have it, and whoever has it cannot give it away. (bald)
53. What disease on earth has no one ever had? (Nautical)
54. My father's son, but not my brother. Who is this? (Myself)
55. Which question cannot be answered positively? (Are you sleeping?)
56. What is between the window and the door? (Letter "i").
57. What can you cook, but cannot eat? (Lessons).
58. How can you put two liters of milk in a liter jar? (You need to make condensed milk from milk).
59. If five cats catch five mice in five minutes, how long does it take one cat to catch one mouse? (Five minutes).
60. How many months in a year have 28 days? (All months).
61. What is dropped when needed and picked up when not needed? (Anchor).
62. The dog was tied to a ten-meter rope and walked three hundred meters. How did she do it? (The rope was not tied to anything.)
63. What can travel around the world while remaining in the same corner? (Postage Stamp).
64. Is it possible to light a match underwater? (You can if you pour water into a glass and hold the match below the glass).
65. How can a thrown egg fly three meters without breaking? (You need to throw the egg four meters, then it will fly the first three meters intact).
66. What will happen to the green cliff if it falls into the Red Sea? (It will become wet).
67. Two people were playing checkers. Each played five games and won five times. Is this possible? (Both people were playing with other people).
68. What could be bigger than an elephant and at the same time weightless? (Shadow of an elephant).
69. Which hand is better to stir tea? (It is better to stir the tea with a spoon).
70. What question cannot be answered “no”? (You are alive?).
71. What has two arms, two wings, two tails, three heads, three torsos and eight legs? (Rider holding a chicken in his hands).
72. What do all people on earth do at the same time? (Getting older).
73. What gets bigger when you put it upside down. (Number 6).
74. How to jump from a ten-meter ladder without hurting yourself? (Jump from the bottom step).
75. What has no length, depth, width, height, but can be measured? (Time, temperature).
76. Why does a duck swim? (From the shore)
77. What can you cook, but cannot eat? (Lessons)
78. When a car is moving, which wheel does not spin? (Spare)
79. What does the dog run on? (On the ground)
80. Why is there a tongue in the mouth? (Behind the teeth)
81. When a horse is bought, what kind of horse is it? (Wet)
82. Why does a cow lie down? (Because he doesn't know how to sit down)
83. When is the easiest time for a black cat to get into the house? (When the door is open)
84. Which month is the shortest? (May - it only has three letters)
85. Which river is the scariest? (Tigris River)
86. Can an ostrich call itself a bird? (No, because he can't speak)
87. What is between the window and the door? (Letter "i")
88. What will happen to the green ball if it falls into the Yellow Sea? (He'll get wet)
89. How many peas can fit into one glass? (Not at all. They don't know how to walk!)
90. What happens if you put a black handkerchief into the red sea? (gets wet)
91. Which hand is better to stir tea? (It is better to stir the tea with a spoon)
92. What tree does a crow sit on when it rains? (On wet)
93. What kind of dishes can you not eat anything from? (Out of empty)
94. What can you see with your eyes closed? (Dream)
95. What do we eat for? (At the table)
96. Why do you go to bed when you want to sleep? (By gender)
97. When are hands pronouns? (When they are you-we-you)
98. How to write “dry grass” in four letters? (hay)
99. There were 90 apples growing on the birch tree. A strong wind blew and 10 apples fell. (Apples do not grow on birch trees).
100. Under which tree does the hare sit when it rains? (Under the wet).
101. Name five days without giving numbers (e.g. 1, 2, 3,..) and names of days (e.g. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...). (The day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow) .
Addition:
How many eggs can you eat on an empty stomach? (One, the rest are not on an empty stomach.)
What tree does a crow sit on during heavy rain? (On wet.)
How many minutes should you boil a hard-boiled egg - two, three, five? (Not at all, it’s already cooked. It’s hard-boiled.)
Which clock shows the correct time only twice a day? (Which are standing.)
Where does the water stand? (In glass.)
What happens to a red silk scarf if it is lowered to the bottom of the sea for 5 minutes? (It will be wet.)
What disease does no one get on land? (Nautical.)
When are hands pronouns? (When they are you-we-you.)
What is under a person's feet when he walks across a bridge? (Boot soles.)
What do people often walk on and never drive on? (On the stairs.)
How far into the forest can a hare run? (To the middle of the forest, then he already runs out of the forest.)
What happens to the crow after three years? (She is in her 4th year.)
What tree does a hare hide under when it rains? (Under the wet.)
What needs to be done to cut off the branch on which the crow is sitting without disturbing it? (Wait until she flies away.)
Seven brothers have one sister. How many sisters are there in total? (One.)
The crow is flying, and the dog is sitting on its tail. Could it be? (Maybe, since the dog sits on the ground on its tail.)
If a cat climbed a tree and wants to get down along the smooth trunk, how will it go down: head down or tail first? (Tail first, otherwise she won’t hold on.)
Who's upside down above us? (Fly.)
What does half an apple look like? (For the second half.)
Is it possible to bring hearths in a sieve? (You can when it freezes.)
Three ostriches were flying. The hunter killed one. How many ostriches are left? (Ostriches don't fly.)
Which bird is made up of a letter and a river? ("Oriole.)
What is between the city and the village? (Conjunction "and".)
What can you see with your eyes closed? (Dream.)
When is the easiest time for a black cat to get into the house? (When the door is open.)
My father's son, not my brother. Who is this? (Myself.)
There were seven candles burning in the room. A man passed by and put out two candles. How much is left? (Two, the rest burned down.)
A riddle is an expression that is composed in such a way as to covertly convey the meaning hidden in the words, but without directly hinting at its meaning. Among the many mysteries in the world, there were also those whose solution required the efforts of the best minds for decades.
1 place
The most difficult logical problem is considered George Boulos puzzle , proposed in 1992.
There are gods A, B and C. One of them is the god of truth, who never lies, the second is the god of untruth, who always lies, the third is the god of chance, who either tells the truth or lies in a random sequence. It is necessary to determine the gods, having only 3 questions with answers “yes” or “no”. The gods respond in their own dialect, in which only the words “da” and “ja” exist.
The solution of the problem: If I ask, “Are you a God of unrighteousness?” - will you answer “I”?
2nd place 
The second most difficult in the world is considered Einstein's riddle . The original text of the riddle was published in the newspaper on December 17, 1962.
There are 5 houses on the street. The red house belongs to an Englishman. The Spaniard has a dog. People in green houses love coffee. A Ukrainian drinks tea. The resident who smokes Old Gold is a snail farmer. In the yellow house they smoke Kool. The house in the center loves milk. In the first house there is a resident of Norwegian nationality. A neighbor who prefers Chesterfield has a fox. The Kool smoking neighbor is holding a horse. Smoking Lucky Strike loves orange juice. A Norwegian lives near a blue house, and a Japanese resident smokes Parliament.
Who drinks water? Who has a zebra?
The difficulty of the riddle was to solve it in the mind, that is, without the means of storing information.
Answer: German
3rd place 
A riddle originally from Scandinavia, which according to legend was asked god Odin :
“Four hang, four run, two show the way, two drive away the dogs, one trails behind, always sloppy.”
Answer: Cow.
4th place 
One of the oldest mysteries, whose history goes back to the ancient Sumerian civilization.
“Whoever enters this house blind comes out seeing”
Answer extremely simple: school.
5th place 
The mystery of John Tolkien , which he included in the plot of one of his books and thereby puzzled many readers.
“There are 30 white horses on the red mountain: first they chew, then they kick, and then they freeze.”
Answer the riddle is less poetic than she herself. These are teeth.
6th place 
A riddle that has lived for more than ten centuries, but has not lost its popularity thanks to its wit and ambiguous subtext.
“It grows in a warm corner, swells, stretches through the cover. A young, strong woman handles this boneless thing with her bare hands, and the master’s daughter covers it, which is swollen, with her apron.”
7th place 
Greek riddle associated with the death of Homer. This riddle for him wished by the fishermen of the island of Ios , and the poet, unable to find the answer, died on the island. He refused to leave the island until he got to the truth.
The riddle went like this: “What was caught was thrown away, what was not caught was saved. What did you catch?
Under these words the fishermen meant lice.
8th place 
One of the most popular riddles.
“When you die, you go to purgatory. You see two doors, each with a guard, each leading to either heaven or hell. But one of the guards always lies, and the second never lies. What is one question you can ask the guard to find out where heaven is?”
Answer: If I ask the second guard about which door is heaven, what will he answer me?
9th place 
In the world famous book "Alice in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll The following riddle is posed on behalf of the Mad Hatter:
“How is a raven similar to a desk?”
Answer Carroll is as amazing as the mystery itself: because they make sounds, albeit rather lousy ones. They cannot be put on the wrong side.
10th place 
Samson's Riddle , asked by him at his own wedding to the guests:
“From the one who ate came the edible, and from the strongest came the sweet.”
Answer: Bee honey in a lion's corpse. However, the guests, having given the answer, were unlikely to be happy with the solution. The answer was given to them by Samson's wife, for which he himself went berserk and killed 30 people, giving those who guessed the clothes of the dead.
A selection of riddles with a trick for adults - for an interesting pastime.
For some reason, many people believe that riddles are entertainment for children. But in fact, they can be a great way to entertain, as long as they are age appropriate. After all, if you start asking riddles about the alphabet or mathematics among adults, everyone will probably get bored. To prevent you from getting into such a delicate situation, we offer you a selection of riddles with a trick for adults.
Trick riddles for adults - the best selection
Trick riddles for adultsTrick riddles are not just a way to have fun. While relaxing in a relaxed atmosphere, a person, without noticing it, trains his brain. By thinking and reasoning, a person learns and learns something new, which means he becomes wiser.
Trick riddles for adults:
- What elongates when you pick it up, push it through your chest, and push it into a hole? (The answer is a seat belt.)
- Black shiny, on three legs (The answer is a piano.)
- It was raining heavily. A bus was driving along the road. All the people on the bus were asleep, only the driver was awake. Question, what was the driver's name and what was the license plate of the bus? (Answer: because of the rain, you can’t see the bus number, but the driver is Tolya (only Tolya.)
- 2 people go to meet each other. Both are exactly the same. The question is, which of them will say hello first? (The answer is more polite.)
- The dwarf lives on the 38th floor. Every morning he gets into the elevator, gets to the 1st floor and goes to work. In the evening, he enters the entrance, gets into the elevator, gets to the 24th floor, and then walks to his apartment. The question is, why does he do this? (Answer: he can’t reach the right elevator button because he’s a dwarf.)
- The 12-story building has an elevator. Only 2 people live on the ground floor; from floor to floor the number of residents doubles. On which floor in this building is the elevator call button pressed most often? (The answer is on the first floor, regardless of the distribution of residents by floor.)
- Which hand do you think is best for stirring coffee with cream and sugar? (Answer - with the hand that holds the spoon.)
- Imagine that you are a pilot. Your plane flies from London to New York for seven hours. The plane's speed is 800 km/h. How old is the pilot? (The answer is as much as you, because you are a pilot.)
- Why don't polar bears eat penguins? (Answer: bears live at the North Pole, and penguins live at the South Pole.)
- What can't go into even the biggest pot? (The answer is her cover.)
- What are the last teeth a person develops? (The answer is artificial.)
- How to jump from a ten-meter ladder without breaking? (The answer is to jump off the first step)
- When you see everything, you don’t see her. And when you don’t see anything, you see her. (Answer: darkness)
- What cannot be held for even ten minutes, although it is lighter than a feather? (The answer is breathing.)
- There are roads - you can’t drive, there is land - you can’t plow, there are meadows - you can’t mow, there is no water in the rivers and seas. What is this? (The answer is a geographical map.)
Funny riddles with a trick for adults
A riddle with a trick for adults INTERESTING FACT: In ancient times, riddles were not used for entertainment. Farmers and herders used such sayings as a way to confuse evil spirits that could harm their farms. Later, riddles began to be used in wedding ceremonies. Everything is also to protect the young family.
Funny riddles with a trick for adults:
- What's not in a woman's handbag? (The answer is about.)
- In which month does chatty Svetochka talk the least? (The answer is February, the shortest month of the year.)
- How is a horse different from a needle? (Answer: first you sit on a needle, then you jump; to sit on a horse, first you jump, then you sit.)
- The most reliable part in a domestic car? (The answer is an imported radio tape recorder.)
- A hundred clothes and all without fasteners, but not cabbage. (Answer: homeless.)
- What is it—sitting on the ceiling, chewing on a light bulb? (The answer is a ceiling lamp chewer.)
- What do students and lizards have in common? (The answer is the ability to discard “tails” in time.)
- Why do they wear a hat? (The answer is because she doesn’t walk on her own.)
- Who drinks the whole holiday and only falls asleep in the morning? (The answer is everyone present.)
- How many peas can fit into one glass? (The answer is not at all, the peas don’t move.)
- What does a wife do with dinner if her husband doesn’t like it? (Answer: leaves it for dinner.)
- Why are robots never afraid? (The answer is because they have nerves of steel.)
- What can't be done in space even if you try harder? (The answer is to hang yourself.)
- Who wears the world's largest cap? (The answer is whoever has the world's largest head.)
- A sparrow can eat a handful of grain, but a horse cannot. Why? (Answer: A sparrow is too small to eat a horse.)
A trick riddle for adults using logic with answers
A riddle with a trick to your wits If you need to quickly switch the attention of people around you, you can always ask them to solve a couple of logic riddles.
A trick riddle for adults using logic:
- What lifts you up and brings you down, while constantly being in the same place? (The answer is an escalator.)
- A barrel of water weighs 50 kilograms, what needs to be added to make it weigh 15 kilograms? (The answer is a hole.)
- How to put 2 liters of milk in a liter jar? (The answer is to turn it into cottage cheese.)
- The same person always came to the football match. Before the game started, he guessed the score. How did he do it? (Answer: before the game starts, the score is always 0:0.)
- She can age in just a couple of hours. She benefits people while killing herself. Wind and water can save her from death. What it is? (The answer is a candle.)
- Imagine that you are sailing on the sea in a boat. Suddenly the boat starts to sink, you find yourself in the water, and sharks swim up to you. What to do to save yourself from sharks? (The answer is to stop imagining it.)
- When the ram reaches his eighth year, what will happen next? (Answer: the ninth one will go.)
- A wild boar climbed a pine tree with four legs and came down with three. How can this be? (Answer: boars cannot climb trees.)
- New Year's dinner is being prepared. The housewife prepares the food. What does she throw into the pan before adding food? (The answer is your opinion.)
- There were 3 birch trees. Each birch has 7 large branches. Each large branch has 7 small branches. There are 3 apples on each small branch. How many apples were there on the tree? (The answer is none. Apples don’t grow on birch trees.)
- The dog was tied to a ten-meter rope and walked three hundred meters. How did she do it? (Answer: the rope was not tied to anything.)
- A man is sitting, but you cannot sit in his place, even if he gets up and leaves. Where is he sitting? (The answer is on your knees.)
- What disease has no one on earth ever had? (The answer is sea.)
- What do you drop when you need it and pick it up when you don't? (The answer is an anchor.)
- In one hand the boy carried one kilogram of iron, and in the other the same amount of fluff. Which was heavier to carry? (The answer is the same.)
Complex riddles with a trick for adults with answers
Complex riddles with a trick If you want to be creative and force the people around you to go beyond patterns, give them riddles of increased complexity. At first glance, it may seem difficult to solve them, but if you concentrate a little and turn on your thinking, you will probably succeed.
Complex riddles with a trick for adults:
- A businessman bought a horse for $10, sold it for $20. Then he bought the same horse for $30, and sold it for $40. The question is, what is the total profit of the businessman from these two transactions? (The answer is $20.)
- The peasant needs to move a wolf, a goat and a cabbage across the river. The boat is so small that besides the peasant, only one more passenger can fit in it. But if you leave a wolf with a goat, then the wolf will eat it; if you leave a goat with cabbage, then the cabbage will be eaten. What should a peasant do? (The answer is to peasant, who transported the goat, returns and takes wolf, which he transports to the other bank, where he leaves him, but then takes the goat and takes it back to the first bank. Here he leaves her and takes her to cabbage for the wolf. Then, returning, he transports the goat, and the crossing ends safely.)
- One woman lived in a twelve-room apartment. She had a clock in every room. One Saturday evening in late October, she set all the clocks to daylight saving time and went to bed. When she woke up the next morning, she discovered that only two dials showed the correct time. Explain. (The answer is that ten of the twelve clocks were electronic. There was a power surge at night and the clocks went wrong. And only two clocks were mechanical, which is why they showed the correct time the next morning.)
- In France, there was a literary worker who hated the Eiffel Tower, especially how terrible it looked. At the same time, when he was hungry, he always visited the catering establishment located on the first floor of this architectural symbol of Paris. How is this behavior explained? (The answer is that only in this restaurant, looking out the window, he did not see the Eiffel Tower.)
- The professor decided to treat his friends to his signature vegetable salad. To do this, he needed 3 peppers and the same number of tomatoes, less cucumbers than tomatoes, but more than radishes. How many different vegetables did the professor use in the salad? (The answer is 9 pieces.)
- Misha was seventeen years old the day before yesterday, and next year he will turn twenty. Is it possible? (Answer - this is possible if such a phrase is uttered on January 1, taking into account the fact that Misha was born on December 31. Therefore, on December 30 he was still 17, and on the 31st he turned 18. In the coming year he will be 19, but in the next one will be 20. That’s how fortunately this Misha was born.)
- Vova and Sasha were playing in a dirty and dark attic. Vova’s face was completely smeared with soot, but Sasha’s miraculously remained clean. Having gone down, the guys looked at each other in the light of day, but for some reason it was not Vova who went to wash, but Sasha. (Answer - Sasha looked at Vova’s face, and since it was dirty, he thought that he, too, had gotten dirty, and so he went to wash himself. And Vova, who looked at Sasha’s clean face, did not even think that he himself he may be grimy.)
- Seven sisters are at the dacha, where each is busy with some kind of business. The first sister is reading a book, the second is cooking, the third is playing chess, the fourth is solving Sudoku, the fifth is doing the laundry, the sixth is taking care of the plants. What does the seventh sister do? (Answer: plays chess with the third sister.)
- How to measure the diameter of a thin wire with only a pencil and a scale ruler? (Answer - you need to tightly wrap (turn to turn) a pencil with wire, measure the length of the winding. Divide the resulting figure by the number of turns.)
- The woman came to the doctor for examination. The woman was the doctor's sister. But the doctor was not the woman's brother. Who was he to her? (Answer: sister.)
- Three friends lived in the forest: Deaf, Mute, and Blind. All was good. But somehow Deaf died. Now how will the Mute tell the Blind that their Deaf friend has died? (Answer: There is no need to explain to the Mute that the Deaf died. The Blind did not see him or speak to him.)
- Two wallets contain 4 coins, and one wallet contains twice as many coins as the other. How is this possible? (The answer is that one wallet is in another!)
- The housewife needs to bake 6 pies. How can she cope in 15 minutes, if only 4 pies fit in the frying pan, and the pies should be baked for 5 minutes on each side. (Answer - put 4 pies; turn 2 pies over, remove 2, put in 2 new ones; remove 2 ready-made ones, turn over 2 and turn over the 2 previously removed.)
- Vasily, Peter, Semyon and their wives Natalya, Irina, Anna are 151 years old together. Each husband is 5 years older than his wife. Vasily is 1 year older than Irina. Natalya and Vasily are 48 years old together, Semyon and Natalya are 52 years old together. Who is married to whom, and how old is someone? (Age must be expressed in whole numbers). (Answer - Vasily (26) - Anna (21); Peter (27) - Natalya (22); Semyon (30) - Irina (25).
- The boy needs to carry 3 apples across the bridge to his grandmother, but the bridge can only support 1 boy and 1 apple, and you can only cross the bridge once. Question: How can a boy take 3 apples to his grandmother? (The answer is he must juggle apples.)
Interesting riddles with a trick for adults
Attention task And in the last block of our article we bring to your attention short but interesting riddles with a trick.
Interesting riddles with a trick for adults:
If riddles are not enough for you, then we suggest you additionally read articles on similar topics. In the presented articles you will find riddles for both adults and children.
Logic problems with a trick are very valuable in large companies; they can intrigue the team, enliven the atmosphere and simply lift the spirits. Top most difficult logic riddles with a trick:
A farmer had a flock of eight sheep: three white, four black and one brown.
How many sheep can say that in this small flock there is at least one other sheep of the same color as hers? (answer: not a single sheep, since sheep cannot talk).
Six brothers are relaxing in a country house, where each of them is doing something.
The first brother is leafing through a magazine, the second is heating up dinner, the third is playing checkers, the fourth is doing a crossword puzzle, the fifth is cleaning the yard. What does sixth brother do? (answer: the sixth brother plays checkers with the third).
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Once Sherlock Holmes was walking and discovered a dead girl. He approached her, took out a phone from her purse, found her husband’s number, called and said: “Sir, quickly come here, your wife is dead!” A little time passed, the husband arrived, ran up to his wife’s body and began to cry: “Oh, dear, who did this?”
The police arrived, Sherlock, pointing to the husband of the deceased, said: “Arrest him, he is to blame for her death.” Why was Sherlock Holmes so confident in his conclusion? (answer: because he did not specify the location when he called his husband).
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What sign should be placed between the numbers 8 and 9 so that the answer is less than 9 but greater than 8? (answer: you need to put a comma).
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There were 40 people traveling in the train car, at the first stop 13 got off, 3 people got on, at the next 10 got off and 15 got on, then 5 left the train and 11 got on, at another stop 14 got off, then 7 people got on and 1 left the car.
How many stops did the train make? (The answer to the riddle is not important; in the process, the person who is given the logical task begins to count the number of people who got off and on at the stops, but does not pay attention to how many stops the train made, this is the catch of this riddle.)
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Katya really wanted to buy chocolate, but to buy it, she had to add 11 kopecks. And Dima wanted chocolate, but he was missing 2 kopecks. They decided to buy at least one chocolate bar, but they were still 2 kopecks short. How much does chocolate cost? (answer: a chocolate bar costs 11 kopecks, Katya has no money at all).
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The baron has one, but the emperor does not, Bogdan has one in front, and Zurab has one behind, the grandmother has two, and the girl has none. What is it about? (answer: about the letter “B”).
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In the frosty winter, the snake Gorynych stole the beautiful Vasilisa. Ivan Tsarevich went to Baba Yaga to find out where Gorynych lives, and Baba Yaga said to him: “You, Ivan, go through the mountains - through the forests - through the forests - through the mountains - through the mountains - through the forests - through the forests - through forests - through the mountains - through the mountains, there you will find Gorynych’s house.”
And Ivan Tsarevich galloped on his horse through the mountains, through the forests, through the forests - through the mountains, through the mountains - through the forests, through the forests - through the forests - through the mountains - through the mountains and sees: in front of him is a wide river, and behind it is the house of the Snake . How to cross the river, because there is no bridge? (answer: on ice. Everything happened in the frosty winter).
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The physical education teacher has a brother, Arseny. But Arseny has no brothers, is this possible? (answer: yes, if the physical education teacher is a woman).
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A prisoner was kept in an empty cell. He sat alone, every day they brought him dry bread, how did bones appear in the cell? (answer: fish bones, bread was brought with fish soup).
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There were two mothers and two daughters sitting in the room; there were only three pears on the table, but each ate a pear. Is this possible? (answer: yes, there were grandmother, daughter and granddaughter in the room).
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One boy was walking in the park and saw a high school student. A high school student offered to bet: “If I write your exact height in a notebook, then you will give me 1000 rubles, and if I am wrong, then I will give you.” I promise that I won’t ask you any questions, and I won’t measure you either.” The boy agreed.
A high school student wrote something in a notebook, showed it to the boy, the boy looked and gave the high school student 1000 rubles. How did a high school student win the argument? (answer: a high school student wrote “your exact height” in his notebook).