The most difficult and interesting riddles. Challenging riddles
Trick riddles with answers represent an ordinary puzzle, but with a non-standard answer to it. At first the question seems a little strange and wrong. However, if you re-read the riddle several times and think a little, it will turn out to be quite logical. Ask such riddles to your friends and you will have fun.
Logic riddles with a trick.
2 people approached the river bank. There is a boat near the shore - it can only support one. However, each of them was able to cross to the other side. How?
Answer: both people were on different banks.
Semyon, Ivan, Alexander and their wives Lyudmila, Anna and Natalya are 151 years old together. Each husband is five years older than his wife. Semyon for one year older than Anna. Semyon and Lyudmila have been together for 48 years, Alexander and Lyudmila have been together for 52 years. How old are each of them and who is married to whom?
Answer: Natalya is 21 years old, Semyon is 26 years old, Ivan is 27 years old, Anna is 25 years old, Alexander is 30 years old.
Where can you see one horse jumping over another?
Answer: in chess.
What table doesn't have legs?
Answer: dietary.
What animal can cars drive over and people walk on?
Answer: zebra crossing
There is a word in which the word “no” is used as many as 100 times. What is this word?
Answer: the word "moans"
Which elephant doesn't have a nose?
Answer: the chess bishop.
Mister Jake was found murdered in own office. The cause of death was a bullet wound to the head. While examining the murder scene, Detective Robin discovered a cassette recorder on the surface of the table. The detective turned it on and heard the voice of Mr. Jake himself. He said the following: “Jake speaking. Recently Mark called me and said he would be here in 10 minutes. He said he wanted to shoot me. There was no point in running. I understand perfectly well that this recording will help arrest Mark. I think I hear his footsteps on the stairs. The door is already opening...” The assistant detective suggested that Mark be arrested on suspicion of murder. However, the detective was in no hurry to do this. As a result, it turned out that it was not in vain. The killer turned out to be a completely different person.
Question: how did the detective guess about this? Why didn't he believe the words on the tape?
Answer: The cassette tape was moved to the beginning. If Mark really was the killer, he would have taken the tape.
There are two houses: one rich, the second poor. They start to burn. Which one will the police put out first?
Answer: fires are extinguished by firefighters, so the police will not extinguish either the first or second house.
Trick riddles for children
If you want to check out-of-the-box thinking your child, then offer him riddles with a trick. Completely simple questions can hide rather non-standard answers. Questions are formulated in such a way that the baby is distracted from obvious question, so he will have to “launch” his logical thinking. Children's riddles will be great fun for the whole family!
What is the difference between the Volga and the priest?
Answer: Volga is mother, and priest is father.
Strange riddles are fun and interesting.
What is behind the hare and what is in front of the heron?
Answer: letter "C".
Why do people in London walk with sad faces?
Answer: on the ground.
What kind of person never gets their hair wet when it rains?
Answer: bald.
What is the difference between a person and a locomotive.
Answer: a person first starts moving, and then whistles, but the locomotive, on the contrary, first whistles, and only then starts moving.
The more you take from it, the bigger it becomes.
Answer: pit.
How many gingerbread cookies can you eat on an empty stomach?
Answer: only one. The rest will already be eaten on an empty stomach.
In what place does a person pay for what is taken from him?
Answer: at the hairdresser.
Which river fits easily in your mouth?
Answer: Desna
What object has a heel behind its nose?
Answer: shoes
Dirty riddles with a trick
Any of the riddles we have proposed has a pretty decent answer. There are rumors that all these riddles were once published in the magazine “Murzilka”, but, unfortunately, there was no evidence of this - copies of the magazine have not been preserved.
Not horseradish, not a carrot, but there is a red head.
Answer: a pioneer in a cap.
Lie on your back and no one will need it, but lean it against the wall and it will immediately come in handy.
Answer: stairs.
Take it with both hands, put it between your legs, sweat for 5 minutes, and then go crazy.
Answer: bicycle.
It can be cold, it can be hot, it can be hanging, it can be standing.
Answer: shower
Which fellow has a drop fall from the end?
Answer: at the samovar
From what type of dishes do you never get enough?
Answer: out of nowhere.
Funny riddles with a catch.
5 apples grew on the tree. A squirrel came running and picked 3 apples. How many apples are left hanging on the tree?
Answer: the tree grows cones, not apples.
What tree will the hare hide under if it rains?
Answer: under wet.
All names of Russian origin end with either the letter “A” or the letter “Z”. However, there is such Russian name, which does not end with these letters. What kind of name is this?
When is it easier for a black cat to get into the house?
Answer: everything is very simple - when the door is open.
On the table there is an eraser, a compass, a pencil, and a ruler. The task is to draw a circle. Where should you start?
Answer: the first thing you need to do is get a piece of paper.
There are 2 coins on the table. Their total amount is 3 rubles. One of the coins is not a ruble. So what are these coins?
Answer: one ruble and two rubles. That’s right, if one of them is not a ruble, then the second is definitely a ruble.
Complex riddles with a trick
The roof of one of the houses is asymmetrical: one of the slopes is horizontal at an angle of 70 degrees, and the second at an angle of 60 degrees. Let's assume that a rooster lays an egg on the ridge of the roof. In which direction will the egg roll - towards a steep or gentle slope?
Answer: A rooster cannot lay eggs.
At 14 storey building there is an elevator. Only two people live on the very first floor. With each floor the number of people doubles. Which elevator button is pressed most often by residents?
Answer: button number 1.
The boy fell down 6 steps, resulting in a broken leg. If he falls down 30 steps, how many legs will he break?
Answer: if you're lucky, but not alone. And in the worst case, only one, since his second one is already broken.
The chicken is walking along the road. If he crosses the road, where will he end up?
Answer: on the other side of the road.
Which car wheel will not spin on a right turn?
The tin can was covered with a lid and placed on the edge of the table in such a way that 2/3 of the can began to hang down. After some time, the can fell. What was in the jar?
Answer: a piece of ice.
Funny riddles with a trick and an answer.
A large truck was driving along the road. The moon and stars did not shine, his headlights were not on, but at the same time he was able to see and miss the woman who was crossing the road in front of him. How did he do it?
Answer: the event took place during the day.
They claim that they do not glue, but they have never even tried to glue them.
Answer: business.
On one of the islands there is a hospital with a grandmother, on the second there is a boy with apples. There is a bridge between the two islands. The boy needs to bring one apple to his grandmother, but the boy can only walk across the bridge with one apple. As soon as the boy crosses the bridge at least once, the bridge will collapse. He won't be able to swim back because there are sharks in the water. How can he give his grandmother the second apple?
Answer: While crossing the bridge, the boy will need to juggle.
There is a prison with a river around it. Three prisoners plan their escape without knowing about each other. The first prisoner escapes from prison, but while trying to swim across the river he is eaten by a shark. The guards saw the second prisoner during the escape, pulled him out by the hair and shot him. And only the third prisoner managed to escape from prison. Question: where did the author deceive you? If you give 3 correct answers, he promised to treat you with candy.
Answer: all the prisoners in prison are bald, there are no sharks in the river, no one will treat you to candy.
Logic riddles with a trick with answers.
Lena wanted to buy a chocolate bar, but she didn’t have 10 rubles for this. Seryozha also dreams of a chocolate bar, but he only needs one ruble. The children decided to pool their money and buy one chocolate bar for two. However, they also lacked one ruble. How much does a chocolate bar cost?
Answer: the price of a chocolate bar is 10 rubles. Lena had no money at all.
This word can be mirrored, written upside down, written from right to left. However, it will not change.
Answer: it.
Answer: secret.
That you cannot hold it even for 10 minutes, despite the fact that it is even lighter than a feather.
Answer: breathing.
Cool riddles with a trick.
Why did Soviet janitors have their brooms shortened?
Answer: so that they do not stand leaning on it.
There were 5 apples on the plate, intended for 5 children. Each of the children came up and took an apple for themselves. However, one of the apples still remained on the plate. How can this be?
Answer: last child He took his apple along with the plate.
The person doesn’t really want to do this, but at the same time he absolutely doesn’t want to lose it.
Answer: work.
This item is thrown away when it is not needed and picked up when there is no need for it.
Answer: sea anchor.
He stands while working, hangs while not working, and after work he is all wet.
Answer: umbrella.
In France it is in second place, and in Russia it is in first place.
Answer: letter "R".
Which hand is better and more convenient to stir sugar?
Answer: with the hand that holds the spoon.
In the room there were 2 hens, 1 rooster, 2 cats, 5 puppies, 3 rabbits, 12 chickens. The owner entered the room with the dog. How many legs are there now?
Answer: two legs, because all animals have paws.
Can an ostrich tell that they are a bird?
Answer: No, because he cannot speak.
How many raspberries can fit into a glass?
Answer: none, because raspberries cannot walk.
Gray, small and very similar to an elephant. Who is this?
Answer: baby elephant.
What object does half an orange resemble?
Answer: to your soulmate.
There is a rich house and a poor one. They are burning. Which house will the police extinguish?
Police don't put out fires, firefighters put out fires
How can a person not sleep for 8 days?
Sleep at night
You enter a dark kitchen. It contains a candle, a kerosene lamp and a gas stove. What will you light first?
A girl is sitting, and you cannot sit in her place, even if she gets up and leaves. Where is she sitting?
She sits on your lap
You are standing in front of three switches. Behind an opaque wall are three light bulbs that are turned off. You need to manipulate the switches, go into the room and determine which light bulb each switch belongs to.
First you need to turn on two switches. After some time, turn off one of them. Enter the room. One light bulb will be hot from the switch on, the second will be warm from the switch off, the third will be cold from the untouched switch
It is known that among the nine coins there is one counterfeit one, which weighs less than the rest of the coins. How can you identify a counterfeit coin in two weighings using a cup scale?
1st weighing: 3 and 3 coins. The counterfeit coin is in the pile that weighs less. If they are equal, then the fake is in the third pile. 2nd weighing: Any 2 coins from the pile with the lowest weight are compared. If they are equal, then the remaining coin is fake
Two people approach the river. There is a boat at the shore that can only support one. Both people crossed to the opposite bank. How?
They were on different banks
Two fathers, two sons found three oranges and divided them. Everyone got a whole orange. How can this be?
The dog was tied to a ten-meter rope and walked 300 meters. How did she do it?
The rope was not tied to anything
How can a thrown egg fly three meters without breaking?
You need to throw the egg four meters, then the first three meters it will fly intact
The man was driving a large truck. The lights on the car were not turned on. There was no moon either. The woman began to cross the road in front of the car. How did the driver manage to see her?
It was a bright sunny day
If five cats catch five mice in five minutes, how long does it take one cat to catch one mouse?
Five minutes
Is it possible to light a match underwater?
It is possible if you pour water into some container, for example, into a glass, and hold the match below the glass
The boat rocks on the water. A ladder was thrown from it along the side. Before high tide, the water covered only the bottom step. How long will it take for the water to cover the 3rd step from the bottom if during high tide the water rises at 20 cm per hour and the distance between the steps is 30 cm?
Never, because the boat rises with the water
How to divide five apples between five girls so that each gets an apple and at the same time one of the apples remains in the basket?
Give one girl an apple along with a basket
One and a half pike perch costs one and a half rubles. How much do 13 pike perch cost?
Traders and potters. In one city all the people were traders or potters. Merchants always told lies, but potters always told the truth. When all the people gathered in the square, each of those gathered said to the others: “You are all traders!” How many potters were there in this city?
The potter was alone because:
- If there were no potters, then the traders would have to tell the truth that all the other traders are traders, and this contradicts the conditions of the problem.
- If there were more than one potter, then each potter would have to lie that the rest were traders.
There are two coins on the table; they add up to 3 rubles. One of them is not 1 ruble. What coins are these?
1 and 2 rubles
The satellite makes one revolution around the Earth in 1 hour 40 minutes, and the other in 100 minutes. How can this be?
100 minutes is 1 hour 40 minutes
As you know, all Russian female names end with either the letter “a” or the letter “ya”: Anna, Maria, Irina, Natalya, Olga, etc. However, there is only one thing female name, which ends with another letter. Name it.
What has no length, depth, width, height, but can be measured?
Time, temperature
If it is raining at 12 o'clock at night, can we expect sunny weather 72 hours later?
No, because in 72 hours it will be night
Seven brothers have one sister. How many sisters are there in total?
One yacht goes from Nice to Sanremo, the other from Sanremo to Nice. They left the harbors at the same time. For the first hour, the yachts moved at the same speed (60 km/h), but then the first yacht increased its speed to 80 km/h. Which yacht will be closer to Nice when they meet?
At the moment of their meeting they will be at the same distance from Nice
A woman was walking towards Moscow, and three men met her. Everyone has a bag, in each bag there is a cat. How many creatures were heading to Moscow?
Only the woman went to Moscow, the rest went in the other direction
There were 10 birds sitting on a tree. A hunter came and shot one bird. How many birds are left on the tree?
Not a single one - the rest of the birds flew away
The train runs from east to west, and the wind blows from north to south. In which direction does the smoke fly from the chimney?
You are running a marathon and have passed the runner who was running second. What position do you take now?
Second. If you answered that you are now first, then this is incorrect: you overtook the second runner and took his place, so you are now in second position
You are running a marathon and have passed the last runner. What position do you take now?
If you answered that it was the penultimate one, you were wrong again :). Think about how you can overtake the last runner? If you are running after him, then he is not the last. The correct answer is - it is impossible, you cannot overtake the last runner
There were three cucumbers and four apples on the table. The child took one apple from the table. How much fruit is left on the table?
3 fruits, and cucumbers are vegetables
The product first rose in price by 10%, and then fell in price by 10%. What is its value now relative to its original value?
99%: after the price increase, 10% was added to 100% - it turned out to be 110%; 10% of 110% = 11%; then subtract 11% from 110% and get 99%
How many times does the number 4 appear in the integers from 1 to 50?
15 times: 4, 14, 24, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 - twice, 45, 46. 47, 48, 49
You have driven your car two-thirds of the way. At the beginning of the journey, the car's gas tank was full, but now it is one quarter full. Will there be enough gasoline until the end of the trip (at the same consumption)?
No, because 1/4< 1/3
Mary's father has 5 daughters: Chacha, Cheche, Chichi, Chocho. What is the name of the fifth daughter?
A deaf and mute man went into a stationery store to buy a pencil sharpener. He stuck his finger into his left ear and made a spinning motion with the fist of his other hand near his right ear. The seller immediately understood what was being asked of him. Then a blind man entered the same store. How did he explain to the salesman that he wanted to buy scissors?
I just said, he's blind, but not dumb
A rooster has flown to the border between Russia and China. I sat down exactly on the border, absolutely in the middle. Layed an egg. It fell exactly across: the border divides it in the middle. Which country does the egg belong to?
Roosters don't lay eggs!
One morning, a soldier who had previously been on night guard approached the centurion and said that that night he had seen in a dream how the barbarians would attack the fortress from the north that evening. The centurion did not really believe in this dream, but still took measures. That same evening the barbarians actually attacked the fortress, but thanks measures taken their attack was repulsed. After the battle, the centurion thanked the soldier for the warning and then ordered him to be taken into custody. Why?
Because he slept on duty
There are ten fingers on the hands. How many fingers are there on ten hands?
Airplane with English tourists flew from Holland to Spain. He crashed in France. Where should the surviving (wounded) tourists be buried?
The survivors do not need to be buried! :)
You were driving a bus with 42 passengers from Boston to Washington. At each of the six stops, 3 people got out of it, and at every second - four. What was the driver's name when the driver arrived in Washington 10 hours later?
How about you, because in the beginning it was said that You drove the bus
What can you find in minutes, seconds and days, but not in years, decades and centuries?
How many times can you subtract 3 from 25?
Once, because after the first subtraction the number "25" will change to "22"
Mrs Taylor's bungalow is all finished in pink color: It has pink lamps, pink walls, pink carpets and a pink ceiling. What color are the stairs in this bungalow?
There are no stairs in the bungalow
In the ancient castle where the prison was located, there were 4 round towers in which prisoners were imprisoned. One of the prisoners decided to escape. And then one fine day he hid in a corner, and when a guard came in, he stunned him with a blow to the head, and he ran away, changing into different clothes. Could this happen?
No, since the towers were round and there were no corners
The 12-story building has an elevator. Only 2 people live on the ground floor; from floor to floor the number of residents doubles. Which button in the elevator of this building is pressed most often?
Regardless of the distribution of residents by floor - button “1”
A pair of horses ran 20 kilometers. Question: How many kilometers did each horse run individually?
20 kilometers
What can stand and walk, hang and stand, walk and lie at the same time?
Is it possible to predict the score? football match before it starts and if so, how?
The score of any match before it starts is always 0:0
What can a person increase in diameter by 7 times in a few seconds?
Pupil. When moving from bright light towards darkness, the diameter can change from 1.1 to 8 mm; everything else either hardly increases or increases in diameter by no more than 2-3 times
A seller at the market sells a hat that costs 10 rubles. A buyer comes up and wants to buy it, but he only has 25 rubles. The seller sends the boy away with these 25 rubles. change it to a neighbor. The boy comes running and gives 10 + 10 +5 rubles. The seller gives the hat and change 15 rubles, and 10 rubles. keeps it for himself. After some time, a neighbor comes and says that 25 rubles. fake, demands to give her money. The seller returns her money. How much money was the seller defrauded of?
The seller was deceived by a counterfeit 25 rubles.
How many animals did Moses take on his ark?
It was not Moses who took the animals into the ark, but Noah.
2 people entered the entrance at the same time. One has an apartment on the 3rd floor, the other on the 9th. How many times will the first person get there faster than the second? Note: They simultaneously pressed buttons on 2 elevators moving at the same speed.
The usual answer is 3 times. Correct answer: 4 times. Elevators usually go from the 1st floor. The first one will travel 3-1=2 floors, and the second one will travel 9-1=8 floors, i.e. 4 times more
This riddle is often offered to children. But sometimes adults can rack their brains for a long time to figure out how to solve such a problem, so you can organize a competition: invite everyone to try to solve the problem. Whoever guesses it, regardless of age, deserves a prize. Here's the task:
6589 = 4; 5893 = 3; 1236 = 1; 1234 = 0; 0000 = 4; 5794 = 1; 1111 = 0; 4444 = 0; 7268 = 3; 1679 = 2; 3697 = 2
2793 = 1; 4895 = 3
The main thing is to look at the problem like a child, then you will understand that the answer is 3 (three circles in the writing of numbers)
Two horsemen competed to see whose horse would reach the finish line last. However, things did not go well, both stood still. Then they turned to the sage for advice, and after that they both rode at full speed.
The sage advised the horsemen to exchange horses
One student tells another: “Yesterday our college basketball team won the basketball game with a score of 76:40. At the same time, not a single basketball player scored a single goal in this match.”
Women's teams played
A man walks into a store, buys sausage and asks to cut it, not across, but lengthwise. The saleswoman asks: “Are you a fireman?” - “Yes.” How did she guess?
The man was in uniform
The lady did not have a driver's license with her. She did not stop at the railway crossing, although the barrier was lowered, then, not paying attention to the “brick”, she moved along the street with one way traffic against the traffic and stopped only after passing three blocks. All this happened in front of a traffic police officer, who for some reason did not consider it necessary to intervene.
The lady was walking
On one Odessa street there were three tailoring workshops. The first tailor advertised himself as follows: “The best workshop in Odessa!” The second is “The best workshop in the world!” The third “outdid” them both.
“The best workshop on this street!”
Two brothers were drinking at a bar. Suddenly, one of them began to argue with the bartender, and then pulled out a knife and, not paying attention to his brother’s attempts to stop him, hit the bartender. At his trial he was found guilty of murder. At the end of the trial, the judge said: “You have been found guilty of murder, but I have no choice but to let you go.” Why did the judge have to do this?
The culprit was one of conjoined twins. The judge could not send a guilty person to prison without putting an innocent person there as well.
We were traveling in the same compartment: Baba Yaga, Zmey Gorynych, a stupid ensign and a smart ensign. There was a bottle of beer on the table. The train entered the tunnel and it became dark. When the train came out of the tunnel, the bottle was empty. Who drank the beer?
The stupid ensign drank the beer, since the other creatures are unreal and do not occur in life!)
What comes first in Russia and second in France?
(Letter "P")
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?
(Piece of Ice)
There were 90 apples growing on a birch tree. Blown strong wind, and 10 apples fell. How many are left?
(Apples don’t grow on birch trees)
You are competing and have passed the runner in second position. What position do you take now?
(If you answered that you are now first, then you are absolutely wrong. You overtook 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?
(If you answered the penultimate one, you are again absolutely wrong. Think about it. How can you overtake a runner who is running last? If you are running after him, then he is not last. The answer is that it is impossible. It turns out that your use of the brain is not the best strong point)
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?
(The answer is 5000? Wrong again. The correct answer is 4100. Try using a calculator)
Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Chacha 2. Cheche 3. Chichi 4. Chocho.
Question: What is the name of the fifth daughter? Think fast. The answer is just below.
(Chuchu? NO! Of course, her name is Mary. Read the question again)
When a woman lifts her leg, what do you see? Five letters, starts with P and ends with A.
What elongates when you take it in your hands, pass it between your breasts and insert it into the hole?
(Seat belt)
What is on a woman's body, on a Jew's mind, is used in hockey and on the chessboard?
(Combination)
What has a head but no brain?
(Cheese, onion, garlic)
Run, run - you won’t get there,
Fly, fly - not reach.
(Horizon)
Little blue fur coat -
Covered the whole world.
Blue field
Silver is strewn.
(Stars in the sky)
Blue scarf,
Red bun
Rolling on a scarf
People smile.
(Sky and sun)
White cat
Climbs through the window.
(Rays of the sun)
Gray boars covered the entire field.
No arms, no legs,
And he opens the gate.
An eagle flies across the blue sky:
Wings spread out
Found the sun.
I'll look out the window:
Long Antoshka is coming.
Red rocker
It hung across the river.
No arms, no legs,
And he can draw.
The tablecloth is white
I dressed the whole world.
It flows, it flows, it won’t flow,
He runs, he runs, but he won’t run out.
Doesn't burn in fire
Doesn't sink in water.
Not the sea, not the land,
Ships don't float
But you can’t walk.
What does half an orange look like?
(To the other half)
When is the best time for a black cat to get into the house?
(When the door is open)
Two nails fell into the water. What is the Georgian's last name?
(Rusted)
There are two coins on the table; they add up to 3 rubles. One of them is not 1 ruble. What coins are these?
(2 rubles and 1 ruble. One is not 1 ruble, but the other is 1 ruble)
She was white and gray
A green, young one came.
(Winter and Spring)
Two people approach the river. There is a boat at the shore that can only support one. Both people crossed to the opposite bank. HOW?
(They were on different banks)
What do you drop when you need it and pick it up when you don't?
(Sea anchor)
Two fathers and two sons were walking and found three oranges. They began to divide - everyone got one. How could this be?
(They were grandfather, father and son)
Without work it hangs, while work it stands, after work it is wet.
What is it that is easy to pick up the earth, but difficult to throw it far?
What rocks are not in the sea?
How do day and night end?
(Soft sign)
Who speaks all languages?
There were four birch trees,
each birch has four large branches,
on each large branch there are four small branches,
There are four apples on each small branch.
How many apples are there in total?
(Not a single one. Apples don’t grow on birch trees!)
What is it: blue, big, with a mustache and completely stuffed with bunnies?
(Trolleybus)
Which hand is better to stir tea?
(Which one contains a spoon, and if there is a spoon in both, then which one is more convenient)
In the room there were 12 chickens, 3 rabbits, 5 puppies, 2 cats, 1 rooster and 2 hens. The owner came here with his dog. How many legs are there in the room?
(Two. Animals have paws)
How many steps does it take to put a hippopotamus in the refrigerator?
(Three. Open the refrigerator, place the hippopotamus and close the refrigerator)
How many steps does it take to put a giraffe in the refrigerator?
(Four: open the refrigerator, take out the hippopotamus, plant the giraffe, close the refrigerator)
Now imagine: they organized a race around the Kremlin, a hippopotamus, a giraffe and a turtle are participating. Who will reach the finish line first?
(Hippopotamus, because there is a giraffe in the refrigerator...)
Can an ostrich call itself a bird?
(No, he can't talk.)
How many peas can fit into one glass?
(Not at all, because peas don’t move)
Small, gray, looks like an elephant. Who?
(Baby elephant)
How do day and night end?
(Soft sign)
As you know, all native Russian female names end in either “a” or “ya”: Anna, Maria, Olga, etc. However, there is only one female name that does not end in either “a” or “i”. Name it.
The woman is standing on the floor, her hole slightly open.
What is it: the hard is inserted into the soft, and the balls dangle nearby?
What kind of woman first rubs up against you and then demands money?
(Conductor on the tram)
Riddles are a great treasury of human thought, which contains folk wisdom and thirst for knowledge. This is very wholesome entertainment, developing attention, expanding vocabulary and developing the ability to think outside the box. And sometimes even adults can’t solve them! Examples of such riddles can be seen under the cut.
The Riddle of Gestumblindi
One of the characters Scandinavian mythology, Gestumblindi, asked the following riddle to the king:
Four hanging
four are coming,
two show the way,
two defend themselves from dogs,
one is hanging out
always dirty.
Answer: cow.
Bilbo's Riddle
In the movie "The Hobbit" An unexpected journey"Bilbo asked the following riddle:
Thirty white horses
On two red hills -
They will run away and collide
And again they will fall silent in the darkness.
Answer: teeth.
Exeter mysteries
Old English riddles are one of the minor genres of Old English poetry that are part of the Exeter Codex. One of these riddles:
I am dear to people, I meet in many places,
They bring me from the forest and from the mountain slopes,
from the valleys and from the hills.
During the day I was carried by wings through the air, delivered with care
under roof protection.
People then soaked me in a barrel.
Now I'm a binder and a flail, soon I'll quit
people on the land, every peasant...
Answer: drinking honey.
Children's riddle for Homer
According to legend, the ancient Greek poet Homer himself did not know where he was born. One day he asked about it Delphic Oracle and received the answer:
“The island of Ios is your mother’s land, and she will receive you dead, but beware of the riddles that children tell.” Already an old man, Homer came to Ios and when he sat down on the shore, he saw the children of local fishermen returning from the sea. He asked what they caught. The children replied: “What we caught, we threw away, and what we didn’t catch, we have.”
Homer tried to solve the riddle and realized that his time was up. Still trying to find the answer, he slipped, hit his head and died.
Riddle about heaven and hell
Situation:
You are in a room with two doors: one leads to heaven, the other to hell.
In the room, besides you, there are 2 more wise men: one always tells the truth, the other always lies. You don't know which one is which.
Question:
How to get to heaven by asking just one question to one of the sages?
Answer: Which door would another sage point to if I asked him how to get to hell? In any case, the door leading to heaven will be indicated.
Einstein's riddle
This famous logic problem According to legend, it was created by Albert Einstein during his childhood.
There are five houses on the street.
An Englishman lives in a red house.
The Spaniard has a dog.
They drink coffee in the green house.
A Ukrainian drinks tea.
The green house is located immediately to the right of the white house.
Anyone who smokes Old Gold breeds snails.
They smoke Kools in the yellow house.
In the central house they drink milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The neighbor of the one who smokes Chesterfield keeps a fox.
In the house next door to the one where the horse is kept, they smoke Kools.
Anyone who smokes Lucky Strike drinks orange juice.
The Japanese smokes Parliament.
A Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
Who drinks water? Who's holding the zebra?
Finding a solution is easy if you outline the sign.
Samson's Riddle
Samson asked this riddle on his wedding day with Dilida.
From the eater comes something edible,
From the strong came the sweet?
Samson and the lion came together in battle, Samson perched on the lion's back. Lions, as you know, tear their prey with their claws, but Samson killed the lion with his bare hands! And a couple of days later Samson comes, and here is a swarm of bees in the lion’s corpse and honey.
Samson's riddle is twofold. One half of the answer is lion, the other half is honey.
The Mystery of Lewis Carroll
What do a raven and a desk have in common?
As you know, this riddle of the Hatter gave rise to so much controversy that Carroll himself had to explain in the preface to one of the editions of “Alice in Wonderland” that the riddle had no answer. By the way, he himself, in the end, couldn’t stand it, and saw the connection between the crow and the desk: “With the help of both, you can give answers, albeit flat ones; they are never put on the wrong side!”
The most difficult logic problem
This riddle was proposed by the American philosopher and logician George Boulos in the Italian newspaper "la Repubblica" in 1992:
There are 3 familiar gods: A, B and C, which are the gods of truth, lies and chance in no particular order. The god of truth always tells the truth, the god of lies always deceives, the god of chance can speak both the truth and lies in any order. You need to identify the gods by asking 3 questions that can be answered “yes” or “no”. Each question is asked only to one god. The gods understand the language, but answer in their own language, in which there are 2 words “da” and “ja”, and it is unknown which word means “yes” and which “no”.
Answer:
Let's ask God B: “If I ask you: “God A is the god of chance?”, will you answer “ja”?” If god B answers "ja", then either he is a god of chance (and answers randomly), or he is not a god of chance, but in fact god A is a god of chance. In any case, God C is not a god of chance. If B answers “da”, then either he is the god of chance (and answers randomly), or B is not the god of chance, which means that god A is also not the god of chance. In any case, God A is not a god of chance.
Let us ask a god who is not a god of chance (based on the results of the previous question, either A or C): “If I ask you: “Are you the god of truth?”, will you answer “ja”?” Since he is not a god of chance, the answer "ja" indicates that he is the god of truth, and the answer "da" indicates that he is the god of lies.
Let’s ask the same god: “If I ask you: “God B is the god of chance?”, will you answer “ja”?” If the answer is “ja” - god B is the god of chance, if the answer is “da”, then the god who has not yet been spoken to is the god of chance.
The remaining god is determined by elimination.
Riddles not only help you learn something new, remember some feature of a phenomenon or object, but they can also make you laugh. At the same time, attentiveness and ingenuity develop.
Riddles with a trick (with answers)
Funny riddles are suitable for company. By the fire in the evening, on the veranda during the rain. The guys answer the leader’s question in unison. The most important thing is not to give a lot of time to think about the answer. Then everyone will have fun.
They are composed in such a way that the wrong answer falls into the rhyme. If you answer quickly, it turns out funny. The presenter corrects him, each time making a perplexed face: “Didn’t you know that?”
There is grief on the ice field, there is crying on the ice field.
Upset the goalie of the hockey players in the goal...
/No, not a ball, but a goal/
On the graceful head is a royal crown.
There is no more beautiful bird than this one, its name is...
/No, not a crow, but a peacock/
To the store with great hope
We came to buy clothes.
Our dad was able to try it on
A pair of mittens for...
/No, not for legs, but for arms/
Petya loves her very much
She chops the cabbage finely.
She seems to be two hundred years old,
This Petina...
/No, not the bride, but the turtle/
Old ladies go to the store to buy themselves...
/No, not toys, but dryers for tea/
The path has become drier - I have dry...
/No, not my ears, I have dry feet/
At night he looks out the window,
Poor lighting...
/No, not the sun, the moon is shining through the window/
They promised us frost - Pull your hat on...
/No, not on your nose, pull it tighter over your ears/
Wandered near the apiary
Clubfoot...
/No, not a crocodile. And not Mikhail, but just a bear/
Summer is getting closer,
We'll have it soon...
/No, not skis. We'll get roller skates/
The children fed daddy
They poured meat borscht for him.
Well, he admitted in a deep voice,
That he eats candy with...
/No, not with meat, but with nuts/
Very intently on us
Someone is looking into one eye.
And has one horn,
Who is this?
/No, not a rhinoceros. This is a one-horned cow winking/
Our dad is quick to decide, cutting the fabric takes...
/No, not an axe, the fabric is cut with scissors/
Now we will ask the kids:
Who is the cat afraid of?..
/No, the cat is not afraid of mice, but of dogs/
Caught a mouse and catches a second one
cunning redhead evil...
/No, cows don't catch mice. This is a fox/
Logic riddles
Not all children spend the summer in a camp where teachers work with them. For family vacation Slightly different riddles are suitable, the guessing of which does not require a cheerful crowd.
What kind of animal: a tail like a cat, a muzzle like a cat, but not a cat. Who is this?
You are sitting in the cockpit. Looks like you're in a car.
But there is a horse in front of you, and a galosh behind you. What kind of place is this?
/You are sitting on the carousel/
Older children will be interested in more complex problems. Mom and Dad can write them down on pieces of paper, fold them up and put them in a hat. Especially to help parents - logic riddles with answers, with a trick, funny:
When does it happen that a person finds himself in a room without a head?
/This happens if he stuck it out the window/
What is the same end of day and night?
/Soft sign/
When is the easiest time for a red dog to get into the house?
/When the door is open in the house/
For children's quiz
Simple questions for a children's quiz don't have to be boring. While thinking about the answer, the guys enjoy the selection of options. There are very funny solutions. How can a teacher prepare for an event? Children's riddles with a trick with answers, funny:
On five aspen trees there are five branches, on each branch there are five pears. How many pears are there in total?
/Pears do not grow on aspen/
Seven oxen were running, how many tails did their necks have?
/Tails don’t grow at the neck/
Granny went to do laundry on the Oka River and met three men, each man had a box, and in each box there was a puppy. How much did it take to go to Oka?
/One granny/
In which month do chatty girlfriends talk the least?
/In February/
For your wits
When conducting the quiz “Clever and clever” or “What? Where? When?" You can’t do without seemingly simple questions. But everyone can hide a secret.
Two brothers are running ahead
Two of them are in a hurry.
But they can’t catch up with the first two,
Don't turn back.
/These are four wheels on a car/
By listening carefully, it is easy to guess the tricky riddles. With answers, funny options:
Masha collected 12 fly agarics, Petya - 2 less, and Kolya - 2 more. How many edible mushrooms do the guys have?
/Not a single one/
What head grows without a nose?
/Cabbage/
Short riddles
Tricky, with answers, funny, short - these are the ones that are easy to remember. They can be wished for from the stage, choosing who will receive the prize. Here are some options:
It is small, gray,
Looks like an elephant. Who is this?
/Baby elephant/
What has never happened and will never happen, but actually exists?
/Today/
Which hand does a left-handed person or a right-handed person stir sugar in tea with?
/They stir the sugar with a spoon/
What can't you have for breakfast?
Imagine that you saw a green man. What are your actions?
/You should cross the road/
Why is the cow lying?
/She lies down because she doesn’t know how to sit/
Why does a goose swim?
/He swims from the shore/
You have a ruler, eraser, compass and pencils. Where do you start to draw a circle?
/You don’t have any paper. Start by taking out the paper/
Name the stones that are not found in the river.
/There are no dry stones in the river, all are wet/
Who can speak all languages?
Trick riddles with answers, funny, difficult
And these questions will make some adults think too. Of course, there was a joke too. To develop imagination and humor - the following options:
Two riders argued: each claimed that he would come to the finish line last. They stood like that for a long time, not daring to give spurs to their horses. A man was passing by. They asked him for advice. After his words, they rushed like the wind. What did the passerby say to them?
/He said: “swap horses”/
The boys talk amazing stories which they were eyewitnesses. And then one says: “Yesterday my father forgot his umbrella and hat and came home soaked to the skin. But I was able not to wet a single hair on my head. He did not cover his head with his hands and did not pull his jacket over it.” Is this story really amazing?
/No, father shaves his head/
One man bet that he would place a bottle in the middle of the room and then crawl into it. It was a huge success. How did he do it?
/He crawled into the room, not into the bottle. They applauded him with laughter/
Of course, the guys already know some of the answers. But no one will refuse to remember riddles with a trick and funny answers. Yes, they are remembered better that way. And soon they will begin to quote them in order to defuse the tense atmosphere in the team. This is the culture of speech. This way, education goes unnoticed and fun even during the holidays.
