Some hard Riddles (for some) that had me thinking about them for days
83Nothing teases the brain like a great riddle, with a simple answer you just can't figure out.. and when you do you realize duh, I knew that.
Introduction to game..
When I was a kid (my entrepreneurial adventures from nine years old to today hub, releasing tonight) got me in the old days frames of memory and I remember some hard riddles that even stumped the adults at the time so I thought I'd share them here...
How to play
I'll list them and allow people to answer with their best guess in the comments box. I will approve those with the wrong answers but not the ones with the right (for a week's time) so people have clues as to what it isn't (and you know you got it wrong or right) and so it doesn't give it away for those trying to figure it out. If your comment doesn't publish it's the right answer. Don't cheat and tell others what you put, let them enjoy the fun of figuring it out.
If your answer is wrong but close...
If you get close to the answer or apply the right logic to it but get it wrong I'll publish your answer as a clue (I'll post right after stating your's is a close answer and a clue to the real answer) and I'll email you to tell you.
Major clue
The answers are incredibly logical that's your only clue other than the riddle itself.
I was thinking of doing this once a week for a while to see how people like it. Once the answer is given away I'll release a new riddle. I'm curious to see how many people this still stumps. I asked my roomates one of which is 62 years old and wise in his ways, and he is still trying to figure it out after a day to think about it.. he's begging me at this point for the answer..
Can't figure it out? feel free to guess as much as you want..(refresh page to put another guess)
First Riddle: 02-18-2008 Answers given 02-28-2008
What goes up the chimney down but cannot go down the chimney up?
This picture holds the answer to the next riddle
If you got the first one pretty quickly (not typical though) Here's another one for you
Riddle two is not so simple:
This is a fictional tale to help you figure it out.
One day a group of archeologists were digging through some ice caves and came upon a human male frozen solid inside a block of ice. They chiseled around the ice floor and took the man back to the laboratory to thaw him out and to figure out where he came from and who it was.
No DNA information was available in the computers and they became stumped over several weeks of your average high tech identification methods.
One of the scientists was awoken by a phone call from a scientist who astonished him with this new information!
We know who it is and your not going to believe this.. We need you to come down here right away, the scientist says.
When he shows up in the lab he tells him this is Adam. With a question mark on his forehead he says who the hell is Adam? Adam as in Adam and eve?!?! with a bit of shock and disbelief he says, really? How do you know?
After the scientist tells him how he figured it out the other scientist passes out realizing this really was Adam!
The riddle is:
What did he tell him that makes it absolutely true that this is Adam according to the bible?
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In The Doghouse got the second one (adam)! anyone else care to guess? the first one is the hardest yet the most logical!
Wow noone is guessing.. guess this hub bombed out.. :(
Yeah Adam has no bellybutton!!!
Is the first one water or snow?
nope.
What goes up the chimney down but can't go down the chimney up is...
drum roll...
An Umbrella. Think about it.
If its down it easily fits "up" the chimney, but if its up (open) it is too big to fit in the chimney!
This is a great riddle and nobody will get it right away, if you ask someone it be patient and DONT tell them the answer... Make them ponder it, make a bet that they won't get it (earn some money from it, I know I did!).
The second one is Adam has no belly button because he wasn't born he was "created" the belly button is only there because your attached to the mother for nutrition that way.
i think the answer to the first one is smoke.
the answer is right here in the comments- its Umbrella
I have a couple good ones for you
A brown house is made of brown bricks, a red house is made of red bricks, a blue house is made of blue bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks. What is a green house made with?
If a rooster lays an egg on the top of the roof which way will the egg roll?
Okay, your driving a bus, now see if you can keep up. You stop at main street and pick up 5 people. You stop at sycamore street and drop of 3 people and pick up 6 people. You stop at cherrywood street and drop of 1 person and pick up 10 then you stop at maple street and drop of 3 people and pick up 4 people. Then you stop at oak street and pick up 21 people then 9 people get off. Then you stop at pine street and drop of 7 people and pick up 13 people. Now...... what is the color of the bus drivers eyes?
What might you be if you are not a rapper?
One day as I was going to Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, and each cat had seven kits,and each kit had seven ticks. Ticks, kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to Saint Ives?
Neat idea for a hub.
the first one is santaclause =)
@the riddle kid
glass
roosters dont lay eggs
and the colors of my eyes are hazel
i dont know the other two
okay i think the first one is glass, the second one has me stumped, the third one is too general and i think the last one is 16809
16809? huh?
im not good at riddles but i heard riddle kid's first, second, and third riddles so i no the answers to those.
the first answer is smoke which is obvios but still noone else got, and the second answer is he has no belly button, EASY!!!
the first one is umbrella not smoke... its not obviously smoke, I don't think, smoke can go down the chimney in any form, but I see where you see that, the joke is a perception bender 99% of the people who you ask that will NOT get that it's umbrella... I love it because it's so hard :)
umm wow guys the answer to the riddle kids questions are
glass
doesnt lay eggs
my eyes are brown
i have no freakin idea
1(you)-the others are coming bak from St. Ives
the cats wives one is one
u met them on the way to saint ives !!
I rock i know
the cats wives one is one
u met them on the way to saint ives !!
I rock i know
Alright then guys, I've got some very hard ones for you:
Until measured, I am not known, yet how you miss me when I have flown. What am I?
I live without food, rise without legs, wound without force and are harder to fight than to kill. What am I?
When you look me in the face I will never lie, I'll stare you in the eye. I can turn your whole world round, but never move an inch off the ground. What am I?
A man is born in 1955 and is currently alive at the "ripe old age" of 33. How is this possible?
The first answer is smoke?
@ Ross:
1. Time
2. Hatred
3. A mirror
4. He was born on a leap day.
here is a hard one,
2 fathers and 2 sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they bring home only 3 fishes?
It's a Grandpa, Father, and son!!!!
i already new all the answers but u guyz already answered them so =C
ok the first one to the dude that decided not to play the game!!! was the first one is its a greenhouse so its either plants or glass, the second is that roosters dont lay eggs, and my eyes are brown, the next one is that if your not a rapper you could be a lolipop stick, next one is that only you're going to Saint Ives not any of those other things
He was born in room number 1955
Part of this hub besides entertainment, is to test the hubscore algorythm where by comments are concerned.
In The Doghouse says:
2 years ago
The second one is he has no belly button... right?