Hard Riddles Page 4 of 14
Hard riddles for you to think about, put on your thinking caps and do your best to solve them before checking the answers. There are a few challenging riddles for you on these pages
31. 12 members were present at a board meeting. Each member shook hands with all of the other members before& after the meeting.
How many hand shakes were there?
32. What are the next two letters in this series: A E F H I K L M ? ?
33. A horse is tied to a 15 feet rope and there is a bale of hay 25 feet away. The horse is able to eat from the bale of hay. How is this possible?
34. Ted and Nicole where sitting in their family room one night. Ted was watching TV and Nicole was reading. All of a sudden the power went out and Ted decided to go to bed, but Nicole decided to keep reading. Although the lights remained out and there were no candles or other artificial light, how did Nicole keep reading?
35. Jenn, while walking through the playground and saw some bicycles with two wheels and some tricycles with three wheels. She counted the number of wheels as she was passing by and got a total of 12. How many bicycles and how many tricycles were there?
36. A man is sitting in a bar feeling rather poor. He sees the man next to him pull a wad of $50 bills out of his wallet. He turns to the rich man and says to him, "I have an amazing talent, I know almost every song that has ever existed." The rich man laughs. The poor man says, "I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady's name of your choice in it." The rich man laughs again and says, "OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?" The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich. What song did he sing?
37. Your hands have ten, and ten has two, and two has one, and that's your clue.
38. A trucker on a tight schedule needs to drive under a bridge, but finds that his rig is an inch higher than the bridge's clearance. The driver pulls to the side of the road and is checking his maps to locate another route when a youngster comes up to him and says, "Hey, Mister, I can tell you how to get your truck through." Her suggestion worked. What was it?
39. When asked how old she was Jennifer replied, "In two years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago." How old is she?
40. What 2-digit number is 1 more than a square and 1 less than a cube?
