Expert Riddles for Adults
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
You need lizard saliva as an antidote but must avoid iguana poison among 6 tubes. Which do you drink?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
23 prisoners must prove they have all visited a rec room with two switches. What is the plan?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
Four men are buried in sand with colored hats. Who knows their hat color for sure?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
A woman needs an apple to cure her aunt but must share half with a gatekeeper. How many does she take?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
Ben "was" the strongest man in the world but placed second in a contest. Why?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
A soldier claims he saw a flag waving back and forth on a "windless" day. What is wrong?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
A man must pick the oldest or youngest daughter using one yes/no question. What is it?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
A bank teller uses a "mute" button while talking to her mother. How did the mother know to call the police?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
A warden toggles 100 jail cells in a complex mathematical pattern. Which cells stay open?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
A town has two barbers: one clean with a great haircut, one dirty with a bad haircut. Why do people go to the...
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
I have a curly back end, communicate in any dialect, can say "aged" but not "wage." What am I?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
You have 2 pink and 2 green pills in the dark. You must take exactly one of each. How?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
A room has three doors: an electric chair, a bottomless pit, and an acid pool. Which is safest?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
Two chemists, Stewart and Lenny, enter a poison contest where they must drink each other�s poison and then the...
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
A woman follows a complex color scale for her sleep shirts. On which night will she wear blue again?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
Paige, Bonnie, and Heather are suspects in an apple theft. Only one is telling the truth. Who stole it?
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
Kyle Ferguson claims he saw someone stab a victim from behind, but the police immediately know he is lying. Ho...
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
Three wise men must identify if they are wearing red or yellow gloves. They know at least one is red. After an...
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking
A student argues he only has 4 days for school based on time for sleep (122 days), weekends (100+ days), vacat...
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Adults & Lateral-Thinking