Logic riddles with answers
Logic riddles with answers
Logic riddles with answers to test your puzzle solving skills. Can you solve them all?
1.Number of chairs
What’s the least number of chairs you would need around a table to sit four fathers, two grandfathers and four sons?
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ANSWER
Four chairs. The four fathers could be grandfathers and are already sons.
2.The prisoner riddle
A prisoner is told : ”If you tell a lie, we will hang you and if you tell the truth we will shoot you”.
What did the prisoner say to save himself?
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ANSWER
The prisoner said: ”You will hang me”.
3.Three times
When there’s one of me, you’re wrong.
When there’s two of me, there’s twenty.
When there’s three of me, it’s dirty.
What am I?
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ANSWER
The letter X.
4.Brother riddle
”That lawyer is my brother”, testified the accountant.
But the lawyer testified he didn’t have a brother.
Who is lying?
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ANSWER
Neither of them, because the accountant was his sister.
5.Ten letters
Can you find a 10 letter word in English language which can be typed using only the first rows of the computer keyboard?
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ANSWER
Typewriter.
6.Seed
I am a seed with three letters in my name. Take away the last two and I still sound the same.
What am I?
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ANSWER
A Pea.
7.Who is bigger?
Riddle me this
Who is bigger : Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger or their baby?
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ANSWER
The baby, because he is a little bigger.
8.Which travels faster
Which travels faster? Hot or Cold?
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ANSWER
Hot is faster because you can catch a cold.
9.The Door Riddle
When is a door no longer a door?
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ANSWER
When it’s ajar.
10.What gets smaller
What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?
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ANSWER
A soap.
11.Five letter word
What five letter word stays the same when you take away the first, third and last letter?
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ANSWER
Empty.
12.The killer riddle
A serial killer kidnaps people and made them take 1 of 2 pills.
One was harmless and the other was poisonous.
Whichever pill a victim took, the serial killer took the other one.
The victim took their pill with water and died, while the killer survived.
How did the killer always get the harmless pill?
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ANSWER
Both of the pills were harmless, the poison was in the glass of water the victim drank.
13.The climbing trip
A married couple went on for a climbing trip but only the husband returned from the vacation
He said to the police that his wife slipped off while climbing and died.
Upon investigating, the sheriff arrested him saying, ”Your travel agent called. You murdered your wife!”
The man did not inform anyone about the trip.
How did the agent was so sure that it is a murder?
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ANSWER
The husband bought only one way ticket for his wife whereas he bought two way ticket for himself.
It means that he was sure that he will be returning alone.
14.The sailors riddle
A man decides to go to sleep after an exhausting long day of work.
He turns off all the lights and goes to sleep.
When he wakes up, he finds out that he has killed 105 sailors.
He does not sleep walk and has slept all night without waking up once.
How is this possible?
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ANSWER
The man was a lighthouse operator.
15.Frank was born in 1933 riddle
Riddle me this:
Frank was born in 1933 and died in 1946 at the age of 50.
How can this be?
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ANSWER
Because he was born in room 1933.
16.Two sisters riddle
A woman proves in court that her husband was murdered by her sister, but the judge decides that the sister cannot be punished. Why?
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ANSWER
Because the sisters are Siamese twins.