The trickiest riddles often have the easiest answers. Most times, the fun is when the correct answer to the riddle is an obvious statement everyone else missed.

Such teasers are excellent sources of entertainment at informal gatherings, where jokes and riddles are told to create a fun atmosphere. Read on to discover some riddles!

Q1
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter ‘M.’

Q2
A man shaves several times a day but still has beards. Who is he?
Answer: A barber.

Q3
What coat is best out on wet?
Answer: A paint coat.

Q4
How much dirt would you find in a hole 2ft by 5ft by 1.5ft?
Answer: None. It is a hole.

Q5
How many letters are in the alphabet?
Answer: Eleven.

Q6
You see a boat full of people. It hasn’t capsized, but you can’t find a single person on board. What happened?
Answer: Everyone is married.

Q7
What can you hold in your left hand but never in your right hand?
Answer: Your right hand!

Q8
What can’t you put in a saucepan?
Answer: Its lid.

Q9
What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
Answer: A hole.

Q10
What belongs to you but everyone else uses more?
Answer: Your name.

Q11
What always ends everything?
Answer: The letter ‘G.’

Q12
You can find it in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, but not in Venus or Neptune. What is it?
Answer: The letter ‘R.’

Q13
How far into the woods can a dog run?
Answer: Halfway. Once it is past halfway, it is running out!

Q14
It is at the center of gravity, and you can find it on Venus, but not Mars. What is it?
Answer: The letter ‘V.’

Q15
Which is faster; cold or heat?
Answer: Heat, because you can catch a cold.

Q16
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What is it?
Answer: Fingerprint.

Q17
A barrel of water weighs 60 pounds. What must you put in it to make it weigh 40 pounds?
Answer: A hole!

Q18
How many bricks will you need to complete a building?
Answer: You only need one brick to complete a building.

Q19
What has ten letters and starts with gas?
Answer: Automobile.

Q20
What has two words but thousands of letters?
Answer: A post office.

Q21
What stays on the floor but never gets dirty?
Answer: A shadow.

Q22
How do football players stay cool in a match?
Answer: They stand next to the fans.

Q23
What word looks the same upside down and backward?
Answer: Swims!

Q24
Where can you finish a book without finishing a sentence?
Answer: A prison.

Q25
What doesn’t burn in fire and doesn’t drown in water?
Answer: Ice!

Q26
What can fill any room without taking space?
Answer: Light.

Q27
What is black when you get it, red when used, and white after use?
Answer: Charcoal.

Q28
A man, while driving, sees diamond, ruby, and emerald doors. Which does he pass through first?
Answer: His car door.

Q29
What is at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The letter ‘W.’

Q30
The more I am, the less you see. What am I?
Answer: Fog.

Most riddles are difficult to crack the first time. Often, the fun is in hearing the right answers, especially when you are confident you were right. Use any of the riddles listed above to stump your friends for maximum entertainment.