🎯 Hard riddles for teens with answers
These riddles are made to trip you up. Try them on your friends and see who cracks the most without a hint.
What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
💡 Hint
Try it.
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Your left hand
What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
💡 Hint
Think of a card game.
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A deck of cards
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
💡 Hint
Shh...
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Silence
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don't have me anymore. What am I?
💡 Hint
Can you keep me?
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A secret
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
💡 Hint
You make it with words.
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A promise
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
💡 Hint
Think of a walk on the beach.
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Footsteps
What tastes better than it smells?
💡 Hint
It does the tasting.
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Your tongue
What is always coming, but never arrives?
💡 Hint
When it gets here, it has a new name.
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Tomorrow
What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
💡 Hint
Cars drive on it.
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A road
Feed me and I live. Give me a drink and I die. What am I?
💡 Hint
Water puts me out.
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Fire
What has lots of needles, but doesn't sew?
💡 Hint
It stays green all winter.
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A pine tree
Poor people have it, rich people need it, and if you eat it you'll go hungry. What is it?
💡 Hint
Read each line with the same answer in mind.
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Nothing
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I?
💡 Hint
I shave other people.
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A barber
What can you serve, but never eat?
💡 Hint
Think of a sport.
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A tennis ball
I'm black when you buy me, red when you use me and gray when you throw me away. What am I?
💡 Hint
Think of a barbecue.
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Charcoal
What can be measured, but has no length, width or height?
💡 Hint
You use a thermometer.
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Temperature
What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?
💡 Hint
Parents warn you about it.
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Trouble
I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
💡 Hint
Your phone needs me.
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A battery
What word looks the same right side up, upside down and backward?
💡 Hint
Write it in capital letters.
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SWIMS
What can be stolen, mistaken or changed, yet stays with you your whole life?
💡 Hint
It's who you are.
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Your identity
What can you hear, but not see or touch, even though you control it?
💡 Hint
You use it to talk.
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Your voice
What comes once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?
💡 Hint
Look at the spelling.
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The letter E
What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
💡 Hint
It covers the steps.
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A carpet (or a stair runner)
I'm a word with six letters. Take away one letter and twelve remain. What am I?
💡 Hint
Twelve has a special name.
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"Dozens" - take away the "s" and you have "dozen," which is twelve.
Quick answers
What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
Your left hand
What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
A deck of cards
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don't have me anymore. What am I?
A secret
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
A promise