Best Brain Teasers and Riddles

These are a selection of medium difficulty brain teasers and riddles with answers. You can find easy and hard brain teasers in the column on the right. You can submit your own brainteaser at the bottom of the page.

9) Two policemen are parked in a one-way street looking for traffic violations. They see a taxi driver going in the wrong direction, but they do nothing to stop him. Why?

Taxi driver riddle answer.

8) A water Hyacinth is infesting the surface of a lake and every day it doubles in size. If it takes 10 days to totally infest the lake at what day was the lake surface only half infested.

Lake riddle answer.

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7) A tourist is in a small Italian village in the Alps. He decides that he would like a haircut and discovers that there are only 2 barbers in this small village. The one barber is immaculate in appearance and his barber shop is spotless. The other barber looks unkempt, is unshaven, hair in disarray and his shop looks like it has seen better days.
Both barber shops are open and both charge 10 Euros. The tourist doesn't think about it long and decides to get a cut at the untidy barber. Why?

Barber riddle answer.

6) Two cowboys can't agree about whose prized horse is the better. To resolve this they decide to have a race. But this is no ordinary race, the winner must arrive last! Obviously when race begins neither decides to advance. This continues for a while until the cowboys dismount and, after a long consultation, get back on the horses, and race flat out to the finish line. Assuming that the conditions of the race never changed, what did they decide to do?

Cowboy riddle answer.

You've done well! Now for the last 5 brain teasers and riddles.

5) In a barn there are various ducks and pigs. There are 32 heads and 100 legs. How many ducks and pigs are there?

Ducks & pigs riddle answer.

4) A murderer is condemned to death and his executioner decides to have some fun with him. He is asked to choose between three rooms. The first room is a raging furnace, the second is an acid bath, and the third room is full of lions who haven't eaten in 3 months. Which room does he pick?

Murderer riddle answer.

3) If 6 = 5, and 4 = 6, and 10 = 5
What is 9 equal to?

Numbers riddle answer.

2) If you put an ice block into a glass of water and measure the level of the water, then wait until the ice melts, and measure the new level. Will the new level be the less than the previous mark, the same, or more then the previous mark?

Ice block riddle answer.

1) Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

Heavy riddle answer.

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