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Impossible Riddles

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Only 5% of people can solve all of these riddles. Can you?

extreme
1245

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

logic
medium
1056

I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?

logic
medium
1189

I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest person can't hold me for more than a minute. What am I?

logic
easy
867

I'm full of holes but still hold water. What am I?

logic
medium
1312

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

logic
hard
1421

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

logic
medium
945

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

wordplay
easy
986

What goes up but never comes down?

logic
hard
1356

I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

logic
extreme
1087

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

wordplay
medium
923

I'm found in socks, scarves, and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?

wordplay
hard
1278

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

logic
hard
1402

What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

logic
extreme
1165

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

wordplay
hard
1392

I am not alive, but I can die. I have no lungs, but I need air. I have no mouth, but I can drown. What am I?

logic
medium
1167

You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?

logic
medium
1253

If you drop me, I'm sure to crack. Give me a smile, and I'll always smile back. What am I?

logic
hard
1380

I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?

wordplay
extreme
1478

What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?

philosophical
hard
1521

What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

logic
hard
1385

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

logic
medium
1267

I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?

logic
extreme
1593

The person who makes it doesn't want it. The person who buys it doesn't use it. The person who uses it doesn't know they're using it. What is it?

logic
medium
1186

What word contains all 26 letters?

wordplay
medium
1235

What has a neck but no head, two arms but no hands?

logic
hard
1347

I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you cannot go in. What am I?

logic
extreme
1175

What English word has three consecutive double letters?

wordplay
extreme
1456

I am a word of five letters. I sound the same when you remove my first letter. I sound the same when you remove my third letter. I sound the same when you remove my last letter. I sound the same when you remove all three. What word am I?

wordplay
extreme
1328

I am a 7-letter word. I become longer when my third letter is removed. What am I?

wordplay
extreme
1429

Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?

wordplay
hard
1483

What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

logic
medium
1273

What can fill a room but takes up no space?

logic
medium
1358

I'm light as a feather, but even the strongest person cannot hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?

logic
hard
1412

What starts with an 'e', ends with an 'e', and typically contains only one letter?

wordplay
extreme
1586

A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him underwater for five minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But five minutes later they both go out and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

lateral thinking
extreme
1492

I am a word. If you pronounce me correctly, I am wrong. If you pronounce me incorrectly, I am right. What word am I?

wordplay
extreme
1547

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

wordplay
hard
1375

I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?

logic
medium
1284

The more there is, the less you see. What am I?

logic
hard
1368

What has 13 hearts but no other organs?

logic
medium
1297

What has many keys but can't open a single lock?

logic
extreme
1198

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?

logic
extreme
1256

What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great person, while the entire word signifies a great woman?

wordplay
extreme
1125

I turn polar bears white and I will make you cry. I make guys have to pee and girls comb their hair. I make celebrities look stupid and normal people look like celebrities. I turn pancakes brown and make your champagne bubble. If you squeeze me, I'll pop. If you look at me, you'll pop. What am I?

wordplay
extreme
978

What English word has three consecutive double letters?

wordplay