Riddle 1hard
Two fathers and two sons share three cookies so everyone gets one. How is that possible?
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Hard riddle cards
Save this more challenging set for older solvers, team competitions, extension activities or anyone who enjoys taking extra time over a clue.
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Riddle 2hard
How can you add five to nine and get two?
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Riddle 3hard
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
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Riddle 4hard
What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?
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Riddle 5hard
I form a ring without making a sound, and people look up when I appear. What am I?
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Riddle 6hard
What can reflect the past in your mind but never show you the future?
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Riddle 7hard
What shadow can arrive before the object that makes it?
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Riddle 8hard
What chair makes you stand the moment you use it?
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Riddle 9hard
What empty cup can fill a whole room?
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Riddle 10hard
What ladder goes sideways instead of up?
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Riddle 11hard
What pocket cannot hold money but can trap air underwater?
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Riddle 12hard
Two doors have two guards. One guard always lies, the other always tells the truth, and one door leads out. You may ask either guard one question. What do you ask?
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Answer key: Hard riddle cards
- 1.They are a grandfather, a father and a son
- 2.On a clock: 9 o’clock plus 5 hours is 2 o’clock
- 3.The word “ton”
- 4.The letter M
- 5.A halo around the moon.
- 6.A memory.
- 7.A warning sign.
- 8.A chairperson calling on you to speak.
- 9.A cup used as a speaker or echo toy.
- 10.A ladder in a word puzzle.
- 11.A pocket of air.
- 12.Ask, “Would the other guard say this is the exit?” then choose the opposite door.