The Hardest Riddles in the World with Answers

Riddle 1: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

Riddle 2: You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?

Riddle 3: You are in a cabin and it is pitch black. You have one match. Which do you light first, the newspaper, the lamp, the candle, or the fire?

Riddle 4: A man has a bee in his hand. What’s in his eye?

Riddle 5: Mary’s father has five daughters: 1. Nana 2. Nene 3. Nini 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter? If you answered Nunu, you are wrong.

Riddle 6: What has a head but no body, a bed but no sleep, a mouth but no voice?

Riddle 7: I’m 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?

Riddle 8: I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?

Riddle 9: I have a head and a tail, but no body.

Riddle 10: I have a head and a tail, but no body.

Riddle 11: I run but never walk, often murmur, never talk. I have a mouth but never speak. What am I?

Riddle 12: What has one bee at one end and five bees at the other?