Welcome to a set of best riddles for adults! Riddles are like brain games that can be enjoyable for grown-ups too. These best riddles for adults are meant for fun and won't give you a hard time, but they'll still make you think a little. So, let's have some fun and put on our thinking caps as we explore these best riddles for adults!
1.What is the longest word in the dictionary?
Answer: Smiles, because there is a mile between each ‘s’.
2.How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Answer: Concrete floors are very hard to crack
3.What 5-letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?
4.Four cars come to a four-way stop, each coming from a different direction. They can’t decide who got there first, so they all go forward at the same time. All 4 cars go, but none crash into each other. How is this possible?
Answer: They all made right-hand turns.
5.If you are running a race and pass the person in second, then what place are you in?
6.Whoever makes it doesn't tell. Whoever takes it doesn't know. Whoever knows it doesn't want. What is it?
Answer: Counterfeit money.
7.When is the top of a mountain similar to a savings account?
Answer: When it peaks one’s interest.
8.Forwards, I am heavy. I definitely weigh a lot. However, when I’m backwards, I definitely am not.
9.An eye in a blue face. Saw an eye in a green face. “That eye is like to this eye” Said the first eye, “But in low place. Not in high place.”
Answer: Sun shining on daisies.
10.What can you find in a cupboard that can never be put in a saucepan?
11.I am neither a guest or a trespasser be, to this place I belong, it belongs also to me.
12.How far can you walk into the woods?
Answer: Halfway — after that, you’re walking out.
13.What is able to go up a chimney when down but unable to go down a chimney when up?
14.An electric train is headed east. Where does the smoke go?
Answer: Electric trains don’t produce any smoke!
15.Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain in the world?
Answer: Everest. It just wasn’t discovered yet.