These are riddles for grown ups: some are dark, some are lateral thinking puzzles and a few are just nasty. Read them out at a Halloween party, use them as a quiz round or try them on your own with the lights off. Tap to see each answer.
Dark Riddles
I am always hungry and must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
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Fire.
What has a bed but never sleeps, and a mouth but never eats?
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A river.
The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?
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Darkness.
You will find me in the grave, though I have never died. What am I?
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The letter V.
I have a head and a tail but no body. What am I?
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A coin.
What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon and three in the evening?
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A person: crawling as a baby, walking as an adult and using a stick in old age.
I can be cracked, made, told and played. What am I?
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A joke.
The more you remove from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
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A hole.
Lateral Thinking Puzzles
A woman shoots her husband, holds him under water for five minutes and then hangs him. Later they go out for dinner together. How?
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She is a photographer. She shot a picture, developed it and hung it up to dry.
A man lies dead in a field next to an unopened package. There is nobody else around. How did he die?
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His parachute did not open.
A man is found dead in a locked room with a puddle of water and broken glass on the floor. What happened?
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The man was a goldfish. The bowl fell and broke.
Two people are born at the same moment, but they do not have the same birthday. How?
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They were born in different time zones.
A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he is bankrupt. Why?
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He is playing Monopoly.
A man lives on the tenth floor. Every morning he takes the lift down. Coming home, he takes the lift to the seventh floor and walks the rest, unless it is raining. Why?
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He is too short to reach the button for the tenth floor. On rainy days he presses it with his umbrella.
Every night a man flips a light switch and somebody dies. He works alone in a tall building near the sea. Who is he?
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A lighthouse keeper who failed to switch the light on. Ships crashed on the rocks.
A man walks into a pub and asks for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a toy gun and points it at him. The man says thank you and leaves. Why?
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He had hiccups. The fright cured them.
Quick Fire Riddles For A Quiz
What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left?
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Your left hand.
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
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A deck of cards.
Forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not. What am I?
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Ton.
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
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Silence.
Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
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Short.
What has many keys but can not open a single lock?
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A piano.
What is always in front of you but cannot be seen?
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The future.
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you have not got me. What am I?
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A secret.
What breaks but never falls, and what falls but never breaks?
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Day breaks and night falls.
Like Riddles? Try A Horror Escape Room
A good escape room is really a long chain of riddles with a story wrapped round it. Silent Night hides its clues in a house where a little girl vanished on Christmas Eve 1953, and Ward 13 hides them in a hospital that should have been empty since 1987. Both are for 15 and over and take about an hour.
