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🎯 Hard riddles for teens with answers

These riddles are made to trip you up. Try them on your friends and see who cracks the most without a hint.

  1. What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?

  2. What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?

  3. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

  4. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don't have me anymore. What am I?

  5. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?

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

  7. What tastes better than it smells?

  8. What is always coming, but never arrives?

  9. What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?

  10. Feed me and I live. Give me a drink and I die. What am I?

  11. What has lots of needles, but doesn't sew?

  12. Poor people have it, rich people need it, and if you eat it you'll go hungry. What is it?

  13. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I?

  14. What can you serve, but never eat?

  15. I'm black when you buy me, red when you use me and gray when you throw me away. What am I?

  16. What can be measured, but has no length, width or height?

  17. What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?

  18. I have no life, but I can die. What am I?

  19. What word looks the same right side up, upside down and backward?

  20. What can be stolen, mistaken or changed, yet stays with you your whole life?

  21. What can you hear, but not see or touch, even though you control it?

  22. What comes once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?

  23. What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

  24. I'm a word with six letters. Take away one letter and twelve remain. What am I?

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