But sometimes, the answer is almost too simple that people can't figure it out. The riddle could go into a lot of details which can confuse you or distract you from the main point, especially if youre prone to over-thinking.
Other times, the question in a riddle gives almost no details, which can make it equally difficult to solve.
INSIDER has found 25 riddles and brainteasers with simple answers that anyone could get wrong.
Scroll down to see if you can figure them out.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
What always ends everything?
I have keys, but no locks. I have space, but no room. You can enter, but you cant go outside. What am I?
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Answer: A computer keyboard.
I have seas without water, coasts without sand, towns without people, and mountains without land. What am I?
A man shaves several times a day but still has a beard. Who is he?
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What coat is best put on wet?
A clerk in a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 shoes. What does he weigh?
How much dirt is in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
Which is correct to say: "The yolk of the egg is white" or "the yolk of the egg are white?"
Answer: Neither, egg yolks are yellow.
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
This belongs to you, but everyone else uses it more.
How many letters are in the alphabet?
Answer: There are 11 letters in "the alphabet."
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Why cant you take a picture of a man with a wooden leg?
Answer: Because a wooden leg can't take pictures, only a camera can.
You see a boat filled with people. It has not capsized, but when you look again you dont see a single person on the boat. Why?
Answer: Everyone on the boat is married.
What goes all the way around the world, but stays in the corner?
What has four fingers and a thumb, but isnt alive?
What gets bigger the more you take away?
The man who built it doesnt use it, the man who bought it doesnt need it, and the man who uses it doesnt know it. What is it?
What can never be put into a saucepan?
A woman shoots her husband, holds him underwater for five minutes then hangs him. Right after that, they enjoy a lovely dinner together. Explain.
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Answer: She took a picture of him, developed it in her darkroom, and then had dinner with him.
What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
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Many have heard me, but nobody has seen me. I will not speak until spoken to first. What am I?
What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, youll die?
What can you hold in your left hand, but never in your right?