Last Updated on December 20, 2022
More often than not, an average adult tends to get all stressed out due to overworking. Once in a while, it doesn’t hurt to take a break from everything else and cool one’s nerves. Hanging out with friends, taking gym sessions, engaging in sporting activities, playing indoor games, and sleeping are all effective ways of easing stress.
Another great way to relieve stress is to indulge in some intelligently worded jokes. Here, we’ve compiled a list of 50 jokes that will leave you in a fit of uncontrollable laughter. Now, let’s rack our brains and start these mind games!
50 Riddles for Adults
- Johnny throws a ball as hard as he can. It comes back to him, even though nothing and nobody touches it. How?
Answer: He throws it straight up
- People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money
- What goes through cities and fields but never moves?
Answer: A road
- A man looks at a painting in a museum and says,” Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting?
Answer: The man’s son
- What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?
Answer: Nothing
- A hen and a half lay an egg and a half in a day and a half. How many eggs does one hen lay in one day?
Answer: If 1.5 hens lay 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days, it must be that one hen would lay one egg in the same period: 1.5 days. Now, if one hen lays one egg in 1.5 days, it means that one hen would lay only ? of an egg in one day. So the answer is ? of an egg.
- NASA considered sending canaries into space to study them under zero gravity. The project was scrapped when someone realized that they could die of dehydration despite having sufficient water supplies within a few hours. Why?
Answer: Birds, unlike humans, need gravity to swallow. Humans can swallow even while hanging upside down.
- A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?
Answer: Suicide
- I have four wings but cannot fly; I never laugh and never cry; In the same spot, I’m always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?
Answer: A windmill
- What can be touched but can’t be seen?
Answer: Someone’s heart
- Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, grown in the darkness, a lady’s delight.n What am I?
Answer: A pearl
- I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?
Answer: A piano
- What water can you eat and chew?
Answer: A watermelon
- What five-letter word stays the same when you remove the first, third and last letter?
Answer: Empty
- What kind of table does not have legs?
Answer: Periodic and multiplication tables.
- Thirty white horses on a red hill. First, they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still. What am I?
Answer: Teeth
- What word looks the same backwards and upside down?
Answer: SWIMS
- What has six faces but does not wear makeup and has twenty-one eyes but cannot see?
Answer: Dice
- When I was six, my sister was half my age, and my brother was twice my age five years later. What is the sum of my siblings’ ages?
Answer: 8 + 17 = 25.
- Jimmy’s mother had three children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday. What is the name of the third child?
Answer: Jimmy, because Jimmy’s mother had three children.
- What four-letter word that ends in “k” means the same as intercourse?
Answer: Talk
- Your finger fits right in it. You play with it when you’re bored. Once you’re married, you’re stuck with the same one forever. What is it?
Answer: Ring
- What does every woman have that starts with a “V” and can use to get what she wants?
Answer: Her voice
- What does a cow have four of that a woman only has two?
Answer: Legs
- What do men keep in their pants that their partners sometimes blow?
Answer: Money
- Arnold Schwarzenegger’s is really long. Michael J. Fox’s is really short. Mickey Mouse’s isn’t human. Madonna doesn’t have one. What is it?
Answer: A last name
- What does a dog do that you can step into?
Answer: Pants
- I go in hard and come out soft. I never mind if you blow me. What am I?
Answer: Bubblegum
- What four-letter word ends in “it” and can be found at the bottom of bird cages?
Answer: Grit
- It’s fun to do, but you hate knowing your parents do it too. What is it?
Answer: Facebook
- I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while you are away. I take you by night, by day take you back. None suffer from having me but do from my lack. What am I?
Answer: Sleep
- What is the difference between a jailer and a jeweller
Answer: A jeweller sells watches, and a jailer watches cells
- What has no hands but might knock on your door, and if it does, you better open up?
Answer: Opportunity
- I grow in a bed, first white then red, and the plumper I get, the better women like me. What am I?
Answer: A strawberry.
- Some people prefer being on top, others prefer being on the bottom, and it always involves a bed. What is it?
Answer: A bunk bed.
- Some people prefer being on top, others prefer being on the bottom, and it always involves a bed. What is it?
Answer: A bunk bed.
- What holds your buns firmly and makes them look round and pretty?
Answer: A hair tie.
- What’s the best part of your body to put into a pie?
Answer: Your teeth.
- I am a ball that can be rolled but never bounced or thrown.
What am I?
Answer: Eyeballs
- A prisoner is told:” If you tell a lie, we will hang you, and if you tell the truth we will shoot you.” What did the prisoner say to save himself?
Answer: He said, “You will hang me.”
- What can be swallowed but can also swallow you?
Answer: Pride
- Where is there no south, west, nor east, and weather not fit for man or beast?
Answer: The South Pole
- What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A Palm
- They come out at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
Answer: Stars
- What is the best cure for dandruff?
Answer: Baldness
- I don’t have eyes, ears, nose and tongue, but I can see, smell, hear and taste everything. What am I?
Answer: A brain
- I do not speak, cannot hear or speak anything, but I will always tell the truth. What am I?
Answer: A mirror
- What has 3 feet but cannot walk?
Answer: Yardstick
- What’s as small as a mouse but guards a house like a lion?
Answer: Key
- What can go through glass without breaking it?
Answer: Light
Conclusion
Solving riddles is an exciting thing to do, wouldn’t you agree? As such, mind games aren’t just for excitement but also to boost productivity. You could also try out other brain games, such as Sudoku, Chess, Rubik’s Cube, and lots more, and have some fun while doing so. Enjoy!