He’s playing Monopoly.

Turn on the first two switches. Leave them on for five minutes. Once five minutes has passed, turn off the second switch, leaving one switch on. Now go through the door. The light that is still on is connected to the first switch. Whichever of the other two is warm to the touch is connected to the second switch. The bulb that is cold is connected to the switch that was never turned on.

White. How do you get to the answer in this tricky animal riddle? The only place you can hike 3 miles south, then east for 3 miles, then north for 3 miles and end up back at your starting point is the North Pole. Polar bears are the only bears that live at the North Pole, and they are white.

His son.

They are pronounced differently when the first letter is capitalized.

The catcher and the umpire.

The river was frozen.

The person was born in 2005 BCE.

An hourglass. It has thousands of grains of sand.

It has each number, zero through nine, listed in alphabetical order.

Their surname.

Short. That’s a literal and figurative short riddle. (Sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves.)

Nine—two parents, six sons and one daughter.

The letter S.

The rules of the race were that the owner of the camel that crosses the finish line last wins the fortune. The wise man simply told them to switch camels.

The man was bald.

19. This one is a great brain teaser for kids.

Meat.

A coffin. If you have a thing for dark riddles like that, we have plenty of brain teasers in that vein to satisfy your morbid curiosity.

The door on the right. A lion that hasn’t eaten in three months would be dead.

A map.

Beauty. Because beauty is in the eye of the beholder (bee holder).

When you think in terms of time. 8 a.m. + 8 hours = 4 o’clock. As with many of these tricky brain teasers and logic puzzles, you have to shift your thinking to get to the answer!

59 days. How does this math riddle work? If the water level doubles every day, the reservoir on any given day was half the size the day prior. If the reservoir is full on day 60, that means it was half full on day 59, not on day 30.

The farmer must follow these steps.

Chicago.

Glass.

Because without it, life is a lie, or it makes life a lie.

Three. A blonde, a brunette and a redhead. If you like this brain teaser, try the “Mr. Smith had four daughters” riddle.

To boil the egg in exactly 15 minutes, follow these four steps.

Halfway. After that, he’s running back out of the woods.

Heroine.

I, T, S. The complete sequence is the first letter of every word in the sentence.

13112221. Each sequence of numbers is a verbal representation of the sequence before it. Thus, starting with 1, the next sequence would be “one one,” or “11.” That sequence is followed by “two one,” or “21,” and so on.

Each word in Wally’s World must contain double letters.

Yes, they can cross in exactly 15 minutes. The group of four must follow these three steps in this math puzzle.

February. (There are usually fewer nights in February.)

A quarter and a nickel.

45. (1/5 of 45 = 9, and 9 + 45 = 54)

ICU.

They all made right-hand turns.

Neither. The capital is Frankfort.

The match.

Push the cork down into the bottle. Then shake the coin out.

D. Each letter represents one note in the diatonic musical scale: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do.

Just one, after which it will no longer be empty.

They are both in the middle of water.

To solve this word puzzle, take the first letter of each word and place it at the end. It will spell the same word backward.

He’s a barber.

A wedding ring.

Man. It’s one of the most famous riddles in history: He crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two feet as an adult and walks with a cane as an old man.

A rocking chair.

I got off on the first floor.

Stop. All the words are anagrams of one another.

A spare tire.

Noon.

James and Paul are the two liars.

Manny is Angela’s brother-in-law.