Hard Riddles and Answers

Question: A man is found murdered on the ground with 53 bicycles scattered around the room.

How did he die?

Question: A man is at work when he turns off the light and falls asleep. When he wakes up he discovers that lots of people have died.

What is his profession?

Question: I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old.What am I?

Question: How do you make the number one disappear by adding to it?

Question: An apple tree has apples on it. A storm comes through and there is no longer apples on the tree. But there isn't apples on the ground either.

How can this be so?

Question: A man hangs his hat and walks 500 yards with his eyes closed. He then turns around and shoots his hat with his pistol with his eyes still shut.

How did he do this?

Question: A man and his boss have the same parents, but are not siblings. How is this possible?

Question: A boy at a carnival went to a booth ran by a man who said "If I can write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agreed, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50.

How did the man win the bet?

Question: Samuel was out for a walk and it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet.

How could this be?

Question: There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet there was nothing wrong with what he had done.

Why?