Something to solve
A riddle with the answer hidden - reveal it only when you are ready.
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Press "Generate" for a riddle.
Difficulty
Press Generate for a riddle and the answer stays hidden until you press Reveal. That hiding is the whole point: a riddle with the answer sitting underneath it is not a riddle, it is a fact.
The easy set is the classics - keys but no locks, hands but no clap. Most adults have met them, which makes them ideal for children and for warming up a group. Medium riddles take a moment of thought. The hard set usually needs a hint, so they suit a longer game where somebody can nudge without giving it away.
Raise the quantity and the whole batch appears with answers, which is what you want when you are the one asking rather than solving. Copy All gives you a printable round. Read the riddle, take answers, then read the answer - and resist the urge to hint too early, because the pause before someone gets it is the part people enjoy.
Rivers, clocks and mirrors turn up again and again in riddles from very different places and centuries. That is not laziness in the list - these objects have the qualities riddles need, being familiar, having parts named after human body parts, and doing something that sounds impossible when described plainly.
The list is filtered to the difficulty you chose, then a riddle is drawn using your browser's cryptographic random source with rejection sampling, so nothing is favoured. Batches without repeats use a Fisher-Yates shuffle driven by the same source.
Press Generate for a riddle, think about it, then press Reveal Answer when you are ready. The answer stays hidden until you ask for it.
Yes. Easy riddles are the classics most people have met before, medium ones take a moment, and hard ones usually need a hint.
Yes. Raise the quantity and every riddle in the batch comes with its answer, so you can print a round and read from it.
The Easy set is, and most of the medium ones. They are wordplay rather than trick questions, so nobody feels caught out.
Because classic riddles often converge on the same objects - rivers and clocks turn up repeatedly. The wording and difficulty differ, so they still work as separate rounds.
Yes. Each riddle is drawn with your browser's cryptographic random source, so every riddle in the chosen difficulty has an equal chance.