Dark Riddles

If you are looking for challenges that send chills down your spine while stirring your intellect, look no further. Welcome to the world of dark riddles with answers, a place where shadows and fun intertwine!

But be warned: these riddles are not for the faint of heart. They will play with your fears, twist your perception, and force themselves into the hidden corners of your mind. However, there is a silver lining to it all: each solved riddle is a triumph of laughter and good humor over darkness. Do you dare to try them?

47 Dark Riddles With Answers

Riddle: What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?

Answer: Death

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?

Answer: Suicide

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and locked all of the sedan's doors. He went off, but when he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. No physical damage was done to the car, so how did the stranger get in?

Answer: The stranger was a baby and the woman died in childbirth.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. The police questioned the wife and the staff and got the following alibis: The wife said she was sleeping. The cook was making breakfast. The gardener was picking vegetables. The maid was getting the mail. The butler was cleaning the closet. The police immediately arrested the murderer. Who did it, and how did they know?

Answer: It was the Maid. She said she was getting the mail, but there is no mail on Sunday!

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A horrid monster hides from the day, with many legs and many eyes. With silver chains it catches prey. And eats it all before it dies. Yet in every cottage does it stay. And every castle beneath the sky.

Answer: Spider

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Why is Quasimodo great at solving crimes?

Answer: He always has a hunch.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Always wax, yet always wane: I melt, succumbed to the flame. Lighting darkness, with fate unblest, I soon devolve into a shapeless mess.

Answer: Candle

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What do you call a chicken with bad sunburn?

Answer: Fried Chicken

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A man was shot to death while in his car. There was no gunpowder residue on his clothing, indicating that the gunman was outside the car. However, all the windows were up and the doors were locked. The only bullet holes found were on the man's body. How was he murdered?

Answer: The victim was in a convertible. He was shot when the top was down

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

Answer: The third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A nightmare for some. For others, a savior I come. My hand's cold and bleak. It's the warm hearts they seek. What am I?

Answer: Death.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A man was found dead out in a field of snow. The only tracks that were left were a set of footprints between two parallel lines. Who should the police be looking for?

Answer: A man in a wheelchair.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Dead on the field lie ten soldiers in white, felled by three eyes, black as night. What happened?

Answer: A strike was thrown in ten-pin bowling.

Rating: 67%

Riddle: A setting that proved to be deadly for Abraham Lincoln.

Answer: Theater

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A single syllable do I claim, black was my most famous name. Fetal to mortals here below, thousands have I slain in a single blow.

Answer: The plague.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What do you do with a dead chemist?

Answer: Barium

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A train was on its way to Florida and derailed. Where would they bury the survivors?

Answer: Nowhere. The survivors are still alive!

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Five men were heading to church when it started to rain. The four that ran got wet and the one that stood still stayed dry. How?

Answer: It was a body in a coffin. The four who ran away were the bearers.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A woman proves in court that her husband was murdered by her sister, but the judge decides that the sister cannot be punished. Why?

Answer: The sisters are Siamese twins.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: How much does it cost to swim with sharks?

Answer: An arm and a leg

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I am a rock group with four members. All dead, one was assassinated. What am I?

Answer: Mount Rushmore.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I can be found where anything cannot; dead men eat me all the time, but if a living man eats me, he'll die. What am I?

Answer: I am nothing

Rating: 80%

Riddle: What lies in a tunnel of darkness that can only attack when pulled back?

Answer: Bullet

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me wherever I go. What am I

Answer: A cloud.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Some try to hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, we always will meet. Try as you might, to guess my name, I promise you'll know, when you I claim. What am I?

Answer: Death

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What do you call a snowman in July?

Answer: A puddle.

Rating: 75%

Riddle: What should do you do with a dead Chemist?

Answer: Barium!

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I'm blue at day and black at night; I do contain some creatures born and died. What am I?

Answer: Seawater.

Rating: 67%

Riddle: They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they?

Answer: Gloves

Rating: 67%

Riddle: It comes only before, it comes only after. It rises only in darkness, but also rises in light. It is always the same, yet always different. What is it?

Answer: The moon.

Rating: 67%

Riddle: It has no top or bottom, but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time.

Answer: Ring

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I am under your face and outside your mind. What am I?

Answer: Skull

Rating: 67%

Riddle: Mountains will crumble and temples will fall. And no man can survive its endless call.

Answer: Time

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Ripped from my mother's womb. Beaten and burned, I become a bloodthirsty killer.

Answer: Iron

Rating: 75%

Riddle: I crack when I’m weary, tingle when I’m scared and stretch when I’m proud. What am I?

Answer: Your spine.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Scythe of darkness, Shadow’s light. Guiding eye of thirteenth sight.

Answer: Moon

Rating: 100%

Riddle: The man who made it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?

Answer: A Coffin.

Rating: 50%

Riddle: It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you'll die.

Answer: Nothing

Rating: 100%

Riddle: There was a plane crash in which every single person was killed. Yet there were 12 survivors. How?

Answer: The 12 survivors were married, not single.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What's light during the day but heavy during the night?

Answer: Eyelids.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: When is it bad luck to see a black cat?

Answer: When you are a mouse.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Late one night, two brothers were watching a horror flick on tape. One of the brothers fell asleep and dreamt that he was being pursued by the insane man from the movie who was attempting to murder him. He hid in a cabinet in his dream. and couldn’t hear anything but his heart thumping, and he had no clue where his insane captor was. He was terrified! The video ended at that point, and his brother placed his hand on his sleeping sibling’s shoulder to rouse him up. The shock of the situation was enough to cause the sleeping brother to have a massive heart attack and die immediately. Is this story true or false?

Answer: False – how would anybody know about his dream if he died suddenly?

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is wicked, homeless, white and goes up and down?

Answer: A ghost in an elevator.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: When I’m metal or wood, I help you get home. When I’m flesh and I’m blood, In the darkness I roam.

Answer: Bat

Rating: 100%

Riddle: When the below was jerking, the above was preferring. When the below was hurting, the above was happy rejoicing. What is that?

Answer: That is fishing

Rating: 67%

Riddle: What do you call an old snowman?

Answer: Water.

Rating: 75%

Riddle: What’s the least-spoken language in the world?

Answer: Sign language

Rating: 100%

Dark riddles are a fun genre of enigmas that take players out of their comfort zone to push the boundaries of their creativity and sense of humor. They can be a little creepy, maybe even macabre, but fear not. These riddles for adults are not the devil in disguise, though we must admit they employ chilling tricks to throw your mind off course and surprise you with their solutions. Will you be able to collect your wits and spark a light of knowledge amidst the darkness of these exciting enigmas?

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2025

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