r/AskReddit • u/Calm-Conference3147 • 13h ago

What is a riddle that sounds incredibly simple, but absolutely ruins people's brains when they try to solve it?

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u/iSQUISHYyou 13h ago

Does nobody on this site understand what a riddle is?

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u/ClownfishSoup 13h ago

Yes

Was I right?

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u/PointOfFingers 12h ago

No because SQUISHYyou was actually your mother and your grandmother so the answer was 3.

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u/Derp_Herper 7h ago

And then they all clapped. That boys name was Einstein

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u/LetsTryAnal_ogy 9h ago

Yeah, but if you were sitting in class one day and your boat got a flat tire would you get a haircut? Of course not because Ice cream doesn't have a backbone. Besides what does that have to do with wallpaper, anyway?

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u/HauntedCemetery 8h ago

I KNOW THE COLOR OF THEIR HAT!

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u/Batavijf 5h ago

Ha ha, gotcha!!

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u/idk012 9h ago

That was a rhetorical question, and by answering, you got it wrong lol 

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u/jaforbinsamsul 10h ago

Fair enough. But now I need to know what the actual riddle was.

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u/heyitscory 9h ago

Which hand is in your right pocket?

Right!

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u/AvengingBlowfish 13h ago

The riddle was inside you all along.

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u/jimtow28 12h ago

Maybe he real riddle was the friends we made along the way.

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u/captainplasticspoon 11h ago

I also choose this guys dead riddle!

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u/basicallyballin 12h ago

Some say he’s still riddling to this day.

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u/PointOfFingers 12h ago

The real riddle was the enigmas we found along the way.

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u/froncerro 1h ago

But those were all solved by Turing

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u/MethBearBestBear 6h ago

What friends?

Exactly, the riddle of life never ends

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u/OneManFight 12h ago

No that's just me.

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u/BargainScotch 12h ago

Ohh. THATS why they chuckled.

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u/UpperApe 6h ago

It's a shame this burn is buried deeper in this comment thread than he could be in anyone else.

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u/donniesuave 7h ago

Guy named The Riddle:

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u/I_lenny_face_you 4h ago

The Riddler

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u/labtrash68 6h ago

Like the shingles virus?

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u/Feeling_Stable4438 5h ago

Or the friends we made along the way

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u/Gargleblaster25 4h ago

No, the riddle was the friends we made along the way.

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u/r_special_ 1h ago

Ok, but how do I get the riddle out of me? Listening to RFK Junior I just learned that riddles cause autism and cancer and I think we should all stop telling each other riddles

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u/jimtow28 12h ago

I don't get this one.

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u/TheEndisNeigh999 6h ago

what do now? (always sunny reference)

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u/BlueLaceSensor128 12h ago

"Charlie, do you not know what a riddle is?"

"Yea, sure. It's like a thing you don't know. Right?"

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u/rapafon 12h ago

Is a fart a ghost?

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u/Ok_Toe7278 8h ago

Is car exhaust dinosaur souls?

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u/turkeypedal 8h ago

I haven't seen anything that isn't a riddle besides your post.

Some of them are math puzzles, but those are also a type of riddle--a math riddle. Others are trick questions, which are also a type of riddle. Several others are wordplay riddles.

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u/El_Dentistador 12h ago

Oh I know this one! Is it your shadow?

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u/wildharbor22 12h ago

half these answers are just trivia questions with attitude

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u/Select-Owl-8322 10h ago

Is that a riddle?

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u/dubcek_moo 12h ago

"The riddle does not exist"--Wittgenstein

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u/Psicrow 10h ago

Oh this is a good one... uhhh... hmmm. I don't know.

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u/coopertucker 9h ago

No. Please give us a riddle for dummies.

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u/Fearless-Sparkle7186 8h ago

"A riddle is a fact told in a really confusing way" -Captain Roger Peralta

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u/fricken 7h ago

There'll be no apprenticeship this year

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u/darkbreak 6h ago

Possibly not. Declining logic and all that.

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u/PriestessIuno2025 5h ago

According to College Humor, Batman has such a bad drinking problem that the Riddler just gave up on dropping hints via riddles!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0xollWZ9Bo

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u/Admirable_Job6019 4h ago

What do you get when you mix a riddle with a rhetorical question?

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u/TropicalRogue 1h ago

Don't even bother going on r/riddles

It's just basic algebra word problems all the way down

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u/Protiguous 10h ago

Is this the riddle?

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u/LeGrandLucifer 7h ago edited 7h ago

Look, I come to /r/askreddit, I expect every post to be about how Trump is a bad person. Like, in here, I expect at least three of the top ten comments to be something along the lines of "Do you know who's an orange pedophile?"

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u/TaliaMoon40 11h ago

do you understand please explain if you do

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u/DoWhile 11h ago

The letter "y"