25 Greatest Riddles in History

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  • @list25
    @list25  3 дні тому +8

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    • @dearthditch
      @dearthditch 2 дні тому

      I feel like I had a stroke 😅

  • @XtomJamesExtra
    @XtomJamesExtra 2 дні тому +11

    Riddle 25) A windchime, an Echo can't "come alive with wind", wind is the enemy of echoes. You need still air and a large flat surface to produce an echo of a sound.
    24) A Library; while school sort of fits, generally speaking one who enters it blind remains blind. An Optometrist would be a more apt answer (Both Libraries and Optometry practices used to be tagged with the term "house" Liberhausen and Oculodomus respectively)
    23) I'd have gone with Linked Sausages, although I can see how Cows are the answer.
    22) I'd have gone with Soldiers, specifically the Red Coats in the Revolutionary War (US). It fits the riddle better.
    21) I thought dough was too obvious and instead thought a potato, mushroom, or possibly melon.
    20) Lice doesn't fit the riddle, I instantly thought of an illness and health, or catching and then throwing a baseball while one "steals" a base to keep that position.
    19) Map is again, to me, too obvious, I went with the more esoteric mycelium cluster, often called a Mushroom Forest when mature with smaller clusters called "cities". Mushrooms have rivers (or what look to be rivers when looking at the paths the spores take to spread out).
    18) The letter M, However, there's a far more esoteric answer, the distance light travels relative to itself when traversing the time-dilation field of a Super-Massive Black Hole. A photon lags behind its own waveform as it traverses the time-dilation field of a SMBH, it's position nearest the black hole will take about 2000 years if just outside the the event horizon to transit, it's position about 1000 kms outside the Event Horizon will take a moment for it, as it enters an exits the time dilation field, while it's further most point will only touch the bounds of the time dilation field delaying it's relative contact to one minute.
    17) An analogue dial clock, on their own a pair of gloves, a compass, gauges, measuring sticks, calipers, sundials, analog meters (voltmeters...), astrolabes, finger limes, hand plant, prayer plants, an amputee who keeps his lost hand in a jar.
    16) Letter N, but also nuclear fuel...Graphite also works.
    15) Fog...okay Darkness is not a fair option, I'm a hexchromat there's no such thing as "darkness" to me...grr
    14) Artichokes, Beats, Valentine Card, Valentine Chocolate Boxes, the Heart of a City, the Heart of a Community....a "Heart of Gold", the Heartland, a Forensics Unit/Laboratory/High School Bio Class, a Planet, a Nursery, various plants with Heart Shaped leaves or other structures, a heart attack victim...
    13) Literally ANYTHING, but I'd say a person on a computer, a secret or an idea...a postage stamp. However, technically speaking, a lamp sitting in a corner of a house will traverse the rotational period of Earth (thus travelling "around" the world) every single day...
    12) A Sunset, Gravity, the act of falling...rain, however, is very false. It can in fact rain up under various circumstances. Also, the act of evaporation returning water vapor into the atmosphere also defeats this answer.
    11) Faith, Trust (it can't be held in a physical sense), silence, one most certainly can hold a "promise" hence a promissory note.
    10) A Potato, Africa, a Needle, virtually any animal or human based statue, painting, or illustration, a Hurricane, Tornado, or Storm, a Maelstrom, a Lock (the keyhole is also called a Lock Eye), a Bullseye...
    9) A sand dial, a clock candle, any timer, a fire (generally speaking for cooking), any non-rechargeable battery...
    8) A penny, a quadruple amputee Weaner Dog, many varieties of worms, the Mississippi River, the Arkansas River, the Tomahawk River (except when died green for St. Patrick's day), a dirt road, the once but now well forgotten Tootsie Roll animal shapes, some varieties of eel, several different power cords, various styles of lamps...
    7) Silence, a variety of quantum constructs...the word "now" or "the present"...
    6) Flatulence, which when released, may prompt you to hold your breath, an idea, a vista, sunset, a contract, agreement, a meeting, a party, a dream, disdain, contempt, a yawn, a sneeze, tears, influence, gall, gumption, a disagreement, you can in an archaic use "hold the stores" meaning to move supplies to a Ship's Hold...
    5) The letter R, he 15th day, a Holiday, prefixes (Pri- and Arc-)...
    4) Time has elapsed and they've disembarked...
    3) The Roman Numeral for 4 is IV. However, using set theory we an use geometric number construction to define absolute set values. x:x is 1, x:x:x is 2 &3, x:x:x:x is 4, 5, 6. The absolute value of the set is 4, it's mean constructed number is 5 (less 1-3). This would make 4 half of 5.
    2) A journey, a sentence, a sword thrust...and obviously Ton.
    1) The wife took a photo of her husband, developed the film, hung the developed and set photos to dry, and took her husband out to dinner. Of course there are many other options; they had a water gun fight, play fought in the pool, they hung out in the sun to dry, and went to dinner.
    Trivia: The earliest known account of the riddle appeared in Hesiod's "Works and Days" circa 700 BC, although Sophocles used it in his "Oedipus Rex" narrative and is often credited as its author.

    • @tinknal6449
      @tinknal6449 2 дні тому +1

      The "wind" in an echo is your breath.

  • @samkingsway6564
    @samkingsway6564 День тому +2

    No fair on #8... I'm Canadian. What is a penny??? 😆Great and fun list as always

  • @lisamartinbradley1039
    @lisamartinbradley1039 2 дні тому +26

    The editing is wrong.

    • @MrTechnicks
      @MrTechnicks 2 дні тому +2

      Yep I cought it around 5:50 or so. The text for the answer.

    • @lisamartinbradley1039
      @lisamartinbradley1039 2 дні тому +5

      @MrTechnicks it's more than just one. Several of them are wrong.

    • @wrenchbender66
      @wrenchbender66 2 дні тому +4

      I've never seen editing like this from these guys. 3 had the answers wrong and even when talking about the recommended video it wasn't there. Not their usual quality. I still quite enjoyed the video though.

    • @freethebirds3578
      @freethebirds3578 2 дні тому +2

      I caught that.

    • @kathywiseley4382
      @kathywiseley4382 2 дні тому +2

      ​@@wrenchbender66Perhaps someone new is editing

  • @johnrector141
    @johnrector141 2 дні тому +4

    The "Eye of the Needle" was a narrow gateway into Jerusalem. Since camels were heavily loaded with goods and riders, they would need to be unloaded to pass through. Therefore, the analogy is that a rich man would have to similarly unload his material possessions to enter heaven. But I'm guessing you knew this and were just being facetious.

  • @bakert7000
    @bakert7000 2 дні тому +20

    I thought the eye riddle was a potato because they can have eyes too and cannot see.

    • @speedandstyletony
      @speedandstyletony 2 дні тому +1

      Hurricane could also fit.

    • @mydogandispoon
      @mydogandispoon 2 дні тому +1

      Eyes on potatoes freak me out so much! Can't touch them, don't wanna look at them, not particularly happy even thinking about them!

    • @mariarose6194
      @mariarose6194 2 дні тому

      @@mydogandispoon would it make you feel better to just see them as roots? Whenever my potatoes start to grow their roots I tell my youngest ... "Got another one for your garden." lol. Never understood why they would call them eyes... freaked me out too until I lived on a farm. =)

    • @mydogandispoon
      @mydogandispoon 2 дні тому

      @@mariarose6194 that could work!

    • @GlassFish73
      @GlassFish73 15 годин тому

      Me, too😊

  • @jenniferpittman2678
    @jenniferpittman2678 День тому +2

    Happy all those holidays to you too 😂❤🎉🎉🎉

  • @avatar3689
    @avatar3689 2 дні тому +10

    #6 could also be Attention: You can hold me without using your hands or arms.

  • @drsandy842
    @drsandy842 2 дні тому +6

    Got a few right without pausing so not too bad

  • @AngelaSchoenthal-nk1lt
    @AngelaSchoenthal-nk1lt 2 дні тому +6

    This was fun Mike!! So glad to hear you feeling better you sounded great here so I hope I'm correct.Hope your Holiday was fantastic!❤

    • @list25
      @list25  2 дні тому

      Happy Holidays to you too!

  • @Baldevi
    @Baldevi 2 дні тому +7

    Great job so far, but the Editor goofed with the answers that pop up, goofed BAD. This will need a reupload!
    Loving the riddles, weirdly, the harder they get, the easier time I have answering them... What does THAT mean?

  • @ShadowLynxXIII
    @ShadowLynxXIII День тому +1

    Frank Gorshin's successor to the Riddler was John Astin as he took over the role in later episodes. Jim Carrey was the 3rd to play live action Riddler. Another fast there were 3 actresses that played Cat Women in the 60s Batman

  • @stefanii1965
    @stefanii1965 2 дні тому +3

    That was fun! Thank you!

  • @dearthditch
    @dearthditch 2 дні тому +1

    I like the one from the Hobbit that involves Gollum’s second favorite thing

  • @MrTechnicks
    @MrTechnicks 2 дні тому +6

    6:48 - a storm. Eye of the storm.

    • @Remianen
      @Remianen 2 дні тому

      I was going to post this. Hurricane and tornado.

    • @ratzass2
      @ratzass2 2 дні тому

      Potatoes

    • @subhumann
      @subhumann 2 дні тому

      the alphabet

  • @bluegold1026
    @bluegold1026 2 дні тому +1

    Now I can't help but think of the "riddle" posed by the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland:
    "How is a raven like a writing desk?"

    • @Polyphemus47
      @Polyphemus47 2 дні тому +1

      YES!!! I've been trying to come up with ANY answer for over 60 years.

  • @rosemarriott7486
    @rosemarriott7486 День тому

    Got 9. Better than I expected

  • @DVS_MAGGOT
    @DVS_MAGGOT День тому +1

    Darkness lies in the corner of an envelope. Who would have known😅😅

  • @frankdeboer1347
    @frankdeboer1347 2 дні тому +4

    Best riddle from literature: "what do I have in my pocket?"

    • @thisolesignguy2733
      @thisolesignguy2733 2 дні тому

      dirty johnny said that and "it's long, it's hard, and has a pink tip"
      "it's my pencil! but it proves your thinking"

    • @kenvaughan6694
      @kenvaughan6694 2 дні тому

      ?

    • @WoodRabbitTaoist
      @WoodRabbitTaoist 2 дні тому

      Nah. Tolkien is overrated

    • @lunadusk8590
      @lunadusk8590 2 дні тому

      @@kenvaughan6694 The riddle about white horses on a red hill, comes from the Hobbit. It is a riddle battle between Bilbo Baggins and Golum. Bilbo finally wins by "Cheating" and asking what he has in his pocket. The answer to which was a gold ring.

    • @tinknal6449
      @tinknal6449 2 дні тому

      @@lunadusk8590 I thought the answer was Merry-go-round....

  • @earlinedavis7624
    @earlinedavis7624 2 дні тому +1

    Good ones!

  • @CattyCycler
    @CattyCycler 2 дні тому +2

    #22 is wrong. It should be thirty two white horses. A person has 32 adult teeth.

  • @Buggy-su4oy
    @Buggy-su4oy 2 дні тому +2

    Could you try to do the 25 I Love Lucy episodes.

  • @anitaburch3094
    @anitaburch3094 2 дні тому

    Love it

  • @ReccquiemBST
    @ReccquiemBST 2 дні тому

    I have a good one
    Six men enter a church
    Fool me once, twice, thrice
    The world has fallen
    What am I?

  • @Star-m5u7z
    @Star-m5u7z 2 дні тому +2

    I love your vids

  • @relaxedandhappylife7932
    @relaxedandhappylife7932 2 дні тому +1

    6:01 I think the answer is age.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 2 дні тому +2

    John Astin, aka Gomez Addams, also appeared as The Riddler on the original Batman TV series.

  • @williamagnew6219
    @williamagnew6219 2 дні тому +1

    In Bible times a needle was also a separate hole in a door to a city.

  • @TivWalker
    @TivWalker 2 дні тому

    cheers

  • @michaelhaywood8262
    @michaelhaywood8262 9 годин тому

    Alternative answer for ''the more there is the less you see''. Could also be mist/fog.

  • @jrodjuiceman
    @jrodjuiceman 2 дні тому

    Hey, that was fun! Thanks!

  • @donnatheroux841
    @donnatheroux841 2 дні тому

    Excellent video ❤️👍😍

  • @Polyphemus47
    @Polyphemus47 2 дні тому

    My grandpa's favorite riddle:
    What goes up the chimney down,
    or down the chimney down,
    but not up the chimney up,
    or down the chimney up?

  • @lucyalderman422
    @lucyalderman422 2 дні тому

    I got a lot right

  • @yengher9033
    @yengher9033 2 дні тому +1

    Riddle these nutz.

  • @janaskibo871
    @janaskibo871 2 дні тому +1

    Yay 😁😁😁.

  • @SusanBaileyAmazingEstate
    @SusanBaileyAmazingEstate 2 дні тому +2

    An echo comes alive with the wind?

    • @tinknal6449
      @tinknal6449 2 дні тому +1

      Your breath.

    • @SusanBaileyAmazingEstate
      @SusanBaileyAmazingEstate 2 дні тому +1

      @@tinknal6449
      Thank you! It’s still a crap riddle. At least that makes some sense.

    • @tinknal6449
      @tinknal6449 2 дні тому

      @@SusanBaileyAmazingEstate A lot of them were crappy.

  • @netherfield2000
    @netherfield2000 2 дні тому +1

    The answers don’t always match up with what’s on the screen

  • @Cookie-ri9pz
    @Cookie-ri9pz 14 годин тому

    I got 3 of them. Does that mean I'm a genius?

  • @dawncolket8864
    @dawncolket8864 2 дні тому

    Love this one!

  • @MacaylaCayton
    @MacaylaCayton 2 дні тому +2

    My mind wasn’t in the gutter for 25(for 25 I said sound) but for 21 my mind definitely went to the gutter

  • @kathleennagwak1761
    @kathleennagwak1761 2 дні тому +1

    Some of these are from 5 years ago. Yeah I'm that one who only watched the older video this week. Love your show.

  • @michelleoliver3868
    @michelleoliver3868 2 дні тому

    love all your videos

  • @freethebirds3578
    @freethebirds3578 2 дні тому +1

    A cowboy rides into town on Thursday. He stays for 3 days--only 3 days--and leaves on Thursday. How?

  • @kenvaughan6694
    @kenvaughan6694 2 дні тому

    The letter "O"

  • @TickedOffPriest
    @TickedOffPriest 2 дні тому

    11 is also silence.

  • @anitajohnson6894
    @anitajohnson6894 2 дні тому +1

    Happy Hanukkah

  • @CyclopsWasRight616
    @CyclopsWasRight616 2 дні тому +2

    the one in the thumbnail is "Teeth".

  • @tinknal6449
    @tinknal6449 2 дні тому

    15 could be fog as well.

  • @LtJackboot
    @LtJackboot 2 дні тому +5

    I HATE riddles, why am I here?

  • @joangoodling2086
    @joangoodling2086 2 дні тому

    Another answer to #15 could be fog

  • @valerief1231
    @valerief1231 День тому

    You seemed to really enjoy this one Mike, Happy Kwanza and Chanukah, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, and most importantly, Here is a prayer for a happy, rewarding, blessed, prosperous, and healthy New Year Mike, you have gotten me thru some really tough times, and I am glad you are still making content, you seem to be doing most of the things all by yourself, that takes a lot of focus, devotion, discipline and creativity, keep it up kind sir! By the way, you look fit a a fiddle, I hope you feel as good as you look, love from Fort Worth Texas 🤠

  • @A_Rose_From_Concrete
    @A_Rose_From_Concrete 2 дні тому

    I got 12 right 😊😊

  • @aaronwalcott513
    @aaronwalcott513 2 дні тому

    After #12, the Water Cycle packed its bags and left the building.

  • @Rockey0512
    @Rockey0512 2 дні тому

    Can come up with a hard one

  • @LogicallyLost
    @LogicallyLost 2 дні тому

    Haha I got the clock one

  • @PaganStar313
    @PaganStar313 2 дні тому

    I got about 10 right & am so proud of my 8 year old son he got #15 (Darkness) right & also gave a good answer for #14 (a dead person)
    #12 is wrong because all water is recycled so rain DOES go back up....

  • @andywinslow9638
    @andywinslow9638 День тому

    Would you accept a heart also as something that can be broken but not held? I got 5 right away

  • @thomasdean302
    @thomasdean302 2 дні тому

    I got 10 right

  • @julesstephenson8935
    @julesstephenson8935 День тому

    6:42 the correct answer for that one is me. I have two of them, but one doesn’t work at all and the other one doesn’t work very well. I have a good sense of humor about it, though, I can just about never resist making a good blind joke.

  • @joeydepalmer4457
    @joeydepalmer4457 2 дні тому

    Go Seattle Seahawks!

  • @Rigel_Chiokis
    @Rigel_Chiokis 2 дні тому

    These really did puzzle me, but I got map immediately. Perhaps because I worked with maps in two different careers. I also got clock, promise, needle, penny, silence and the letter R (the M riddle was a hint to this one) immediately. The one where the answer was breath, I guessed Thought, because; hold that thought. This was fun!

    • @malindastevens1016
      @malindastevens1016 2 дні тому

      The needle one I guessed storm which also meets the criteria hence the phrase "Eye of the storm"

  • @thirdcoastfirebird
    @thirdcoastfirebird 2 дні тому +1

    No. I want to see a riddle about a riddle. Is that too much? 😁 The answer is Sophocles.

  • @tammyhowington8396
    @tammyhowington8396 2 дні тому

    Woo who 🎉on the Mike train early! Love riddles. Thanks Mike. Great job!

  • @Buggy-su4oy
    @Buggy-su4oy 2 дні тому

    Wonder if Adam did the Bat dance.😊😊

  • @gaymer1710
    @gaymer1710 2 дні тому

    I got 2 right and was close and on the right track on another, I was thinking a book instead of a map

  • @cuneas
    @cuneas День тому

    1:23 misspelled "AND" as "AN"

  • @GlassBolinger
    @GlassBolinger 2 дні тому

    Chuck Norris can see his shadow in the darkness

    • @TheRantyRider
      @TheRantyRider 2 дні тому

      Chuck Norris' shadow can beat up ten people in the darkness.

  • @fuzzywolf63
    @fuzzywolf63 2 дні тому

    There is another answer to the riddle of the needle. A hurricane.

  • @kenvaughan6694
    @kenvaughan6694 2 дні тому

    There's one in every corner,
    and two in every room?

  • @lanicotton8507
    @lanicotton8507 2 дні тому

    I actually got six right and that without having to really think about it. 😅Not bad for someone who’s not great with riddles

  • @suesmith9202
    @suesmith9202 2 години тому

    I never got one of them riddles

  • @kenvaughan6694
    @kenvaughan6694 2 дні тому

    A towel

  • @dandutre
    @dandutre 2 дні тому

    Damn, I'm O for 25! Maybe I should lay off the pot for a while. 🤔

  • @ravensmistify
    @ravensmistify 2 дні тому +1

    Ok, who wrote the riddle of the Sphinx?

    • @CanadaDragon1
      @CanadaDragon1 2 дні тому

      Sophocles. He created the story of Oedipus who solved the riddle of the Sphinx, which the answer by the way is a person. People crawl when they're babies, they walk on 2 legs when they get older, and they finally use a cane to help them walk when they get really old.

  • @Happycappy91
    @Happycappy91 2 дні тому

    Me wondering where I seen that Bull before and then I'm like oh wait, I work at Moffit. I drive in USF every day lol! Love to see you're a Tampa native!

    • @list25
      @list25  2 дні тому

      Born and raised lol

  • @bretmaples
    @bretmaples 2 дні тому

    Potatoes also have eyes that cant see

  • @tinknal6449
    @tinknal6449 2 дні тому

    Water evaporates, so it does go back up....

    • @Polyphemus47
      @Polyphemus47 2 дні тому

      The water does, but not 'rain', per se.

  • @JohnnyLouis1145
    @JohnnyLouis1145 2 дні тому

    Feed me and I live, give me water and I die. What am I ?

  • @XtomJamesExtra
    @XtomJamesExtra 2 дні тому

    My turn: The rich have it in spades but have no use for me, the poor desire me the most when all else is lost, but in the end for everyone it is the same. What is it?

  • @bartlester591
    @bartlester591 2 дні тому

    Here’s my riddle. I am both the most powerful being in the universe and the most loyal. What am I?

  • @cherylhale5755
    @cherylhale5755 2 дні тому

    Making bread

  • @blairmcmackin8857
    @blairmcmackin8857 2 дні тому

    I'm 0-25...

  • @kenvaughan6694
    @kenvaughan6694 2 дні тому

    Shake hands!

  • @kev4209
    @kev4209 2 дні тому +1

    Here is a riddle for you ( what is left but right and up and down and you use every day) comment your answers

  • @barbarabush962
    @barbarabush962 2 дні тому +2

    Sophocales

  • @wardarcade7452
    @wardarcade7452 2 дні тому +3

    How about this one that evidently was first coined by the Ancient Egyptians but would get updated by the English during Medieval times:
    As I was going to St. Ives
    I met a man with seven wives
    Every wife had seven sons
    Every son had seven sacks
    Every sack had seven cats
    Ever cat had seven kittens.
    Kittens, cats, sons, wives,
    How many were going to St. Ives?
    Any guesses (and it featured on 'Sesame Street' in the early 1970's)?

  • @TheRantyRider
    @TheRantyRider 2 дні тому

    Some of these have more than one answer, for instance 15 - the more fog there is the less you see. A true riddle should have only one answer.
    At least one is incorrect as well as an adult human will usually have 32 or 28 teeth, not 30. 32 if the wisdom teeth have come through, but not everyone's do.

  • @Trad63
    @Trad63 2 дні тому

    After three riddles, I realize I don’t like riddles

  • @crystalweible152
    @crystalweible152 2 дні тому

    Riddles do not work if the slang is not updated.

  • @kenvaughan6694
    @kenvaughan6694 2 дні тому

    A man does it standing up.
    A woman does it sitting down.
    A dog does it on three legs.
    What is it they're doing?

    • @Polyphemus47
      @Polyphemus47 2 дні тому

      I can't wait...hope it's not the obvious answer.

  • @kenvaughan6694
    @kenvaughan6694 2 дні тому

    The more it dries, the wetter it gets, what is it?

  • @margaretguillory3049
    @margaretguillory3049 День тому

    I don’t get the cow one.

    • @valerief1231
      @valerief1231 День тому

      So two pointing the way is it’s horns, 4 hanging down is the udders, so on, and so forth, I can’t remember the whole riddle now lol, but hope this helped 😉 Happy New Year, I hope it’s your best year yet!!!

  • @sagemckeand3716
    @sagemckeand3716 2 дні тому

    Get the editors on this, the digital text input timing is a MESS. Lots of mistakes in the text inserts. Answers are from previous questions and/or duplicated.

  • @paulsarnik8506
    @paulsarnik8506 2 дні тому

    №22 The Hobbit chapter"Riddles in the Dark" №18 Comes in a Roman Numeral thousand , tho. №14 Well it MIGHT be chokin' Artie, but it chokin' STIMIE! 🤓😎✌🏼

  • @foelddraig142
    @foelddraig142 2 дні тому

    Answers are repeated/duplicated.. you guys messed up..😂

  • @LtJackboot
    @LtJackboot 2 дні тому

    3:08 - I said 'she's making bread' does that count?

  • @Whootzie
    @Whootzie 2 дні тому

    What goes down but never comes up?
    Your Mom 🥁🥁🛎️

  • @abrahammorrison6374
    @abrahammorrison6374 2 дні тому

    If a person is born in Mars, PA, does that make them an American born Martain?
    If it does, then what kind of space aliens come from Jupiter, FL or Neptune, NJ?

  • @Jesusfreak-m3x
    @Jesusfreak-m3x 2 дні тому

    It is totally unfair to ask spelling questions since there are those of us who cannot spel.