How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking the floor?

Any way, an egg cannot crack it

Wrap the egg in a thick cloth first

Tricky Riddle Quiz: 10 Trick Questions That Fool Most People

This tricky riddle quiz is full of trick questions that use wordplay, misleading wording and hidden assumptions to fool your brain, from a word that is always spelled wrong to egg yolks, a bald barber, the White House and a question you can never answer yes to, in the long tradition of the Sphinx and Lewis Carroll. Ten riddles to outsmart.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 90 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 90s

Spelling
Which word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
Promises
What can you keep after giving it to someone?
Opposites
What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you will die?
Jobs
Which common English word has three pairs of double letters in a row?
Grammar
Which is correct: the yolk of the egg is white, or the yolk of the egg are white?
Rain
A man walked home in heavy rain with no umbrella and no hat, yet not one hair on his head got wet. How?
Math words
What do you get if you add four and five in Roman numerals, IV and V, and write the result?
Yes or no
Which question can you never truthfully answer yes to?
Buildings
If the red house is made of red bricks and the blue house of blue bricks, what is the White House made of?
Eggs
How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking the floor?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
Answer: Wrong
The word wrong is always spelled w-r-o-n-g, so it is spelled wrong in every dictionary. The riddle plays on the double meaning.
Q2: What can you keep after giving it to someone?
Answer: Your word
When you give your word, you promise something, and you are expected to keep it. A gift, once given, belongs to someone else.
Q3: What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you will die?
Answer: Nothing
Nothing is greater than God, nothing is more evil than the devil, the poor have nothing and the rich need nothing. If you eat nothing, you will starve.
Q4: Which common English word has three pairs of double letters in a row?
Answer: Bookkeeper
Bookkeeper contains oo, kk and ee one after another. Committee has double letters too, but not three pairs in a row.
Q5: Which is correct: the yolk of the egg is white, or the yolk of the egg are white?
Answer: Neither, yolks are yellow
The question makes you focus on grammar, but egg yolks are yellow. Is would be the correct verb, yet both statements are false.
Q6: A man walked home in heavy rain with no umbrella and no hat, yet not one hair on his head got wet. How?
Answer: He was bald
A man with no hair on his head has no hair that can get wet. The riddle makes you look for a clever escape from the rain instead.
Q7: What do you get if you add four and five in Roman numerals, IV and V, and write the result?
Answer: IX
Four plus five is nine, which is written IX in Roman numerals. The unusual wording makes the simple sum feel harder than it is.
Q8: Which question can you never truthfully answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep?
If you are asleep, you cannot answer at all. If you answer yes, you are awake, so the answer cannot be truthful.
Q9: If the red house is made of red bricks and the blue house of blue bricks, what is the White House made of?
Answer: Painted sandstone
The White House in Washington, D.C. is built of sandstone that has been painted white. The riddle tricks you into continuing the pattern.
Q10: How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking the floor?
Answer: Any way, an egg cannot crack it
The question tricks you into worrying about the egg. A concrete floor is far too hard to be cracked by a falling egg.

Tricky Riddle Quiz – Why Trick Questions Work

Tricky riddles are puzzles designed to mislead. Instead of testing knowledge, they use wordplay, double meanings and clever wording to send your mind in the wrong direction. The answer usually seems obvious once you hear it, which is why these riddles are so much fun to share with friends and family.

Riddles are among the oldest word games in the world. In Greek myth, the Sphinx asked travelers what walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon and three in the evening. The answer was a human: a baby crawls, an adult walks and an old person uses a cane. Riddles also appear in ancient Babylonian texts and Old English poetry.

Many tricky riddles exploit assumptions. When you hear about the red house and the blue house, your brain expects the pattern to continue. When asked whether the yolk is white, you focus on grammar and forget the color. Psychologists call this kind of mistake a cognitive bias, a mental shortcut that usually helps but sometimes fails.

The writer Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, loved riddles and logic games. His famous unanswered riddle, why is a raven like a writing desk, has inspired guesses for more than 150 years.

Good riddle solvers slow down, read every word and question their first idea. Asking what the question really says, rather than what it seems to say, is the key.

Sharing trick questions is a great way to spark laughter, conversation and curiosity.

What This Quiz Teaches

This quiz is perfect for families, party games and riddle fans.

How wordplay creates trick questions
Double meanings in everyday words
Why we fall for patterns
Reading every word carefully
The riddle of the Sphinx
Lewis Carroll and famous riddles

Quick Facts About Riddles

The riddle of the Sphinx appears in the story of Oedipus.
The Exeter Book, an Old English manuscript, contains nearly 100 riddles.
J. R. R. Tolkien included a riddle contest in The Hobbit.
Riddles are popular in many cultures around the world.
Trick questions often rely on hidden assumptions.
Telling riddles is a classic way to build language skills in children.