Answers and explanations for Hard Riddles Set 2. The boat riddle and the sibling riddle both come down to a single word, and the explanations point straight at it.
What goes through towns and over hills, but never moves?
Answer: a road
A road runs across the whole country while staying perfectly still.
What has thirteen hearts but no other organs?
Answer: a deck of cards
A standard deck contains thirteen cards in the hearts suit, ace through king.
Forwards I am heavy, but backwards I am not. What am I?
Answer: a ton
A ton is a unit of weight, and reversed it spells 'not'.
A woman has seven daughters, and each of her daughters has one brother. How many children does she have?
Answer: eight
All seven daughters share the same single brother, so there are eight children in total.
What can be seen in the middle of March and April, but never at the start or end of either?
Answer: r
The letter R sits in the middle of both 'March' and 'April', and at neither end of either word.
You look at a boat absolutely full of people, and yet there is not a single person on board. How is that possible?
Answer: they are all married
Every person aboard is married, so there is not a single person on the boat.