Hard Riddles

These are the riddles that do not give themselves up on the first read. Some are logic problems dressed as a sentence, some hinge on a single word doing two jobs at once, and a few are about the letters on the page rather than what they spell.

If you are stuck, that is the point. Every riddle has a hint that nudges you toward the right kind of thinking without handing over the answer, and a full explanation waiting on the answers page for the ones that still refuse to click.

Each set is weighted towards the hard tier but opens with something gentler, so you get a run-up rather than a wall.