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Dark Riddles List To Solve with Answers

This group of puzzling questions is filled with mysterious and dark themes along with difficult questions that will leave you baffled if you forget to pay full attention to the clues.
After every riddle is the "show answer" button so that you may check to see if you solved the riddle correctly, or if you simply have to give up because you can't quite resolve the conundrum.
Before starting this wide-ranging set please remember that they are exclusively for those older than 18 years of age. Due to the graphic nature of the riddles featured on this list we recommend that anyone under 18 check out the more "kid-friendly" riddles placed across the site. There are many clean puzzles throughout Riddles and Answers with various levels of difficulty for all ages as well.
I Appear Everywhere Except In The Dark
Hint: Not a shadow
A Dark Room Riddle
If you had only one match, and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some newspaper, and some kindling wood, which would you light first?
Hint:
I Was Set On Fire
Hint:
Comes To Bedsides Riddle
He comes to bedsides, icy bridges,
battlefronts, and crumbling ridges.
When he comes, he comes alone,
taps a shoulder, then is gone.
battlefronts, and crumbling ridges.
When he comes, he comes alone,
taps a shoulder, then is gone.
Hint:
Seven Deaths Riddle
A man goes to bed at 9:45 pm. He makes himself a drink, then turns off the TV and the lights. The night was windy and there was a major storm. The next day he discovers he was the cause of seven deaths. How is this possible?
Hint:
He lived in a lighthouse as lighthouse keeper. He turned off all the lights by accident, so a ship with 7 passengers couldnt negotiate the rocky shores. One would think the light switches in a lighthouse would be more clearly marked. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
YES NO
YES NO
Right Behind You Riddle
Its right behind you,
And creeps on the ground,
It follows you home,
But does not make a sound.
Careful when you turn around.
What is it?
And creeps on the ground,
It follows you home,
But does not make a sound.
Careful when you turn around.
What is it?
Hint:
Not Seen Nor Felt Riddle
It cannot be seen, it cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
Lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
Comes first follows after,
Ends life kills laughter.
What am I?
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
Lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
Comes first follows after,
Ends life kills laughter.
What am I?
Hint:
Written In Blood Riddle
On a dark, stormy Halloween night, four kids named Luke, John, Sarah and Bob walk into a haunted house during a blackout. Only one can escape. They take a staircase to the second floor, a trapdoor on the left, then go up the ladder to the right, followed by a 28-foot slide to the basement through the mouth of a Giant Panda. In one corner of the murky cellar is a chainsaw, a dagger, a rope with a noose and an electric chair. Written on the wall in blood are the words, Only one will survive choose your death! Bob takes the rope, Sarah picks up the dagger, John chooses the chainsaw and Luke uses the chair.
Who survives?
Who survives?
Hint:
No Scales Or Bones Riddle
They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they?
Hint:
Burn The Eyes Riddle
Hint:
In A Dark Room Riddle
You are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp. If you have only one match, what do you light first?
Hint:
Having More But Seeing Less
Hint:
Beneath The Stars Riddle
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
Hint:
Seeing Nothing Riddle
Hint:
She Shot Her Husband Riddle
A man and a woman live peacefully in a house together. But one day the woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over five minutes. Finally, she hangs him, but ten minutes later they go out and enjoy a wonderful dinner. How can this be?
Hint:
The woman is a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it and hung it up to dry. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
YES NO
YES NO
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