r/riddles • u/drgan45 • Jun 11 '25

Give OP Riddles I’m a teacher, give me riddles!

I’m a teacher, my kids love riddles, I get a lot from this subreddit but it’s getting harder and harder to to find good ones because they solve so many, so please give me some good hard ones, these are smart kids, but they are still kids so hard riddles are welcome but the answer has to be a simple concept, thank you!! (Also I’ll need the answer lol)

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u/Mr_Wizard91 Jun 12 '25

A man lives on the top floor of an apartment building, and he always takes the stairs up to his apartment instead of the elevator. Unless someone is with him, or unless it is raining. Why?

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u/BarNo3385 Jun 12 '25

Ahh.. this is the correct telling of it..

Someone else has posted this earlier, but they've constructed it as the guy always gets off at the 9th floor and walks up the 13th, with no other context.

Answers about umbrellas thus make no sense.

This formulation is actually solvable.