31 Logic Puzzles That’ll Leave You Scratching Your Head

“Why is a raven like a writing desk?”

Made famous in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this logic question has stumped even the smartest of thinkers for over a century and a half, sparking pithy retorts like, “They both have inky quills,” “Poe wrote on both of them” and “Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat.” 

None of these clever answers are actually correct, though. Considering the riddle, like most of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was intended to be an ambiguous, trippy fever dream of a text, the real solution (if there is one) is still a mystery, known only to Carroll, the Mad Hatter and God. 

But that doesn’t mean that we’ll ever stop trying to find the right answer — a sentiment that can also be applied to the rest of these high-caliber logic puzzles. Whether it’s about assuming the color of a bear or playing coroner in the case of several mysterious deaths, here are a few logic puzzles that’ll leave you scratching your head…