This Confusing Riddle Left Many Scratching Their Heads. Can You Solve It?

The internet is a goldmine of funny, intriguing, and fascinating content, which keeps us entertained throughout. A similar entertaining clip on Instagram is going viral that shows a video creator posing a question to her followers. The video shows her asking the question while standing on the terrace. A boy is also roaming on the terrace alongside the content creator. She asks, “Aisa kaun sa word hain jo hum likhte toh hain lekin padhte nahi hain usko (What is that word which we write but don’t read?)”. The video creator further adds that this is enough hint for someone to identify the right answer. Till then, she asks the followers to enjoy the mesmerising weather and turns the camera to the beautiful sunset view. This clip has received more than 5 million views and counting.

Social media users came up with different responses to the question. Some of them replied that the woman was pointing out the Hindi word Nahi (No). Others pointed out the word Blackboard. Going by the answers, the correct choice for the riddle seems to be Nahi (No) because, in Hindi, we pronounce it as Nahi only.

A similar riddle went viral in 2023 on Twitter which left the users all around the internet scratching their heads. Some of them even felt stupid after knowing the answer. A social media user named No Context Humans posted this riddle on Twitter. The photograph shows a blackboard kept outside eateries with a puzzle that reads, “What has 4 letters, sometimes 9 letters, but never has 5 letters.”

Within a day, the post went viral on social media and garnered close to 31 million views so far. Interestingly, the numbers are still increasing. With likes and views, the post has also garnered many comments from social media users. A few were quick to come up with the answer, while some couldn’t solve the puzzle and were left baffled.

A Twitter user explained, “The riddle is playing with words. It’s not asking about a word but instead stating facts about the words: ‘What’ has 4 letters. ‘Sometimes’ has 9 letters. But the word ‘never’ has 5 letters.”