What can travel across water but never gets wet?
Category: Brain Teasers · Difficulty: hard
Hint: Consider what might reflect on a surface.
Answer
A boat's shadow
Explanation
A shadow can appear on water but does not physically interact with it.
This is a hard brain teasers riddle — a tricky one that takes a little thought. The answer is A boat's shadow.
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