1.

Riddle: What has to be broken possible? 33. Riddle: If you’re running in a

before you can use it? Answer: He was born on February race and you pass the person in
Answer: An egg 29. second place, what place are you
in?
2. Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, 17. Riddle: I have branches, but no Answer: Second place
and I’m short when I’m old. What fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
am I? Answer: A bank 34. Riddle: It belongs to you, but
Answer: A candle other people use it more than you
18. Riddle: What can’t talk but will do. What is it?
3. Riddle: What month of the year reply when spoken to? Answer: Your name
has 28 days? Answer: An echo
Answer: All of them RELATED: Trivia Questions for
19. Riddle: The more of this there Kids
4. Riddle: What is full of holes but is, the less you see. What is it?
still holds water? Answer: Darkness Funny Riddles
Answer: A sponge
20. Riddle: David’s parents have 35. Riddle: What has lots of eyes,
5. Riddle: What question can you three sons: Snap, Crackle, and but can’t see?
never answer yes to? what’s the name of the third son? Answer: A potato
Answer: Are you asleep yet? Answer: David
36. Riddle: What has one eye, but
6. Riddle: What is always in front of 21. Riddle: I follow you all the time can’t see?
you but can’t be seen? and copy your every move, but you Answer: A needle
Answer: The future can’t touch me or catch me. What
am I? 37. Riddle: What has many needles,
7. Riddle: There’s a one-story house Answer: Your shadow but doesn’t sew?
in which everything is yellow. Answer: A Christmas tree
Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow 22. Riddle: What has many keys but
furniture. What color are the stairs? can’t open a single lock? 38. Riddle: What has hands, but
Answer: There aren’t any—it’s a Answer: A piano can’t clap?
one-story house. Answer: A clock
23. Riddle: What can you hold in
8. Riddle. What can you break, even your left hand but not in your right? 39. Riddle: What has legs, but
if you never pick it up or touch it? Answer: Your right elbow doesn’t walk?
Answer: A promise Answer: A table
24. Riddle: What is black when it’s
9. Riddle: What goes up but never clean and white when it’s dirty? 40. Riddle: What has one head, one
comes down? Answer: A chalkboard foot and four legs?
Answer: Your age Answer: A bed
25. Riddle: What gets bigger when
10. Riddle: A man who was outside more is taken away? 41. Riddle: What can you catch, but
in the rain without an umbrella or Answer: A hole not throw?
hat didn’t get a single hair on his Answer: A cold
head wet. Why? 26. Riddle: I’m light as a feather, yet
the strongest person can’t hold me 42. Riddle: What kind of band never
Answer: He was bald.
for five minutes. What am I? plays music?
11. Riddle: What gets wet while Answer: Your breath Answer: A rubber band
drying?
27. Riddle: I’m found in socks, 43. Riddle: What has many teeth,
Answer: A towel
scarves and mittens; and often in but can’t bite?
12. Riddle: What can you keep after the paws of playful kittens. What Answer: A comb
giving to someone? am I?
44. Riddle: What is cut on a table,
Answer: Your word Answer: Yarn
but is never eaten?
13. Riddle: I shave every day, but 28. Riddle: Where does today come Answer: A deck of cards
my beard stays the same. What am before yesterday?
45. Riddle: What has words, but
I? Answer: The dictionary
never speaks?
Answer: A barber
29. Riddle: What invention lets you Answer: A book
14. Riddle: You see a boat filled look right through a wall?
46. Riddle: What runs all around a
with people, yet there isn’t a single Answer: A window
backyard, yet never moves?
person on board. How is that
30. Riddle: If you’ve got me, you Answer: A fence
possible?
Answer: All the people on the boat want to share me; if you share me,
47. Riddle: What can travel all
are married. you haven’t kept me. What am I?
around the world without leaving
Answer: A secret
its corner?
15. Riddle: You walk into a room
31. Riddle: What can’t be put in a Answer: A stamp
that contains a match, a kerosene
lamp, a candle and a fireplace. saucepan?
48. Riddle: What has a thumb and
What would you light first? Answer: It’s lid
four fingers, but is not a hand?
Answer: The match Answer: A glove
32. Riddle: What goes up and down
16. Riddle: A man dies of old age on but doesn’t move?
his 25 birthday. How is this Answer: A staircase
49. Riddle: What has a head and a 64. Riddle: Two fathers and two Related: Would You Rather
tail but no body? sons are in a car, yet there are only Questions
Answer: A coin three people in the car. How?
Answer: They are a grandfather, 76. Riddle: I am the beginning of
50. Riddle: Where does one wall father and son. everything, the end of everywhere.
meet the other wall? I'm the beginning of eternity, the
Answer: On the corner 65. Riddle: The day before end of time and space. What am I?
yesterday I was 21, and next year I Answer: Also the letter “e”
51. Riddle: What building has the will be 24. When is my birthday?
most stories? Answer: December 31; today is 77. Riddle: What 4-letter word can
Answer: The library January 1. be written forward, backward or
upside down, and can still be read
52. Riddle: What tastes better than 66. Riddle: A little girl goes to the from left to right?
it smells? store and buys one dozen eggs. As Answer: NOON
Answer: Your tongue she is going home, all but three
break. How many eggs are left 78. Riddle: Forward I am heavy, but
53. Riddle: What has 13 hearts, but backward I am not. What am I?
unbroken?
no other organs? Answer: The word “not”
Answer: Three
Answer: A deck of cards
67. Riddle: A man describes his 79. Riddle: What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3
54. Riddle: It stalks the countryside cat and 2/4 goat?
daughters, saying, “They are all
with ears that can’t hear. What is Answer: Chicago
blonde, but two; all brunette but
it?
two; and all redheaded but two.”
Answer: Corn 80. Riddle: I am a word of letters
How many daughters does he
three; add two and fewer there will
have?
55. Riddle: What kind of coat is best be. What word am I?
Answer: Three: A blonde, a
put on wet? Answer: Few
brunette and a redhead
Answer: A coat of paint
81. Riddle: What word of five
68. Riddle: If there are
56. Riddle: What has a bottom at letters has one left when two are
three apples and you take away
the top? removed?
two, how many apples do you
Answer: Your legs Answer: Stone
have?
57. Riddle: What has four wheels Answer: You have two apples. 82. Riddle: What is the end of
and flies? everything?
69. Riddle: A girl has as many
Answer: A garbage truck Answer: The letter “g”
brothers as sisters, but each
RELATED: 101 Funny Quotes brother has only half as many 83. Riddle: What word is
brothers as sisters. How many pronounced the same if you take
Math Riddles brothers and sisters are there in away four of its five letters?
the family? Answer: Queue
58. Riddle: I am an odd number. Answer: Four sisters and three
Take away a letter and I become brothers 84. Riddle: I am a word that begins
even. What number am I? with the letter “i.” If you add the
Answer: Seven Related: 101 Fun Facts letter “a” to me, I become a new
word with a different meaning, but
59. Riddle: If two’s company, and Word Riddles
that sounds exactly the same. What
three’s a crowd, what are four and
70. Riddle: What five-letter word word am I?
five?
becomes shorter when you add two Answer: Isle (add “a” to make
Answer: Nine
letters to it? “aisle”)
60. Riddle: What three numbers, Answer: Short
85. Riddle: What word in the
none of which is zero, give the
71. Riddle: What begins with an "e" English language does the
same result whether they’re added
and only contains one letter? following: The first two letters
or multiplied?
Answer: An envelope signify a male, the first three letters
Answer: One, two and three
signify a female, the first four
61. Riddle: Mary has four 72. Riddle: A word I know, six letters signify a great, while the
daughters, and each of her letters it contains, remove one entire world signifies a great
daughters has a brother. How many letter and 12 remains. What is it? woman. What is the word?
children does Mary have? Answer: Dozens Answer: Heroine
Answer: Five—each daughter has
73. Riddle: What would you find in Related: 101 Funny Puns
the same brother.
the middle of Toronto?
Answer: The letter “o” Really Hard Riddles for Adults
62. Riddle: Which is heavier: a ton
of bricks or a ton of feathers? 86. Riddle: What is so fragile that
74. Riddle: You see me once in
Answer: Neither—they both weigh
June, twice in November and not saying its name breaks it?
a ton. Answer: Silence.
at all in May. What am I?
63. Riddle: Three doctors said that Answer: The letter “e”
87. Riddle: What can run but never
Bill was their brother. Bill says he walks, has a mouth but never talks,
75. Riddle: Two in a corner, one in a
has no brothers. How many
room, zero in a house, but one in a has a head but never weeps, has a
brothers does Bill actually have? bed but never sleeps?
shelter. What is it?
Answer: None. He has three sisters.
Answer: The letter “r” Answer: A river
88. Riddle: Speaking of rivers, a am I?
man calls his dog from the opposite Answer: A map
side of the river. The dog crosses
the river without getting wet, and 101. Riddle: What does man love
without using a bridge or boat. more than life, hate more than
How? death or mortal strife; that which
Answer: The river was frozen. contented men desire; the poor
have, the rich require; the miser
89. Riddle: What can fill a room but spends, the spendthrift saves, and
takes up no space? all men carry to their graves?
Answer: Light Answer: Nothing

90. Riddle: If you drop me I’m sure

to crack, but give me a smile and
I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror

91. Riddle: The more you take, the

more you leave behind. What are
they?
Answer: Footsteps

92. Riddle: I turn once, what is out

will not get in. I turn again, what is
in will not get out. What am I?
Answer: A key

93. Riddle: People make me, save

me, change me, raise me. What am
I?
Answer: Money

94. Riddle: What breaks yet never

falls, and what falls yet never
breaks?
Answer: Day, and night

95. Riddle: What goes through

cities and fields, but never moves?
Answer: A road

96. Riddle: I am always hungry and

will die if not fed, but whatever I
touch will soon turn red. What am
I?
Answer: Fire

97. Riddle: The person who makes

it has no need of it; the person who
buys it has no use for it. The person
who uses it can neither see nor feel
it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin

98. Riddle: A man looks at a

painting in a museum and says,
“Brothers and sisters I have none,
but that man’s father is my father’s
son.” Who is in the painting?
Answer: The man’s son

99. Riddle: With pointed fangs I sit

and wait; with piercing force I
crunch out fate; grabbing victims,
proclaiming might; physically
joining with a single bite. What am
I?
Answer: A stapler

100. Riddle: I have lakes with no

water, mountains with no stone
and cities with no buildings. What