Easy Riddles

1. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?

Answer: An egg
2. Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
3. Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them
4. Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
5. Riddle: What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
6. Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
7. Riddle: There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls,
yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
8. Riddle. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise
9. Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
10. Riddle: A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a
single hair on his head wet. Why?
Answer: He was bald.
11. Riddle: What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel
12. Riddle: What can you keep after giving to someone?
Answer: Your word
13. Riddle: I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
Answer: A barber
14. Riddle: You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board.
How is that possible?
Answer: All the people on the boat are married.
15. Riddle: You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle
and a fireplace. What would you light first?
Answer: The match
16. Riddle: A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
Answer: He was born on February 29.
17. Riddle: I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank
18. Riddle: What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo
19. Riddle: The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness
Riddles for Kids

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20. Riddle: David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of
the third son?
Answer: David
21. Riddle: I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch
me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow
22. Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano
23. Riddle: What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Answer: Your right elbow
24. Riddle: What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard
25. Riddle: What gets bigger when more is taken away?
Answer: A hole
26. Riddle: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five
minutes. What am I?
Answer: Your breath
27. Riddle: I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful
kittens. What am I?
Answer: Yarn
28. Riddle: Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: The dictionary
29. Riddle: What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window
30. Riddle: If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept
me. What am I?
Answer: A secret
31. Riddle: What can’t be put in a saucepan?
Answer: It’s lid
32. Riddle: What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase
33. Riddle: If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what
place are you in?
Answer: Second place
34. Riddle: It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
Answer: Your name
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Funny Riddles
35. Riddle: What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
Answer: A potato
36. Riddle: What has one eye, but can’t see?
Answer: A needle
37. Riddle: What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?
Answer: A Christmas tree
38. Riddle: What has hands, but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock

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39. Riddle: What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table
40. Riddle: What has one head, one foot and four legs?
Answer: A bed
41. Riddle: What can you catch, but not throw?
Answer: A cold
42. Riddle: What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band
43. Riddle: What has many teeth, but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb
44. Riddle: What is cut on a table, but is never eaten?
Answer: A deck of cards
45. Riddle: What has words, but never speaks?
Answer: A book
46. Riddle: What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?
Answer: A fence 
47. Riddle: What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
Answer: A stamp
48. Riddle: What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?
Answer: A glove
49. Riddle: What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
50. Riddle: Where does one wall meet the other wall?
Answer: On the corner
51. Riddle: What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library 
52. Riddle: What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue
53. Riddle: What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards
54. Riddle: It stalks the countryside with ears that can’t hear. What is it?
Answer: Corn
55. Riddle: What kind of coat is best put on wet?
Answer: A coat of paint
56. Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs
57. Riddle: What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck
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Math Riddles
58. Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number
am I?
Answer: Seven
59. Riddle: If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine

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60. Riddle: What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether
they’re added or multiplied?
Answer: One, two and three
61. Riddle: Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How
many children does Mary have?
Answer: Five—each daughter has the same brother.
62. Riddle: Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: Neither—they both weigh a ton.
63. Riddle: Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers.
How many brothers does Bill actually have?
Answer: None. He has three sisters.
64. Riddle: Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in
the car. How?
Answer: They are a grandfather, father and son.
65. Riddle: The day before yesterday I was 21, and next year I will be 24. When is
my birthday?
Answer: December 31; today is January 1.
66. Riddle: A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going
home, all but three break. How many eggs are left unbroken?
Answer: Three
67. Riddle: A man describes his daughters, saying, “They are all blonde, but two; all
brunette but two; and all redheaded but two.” How many daughters does he have?
Answer: Three: A blonde, a brunette and a redhead
68. Riddle: If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you
have?
Answer: You have two apples.
69. Riddle: A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as
many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Answer: Four sisters and three brothers
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Word Riddles
70. Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short
71. Riddle: What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope
72. Riddle: A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains.
What is it?
Answer: Dozens
73. Riddle: What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
Answer: The letter “o”
74. Riddle: You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What
am I?
Answer: The letter “e”
75. Riddle: Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What
is it?
Answer: The letter “r”

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76. Riddle: I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the
beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
Answer: Also the letter “e”
77. Riddle: What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and
can still be read from left to right?
Answer: NOON
78. Riddle: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: The word “not”
79. Riddle: What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?
Answer: Chicago
80. Riddle: I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word
am I?
Answer: Few
81. Riddle: What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
Answer: Stone
82. Riddle: What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “g”
83. Riddle: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five
letters?
Answer: Queue
84. Riddle: I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me,
I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same.
What word am I?
Answer: Isle (add “a” to make “aisle”)
85. Riddle: What word in the English language does the following: The first two
letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters
signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Answer: Heroine
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Really Hard Riddles
86. Riddle: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
87. Riddle: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but
never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river
88. Riddle: Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river.
The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat.
How?
Answer: The river was frozen.
89. Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light
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

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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 am I?
Answer: A map
101. Riddle: What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal
strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser
spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?
Answer: Nothing
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17. You’re a grey sprinkle on a rainbow cupcake.

18. I thought of you today. It reminded me to take out the trash.
19. You are so full of shit, the toilet’s jealous.
20. I love what you’ve done with your hair. How do you get it to come out of the
nostrils like that?
21. Stupidity isn’t a crime, so you’re free to go.
22. I’ve been called worse by better.
23. Don’t you get tired of putting makeup on your two faces every morning?
24. Too bad you can’t Photoshop your ugly personality.
25. Do your parents even realize they’re living proof that two wrongs don’t make a
right?
26. Jesus might love you, but everyone else definitely thinks you’re an idiot.

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27. Please just tell me you don’t plan to home-school your kids.
28. You see that door? I want you on the other side of it.
29. You’re like the end pieces of a loaf of bread. Everyone touches you, but nobody
wants you.
30. If you’re going to act like a turd, go lay on the yard.
Funny Comebacks 
31. You are more disappointing than an unsalted pretzel.
32. Your face makes onions cry.
33. Don’t worry about me. Worry about your eyebrows.
34. Where’d you get your clothes, girl, American Apparently Not?
35. If laughter is the best medicine, your face must be curing the world.
36. You’re not stupid! You just have bad luck when you’re thinking.
37. Isn’t there a bullet somewhere you could be jumping in front of?
38. I’d slap you but I don’t want to make your face look any better.
39. Have a nice day, somewhere else.
40. Everyone’s entitled to act stupid once in a while, but you really abuse the
privilege.
41. If ignorance is bliss, you must be the happiest person on the planet.
42. Your family tree must be a cactus ‘cause you’re all a bunch of pricks.
43. If I threw a stick, you’d leave, right?
44. Somewhere out there, there’s a tree working very hard to produce oxygen so that
you can breathe. I think you should go and apologize to it.
45. You look like a ‘before’ picture.
Great Comebacks
46. Light travels faster than sound which is why you seemed bright until you spoke.
47. Hold still. I’m trying to imagine you with personality.
48. You are the human version of period cramps.
49. Don’t get bitter, just get better.
50. What doesn’t kill you, disappoints me.
51. Aww, it’s so cute when you try to talk about things you don’t understand.
52. Hey, your village called – they want their idiot back.
53. Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all stupid people.
54. I am returning your nose. I found it in my business.
55. Good story, but in what chapter do you shut up?
56. There are some remarkably dumb people in this world. Thanks for helping me
understand that.
57. You’re about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle.
58. You’ll never be the man your mom is.
59. You need a kiss on the neck from a crocodile.
60.  May both sides of your pillow be uncomfortably warm.
Witty Comebacks
61. Your kid is so annoying, he makes his Happy Meal cry.
62. I’m not insulting you, I’m describing you.
63. You are like a cloud. When you disappear it’s a beautiful day.
64. Child, I’ve forgotten more than you ever knew.
65. I’ve seen people like you before, but I had to pay admission.

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66. I was hoping for a battle of wits but you appear to be unarmed.
67. I’ve been called worse by better.
68. Jealousy is a disease. Get well soon.
69. Your ass must be pretty jealous of all the shit that comes out of your mouth.
70. Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful. Hate me because your boyfriend thinks so.
71. I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and poop out a smarter statement than
whatever you just said.
72. People like you are the reason I’m on medication.
73. Earth is full. Go home.
74. Who ate your bowl of sunshine this morning, thundercloud?
75. You fear success, but you really have nothing to worry about.
Snarky Comebacks
76. If you’re going to be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty.
77. Keep rolling your eyes, you might eventually find a brain.
78. If your brain was dynamite, there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
79. Your only purpose in life is to become an organ donor.
80. You are proof that evolution can go in reverse.
81. Grab a straw, because you suck.
82. Hey, you have something on your chin. No, the 3rd one down.
83. Don’t be ashamed of who you are. That’s your parent’s job.
84. Remember when I asked for your opinion? Me neither.
85. Were you born on the highway? That is where most accidents happen.
86. You’re about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
87. I believed in evolution until I met you.
88. That sounds like a you problem.
89. Unless your name is Google, stop acting like you know everything!
90. I told my therapist about you.
Sick Burns
91. You’re my favorite person… besides every other person I’ve ever met.
92. I envy people who have never met you.
93. You’re impossible to underestimate.
94. If you were an inanimate object, you’d be a participation trophy.
95. Take my lowest priority and put yourself beneath it.
96. You are a pizza burn on the roof of the world’s mouth.
97. People like you are the reason God doesn’t talk to us anymore.
98. I hope your wife brings a date to your funeral.
99. If genius skips a generation, your children will be brilliant.
100. I don’t have the time or the crayons to explain this to you.
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