1.

Riddle: What must be broken before

you can use it?
Solution: An egg.
2.Riddle: The more you take, the more
you leave behind. What am I?
Solution: Footsteps?
3.Riddle: If two’s company, and three’s a
crowd, what are four and five?
Solution: Nine!
4. Riddle: After a train crashed, every
single person died. Who survived?
Solution: All the couples.
5.Riddle: A boy and his father get into a
car accident. When they arrive at the
hospital, the doctor sees the boy and
exclaims “that’s my son!” How can this
be?
Solution: The doctor is the boy’s
mother.
6.Riddle: Four legs up, four legs down,
soft in the middle, hard all around.
Solution: Bed
7.Riddle: What can you catch but not
throw?
Solution: A cold!
8.Riddle: What begins with T, finishes
with T, and has T in it?
Solution: A teapot.
9.Riddle: If a brother, his sister, and their
dog weren’t under an umbrella, why
didn’t they get wet?
Solution: It was not raining.
10. Riddle: I am so simple, that I can only
point yet I guide men all over the world.
Solution: Compass
11. Riddle: What goes up but never comes
back down?
Solution: Your age!
12. Riddle: What five-letter word becomes
shorter when you add two letters to it?
Solution: Shorter. (Short + ‘er’)
13. Riddle: What travels around the world
but stays in one spot?
Solution: A stamp.
14. Riddle: When things go wrong, what
can you always count on?
Solution: Your fingers.
15. Riddle: Mr. Blue lives in the blue
house. Mrs. Yellow lives in the Yellow
House. Mr. Orange lives in the orange
house. Who lives in the White House?
Solution: The President
16. Riddle: A word I know, six letters it
contains, remove one letter and 12
remains, what is it?
Solution: Dozens.
17. Riddle: What is full of holes but still
holds water?
Solution: A sponge.
18. Riddle: How many letters are there in
the English alphabet?
Solution: 18: 3 in ‘the’, 7 in ‘English,’
and 8 in ‘alphabet.’
19. Riddle: If a red house is made of red
bricks, and a yellow house is made of
yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse
made of?
Solution: Glass, all greenhouses are
made of glass.
20. Riddle: What begins with an E but
only has one letter?
Solution: An envelope.
21. Riddle: You draw a line. Without
touching it, how do you make it a longer
line?
Solution: Draw a short line next to it
and now it is the longer line.
22. Riddle: How can a leopard change its
spots?
Solution: By moving from one spot to
another.
23. Riddle: What is easy to get into but
hard to get out of?
Solution: Trouble.
24. Riddle: Mary has four daughters, and
each of her daughters has a brother —
how many children does Mary have?
Solution: Five, each daughter has the
same brother.
25. Riddle: David’s parents have three
sons: Snap, Crackle and…?
Solution: David!
26. Riddle: You bought me for dinner but
never eat me. What am I?
Solution: Cutlery.
27. Riddle: I am tall when I am young,
and I am short when I am old, what am
I?
Solution: A candle.
28. Riddle: What answer can you never
answer yes to?
Solution: Are you asleep yet?
29. Riddle: What is so fragile that saying
its name breaks it?
Solution: Silence.
30. Riddle: I am an odd number. Take
away a letter and I become even. What
number am I?
Solution: Seven.
31. Riddle: What has a head, a tail, is
brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny.
32. Riddle: What is always in front of you
but can’t be seen?
Solution: The future.
33. Riddle: What is black and white and
blue?
Solution: A sad zebra.
34. Riddle: What has four eyes but cannot
see?
Solution: Mississippi.
35. Riddle: Where can you find cities,
towns, shops, and streets but no people?
Solution: A map.
36. Riddle: What has a neck but no head?
Solution: A bottle.
37. Riddle: What word is spelled wrong in
the dictionary?
Solution: Wrong.
38. Riddle: If you took two apples from a
pile of three apples, how many apples
would you have?
Solution: The two apple you took
39. Riddle: Light as a feather, there is
nothing in it, but the strongest man
cannot hold it much more than a minute.
Solution: Breath
40. Riddle: What room do ghosts avoid?
Solution: The living room.
41. Riddle: What belongs to you, but other
people use it more?
Solution: Your name
42. Riddle: What happens once in a
lifetime, twice in a moment, but never in
one hundred years?
Solution: The letter “M”
43. Riddle: What becomes wetter the more
it dries?
Solution: A towel.
44. Riddle: What comes once in a minute,
twice in a moment, but never in a
thousand years?
Solution: The letter “m”.
45. Riddle: What has hands but does not
clap?
Solution: A clock.
Riddle: How many months in the year
has 28 days?
Solution: All months in the year have at
least 28 days.
46. Riddle: What begins with an E and has
only one letter?
Solution: An envelope
 47. Riddle: I have legs but cannot walk,
what am I?
Solution: A chair
48. Riddle: What is the capital in France?
Solution: The letter F is the only capital
letter in France
49. Riddle: I can fill up a room without
taking any space what I am?
Solution: Light
Easy Riddles
1. Riddle: What must be broken before you can
use it?
Answer: An egg
2. Riddle: I am tall when I am young, and I am
short when I am 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 is a one-story house in which
everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors,
yellow furniture. What colour are the stairs?
Answer: There are not any—it is 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 did not 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 is not 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 cannot 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
20. Riddle: David’s parents have three sons: Snap,
Crackle, and what is the name of the third son?
Answer: David
21. Riddle: I follow you all the time and copy
your every move, but you cannot touch me or
catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow
22. Riddle: What has many keys but cannot 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 is clean and
white when it is dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard
25. Riddle: What gets bigger when more is taken
away?
Answer: A hole
26. Riddle: I am light as a feather, yet the
strongest person cannot 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 have got me, you want to share
me; if you share me, you have not kept me. What
am I?
Answer: A secret
31. Riddle: What can’t be put in a saucepan?
Answer: It is lid
32. Riddle: What goes up and down but does not
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 cannot see?
Answer: A potato
36. Riddle: What has one eye, but cannot see?
Answer: A needle
37. Riddle: What has many needles, but does not
sew?
Answer: A Christmas tree
38. Riddle: What has hands, but cannot clap?
Answer: A clock
39. Riddle: What has legs, but does not 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 cannot 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
cannot 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
60. Riddle: What three numbers, none of which is
zero, give the same result whether they are 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 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 breaks. 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 am 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 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
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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