1. How many months of the year have 28 days?

Answer: All of them! Every month has *at least* 28 days.

2. What has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile?

Answer: A clock.

3. It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?

Answer: Your name.

4. Kate’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle and ___?

Answer: Kate! It’s Kate’s mother, after all. (This is a good example of how riddles use your
existing expectations to trick you. Even though the answer is right in front of you, you’re tempted to
continue the pattern instead.)

5. If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?

Answer: A promise.

6. There’s only one word in the dictionary that’s spelled wrong. What is it?

Answer: The word “wrong.” It’s the only word that’s spelled W-R-O-N-G.

7. You’re running a race and at the very end, you pass the person in 2nd place. What place
did you finish the race in?

Answer: You finished in 2nd place.

8. I have a tail and a head, but no body. What am I?

Answer: A coin.

9. What 2 things can you never eat for breakfast?

Answer: Lunch and dinner.

10. Which word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?

Answer: The word “short.”

11. What’s the capital of France?

Answer: The letter “F.” It's the only capital letter in France.

1. When Grant was 8, his brother was half his age. Now, Grant is 14. How old is his brother?

Answer: His brother is 10. Half of 8 is 4, so Grant’s brother is 4 years younger. This means when
Grant is 14, his brother is still 4 years younger, so he’s 10.

2. Two fathers and 2 sons spent the day fishing, but only caught 3 fish. This was enough for
each of them to have one fish. How is this possible?

Answer: There were only 3 people fishing. There was one father, his son, and his son's son. This
means there were 2 fathers and 2 sons, since one of them is a father and a son.

3. Liam was 11 the day before yesterday, and next year he’ll turn 14. How is this possible?

Answer: Today is January 1st, and Liam’s birthday is December 31st. Liam was 11 the day before
yesterday (December 30th), then turned 12 the next day. This year on December 31st he’ll turn 13,
so next year he’ll turn 14.

4. Mrs. Brown has 5 daughters. Each of these daughters has a brother. How many children
does Mrs. Brown have?

Answer: They have 6 children. Each daughter has the same brother. There are 5 daughters and 1
son.

5. It’s raining at midnight, but the forecast for tomorrow and the next day is clear. Will there
be sunny weather in 48 hours?
Answer: No, it won’t be sunny because it will be dark out. In 48 hours, it will be midnight again.

6. There are 3 apples in the basket and you take away 2. How many apples do you have now?

Answer: You have 2 apples. You took away 2 apples and left 1 in the basket.

7. What can you put between 7 and 8, to make the result greater than 7, but less than 8?

Answer: A decimal point. Your result would be 7.8, which is between 7 and 8.

8. A new clothing store has a unique method of pricing items. A vest costs $20, a tie costs $15,
a blouse costs $30, and underwear costs $45. How much would pants cost?

Answer: $25. The pricing method charges $5 for each letter needed to spell the item.

9. 81 x 9 = 801. What do you need to do to make this equation true?

Answer: Turn it upside down. 108 = 6 x 18.

10. Double it and multiply it by 4. Then divide it by 8 and you’ll have it once more. What
number is it?

Answer: Any number. If a number is doubled and multiplied by 4, it’s actually been multiplied by 8,
so dividing by 8 will get you the original number again.

11. What 3 numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?

Answer: 1, 2, and 3 (1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and 1 x 2 x 3 = 6).

12. Zoey has a very big family. She has 20 aunts, 20 uncles and 50 cousins. Each of her cousins
has an aunt who is not Zoey’s aunt. How is this possible?

Answer: Their aunt is Zoey’s mom!

2. You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What
am I?
Answer: The letter “R.”

3. What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?

Answer: An umbrella. If your umbrella is “down,” it can fit through a chimney, but if it’s “up,” it
won’t fit!

4. I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less.
What am I?

Answer: Popcorn.

5. A bus driver was heading down a busy street in the city. He went past three stop signs
without stopping, went the wrong way down a one-way street, and answered a message on his
phone. But the bus driver didn’t break any traffic laws. How?

Answer: He was walking, not driving. (This riddle adds irrelevant information to deceive the
reader. You expect that since he’s a bus driver, he’s currently driving the bus — but it never
actually says that!)

6. It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can’t go inside.
What is it?

Answer: A keyboard.

7. I can fill a room, but I take up no space. What am I?

Answer: Light.

8. It’s the only place in the world where today comes before yesterday. Where is it?

Answer: The dictionary.

. If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
Answer: A secret.

10. What goes away as soon as you talk about it?

Answer: Silence.

11. A railroad crossing without any cars. Can you spell that without any R’s?

Answer: T-H-A-T (This one is tricky! It makes readers think they’re supposed to describe the
scenario without using the letter “R.” But the first sentence was actually used to distract the reader
from the real question.)

1. What can jump higher than a building?

Answer: Anything that can jump — buildings don’t jump, silly!

2. An elephant in Africa is called Lala. An elephant in Asia is called Lulu. What do you call an
elephant in Antarctica?Answer: Lost.

3. Imagine you are in a room with no windows or doors. How will you get out?

Answer: Stop imagining.

4. A group of bunnies were having a birthday party. What kind of music were they listening
to?

Answer: Hip hop music.

5. Where would you take a sick boat?

Answer: To the dock.

6. What kind of room has no doors or windows?

Answer: A mushroom.
7. I’m orange, I wear a green hat and I sound like a parrot. What am I?

Answer: A Carrot.

8. What fruit can you never cheer up?

Answer: A blueberry.

9. What did the zero say to the eight?

Answer: “Nice belt!”

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

Answer: An egg.

2. Riddle: What begins with T, finishes with T, and has T

in it?
Answer: A teapot.

3. Riddle: You bought me for dinner but never eat me.

What am I?
Answer: Cutlery.

4. Riddle: If you took two apples from a pile of three

apples, how many apples would you have?
Answer: The one apple you took.

5. Riddle: What kind of vegetables are the most fun at

parties?
Answer: Fungi.

6. Riddle: What is the richest nut?

Answer: A cash-ew.
7. Riddle: Why did the fruit salad skip its own wedding?
Answer: It had a lot of can’t-elope.

8. Riddle: What kind of beer won’t get you drunk?

Answer: Root beer.

9. Riddle: What kind of poultry is always going to the

bathroom?
Answer: Chick peas.

10. Riddle: Why did the citrus tree go to the hospital?

Answer: Lemon-aid.

11. Riddle: You cut me, slice me, dice me, and all the
while, you cry. What am I?
Answer: An onion.

12. Riddle: What kind of apples do computers prefer?

Answer: Macintosh.

13. Riddle: What has many ears but cannot hear?

Answer: Corn.

14. Riddle: What did the Mom tomato say to the

dawdling Baby tomato?
Answer: “Ketchup.”

15. Riddle: I’m a bird, a person, and a fruit. What am I?

Answer: A Kiwi.

16. Riddle: What do you call a cat who loves to swim?

Answer: A catfish.
 17. Riddle: How many eggs would a rooster lay over
three weeks, provided it is adequately fed and housed?
Answer: Zero. Roosters do not lay eggs.

18. Riddle: I’m red or green and grow on a vine. I’m

dried to make raisins and squeezed to make wine. What
am I?
Answer: Grapes.

19. Riddle: When I’m ripe, I’m green, when you eat me,
I’m red, and when you spit me out, I’m black. What am
I?
Answer: A watermelon.

20. Riddle: I’m the father of fruits. What am I?

Answer: A papa-ya.

The Best Math Riddles

1. Riddle: If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are
four and five?
Answer: Nine!

2. Riddle: After a train crashed, every single person died.

Who survived?
Answer: All of the couples.

3. Riddle: Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle,
hard all around. What am I?
Answer: A bed.
4. Riddle: A word I know, six letters it contains, remove
one letter and 12 remains, what is it?
Answer: Dozens.

5. Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind.
What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.

6. Riddle: What goes up but never comes back down?

Answer: Your age.
7. Riddle: When things go wrong, what can you always
count on?
Answer: Your fingers.

8. Riddle: How many letters are there in the English

alphabet?
Answer: 18. Three in “the,” seven in “English,” and
eight in “alphabet.”

9. Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I

become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven.

10. Riddle: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no

legs?
Answer: A penny.

11. Riddle: What happens once in a lifetime, twice in a

moment, but never in one hundred years?
Answer: The letter “M.”

12. Riddle: How many months in the year have 28 days?

Answer: All months in the year have at least 28 days.
 13. Riddle: Using only addition and eight eights, how do
you get 1,000?
Answer: 888+88+8+8+8

14. Riddle: If I add six to 11, I get five. How?

Answer: 11 a.m., six hours later, is 5 p.m.

15. Riddle: A phone and case cost $110 total. The phone
costs $100 more than the case. How much is the phone?
Answer: $105.

The Best Medical and Science Riddles

1. Riddle: What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.

2. 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?
Answer: The doctor is the boy’s mother.

3. Riddle: Light as a feather, there’s nothing in it, but the

strongest man can’t hold it much more than a minute.
Answer: Breath.

4. Riddle: What has hands but doesn’t clap?

Answer: A clock.

5. Riddle: I have legs but cannot walk. What am I?

Answer: A chair.
 6. Riddle: I can fill up a room without taking any space
what am I?
Answer: Light.

7. Riddle: What becomes wetter the more it dries?

Answer: A towel.

8. Riddle: What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo.

9. Riddle: The more of this there is, the less you see. What
am I?
Answer: Darkness.

10. Riddle: What has a neck but no head and arms but no
hands?
Answer: A shirt.

The Best Family Riddles

1. Riddle: If a brother, his sister, and their dog weren’t
under an umbrella, why didn’t they get wet?
Answer: It wasn’t raining.

2. Riddle: I am so simple, that I can only point, yet I guide

men all over the world.
Answer: A compass.

3. Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when

you add two letters to it?
Answer: Shorter. (Short + ‘er’)
4. Riddle: What travels around the world but stays in one
spot?
Answer: A stamp.

5. 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.

6. Riddle: David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle,

and…?
Answer: David!

7. Riddle: What belongs to you, but other people use it

more?
Answer: Your name.

8. Riddle: Two fathers and two sons sit down for

breakfast. They eat exactly three eggs, and yet each
person ate an egg. How?
Answer: One father is a grandfather, and therefore only
eats one egg.

9. Riddle: A doctor and a boy are together. The boy is the

doctor’s son, but the doctor is not the boy’s father.
How?
Answer: The doctor is the boy’s mother.

10. 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.
The Best Geography Riddles
1. Riddle: What has four eyes but can’t see?
Answer: Mississippi.

2. Riddle: Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and

streets but no people?
Answer: A map.

3. Riddle: What room do ghosts avoid?

Answer: The living room.

4. Riddle: What is the capital in France?

Answer: The letter F is the only capital letter in France.

5. Riddle: What always comes into a house through the

keyhole?
Answer: A key.

6. Riddle: Come up and we go, drop and we stay. What am

I?
Answer: An anchor.

7. Riddle: I go up and down stairs without moving. What

am I?
Answer: Carpet.

8. Riddle: Mississippi, Rhine, Amazon, Colorado, Nile,

and Rio Grande. What are all of these?
Answer: Rivers.

9. Riddle: What goes through towns and over mountains

but never moves?
Answer: A road.
 10. Riddle: What is the laziest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mt. Ever-rest.

The Best All-Around Riddles

1. 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?
Answer: The president.
2. Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.

3. 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?
Answer: Glass. All greenhouses are made of glass.

4. Riddle: What begins with an E but only has one letter?

Answer: An envelope.

5. Riddle: You draw a line. Without touching it, how do

you make it a longer line?
Answer: Draw a short line next to it and now it’s the
longer line.

6. Riddle: How can a leopard change its spots?

Answer: By moving from one spot to another.

7. Riddle: What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble.
8. Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when
I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.

9. Riddle: What answer can you never answer yes to?

Answer: Are you asleep yet?

10. Riddle: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks

it?
Answer: Silence.
11. Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be
seen?
Answer: The future.

12. Riddle: What’s black, white, and blue?

Answer: A sad zebra.

13. Riddle: What has a neck but no head?

Answer: A bottle.

14. Riddle: What word is spelled wrong in the

dictionary?
Answer: Wrong.

15. Riddle. What can you break, even if you never pick it
up or touch it?
Answer: A promise.

16. Riddle: I’m filled with keys but can’t open a lock.
What am I?
Answer: A piano.
17. Riddle: What has eyes, a tongue, and a soul but can’t
see, taste, or die?
Answer: A shoe.

18. Riddle: How do you make the number one disappear?

Answer: Add a “G” for “gone.”

19. Riddle: What has 13 hearts but can’t love?

Answer: A pack of cards.

20. Riddle: What bank never has any money?

Answer: A river bank.

21. Riddle: What goes in your pocket but keeps it empty?

Answer: A hole.

22. Riddle: I sometimes run but cannot walk. You follow

me around. What am I?
Answer: Your nose.

23. Riddle: Why did the kid bury his walkie-talkie?

Answer: Because the batteries died.

24. Riddle: What kind of ship has two mates but no

captain?
Answer: A relationship.

25. Riddle: A cowboy comes into town on Friday. He

stays two nights at a local hotel. He leaves on Friday.
How is this possible?
Answer: His horse’s name is Friday.