Riddle: What is full of holes,
but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
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Riddle: What can fill a room,
but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
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Riddle: I look at you, you
look at me, I raise my right
arm, you raise your left
arm. What is this object?
Answer: A mirror.
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Riddle: If you have it, you
want to share it. If you
share it, you don’t have it.
What is it?
Answer: A secret.
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Riddle: I went into the
woods and got it, I sat
down to find it and I
brought it home with me
because I couldn’t find it.
What is it?
Answer: A splinter.
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Riddle: What do you throw
out when you want to use
it, but take in when you
don’t want to use it?
Answer: An anchor.
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Riddle: What has to
be broken before it
can be used?
Answer: An egg.
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Riddle: You cut me, slice
me, dice me and all the
while, you cry. What am I?
Answer: An onion.
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Riddle: What question can
you never answer ‘yes’ to?
Answer: “Are you asleep?”
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Riddle: What has many
ears, but cannot hear?
Answer: Corn.
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Riddle: You bought me for
dinner, but never ate me.
What am I?
Answer: Cutlery.
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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.
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Riddle: When things go
wrong, what can you
always count on?
Answer: Your fingers.
Riddle: Light as a feather, Riddle: What has hands,
there’s nothing in it, but but doesn’t clap?
the strongest man can’t
hold it much more than a Answer: A clock.
minute. What is it?

Answer: Breath.

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Riddle: What can’t talk, but
will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo.
Riddle: I can rush, I can
be hot, I can be cold, I can
be hard, I can slip through
anything. What am I?
Answer: Water.
Riddle: What can travel
around the world, but stays
in the corner?
Answer: A stamp.

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Riddle: What belongs
to you, but other people
use it more?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle: Where can you find
cities, towns, shops and
streets, but no people?
Answer: A map.
Riddle: What room do
ghosts avoid?
Answer: The living room.

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Riddle: What goes through
towns and over mountains,
but never moves?
Answer: A road.
Riddle: What’s black, white
and blue?
Answer: A sad zebra.
Riddle: A cowboy came into
town on Friday. He stayed
two nights at a local hotel.
He left on Friday. How is
this possible?

Answer: His horse’s name

is Friday.

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Riddle: What kind of band Riddle: What has an eye, Riddle: What has a tongue,
doesn’t play a tune? but cannot see? but cannot speak?

Answer: A shoe.
Answer: A rubber band. Answer: A needle.

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Riddle: What has arms, but Riddle: What has legs, but Riddle: What has teeth, but
cannot hug? cannot jump? cannot bite?

Answer: An armchair. Answer: A table. Answer: A comb.

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Riddle: What has a bed, Riddle: What has a horn, Riddle: Where do cows go
but does not sleep? but cannot honk? to have fun?

Answer: The moo-vies.

Answer: A river. Answer: A unicorn.

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Riddle: I have wings, I am

Riddle: What is a train full Riddle: What two things
able to fly, I’m not a bird
of chewing gum? can you never eat for
yet I soar high in the sky.
breakfast?
What am I?
Answer:
A chew chew train. Answer: Lunch Answer: An aeroplane.
and dinner.

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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.
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Riddle: What did the
triangle say to the circle?
Answer:
You are pointless.
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Riddle: What can you
catch, but never throw?
Answer: A cold.
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Riddle: What invention lets
you look through a wall?
Answer: A window.
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Riddle: What is orange in
colour, green on top and
sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot.
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Riddle: Which month
has 28 days?
Answer: All of them.
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Riddle: What gets wetter Riddle: What starts with
the more it dries? ‘p’, ends in ‘e’ and has
thousands of letters?
Answer: A towel.
Answer: The post office.
Riddle: They come out
at night without being
called and are lost in the
day without being stolen.
What are they?

Answer: The stars.

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Riddle: What is next in this Riddle: Why do bees hum? Riddle: A monkey, a
sequence? JFMAMJJASON… squirrel and a bird are
Answer: Because they racing to the top of
don’t know the words. a coconut tree. Who
Answer: The letter

D
will get the banana
D. It is the first letter first: the monkey, the
of every month. squirrel or the bird?

Answer: None of them.

Bananas do not grow on
coconut trees.
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Riddle: What did one chip Riddle: What kind of cup
say to the other? cannot hold water?

Answer: Answer: A cupcake.

Shall we go for a dip?

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