1. Riddle: You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring.

I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m

fat. What am I? Answer: A candle.
2. Riddle: I am so simple that I can only point, yet I guide people all over the world. Answer: Compass
3. Riddle: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: A balloon.
4. Riddle: What begins with T ends with T and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot
5. Riddle: What has thirteen hearts, but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards
6. Riddle: What is easier to get into than out of?
Answer: Trouble
7. Riddle: Remove my skin and I won’t cry, but you might!
Answer: An onion
8. Riddle: What can fill a room but doesn’t take up space?
Answer: Light
9. Riddle: Where are the lakes always empty, the mountains always flat and the rivers always still?
Answer: A map
10. Riddle: A man looks at a painting and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my
father’s son.” Who is in the painting?
Answer: His son
11. Riddle: I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am
used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
12. Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
13. Riddle: What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A zipper.
14. Riddle: What has legs but cannot walk?
Answer: A chair
15. Riddle: What can kids make but never see?
Answer: Noise.
16. Riddle: What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
17. Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
18. Riddle: What comes out at night without being called, and is lost in the day without being stolen?
Answer: The stars.
19. Riddle: I shave 25 times a day and still have a beard? What am I?
Answer: A barber
20. Riddle: What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band
21. Riddle: Bob’s mother has three children. Their names are Huey, Dewey, and … ?Answer: Bob
22. Riddle: What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
23. Riddle: What is powerful still so delicate that it breaks when you say its name
Answer: Silence
24. Riddle: I can be cracked. And I can be made. I can be told. And I can be played. What am I?
Answer: A joke
25. Riddle: What is made of water, but if you put it into water it vanishes?
Answer: An ice cube.
26. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg!
27. Riddle: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock!
28. Riddle: You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m
fat. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
29. Riddle: I am so simple that I can only point, yet I guide people all over the world.
Answer: Compass
30. Riddle: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: A balloon.
31. Riddle: What begins with T ends with T and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot
32. Riddle: What has thirteen hearts, but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards
33. Riddle: What is easier to get into than out of?
Answer: Trouble
34. Riddle: Remove my skin and I won’t cry, but you might!
Answer: An onion
35. Riddle: What can fill a room but doesn’t take up space?
Answer: Light
36. Riddle: Where are the lakes always empty, the mountains always flat and the rivers always still?
Answer: A map
37. Riddle: A man looks at a painting and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my
father’s son.” Who is in the painting?
Answer: His son
38. Riddle: I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am
used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
39. Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
40. Riddle: What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A zipper.
41. Riddle: What has legs but cannot walk?
Answer: A chair
42. Riddle: What can kids make but never see?
Answer: Noise.
43. Riddle: What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
44. Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
45. Riddle: What comes out at night without being called, and is lost in the day without being stolen?
Answer: The stars.
46. Riddle: I shave 25 times a day and still have a beard? What am I?
Answer: A barber
47. Riddle: What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band
48. Riddle: Bob’s mother has three children. Their names are Huey, Dewey, and … ?Answer: Bob
49. Riddle: What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
50. Riddle: What is powerful still so delicate that it breaks when you say its name
Answer: Silence
51. Riddle: I can be cracked. And I can be made. I can be told. And I can be played. What am I?
Answer: A joke
52. Riddle: What is made of water, but if you put it into water it vanishes?
Answer: An ice cube.
53. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg!
54. Riddle: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock!

46. Riddle: Without me Thanksgiving and Christmas are incomplete, when I’m on the table everyone tends to
overeat. What am I?
Answer: Turkey.
47. Riddle: I jump when I walk and sit when I stand. What am I?
Answer: Kangaroo.
48. Riddle: A cowgirl road into town on Friday. Three days later, she left on Friday. How is that possible?
Answer: Friday is the name of her horse.
49. Riddle: I am a sea animal with eight arms and a soft body. I squirt ink to protect myself. Who am I?
Answer: Octopus
50. Riddle: I am a big cat with black stripes and sharp claws. I love to hunt in the jungle. Who am I?
Answer: Tiger.
51. Riddle: I am a slow-moving animal with a hard shell on my back. I love to munch on leafy greens. Who am
I?
Answer: Turtle.
52. Riddle: I have black and white stripes and live in Africa. I am the tallest land animal in the world. Who am I?
Answer: Zebra.
53. Riddle: I am a colorful bird with a curved beak. I love to imitate human speech. Who am I?
Answer: Parrot.
54. Riddle: What do you call a pig that does karate?
Answer: A pork chop!
 55. Riddle: Why did the chicken cross the playground?
Answer: To get to the other slide!
56. Riddle: What do you call a camel that can play music?
Answer: A dromedary DJ!
57. Riddle: What do you get when you cross a zebra with a donkey?
Answer: A zonkey!
58. Riddle: Why did the frog call his insurance company?
Answer: He had a jump in his car!
59. Riddle: What do you call a dog magician?
Answer: A labracadabrador!
60. Riddle: What kind of dog never bites?
Answer: A hot dog.
61. Riddle: Why do gorillas have big nostrils?
Answer: Because they have big fingers!
62. Riddle: What has wings but can’t fly?
Answer: An Ostrich.
63. Riddle: What starts with a P, ends with an E and has thousands of letters?
Answer: The post office
64. Riddle: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm
65. Riddle: What building has the most stories in the world?
Answer: The library
66. Riddle: I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?
Answer: Popcorn
67. Riddle: What runs but cannot walk, has a mouth but no teeth and has a bed but cannot sleep?
Answer: A river
68. Riddle: I’m taller when I’m young, shorter when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
69. Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.
70. Riddle: What’s full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
71. Riddle: What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M”
72. Riddle: If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but smile at me and I’ll smile back. What am I?
Answer: Mirror
73. Riddle: What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: Coin
74. Riddle: What is yours but mostly used by others?
Answer: Your name
75. Riddle: You can drop me from the highest building and I’ll be fine, but if you drop me in water I die. What am I?
Answer: Paper.
76. Riddle: You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I
Answer: The letter R
77. Riddle: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Your breath
78. Riddle: What goes in a birdbath but never gets wet?
Answer: The bird’s shadow
79. Riddle: I shrink smaller every time I take a bath. What am I?
Answer: A bar of soap.
80. Riddle: What has many rings but no fingers?
Answer: A telephone
81. Riddle: What has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile?
Answer: A clock
82. Riddle: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise
83. Riddle: I go all around the world, but never leave the corner. What am I?
Answer: A stamp
84. Riddle: Give me a drink, and I will die. Feed me, and I’ll get bigger. What am I?
Answer: A fire
85. Riddle: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
Answer: Wet
86. Riddle: What word begins with E and ends with E, but only has one letter
Answer: Envelope
87. Riddle: I’m always on the dinner table, but you don’t get to eat me. What am I
Answer: Plates and silverware
88. Riddle: Which question can you never answer “yes” to?
Answer: “Are you asleep?”
89. Riddle: What has 88 keys?
Answer: The Piano.
90. Riddle: There is one word spelled wrong in every English dictionary. What is it?
Answer: Wrong
91. Riddle: I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.
92. Riddle: How do you make the number one disappear?
Answer: Add the letter G and it’s “gone”
93. Riddle: Where does Thursday come after Friday?
Answer: The dictionary
94. Riddle: What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes but not in decades, years, or days?
Answer: The letter N
95. Riddle: Which letter of the alphabet has most water
Answer: The letter C
96. Riddle: I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go inside. What
am I?
Answer: A keyboard
97. Riddle: I have a spine but no bones. I have pages but no face. What am I?
Answer: A book
98. Riddle: I’m a word of letters three, add two and fewer there will be. What am I?
Answer: Few
99. Riddle: I fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
Answer: A cloud
100. Riddle: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind.
What am I?
Answer: An Echo.
101. Riddle: The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin.
102. Riddle: What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
103. Riddle: When you need me, you throw me away and when you are done with me, you bring me back.
Who am I?
Answer: An Anchor
104. Riddle: I speak without a voice and am heard, though silently. What am I?
Answer: A thought
105. Riddle: If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?
Answer: A secret.
106. Riddle: What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?
Answer: A glove.
107. Riddle: What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke.
108. Riddle: What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
109. Riddle: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind.
What am I?
Answer: An Echo.
110. Riddle: The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin.
111. Riddle: What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
112. Riddle: When you need me, you throw me away and when you are done with me, you bring me back.
Who am I?
Answer: An Anchor
113. Riddle: I speak without a voice and am heard, though silently. What am I?
Answer: A thought
114. Riddle: If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?
Answer: A secret.
115. Riddle: What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?
Answer: A glove.
116. Riddle: What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke.
117. Riddle: What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.