Riddles

What is a riddle? Riddle \ ˈri-dᵊl - is a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed.

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 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 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 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