Looking for a way to entertain yourself while also exercising your brain? Look no further than riddles! Riddles are brain teasers that pose questions or statements requiring thought to answer or understand. Riddles often play with language and require the solver to think outside the box or use lateral thinking to find the solution. They can be humorous, logical, or enigmatic and have been a source of entertainment for centuries, challenging our thinking and teasing our minds.
So, why not take a break from your daily routine and enjoy these riddles? They are perfect for gatherings, parties, or simply for some amusement on your own. Get ready to challenge your thinking and have fun along the way.
Here are 56 riddles along with their answers:
- Riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? Answer: The letter ‘M’.
- Riddle: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? Answer: A stamp.
- Riddle: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I? Answer: Fire.
- Riddle: What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it? Answer: A teapot.
- Riddle: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I? Answer: The word “ton”.
- Riddle: It belongs to you, but other people use it more. What is it? Answer: Your name.
- 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. - Riddle: What did the ocean say to the beach? Answer: Nothing, it just waved!
- Riddle: What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
Answer: The letter “o” - 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.
11. Riddle: A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
Answer: He was born on February 29.
12. Riddle: What gets wet while drying? Answer: A towel.
13. Riddle: What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Answer: Your right elbow
14. Riddle: What gets bigger when more is taken away?
Answer: A hole
15. Riddle: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Your breath
16. Riddle: Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: The dictionary
17. Riddle: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I don’t have a body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I? Answer: An echo.
18. Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven
19. 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.
20. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it? Answer: An egg.
21. Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I? Answer: A candle.
22. Riddle: What has a heart that doesn’t beat? Answer: An artichoke.
23. Riddle: What has one eye but can’t see? Answer: A needle.
24. 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”
25. Riddle: I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e”.
26. Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? Answer: A sponge.
27. Riddle: What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “g”
28. Riddle: You can catch me but cannot throw me. What am I? Answer: A cold.
29. Riddle: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue
30. Riddle: I go up and down, but I never move. What am I? Answer: A staircase.
31. Riddle: The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it? Answer: Darkness.
32. Riddle: What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
Answer: A road.
33. Riddle: What can be broken, but is never held? Answer: A promise.
34. Riddle: I fly without wings; I cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness flies. What am I? Answer: Clouds.
35. Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock? Answer: A computer keyboard.
36. Riddle: I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I? Answer: A joke.
37. Riddle: I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I? Answer: A map.
38. Riddle: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? Answer: A penny.
39. Riddle: What can you keep after giving to someone? Answer: Your word.
40. Riddle: I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I? Answer: A barber.
41. Riddle: I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I? Answer: A bank.
42. Riddle: What kind of band never plays music? Answer: A rubber band.
43. Riddle: What has a bottom at the top? Answer: Your legs.
44. Riddle: I speak without a voice and am heard, though never seen. What am I? Answer: A thought.
45. Riddle: What building has the most stories? Answer: The library.
46. Riddle: What comes out at night without being called and is lost in the daylight? Answer: Stars.
47. Riddle: What has a neck but no head? Answer: A bottle.
48. Riddle: You throw away the outside, eat the inside, then throw away the inside. What is it? Answer: Corn on the cob.
49. 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.
50. Riddle: What begins and has no end, and is the ending of all that begins? Answer: Death.
51. 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.
52. Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? Answer: The future.
53. Riddle: I am not alive, but I grow; I have no feet, but I travel far. What am I? Answer: A cloud.
54. Riddle: What has many teeth but cannot bite? Answer: A comb.
55. Riddle: What goes up but never comes down? Answer: Your Age.
56. Riddle: What do lawyers wear to court? Answer: Lawsuits.
