The Best Coffin Riddles

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Are you a lover of riddles? These coffin riddles are just what you are searching for! See if you can answer these on the first try!

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Riddles are such a great way to spend time with the kids, and these coffin riddles are so fun to share with them. Whether it is around Halloween or you love sharing all types of riddles, these are for you. So get going trying to figure out these coffin riddles!

For even more fun, check out our Halloween riddles and our Space Riddles.

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The person who built it sold it. The person who bought it never used it. The person who used it never saw it. What is it? A coffin.
The Prince of Arragon is one suitor to Portia, prepared to risk his dignity in the trial by Caskets. What does his choice of casket contain, actually and metaphorically? All of these
The silver casket is said to bring the chooser ‘as much as he deserves’, which turns out to be The Portrait of a Blinking Idiot. The schedule reads (extract) “Take what wife you will to bed, I will ever be your head: So be gone: you are sped. Still more fool I shall appear By the time I linger here With one fool’s head I came to woo,But I go away with two.” I have no mind or a soul. I’ve been eternally attached since man’s dawn. My kind disappear on and off,
to everyone I accompany them to their death, and buried with them, then I hide away when the casket shuts. What am I? A shadow.
When you put a person in this you shouldn’t hear any knocks. If you do there’s been a mistake And you should open this pine box. What is this? A coffin
What’s it like being in one Is something you might wonder It’s best not to find out though As you’d be six feet under. What is this? A coffin
If you find yourself laying in one You won’t be feeling merry As it means that when the lid is closed It’s you that they will bury. What is this? A coffin
You are going to a place called Transylvania for a trip. You meet a man with three caskets. The first one is made of lead, the second one is made of silver and finally third one is made of gold. Now in one of there is a Dracula! And each of these three caskets have an inscription. At most one inscription is true. You have to figure out, which one the Dracula is in. The following caskets inscription goes like this… First one is Lead Casket: It says: Dracula is Here. Second one is Silver: It says: Dracula is not Here. Third one is Gold: It says: Dracula is not in the second one. So the question is: Where is the Dracula? In the 3rd coffin it says dracula is not in the second one. If this is true, that would lead the second to be true as well. Therefore they all lie and Dracula is in the second one (AKA silver)
What’s another name for a casket? Mourning wood.
What’s the difference between a viola and a coffin? The coffin has the dead person on the inside.
What’s bigger than a matchbox size of a truck everybody buys it but don’t really use it? A coffin
If you can touch it, you cannot go in. If you cannot touch it, you can go in. What is it? A coffin
Something was made by a carpenter then the carpenter sold it and the buyer bought it and gave it to the user the user never even saw it. What is the object? A coffin
There is a coffin, and the mother of the person in the coffin is the mother-in-law of your mother, who is the person in the coffin? Your father
What did the first casket say to the second casket? “Is that you coffin?”
There were five men going to church and it started to rain. The four that ran got wet and the one that stood still stayed dry. How did the one stay dry? It was a body in a coffin with the bearers.
There where 5 men traveling down a road and it started to rain and 4 men sped up, the 5th did not, but they all arrived at the same place at the same time but all of them were wet besides the 5th. He was dead in a coffin.

Halloween riddle on white background with blue border and picture of a coffin

There is a man standing over a dead body in a coffin, and another man walks in and asks, who’s in the coffin? The first man replies, brothers and sisters, I have none, but this man’s father is my father’s son. Who’s in the coffin? His son.
My maker doesn’t want me, my buyer doesn’t use me, and my user will never see me. Coffin
The coziest place for dracula. Coffin
A vampire’s favorite place to rest. Coffin

Vampire riddle on white background with blue border and picture of a gravestone.

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