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Top 10 “Riddle Me This” Riddles
- What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg - What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age - What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future - What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel - What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano - What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock - What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold - What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book - What runs all around a backyard but never moves?
Answer: A fence - What can travel around the world without leaving its corner?
Answer: A stamp
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Funny Riddle Me This Riddles
- What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs - Why did a man born in December celebrate his birthday in the summer?
Answer: He lives in Australia - You go at red, but stop at green. What am I?
Answer: A watermelon - Why did a man ride into town on Friday and leave on Tuesday?
Answer: His horse was named Friday - What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck - Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: Neither — they weigh the same
Tricky & Thinking Riddles
- There are five people in a room. You enter and kill four. How many people are left?
Answer: Five (the bodies are still people, and you’re now in the room) - What month has 28 days?
Answer: All of them - A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How?
Answer: He was born on February 29 - If you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Answer: Second place - Two fathers and two sons are in a car, but only three people are there. How?
Answer: A grandfather, father, and son
Word & Letter Riddles
- What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters?
Answer: Short - What word is pronounced the same if you remove four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue - What begins with an “e” and contains only one letter?
Answer: An envelope - Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: The dictionary - What 4-letter word reads the same forward, backward, and upside down?
Answer: NOON
Logic & Math Riddles
- I am an odd number. Take away a letter, and I become even. What am I?
Answer: Seven - If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine - What three numbers give the same result when added or multiplied?
Answer: 1, 2, and 3 - If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do you have?
Answer: Two
Visual & Observation Riddles
- What looks the same upside down and backward?
Answer: SWIMS - What is black when clean and white when dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard - What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle - What has lots of eyes but can’t see?
Answer: A potato
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More Riddle Me This Riddles
- Without being called, we come out at night. Without being stolen, we get lost in the day. Who are we?
Answer: The stars - What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it
Answer: Short - There are five people in a room. You enter the room and kill four. How many people remain?
Answer: Five — the four bodies are still people, and you are now in the room - I am neither a guest nor a trespasser. This place belongs to me, and I belong to it. What am I?
Answer: A house - You go at red, but stop at green. What am I?
Answer: A watermelon - I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken. What am I?
Answer: The news - What word looks the same backwards and upside down?
Answer: SWIMS - I once was full of thoughts, but now I am white and empty. What am I?
Answer: A skull - When I point up it’s bright, but when I point down it’s dark. What am I
Answer: A light switch - What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters
Answer: Queue - A doctor and a taxi driver are both in love with Helen. The taxi driver gives her seven apples before leaving. Why?
Answer: An apple a day keeps the doctor away - What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg - I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle - What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them - What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge - What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: “Are you asleep yet?” - What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future - There’s a one-story house where everything is yellow. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There are no stairs - What can you break without touching it?
Answer: A promise - What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age - A man stood in the rain with no hat or umbrella but didn’t get wet. Why?
Answer: He was bald - What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel - What can you keep after giving it away?
Answer: Your word - I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
Answer: A barber - I’m a god, a planet, and I measure heat. What am I?
Answer: Mercury - You see a boat full of people, yet no one is on board. How?
Answer: Everyone is married - A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How?
Answer: He was born on February 29 - You enter a room with a match, lamp, candle, and fireplace. What do you light first?
Answer: The match - I have branches but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank - What can’t talk but replies when spoken to?
Answer: An echo - The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness - Snap, Crackle, and who is the third son?
Answer: David - I follow you everywhere but can’t be touched. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow - People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: Plates and cutlery - I’m served at a table, small, white, and round. What am I?
Answer: A ping-pong ball - What has many keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano - A man rides into town on Friday and leaves on Tuesday. How?
Answer: His horse is named Friday - What can you hold in your left hand but not your right?
Answer: Your right elbow - What is black when clean and white when dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard - What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole - I’m light as a feather, but no one can hold me long. What am I?
Answer: Your breath - I can be cracked, told, made, or played. What am I?
Answer: A joke - I’m found in socks and scarves and kittens love me. What am I?
Answer: Yarn - A seed with three letters—remove two and it sounds the same. What am I?
Answer: A pea - I make sound but can’t be played. What am I?
Answer: Your voice - Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: The dictionary - What lets you look through a wall?
Answer: A window - If you share me, you don’t keep me. What am I?
Answer: A secret - What can’t be put in a saucepan?
Answer: Its lid - What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase - If you pass second place, what place are you in?
Answer: Second place - It belongs to you, but others use it more. What is it?
Answer: Your name - What has lots of eyes but can’t see?
Answer: A potato - What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle - What has many needles but doesn’t sew?
Answer: A Christmas tree - What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock - What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table - What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed - What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold - I have a head and tail that never meet. What am I?
Answer: A coin - I help from head to toe, the more I work the smaller I get. What am I?
Answer: Soap - What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band - I fly without wings and cry without eyes. What am I?
Answer: Clouds - What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb - What is cut on a table but never eaten?
Answer: A deck of cards - What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book - What runs around a yard but never moves?
Answer: A fence - What travels the world but stays in one corner?
Answer: A stamp - What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t a hand?
Answer: A glove - What building has the most stories?
Answer: A library - What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue - What has 13 hearts but no organs?
Answer: A deck of cards - It stalks the countryside with ears that can’t hear. What is it?
Answer: Corn - What kind of coat is best put on wet?
Answer: A coat of paint - What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck - I am an odd number—remove a letter and I become even. What am I?
Answer: Seven - If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine - Mary has four daughters and each has a brother. How many children?
Answer: Five - Which weighs more: a ton of bricks or feathers?
Answer: Neither - What breaks when you say its name?
Answer: Silence - What fills a room but takes no space?
Answer: Light - The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps - What always needs feeding or it dies, and turns things red?
Answer: Fire - What invention lets you see through walls?
Answer: A window - What has lakes without water and cities without buildings?
Answer: A map - I’m so fast you can’t see me, but I won’t stop until you die. What am I?
Answer: The blink of an eye
These Riddle Me This riddles are perfect for:
- Family game night
- Classroom warm-ups
- Road trips
- Rainy days
- Icebreakers and parties
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