These riddles for teens will have your teens scratching their heads trying to figure out the answer to these tricky riddles. Once they do, they will reign supreme and get bragging rights as the riddle champion.
Let’s be honest; if you have a teenager, you may feel like quality time with them is few and far between. Between the distractions of electronics and how busy they are with sports and school, you may find yourself with minimal time together.
It is important as a parent to spend time with them as best you can, and sometimes it is just getting them to laugh and feel a little less stressed about the day.
Thankfully these riddles for teens can do just that. It can connect you and them on a whole other level to make them think, talk, interact, and spend time with you.
Sure some of these riddles for teens are a little on the juvenile side that you may get a ‘that’s dumb, but that is ok. I guarantee that they will love laughing and relaxing with some good old-fashioned riddles. So let’s get laughing!
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Funny Riddles for Teens
Q: There are two fathers and two sons in a car. How many people are in the car?
A: Three people — a grandfather, a father, and a son
Q: Where does divorce come before marriage?
A: In the dictionary
Q: An electric train is traveling from east to west, and the wind is blowing from north to south. In which direction does the smoke go?
A: Electric trains don’t produce smoke.
Q: It is lighter than a feather, but you can’t hold it for more than two minutes. What is it?
A: Your breath
Q: What gets wetter the more it dries?
A: A towel
Q: What goes up but never comes down?
A: Your age
Q: What can’t be kept until it is given?
A: A promise
Q: What gets sharper the more you use it?
A: Your brain
Q: Which weighs more — a pound of iron bars or a pound of feathers?
A: Neither — both weigh the same
Q: What starts with a P and ends with an X and has hundreds of letters in between?
A: A postbox
Q: Which fruit is always sad?
A: A blueberry
Q: Which tree can you carry in your hand?
A: Palm tree
Q: What has a face and hands but no body?
A: A clock
Q: What has branches but no leaves or fruits?
A: A bank
Q: What has a head and a tail but no body?
A: A coin
Q: What has a mouth but cannot eat and runs but has no legs?
A: A river
Q: What has no beginning, end, or middle?
A: A circle
Q: What has 13 hearts but no brains?
A: A pack of playing cards
Q: What has a neck but no head?
A: A bottle
Q: What do you place on the table and cut but never eat?
A: A pack of playing cards
Q: When you have me, you want to share me. But if you share me, you don’t have me any longer.
What am I?
A: A secret
Q: What becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
A: The word “short”
Q: Which vehicle is a palindrome?
A: Racecar
Q: A farmer is walking towards his field. On the way, he sees three frogs sitting on the shoulders of two rabbits. Three parrots and four mice run towards him. How many pairs of legs are going towards the field?
A: One pair — the farmer’s
Q: What is the similarity between “2 + 2 = 5” and your left hand?
A: Neither is right
Q: The person who buys me cannot use it, and the person who uses me cannot buy me or see me. What am I?
A: A coffin
Q: What goes all around the world but stays in one place?
A: A stamp
Q: I have seas with no water, mountains with no land, and towns with no people.
What am I?
A: A map
Q: You can hear me but cannot see me. I don’t speak until you do. What am I?
A: An echo
Q: If you are running a race and you pass the person who is running second, which position are you in?
A: Second
Q: Which month has 28 days?
A: All months
Q: What do you break before you use it?
A: An egg
Q: I have no doors but have keys. I have no rooms but have space. You can enter, but you cannot leave.
What am I?
A: A keyboard
Q: Trees are my home, but I never go inside. When I fall off a tree, I am dead.
What am I?
A: A leaf
Q: You can hear me, but you cannot see or touch me?
What am I?
A: Voice
Q: Which is the sweetest and most romantic fruit?
A: Honeydew
Q: What has a thumb and fingers but is not alive?
A: A glove
Q: What is full of holes but holds water?
A: A sponge
Q: What do you find at the end of a line?
A: The letter “E”
Q: I have hands, but I cannot shake your hands. I have a face, but I cannot smile at you.
Who am I?
A: A clock
Q: A man builds a house with all four walls facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?
A: White. It is a polar bear.
Q: What can you find in a minute or an hour but never in a day or a month?
A: The letter “U”
Q: I am made of water, but I die when you put water on me.
Who am I?
A: Ice
Q: Name three consecutive days that aren’t the days of the week.
A: Yesterday, today, tomorrow
Q: When I am young, I am tall. I grow shorter as I become older.
What am I?
A: Candle/ pencil
Q: What grows bigger the more you take away from it?
A: A hole
Q: Can a man go for eight days without sleeping?
A: Yes, he can sleep at night.
Q: Which room has no windows or doors?
A: Mushroom
Q: What breaks the moment you say its name?
A: Silence
Q: If you drop me on the ground, I survive. But if you drop me in water, I die.
What am I?
A: Paper
Q: I am smooth as silk. I can be hard or soft. I fall but cannot climb.
What am I?
A: Rain
Q: What is a teenager’s favorite phrase during math class?
A: “I can’t even”
Q: What problem does a teacher with uncontrollable eyes have?
A: He cannot control his pupils.
Q: A man shaves throughout the day, yet he has a beard. How?
A: He is a barber.
Q: What can make an octopus laugh?
A: Ten-tickles (tentacles)
Q: During which month do people sleep the least?
A: February
Q: I grow richer with alcohol but die with water. Who am I?
A: Fire
Q: Kate’s mother had four daughters — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and _____. What was the name of the fourth daughter?
A: Kate
Q: Which window can’t you open literally?
A: The Windows on your laptop.
Q: What sounds like a war machine but is a piece of clothing?
A: Tank top
Q: What did the math book say to the pencil?
A: I am full of problems.
Q: What do you get when you mix sulfur, tungsten, and silver?
A: Swag
Q: What did the angry electron say when it was repelled?
A: Let me atom!
Q: What is the ancient invention that allows people to see through walls?
A: A window
Q: When do you go at red and stop at green?
A: While eating a watermelon
Q: How many books can you pack inside an empty backpack?
A: One. It is no longer empty after that.
Q: What is the center of gravity?
A: The letter “V”
Q: What type of music do rabbits like?
A: Hip Hop!
Q: What did the beach say when the tide came in?
A: Long time, no sea
Q: What is black and white and read all over?
A: A newspaper
Q: What kind of food do mummies eat?
A: Wraps
Q: Which English word has three consecutive double letters?
A: Bookkeeper
Q: Which is the only English letter with “uu” in it?
A: Vacuum.
Q: Which is the only English word with “ii” in it?
A: Skiing
Q: You live in a one-story house made entirely of redwood. What color are the stairs?
A: What stairs? It is a one-story house.
Q: My first letter is in chocolate but not in ham. My second is in cake and jam. My third is in tea but not in coffee. My whole is a friend who likes to sleep.
Who am I?
A: A cat
Q: You are alone at home and sleeping when your friends ring the doorbell. They have come for breakfast. You have cornflakes, bread, jam, a carton of milk, and a bottle of juice.
What will you open first?
A: Your eyes
Q: I am hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. What am I?
A: A friend
Q: Find the number less than 100 that is increased by one-fifth of its value when its digits are reversed.
A: 45 (1/5*45 = 9, 9+45 = 54)
Q: What did the English book say to the Algebra book?
A: Don’t change the subject.
Q: What has a bottom at the top?
A: Your legs
Q: Is Santa good at karate?
A: Yes, he has a black belt.
Q: What is a snowman called in summer?
A: A puddle
Q: What can go up the chimney down but never go down the chimney up?
A: An umbrella
Q: Who is never hungry on Christmas?
A: A stuffed turkey
Q: What do you call a person who is scared of Santa Claus?
A: Claustrophobic
Q: What did Adam say on the day before Christmas?
A: It is Christmas, Eve!
Q: In which year did Christmas and New Year fall in the same year?
A: Every year
Q: What keeps a Christmas tree smelling fresh?
A: Orna-mints
Q: Where does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?
A: In the dictionary
Q: If a lion had a Christmas music album, what would it be called?
A: Jungle bells
Q: What do elves learn in school?
A: The elfabet
Q: What did the Christmas tree say to the Christmas stocking?
A: Aren’t you sick and tired of just hanging around?
Q: Which reindeer can you see in outer space?
A: Comet
Q: Which is the fastest reindeer?
A: Dasher
Q: How do reindeer learn?
A: They are elf-taught
Q: What did Mrs. Claus say to Santa when she looked at the sky?
A: I see some rain, dear.
Q: What did Santa say when the toys were naughty?
A: Toys will be toys.
Q: What is your parents’ favorite Christmas carol song?
A: Silent Night
Q: Which direction does Santa travel in when he leaves his house?
A: South because Santa lives in the North Pole
Q: Can Christmas trees knit well?
A: No, they always drop their needles.
Q: If you are running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
A: Second place.
Q: During which month, do people sleep the least?
A: February. It’s the shortest month, with the fewest nights.
Q: What can you hear but not touch or see?
A: Your voice.
Q: I call the trees my home, yet I never go inside. If I ever fall off the tree, I will surely be dead.
What am I?
A: Leaves.
Q: What has a thumb but no fingers and isn’t alive?
A: A mitten.
Q: Born in an instant, I tell all stories. I can be lost, but I never die.
What am I?
A: Memories.
Q: I live in the winter, but I die in the summer. My roots grow upward.
What am I?
A: An icicle.
Q: People walk in and out of me. They push, and I follow. When they walk out on me, I close up. I wait for the next person to walk into my life and then I open up again.
What am I?
A: An elevator.
Q: There was a greenhouse and inside the greenhouse, there was a white house. Inside the white house, there was a red house. Inside the red house, there were lots of babies. What is it?
A: A watermelon.
Q: They come out at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.
What are they?
A: The stars.
Q: People all over the world come again and again to see me. Most people spend years with me. I am able to make you smarter and wealthier too.
What am I?
A: School.
Q: A girl is sitting in a dark house at night. There aren’t any lamps or candles lit. Yet she is reading.
How?
A: The woman is blind, and she is reading braille.
Q: I am a term used to confirm. But take away my front and my face, I become known as human avarice.
What am I?
A: Agreed.
Q: Tuesday, Sam and Peter went to a restaurant to eat lunch. After eating lunch, they paid the bill. But Sam and Peter did not pay the bill, so who did?
A: Their friend, Tuesday.
Q: All five sisters are busy. Ann is reading a book, Rose is cooking, Katy is playing chess, and Mary is doing the laundry. What is the fifth sister doing?
A: She’s playing chess, of course!
Q: A boy and an engineer were fishing. The boy is the son of the engineer, but the engineer is not the father of the boy. Then who is the engineer?
A: The engineer is the boy’s mother.
Q: While a cat was outside, it began to rain. The cat couldn’t find any shelter and got completely soaked. However, not a single hair was wet.
How could this be?
A: It was a hairless cat.
Q: What did the troubled math book say to the calculator, puzzle, and dictionary?
A: “I have too many problems.”
Q: Why can’t you hear a pterodactyl in the bathroom?
A: Because it has a silent pee.
Q: The past, present, and future walked into a bar.
A: It was tense.
Q: How can one be 16 years old but celebrating their fourth birthday?
A: Someone born on February 29.
Q: Why is Europe like a frying pan?
A: It has Greece on the bottom.
Q: A girl fell off a 50-foot ladder but didn’t get hurt. How come?
A: She fell off the bottom rung.
Q: What number has all its letters in alphabetical order when spelled out?
A: Forty.
Q: There are four people in a car. One is a 26-year old pregnant lady, another is a 28-year-old policeman, another is a 56-year-old British lady, and the last is a 67-year-old driver. Who is the youngest in the car?
A: The pregnant lady’s baby.
Q: It has horns, but it cannot be called an ox. It comes with a packed saddle, but it cannot be called a donkey. It leaves its silver behind wherever it goes. What is it?
A: A snail
Q: A word in the English language does this. The first letters signify a male, the first three letters represent a female, the first four describe greatness, and the entire world means a great woman. Which word is that?
A: Heroine.
Q: There is an 8-letter word that can have consecutive letters taken out and remain a complete word until only one letter is left?
A: Starting, Staring, String, Sting, Sing, Sin, In, I.
Q: I sleep during the day and often hideaway. I wake up at dawn’s light and only shine briefly. Then hide away and sleep through the day.
What am I?
A: Sunrise.
Q: The man was outside, and it began to rain. He didn’t have an umbrella and could not find any cover, so he got completely soaked. However, not a single hair on his head was wet from the rain.
How could this be?
A: The man was bald.
Q: If five cats can catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch one mouse?
A: Five minutes.
Do you have some other favorite riddles for teens? Be sure to share them in the comments so we can add them to the list!
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