80 Icebreaker Riddles with Answers
Break the silence and warm up the room with these fun, light-hearted riddles! Whether you’re in a classroom, team meeting, or party, these riddles will spark laughter, thought, and conversation.
- I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: Candle
- What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: Egg
- What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: Clock
- What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: Towel
- What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age
- What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: Coin
- What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: Cold
- What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M
- What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: Comb
- What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name
- What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: Table
- What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain
- What’s full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: Sponge
- What’s something you can’t see but is always ahead of you?
Answer: Future
- What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: Mushroom
- What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: Corn
- What runs around your yard but doesn’t move?
Answer: Fence
- What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: Gummy bear
- What can you hold without touching?
Answer: Breath
- What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: Needle
Funny Icebreakers
- Why did the math book look sad?
Answer: It had too many problems
- What do you call cheese that isn’t yours?
Answer: Nacho cheese
- Why can’t your nose be 12 inches long?
Answer: Because then it would be a foot
- What did the zero say to the eight?
Answer: Nice belt!
- Why don’t skeletons fight?
Answer: They don’t have the guts
- What did one wall say to the other wall?
Answer: I’ll meet you at the corner
- Why did the student eat his homework?
Answer: Because the teacher said it was a piece of cake
- Why did the bicycle fall over?
Answer: It was two-tired
- Why don’t eggs tell jokes?
Answer: They’d crack each other up
- Why did the tomato blush?
Answer: Because it saw the salad dressing
- What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: Carrot
- Why can’t you give Elsa a balloon?
Answer: Because she’ll let it go
- Why was the broom late?
Answer: It swept in
- What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
Answer: Frostbite
- What kind of tree fits in your hand?
Answer: Palm tree
- Why do seagulls fly over the sea?
Answer: Because if they flew over the bay, they’d be bagels
- What do you call a sleeping bull?
Answer: A bulldozer
- Why did the golfer bring two pairs of pants?
Answer: In case he got a hole in one
- What did the ocean say to the beach?
Answer: Nothing, it just waved
- What do you call a fake noodle?
Answer: An impasta
Brainy Icebreakers
- The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps
- What has keys but can’t open doors?
Answer: Piano
- What comes in through a keyhole but never touches the lock?
Answer: Light
- What can travel the world while staying in the same corner?
Answer: Stamp
- What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: Stairs
- What has many keys but opens no locks?
Answer: Keyboard
- What has an eye but can’t see?
Answer: Hurricane
- What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: Joke
- What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly
- What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: Hole
- What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence
- What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: Clock
- What kind of coat is always wet?
Answer: A coat of paint
- What can you find in a cupboard that can never be put in a pot?
Answer: Its lid
- What begins with an E but only contains one letter?
Answer: Envelope
- What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Brain
- What has roots but doesn’t grow?
Answer: Mountain
- What makes two people out of one?
Answer: Mirror
- What comes before thunder?
Answer: Lightning
- What flies without wings?
Answer: Time
Group Interaction Icebreakers
- You see a boat filled with people. It hasn’t sunk, but when you look again, there’s no one there. How?
Answer: They were all married
- What can be heard but not seen or touched?
Answer: Voice
- A man shaves several times a day but still has a beard. Who is he?
Answer: A barber
- What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: Echo
- What do you buy to eat but never eat?
Answer: Plate
- What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t alive?
Answer: Glove
- What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: Window
- What always runs but never walks, often murmurs but never talks?
Answer: River
- What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: Rubber band
- What can run but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps, and a mouth but never talks?
Answer: River
- What can you break without touching it?
Answer: Promise
- What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: Garbage truck
- What gets lighter the more you take away?
Answer: Hole
- What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short
- I go in dry and come out wet. The longer I’m in, the stronger I get. What am I?
Answer: Tea bag
- What gets colder as it heats up?
Answer: Ice
- What can be inside you but never outside you?
Answer: Shadow (when it’s dark)
- What’s at the end of everything?
Answer: The letter G
- What can’t be burned in fire or drowned in water?
Answer: Ice
- What has four letters, sometimes has nine, but never has five?
Answer: It’s a statement, not a question
Whether you’re a teacher, manager, team leader, or just hosting a party, these icebreaker riddles are perfect for loosening up the room and encouraging interaction. Keep them handy for meetings, classrooms, or family fun!