69 Riddles Only Smart People Can Solve
Challenge your brain with this hand-picked collection of 69 clever riddles perfect for smart thinkers who enjoy a good puzzle. These aren’t your everyday riddles; they’re designed to make you think deeply and differently.
- The more you take away from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
Answer: A hole
- I have keys but no locks, space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard
- What can run but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never talks?
Answer: A river
- I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo
- What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?
Answer: A map
- Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: The word “ton”
- I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I?
Answer: A barber
- What can’t be used until it’s broken?
Answer: An egg
- The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?
Answer: Darkness
- What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot
- What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M”
- If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine
- What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
- What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle
- What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light
- If I drink, I die. If I eat, I’m fine. What am I?
Answer: Fire
- What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock
- What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain
- What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
- I am not alive, but I grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire
- A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why?
Answer: He’s playing Monopoly
- What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb
- What begins and ends with an E but only has one letter?
Answer: An envelope
- The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps
- What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold
- What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
- What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg
- What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle
- What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window
- What flies without wings and cries without eyes?
Answer: A cloud
- The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps
- I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
Answer: A battery
- What begins with an E, only contains one letter, and ends with an E?
Answer: Envelope
- I am always in front of you, but can’t be seen. What am I?
Answer: The future
- What travels around the world but stays in one spot?
Answer: A stamp
- What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short
- What comes in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M
- The more you remove from me, the stronger I get. What am I?
Answer: A team
- What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke
- What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly
- What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom
- What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name
- What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck
- What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
- What’s black and white and red all over?
Answer: A newspaper
- What goes in dry and comes out wet, and the longer it’s in, the stronger it gets?
Answer: A tea bag
- What comes at the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “g”
- What can you hold without touching it at all?
Answer: A conversation
- What begins with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?
Answer: Post office
- What has four fingers and a thumb but isn’t alive?
Answer: A glove
- What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table
- What’s easy to lift but hard to throw?
Answer: A feather
- What can you keep after giving it to someone?
Answer: Your word
- What is always moving but never gets anywhere?
Answer: A clock
- What is white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard
- What is made of water but if you put it into water, it dies?
Answer: An ice cube
- What’s always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
- What starts with “w” and ends with “t” but has only one letter?
Answer: An envelope
- What has no beginning, middle, or end?
Answer: A circle
- I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for long. What am I?
Answer: Breath
- I go up but never down. What am I?
Answer: Age
- I get sharper the more I’m used. What am I?
Answer: Your brain
- The more I dry, the wetter I get. What am I?
Answer: A towel
- What starts with “e” and has only one letter in it?
Answer: Envelope
- What can you break without touching it?
Answer: A promise
- I am taken from a mine, and shut in a wooden case, from which I’m never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead
- What gets sharper the more you use it, but dulls if ignored?
Answer: A mind
- I have a face and hands but no arms or legs. What am I?
Answer: A clock