60 Riddles That Test Your Common Sense
Think you’re a master of logic and wit? It’s time to find out!
These 60 common sense riddles will twist your brain in the best way possible. No fancy wordplay, just smart, simple puzzles anyone can try. Some are short and snappy, others will make you pause and grin. Get ready to test how well you really think on your feet!
- I have wheels and move fast, but I’m not alive. What am I?
Answer: A car.
- I get sharper the more you use me. What am I?
Answer: Your brain.
- You buy me to eat, but you never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A plate.
- The more you take from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
Answer: A hole.
- I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
Answer: An echo.
- You leave me behind every day but never lose me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow.
- I get smaller every time you use me. What am I?
Answer: A pencil.
- I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
- I only work after you wake up. What am I?
Answer: An alarm clock.
- I fall but never rise. What am I?
Answer: Rain.
- I have a neck but no head. What am I?
Answer: A bottle.
- I go up but never climb. What am I?
Answer: A price.
- The more you share me, the less I am. What am I?
Answer: A secret.
- I stay in the corner but go around the world. What am I?
Answer: A stamp.
- I’m full of words but I don’t speak. What am I?
Answer: A book.
- I’m not alive but I grow. I don’t have lungs but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
- I go up and down but never move. What am I?
Answer: A staircase.
- What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
- What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
- What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
- What can be broken but never held?
Answer: A promise.
- What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M”.
- What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.
- What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
- If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
Answer: Wet.
- What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
- If a rooster lays an egg on a rooftop, which way will it roll?
Answer: It won’t — roosters don’t lay eggs.
- What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table.
- Which weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Answer: Neither — they both weigh a pound.
- What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb.
- What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.
- What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
- What can travel around the world while staying in the same spot?
Answer: A stamp.
- What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
- What has an eye but can’t cry?
Answer: A storm.
- What goes up when rain comes down?
Answer: An umbrella.
- What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
- What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band.
- What has cities but no houses, rivers but no water, and forests but no trees?
Answer: A map.
- What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
- What runs around a backyard but never moves?
Answer: A fence.
- What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.
- What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
- What has no beginning, middle, or end?
Answer: A circle.
- What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear.
- What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
- What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
- What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
- What starts with an E, ends with an E, and has one letter in it?
Answer: An envelope.
- What can you hold without touching it at all?
Answer: Your breath.
- What can’t talk but replies when spoken to?
Answer: An echo.
- What has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.
- What do you throw out when you want to use it and take in when you don’t?
Answer: An anchor.
- What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
- What never asks a question but gets answered all the time?
Answer: A phone.
- What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm.
- What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.
- What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book.
- What begins with an “E” and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope.
- What comes in the middle of March and April but not at the beginning or end?
Answer: The letter “R”.
How many did you guess right? Whether you breezed through them or had to stop and think, you’ve just given your brain a fun little workout. Riddles like these are perfect for sharpening your mind, sharing with friends, or just passing the time.
Want more? Come back soon for more riddle challenges that will keep your common sense in shape!