80 Interesting Riddles to Challenge Your Mind!
Do you like solving fun puzzles and using your brain in a smart way? Riddles are a great way to test how well you think and make you smile at the same time. Some are funny, some are tricky, and some will really make you stop and think.
We’ve gathered 80 Interesting Riddles with answers. Try to guess the answers before reading them and have fun with friends or family too!
- What has words but never speaks?
Answer: Book
- What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: Teapot
- What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M
- What has a neck but no head?
Answer: Bottle
- What can travel around the world while staying in one spot?
Answer: Stamp
- What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: Clock
- What’s full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: Sponge
- What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: Coin
- What can’t be used until it’s broken?
Answer: Egg
- What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: Towel
- What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: Cold
- What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence
- What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: River
- What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: Palm
- What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: Needle
- What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain
- What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: Hole
- What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: Table
- What belongs to you but is used by others more?
Answer: Your name
- What can fill a room but doesn’t take up space?
Answer: Light
Mystery & Logic
- The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps
- What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: Joke
- What comes before thunder?
Answer: Lightning
- What never asks questions but gets answered all the time?
Answer: Phone
- What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: Stairs
- What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Brain
- What has cities but no houses, rivers but no water, and roads but no cars?
Answer: Map
- What has many keys but can’t open any doors?
Answer: Piano
- What can run but can’t walk, has a mouth but can’t talk?
Answer: River
- What’s always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: Future
- What flies without wings?
Answer: Time
- What can go up high and down low but never touches the ground?
Answer: Temperature
- I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: Candle
- What is easy to lift but hard to throw?
Answer: Feather
- What comes at night without being called, but is lost in the day without being stolen?
Answer: Stars
- What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: Garbage truck
- What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: Echo
- What has roots but never grows, has a trunk but no leaves?
Answer: Mountain
- What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Tongue
- What makes two people out of one?
Answer: Mirror
Funny Riddles
- What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: Rubber band
- What building has the most stories?
Answer: Library
- Why can’t your nose be 12 inches long?
Answer: Because then it’d be a foot
- What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: Corn
- What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: Gummy bear
- What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: Carrot
- Why did the student eat his homework?
Answer: Because the teacher said it was a piece of cake
- What gets broken if not kept?
Answer: Promise
- What goes tick but doesn’t talk?
Answer: Clock
- Why don’t skeletons fight each other?
Answer: They don’t have the guts
- What kind of room has no windows or doors?
Answer: Mushroom
- Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Answer: Because he was outstanding in his field
- What has stripes and goes up and down?
Answer: Zebra in an elevator
- What did one wall say to the other wall?
Answer: I’ll meet you at the corner
- What’s black, white, and red all over?
Answer: A newspaper
- What gets shorter as you use it?
Answer: Pencil
- What can you hold without touching it?
Answer: Breath
- What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs
- What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly
- What did the ocean say to the beach?
Answer: Nothing, it just waved
Twisted Brain Teasers
- A man shaves several times a day, but still has a beard. Who is he?
Answer: A barber
- You see a boat filled with people. It hasn’t sunk, but when you look again, you don’t see a single person. Why?
Answer: They were all married
- What comes in through a keyhole but never touches the lock?
Answer: Light
- The more you take from me, the bigger I get.
Answer: Hole
- What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: Promise
- A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed three nights and rode out on Friday. How?
Answer: His horse’s name was Friday
- I’m always running but never get tired or hot.
Answer: Refrigerator
- Forward I’m heavy, backward I’m not. What am I?
Answer: Ton
- The more you have of me, the less you see.
Answer: Darkness
- I’m always in you, sometimes on you; if I surround you, I can kill you. What am I?
Answer: Water
- A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many are there?
Answer: 4 sisters and 3 brothers
- What can one not keep, two hold, and three destroy?
Answer: A secret
- What begins with an E but only has one letter in it?
Answer: Envelope
- I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room.
Answer: Keyboard
- What comes first, the chicken or the egg?
Answer: The egg (dinosaurs laid eggs before chickens existed)
- What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters?
Answer: Short
- What can you find in a cupboard that can never be put in a pot?
Answer: Its lid
- I have branches but no fruit, trunk, or leaves.
Answer: Bank
- What flies but never lands?
Answer: Time
- I’m not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air.
Answer: Fire
Riddles are more than just questions — they’re mental workouts disguised as fun. Whether you got them all right or had a few stump you, we hope this list gave your brain a good stretch. Share these with your friends or challenge your classmates.