60 Clever Riddles for Smart Minds
Ready to challenge your brainpower? These 60 clever riddles are perfect for those who love to think outside the box. Each riddle is followed by its answer, spaced for clarity, and designed to stump even the smartest minds — without repeating any from before!
- I shrink the more you use me. What am I?
Answer: Pencil
- The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps
- I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
Answer: Echo
- I am always in front of you but can’t be seen. What am I?
Answer: Future
- The more you take from me, the bigger I become. What am I?
Answer: Hole
- I’m full of keys but can’t open a single lock. What am I?
Answer: Piano
- What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: Towel
- I have hands but no arms, and a face but no eyes. What am I?
Answer: Clock
- I’m bought to be eaten but never eaten. What am I?
Answer: Plate
- What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age
- I’m light as a feather but the strongest man can’t hold me long. What am I?
Answer: Breath
- What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M”
- What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner?
Answer: Stamp
- The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?
Answer: Darkness
- I can fill a room but take up no space. What am I?
Answer: Light
- What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: Needle
- What has four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?
Answer: A human
- What breaks and never falls, and what falls and never breaks?
Answer: Day breaks and night falls
- What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: Joke
- I go up and down but never move. What am I?
Answer: Stairs
- What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: Teapot
- You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “E”
- What has cities but no houses, rivers but no water, and forests but no trees?
Answer: Map
- What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: Window
- I’m not alive, but I grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire
- What can run but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps, and has a mouth but never talks?
Answer: River
- The more you take of me, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps
- If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine
- What is always in the middle of nowhere?
Answer: H
- I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: Candle
- What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: Artichoke
- What can’t be used until it’s broken?
Answer: Egg
- If you drop me, I’m sure to crack. Give me a smile, and I’ll smile back. What am I?
Answer: Mirror
- What can fill a bucket without taking up space?
Answer: Hole
- What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name
- I have no doors, but I have keys. No rooms, but I unlock your mind. What am I?
Answer: Keyboard
- Forward I am heavy, but backward I’m not. What am I?
Answer: Ton
- If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don’t have me. What am I?
Answer: Secret
- What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: Comb
- I start out tall, but the more I stand, the shorter I grow. What am I?
Answer: Candle
- I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire
- What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain
- I’m in everything but cannot be seen. I can drown you but have no substance. What am I?
Answer: Fear
- What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don’t?
Answer: Anchor
- I am taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case. I am used by almost every student. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead
- If I drink, I die. If I eat, I’m fine. What am I?
Answer: Fire
- What flies without wings and cries without eyes?
Answer: Cloud
- You can catch me but not throw me. What am I?
Answer: Cold
- The more I dry, the wetter I get. What am I?
Answer: Towel
- What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly
- What comes after thunder but never before lightning?
Answer: The letter “R”
- I get smaller every time I take a bath. What am I?
Answer: Soap
- I have a spine but no bones. What am I?
Answer: Book
- The more you share me, the more I grow. What am I?
Answer: Knowledge
- What can go through glass without breaking it?
Answer: Light
- What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Leg
- What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: Bed
- I go around the world but stay in one spot. What am I?
Answer: Stamp
- I hide behind numbers and symbols but tell great tales. What am I?
Answer: Book
- What begins but has no end, and ends but has no beginning?
Answer: Circle