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Best Fun Riddles with Answers
Riddles are a great way to challenge your brain and have fun at the same time! Below you’ll find 50 riddles of varying difficulty. Try to solve them yourself before revealing the answers. Share them with friends and family for even more fun!
Classic Riddles
1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
2. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
3. What month of the year has 28 days?
All of them
4. What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
5. What question can you never answer yes to?
“Are you asleep?”
6. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
7. There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house
8. What can you catch but not throw?
A cold
9. What gets wet while drying?
A towel
10. What can you keep after giving to someone?
Your word
Nature Riddles
11. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
A map
12. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
A river
13. What falls but never breaks? What breaks but never falls?
Night and day
14. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps
15. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?
Breath
16. What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
17. What has keys but can’t open locks?
A piano
18. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock
19. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle
20. What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
Food Riddles
21. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A penny
22. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A mushroom
23. What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
A hole
24. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
A road
25. I’m not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Fire
26. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp
27. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano
28. What has words but never speaks?
A book
29. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
A glove
30. What has one eye but can’t see?
A needle
Animal Riddles
31. What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
32. I’m not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Fire
33. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp
34. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano
35. What has words but never speaks?
A book
36. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
A glove
37. What has one eye but can’t see?
A needle
38. What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
Your left elbow
39. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness
40. What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
Your name
Tricky Riddles
41. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
42. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?
A secret
43. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
A promise
44. I’m not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Fire
45. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter “M”
46. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence
47. What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
Your left elbow
48. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness
49. What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
Your name
50. What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel