Best Riddles for Adults
100 Best Riddles for Adults with Answers (Fun & Tricky)
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1. The more you take away from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
Answer: A Hole

2. What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?
Answer: A Map

3. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A Stamp

4. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A Piano

5. The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it, never uses it. What is it?
Answer: A Coffin

6. What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps, and has a mouth but never eats?
Answer: A River

7. I am always in front of you, but you can never see me. What am I?
Answer: The Future

8. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The Letter M

9. What disappears the moment you say its name?
Answer: Silence

10. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A Clock

11. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps

12. What belongs to you but is used by everyone else?
Answer: Your Name

13. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A Candle

14. The poor have me; the rich need me. Eat me and you die. What am I?
Answer: Nothing

15. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your Brain

16. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An Artichoke

17. I’m always hungry, and if you don’t feed me, I’ll die. But if you give me water, I’ll die. What am I?
Answer: Fire

18. What goes up and never comes down?
Answer: Age

19. What has an endless beginning and an endless end?
Answer: A Circle

20. What gets bigger the more you share?
Answer: Happiness

21. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light

22. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A Needle

23. I shave every day, but my beard never grows. Who am I?
Answer: A Barber

24. The more you look at me, the less you see. What am I?
Answer: Darkness

25. What invention lets you look through walls?
Answer: A Window

26. What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow

27. What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
Answer: Wrong

28. Forward I’m heavy, but backward I’m not. What am I?
Answer: The Word “Ton”

29. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain

30. I’m measured in hours, but I tell no time. I can be broken but never held. What am I?
Answer: A Record

31. If you drop me, I’ll crack; but if you smile at me, I’ll smile back. What am I?
Answer: A Mirror

32. What has a beginning but no end, and an end but no beginning?
Answer: A Circle

33. What can you break, even if you never touch it?
Answer: A Promise

34. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A Joke

35. What is more useful when it’s broken?
Answer: An Egg

36. I’m light as a feather, yet no one can hold me for long. What am I?
Answer: Breath

37. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short

38. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine

39. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A Deck of Cards

40. What runs but has no legs?
Answer: A Nose

41. I’m taken from a mine, locked up in a wooden case, and never released, yet I’m used by almost everyone. What am I?
Answer: Pencil Lead

42. The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps

43. What do you throw out when you want to use it, but bring in when you don’t?
Answer: An Anchor

44. I can fly without wings. I can cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness flies. What am I?
Answer: A Cloud

45. What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter inside?
Answer: Envelope

46. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A Bed

47. The more you take from me, the more I grow. What am I?
Answer: A Hole

48. I am always running, but never move. What am I?
Answer: Time

49. What has an endless supply but you can only take one at a time?
Answer: Breath

50. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence

51. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A Bank

52. I have keys but no locks. I can be entered but not leave. What am I?
Answer: A Keyboard

53. What comes before thunder?
Answer: Lightning

54. What has teeth but never eats?
Answer: A Comb

55. I am an odd number. Take away one letter, and I become even. What am I?
Answer: Seven

56. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A Telephone

57. The more you share me, the less I become. What am I?
Answer: A Secret

58. What can you hold without touching it?
Answer: A Conversation

59. What runs around the house but never moves?
Answer: A Fence

60. What has a tongue but cannot talk?
Answer: A Shoe

61. I’m full of holes but can still hold water. What am I?
Answer: A Sponge

62. What word contains all 26 letters?
Answer: Alphabet (or “The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog”)

63. I am always in you, sometimes on you. If I surround you, I can kill you. What am I?
Answer: Water

64. What gets broken once you name it?
Answer: Silence

65. What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A Coin

66. The more you take out of me, the bigger I get. What am I?
Answer: A Hole

67. I have one head, one foot, and four legs. What am I?
Answer: A Bed

68. What flies without wings and cries without eyes?
Answer: The Wind

69. What invention lets people see right through walls?
Answer: A Window

70. What word is pronounced the same if you take away four letters?
Answer: Queue

71. The more you look at me, the less you see. What am I?
Answer: Darkness

72. What question can you never answer “yes” to?
Answer: Are you asleep?

73. What gets bigger and bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A Hole

74. I’m not alive, but I grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire

75. What comes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age

76. I’m always ahead but never behind. What am I?
Answer: The Future

77. What word has five letters, but when you remove two, only one remains?
Answer: Stone → One

78. What begins with P, ends with E, and has a million letters inside?
Answer: The Post Office

79. What do you throw out when you need it and bring back in when you don’t?
Answer: An Anchor

80. What has an endless supply but you can only take one at a time?
Answer: Breath

81. I’m not alive, but I can die if not fed. What am I?
Answer: Fire

82. What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?
Answer: A Chalkboard

83. What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?
Answer: A Glove

84. What runs but doesn’t move, and has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A River

85. The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps

86. What can fill a room but takes no space?
Answer: Light

87. What word becomes longer when you add a shorter word to it?
Answer: Long

88. What has an endless cycle of rising and falling?
Answer: The Tide

89. What has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night?
Answer: A Human (Riddle of the Sphinx)

90. What comes down without ever going up?
Answer: Rain

91. I’m seen in the water but never get wet. What am I?
Answer: A Reflection

92. What comes once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day?
Answer: The Letter E

93. What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A Book

94. The more you take from me, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps

95. What flies forever, rests never?
Answer: Time

96. I have a neck but no head. What am I?
Answer: A Bottle

97. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A Needle

98. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
Answer: A Coat of Paint

99. I am not alive, but I die without air. What am I?
Answer: Fire

100. What is always moving but never actually goes anywhere?
Answer: Time