1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.

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

3. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.

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

5. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.

6. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M.”

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

8. What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner?
Answer: A stamp.

9. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.

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

11. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.

12. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.

13. What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.

14. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.

15. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.

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

17. If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror.

18. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table.

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

20. What’s always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.

21. What has teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb.

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

23. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo.

24. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.

25. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
Answer: A coat of paint.

26. What has an eye but cannot see, and hides in the sea?
Answer: A needle or a storm (cyclone).

27. What comes at the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “G.”

28. What can fly without wings and cry without eyes?
Answer: A cloud.

29. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed.

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

31. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: Stairs.

32. What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
Answer: A map.

33. What’s easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble.

34. What’s yours but everyone else uses it more?
Answer: Your name.

35. What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library.

36. What’s always running but never gets tired?
Answer: A refrigerator.

37. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.

38. What type of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.

39. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain.

40. What begins with “E,” ends with “E,” but only has one letter?
Answer: An envelope.

41. What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: A cornfield.

42. What can you hold in your left hand but not your right hand?
Answer: Your right elbow.

43. What’s always moving but never gets anywhere?
Answer: Time.

44. What can’t be burned in a fire nor drowned in water?
Answer: Ice.

45. What’s black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal.

46. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness.

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

48. What comes once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day?
Answer: The letter “E.”

49. What has four fingers and a thumb but isn’t alive?
Answer: A glove.

50. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.

51. What can you keep after giving it to someone?
Answer: Your word.

52. What goes through cities and fields but never moves?
Answer: A road.

53. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree.

54. What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band.

55. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.

56. What kind of room can you eat?
Answer: A mushroom.

57. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.

58. What runs all around a backyard yet never moves?
Answer: A fence.

59. What can’t be seen but can be heard and will not speak until spoken to?
Answer: An echo.

60. What comes once in a lifetime, twice in a moment, but never in a hundred years?
Answer: The letter “M.”

61. What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly.

62. What’s full of keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A keyboard.

63. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window.

64. What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise.

65. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.

66. What can you hear but not touch or see?
Answer: Sound.

67. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.

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

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

70. What has one voice but becomes four-footed, two-footed, and three-footed?
Answer: A human (The Sphinx’s riddle).

71. What’s always ahead of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.

72. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs.

73. What is so light that even the world’s strongest person can’t hold it for long?
Answer: Their breath.

74. What can you break, even if you never touch it?
Answer: A promise.

75. What has many rings but no fingers?
Answer: A tree.

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

77. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.

78. What has four fingers and a thumb, but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.

79. What goes up when rain comes down?
Answer: An umbrella.

80. What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?
Answer: A chalkboard.

81. What kind of cup doesn’t hold water?
Answer: A cupcake.

82. What has no beginning, end, or middle?
Answer: A circle.

83. What can you serve but not eat?
Answer: A tennis ball.

84. What gets louder the more you silence it?
Answer: An argument.

85. What is at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The letter “W.”

86. What is always hungry and must be fed, but if you give it water, it will be dead?
Answer: Fire.

87. What flies without wings and cries without eyes?
Answer: A cloud.

88. What starts with a “P,” ends with an “E,” and has thousands of letters?
Answer: The post office.

89. What has to be used before it can be seen?
Answer: A camera.

90. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke.

91. What comes once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day?
Answer: The letter “E.”

92. What goes up and down but always stays in the same place?
Answer: An elevator.

93. What can one catch that is not thrown?
Answer: A cold.

94. What has one eye but cannot see, and moves very fast?
Answer: A hurricane.

95. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.

96. What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?
Answer: A relationship.

97. What is always on its way but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.

98. What can you find in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
Answer: The letter “R.”

99. What can’t talk but makes a lot of noise when shaken?
Answer: A bell.

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