100 Top Rated Riddles– Best One Line Brain Teasers
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  • 1. What has keys but can’t open locks?
    Answer: A piano.

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

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

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

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

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

    7. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
    Answer: Your name.

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

    9. What runs but never walks?
    Answer: Water.

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

    11. What has an eye but cannot see?
    Answer: A needle.

    12. What has one eye but can’t see anything?
    Answer: A hurricane.

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

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

    15. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
    Answer: A mushroom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    26. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
    Answer: An artichoke.

    27. What building has the most stories?
    Answer: A library.

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

    29. What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
    Answer: A coat of paint.

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

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

    32. What has roots that nobody sees and is taller than trees?
    Answer: A mountain.

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

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

    35. What’s light as a feather but even the strongest man can’t hold for long?
    Answer: His breath.

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

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

    38. What goes through cities, fields, and mountains but never moves?
    Answer: A road.

    39. What has one voice and becomes four-footed, two-footed, and three-footed?
    Answer: A human.

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

    41. What is easy to lift but hard to throw?
    Answer: A feather.

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

    43. What can fly without wings?
    Answer: Time.

    44. What can you never hold for long, no matter how strong you are?
    Answer: Your breath.

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

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

    47. What can you see once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?
    Answer: The letter E.

    48. What is always moving but has no legs?
    Answer: Time.

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

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

    51. What can you serve but never eat?
    Answer: A tennis ball.

    52. What comes up when the rain comes down?
    Answer: An umbrella.

    53. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
    Answer: A teapot.

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

    55. What has an end but no beginning?
    Answer: A stick.

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

    57. What has a bed but never sleeps?
    Answer: A river.

    58. What can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up?
    Answer: An umbrella.

    59. What kind of cup can’t hold water?
    Answer: A cupcake.

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

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

    62. What has a lot of bark but no bite?
    Answer: A tree.

    63. What has a spine but no bones?
    Answer: A book.

    64. What runs around the whole yard without moving?
    Answer: A fence.

    65. What kind of dog never bites?
    Answer: A hot dog.

    66. What comes at the end of everything?
    Answer: The letter G.

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

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

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

    70. What can’t be put in a saucepan?
    Answer: Its lid.

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

    72. What grows but never lives?
    Answer: A crystal.

    73. What goes up when the sun comes down?
    Answer: Stars.

    74. What gets smaller when you turn it upside down?
    Answer: The number 9.

    75. What can fill your eyes but never your hands?
    Answer: A dream.

    76. What breaks but never falls, and what falls but never breaks?
    Answer: Day breaks, night falls.

    77. What is always hungry but never eats?
    Answer: Fire.

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

    79. What has light but no heat?
    Answer: The moon.

    80. What is always in the middle of nowhere?
    Answer: The letter H.

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

    82. What comes in many colors but is always seen after rain?
    Answer: A rainbow.

    83. What can’t move but can travel around the world?
    Answer: A postcard.

    84. What gets bigger when you share it?
    Answer: Happiness.

    85. What can’t you eat for breakfast?
    Answer: Lunch or dinner.

    86. What has many keys but can’t open a single door?
    Answer: A keyboard.

    87. What goes up but never down once it starts?
    Answer: Your age.

    88. What kind of table has no legs?
    Answer: A timetable.

    89. What’s always running but never gets tired?
    Answer: A clock.

    90. What has no life but can die?
    Answer: A battery.

    91. What is made of water but dies if it drinks?
    Answer: Ice.

    92. What can be long or short, grown or bought, painted or left bare?
    Answer: Nails.

    93. What lives if it’s fed and dies if it’s given a drink?
    Answer: Fire.

    94. What can’t talk but tells you something when broken?
    Answer: News.

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

    96. What word contains all 26 letters?
    Answer: Alphabet.

    97. What can’t you see but can feel when it’s gone?
    Answer: Love.

    98. What gets clearer the more you look at it?
    Answer: A mirror.

    99. What never asks questions but gets answered all the time?
    Answer: A phone.

    100. What is yours but used mostly by others?
    Answer: Your name.