100 Mind-Bending Riddles to Engage
100 Mind-Bending Riddles to Engage Your Brain
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1. What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: Piano

2. What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: River

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

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

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

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

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

8. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: Towel

9. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: Clock

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

11. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: Cold

12. What begins with an “e” but only has one letter?
Answer: Envelope

13. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age

14. What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: Needle

15. What gets broken without being held?
Answer: Promise

16. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: Bottle

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

18. What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer: Clock

19. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: Book

20. What has teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: Comb

21. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: Mushroom

22. What has many keys but no doors?
Answer: Keyboard

23. What can fly without wings?
Answer: Time

24. What belongs to you but others use more?
Answer: Name

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

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

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

28. What runs around the yard but doesn’t move?
Answer: Fence

29. What has holes but still holds water?
Answer: Sponge

30. What can’t talk but replies when spoken to?
Answer: Echo

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

32. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: Future

33. What has no wings but can fly?
Answer: Time

34. What can be measured but has no substance?
Answer: Time

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

36. What grows when it eats but dies when it drinks?
Answer: Fire

37. What has roots but never grows?
Answer: Mountain

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

39. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: Hole

40. What goes through cities and fields but never moves?
Answer: Road

41. What can’t be burned by fire or drowned in water?
Answer: Ice

42. What’s full of holes but still strong?
Answer: Net

43. What has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: River

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

45. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: Table

46. What gets lighter the more you take from it?
Answer: Hole

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

48. What can’t be used until it’s broken?
Answer: Egg

49. What goes up when rain comes down?
Answer: Umbrella

50. What is always hungry and must be fed?
Answer: Fire

51. What shines brightest in darkness?
Answer: Stars

52. What can move mountains but is invisible?
Answer: Faith

53. What has no mouth yet tells stories?
Answer: Book

54. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: Palm

55. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal

56. What comes before thunder?
Answer: Lightning

57. What can’t be seen but can be felt?
Answer: Wind

58. What melts when it smiles?
Answer: Snowman

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

60. What can’t run but has a race?
Answer: River

61. What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: Corn

62. What can hold water even though it’s full of holes?
Answer: Sponge

63. What makes you young again when you laugh?
Answer: Joy

64. What can you never hold but always feel?
Answer: Time

65. What can’t be bought but can be earned?
Answer: Respect

66. What lives without a heart or brain?
Answer: Jellyfish

67. What comes after work but before sleep?
Answer: Dinner

68. What has many stories but no words?
Answer: Building

69. What can cross the world but never leave its spot?
Answer: Map

70. What comes to you but you never see it coming?
Answer: Tomorrow

71. What breaks but never falls, and what falls but never breaks?
Answer: Day and Night

72. What can’t move but can open doors?
Answer: Key

73. What has a lid but no box?
Answer: Eye

74. What goes through glass without breaking it?
Answer: Light

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

76. What’s found in minutes and moments but not in centuries?
Answer: Letter M

77. What burns without a flame?
Answer: Passion

78. What can shout without a voice?
Answer: Thunder

79. What dances without legs?
Answer: Flame

80. What can freeze but never shatter?
Answer: Ice

81. What never asks questions but is answered all the time?
Answer: Doorbell

82. What comes after the sun but before the moon?
Answer: Evening

83. What doesn’t move but travels everywhere?
Answer: Light

84. What sings but has no throat?
Answer: Wind

85. What hides in darkness but dies in light?
Answer: Shadow

86. What can’t be stolen but can be lost?
Answer: Trust

87. What spreads faster than light but has no form?
Answer: Gossip

88. What can you find in success but not in failure?
Answer: Letter S

89. What is lighter than a feather but the strongest man can’t hold it long?
Answer: Breath

90. What keeps moving but never leaves its place?
Answer: Clock

91. What is everywhere but seen nowhere?
Answer: Air

92. What shines but gives no heat?
Answer: Moon

93. What grows without being alive?
Answer: Crystal

94. What exists only when it’s shared?
Answer: Happiness

95. What can you break just by speaking?
Answer: Silence

96. What can go through anything but not stop anywhere?
Answer: Light

97. What always follows the truth?
Answer: Consequence

98. What cannot move but still leads the way?
Answer: Compass

99. What makes you see things you can’t touch?
Answer: Imagination

100. What lives in your mind and bends reality?
Answer: Thought