Easy Riddles (1–20)

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

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

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

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

5. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A Comb

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

7. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A Needle

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

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

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

11. What runs but never walks?
Answer: Water

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

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

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

15. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A Sponge

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

17. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A Teapot

18. What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A Piano

19. What has four legs but can’t walk?
Answer: A Table

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

🔹 Classic Riddles (21–40)

21. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
Answer: An Echo

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

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

24. The more you take away, the bigger I get. What am I?
Answer: A Hole

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

26. The poor have me, the rich need me, and if you eat me you die. What am I?
Answer: Nothing

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

28. What runs around a yard but never moves?
Answer: A Fence

29. I’m light as a feather, but no man can hold me long. What am I?
Answer: Breath

30. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: The word “Ton”

31. What has many keys but no locks?
Answer: A Keyboard

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

33. What has an end but no beginning?
Answer: A Stick

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

35. What’s black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A Blackboard

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

37. What goes through cities, towns, and fields but never moves?
Answer: A Road

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

39. What runs but has no legs?
Answer: A River

40. What has an endless supply of letters but starts empty?
Answer: A Mailbox

🔹 Kids’ Favorites (41–60)

41. What’s bright orange with a green top and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A Carrot

42. What is easy to lift but hard to throw?
Answer: A Feather

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

44. What starts with P and ends with E and has thousands of letters?
Answer: Post Office

45. What comes once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?
Answer: The Letter “E”

46. What is always moving but never tired?
Answer: Time

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

48. What is full of stories but has no words?
Answer: Pictures

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

50. What has 13 hearts but no body?
Answer: A Deck of Cards

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51. What goes up and down but never moves?
Answer: Stairs

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

53. What is white when it’s dirty and black when it’s clean?
Answer: A Chalkboard

54. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A Book

55. What comes with a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A River

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

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

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

59. What gets broken when you don’t keep it?
Answer: A Promise

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

🔹 Funny & Trick Riddles (61–80)

61. Why did the math book look sad?
Answer: It had too many problems

62. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A Garbage Truck

63. Why is six afraid of seven?
Answer: Because seven eight nine

64. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A Window

65. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters?
Answer: Short

66. What has an endless appetite but never eats?
Answer: Fire

67. What runs without legs, murmurs without a mouth, and doesn’t stop?
Answer: A River

68. What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?
Answer: A Pillow

69. What has no beginning, no end, and no middle?
Answer: A Circle

70. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and Dinner

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

72. What is invisible but makes you stronger when you have it?
Answer: Confidence

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

74. What comes in pairs but is never alone?
Answer: Shoes

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

76. What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
Answer: A Coat of Paint

77. What’s full of holes but can still hold something?
Answer: A Net

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

79. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your Legs

80. What has no bed but sleeps, no mouth but speaks, and no head but weeps?
Answer: A River

🔹 Hard & Brain Twisters (81–100)

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

82. A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but nine die. How many are left?
Answer: Nine

83. Divide 30 by half and add 10. What do you get?
Answer: 70

84. What three numbers give the same answer when added and multiplied?
Answer: 1, 2, and 3

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

86. I’m not alive, but I grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire

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

88. What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Answer: Silence

89. What has no life but can die?
Answer: A Battery

90. What begins with an E, ends with an E, but only has one letter in it?
Answer: An Envelope

91. What gets sharper the more you take away?
Answer: A Pencil

92. What has no weight but can be seen, and if put in a barrel will make it lighter?
Answer: A Hole

93. What has one voice but goes on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?
Answer: A Human

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

95. What comes at the end of everything?
Answer: The Letter “G”

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

97. What is always at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The Letter “W”

98. The more you pull me, the shorter I get. What am I?
Answer: A Cigarette or Rope

99. I have keys but no locks, space but no room, you can enter but not go outside. What am I?
Answer: A Keyboard

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