100 Entertaining Riddles with answer
100 Entertaining Riddles to Make You Laugh and Think
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1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: egg

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

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

4. I have keys but no locks. What am I?
Answer: piano

5. I can fly without wings and cry without eyes. What am I?
Answer: cloud

6. I’m always running but never walk. What am I?
Answer: river

7. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: towel

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

9. I have a face and hands but no arms or legs. What am I?
Answer: clock

10. The more of me there is, the less you see. What am I?
Answer: darkness

11. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: rain

12. I’m full of holes but still hold water. What am I?
Answer: sponge

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

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

15. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: needle

16. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: your name

17. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: comb

18. What runs around a yard but doesn’t move?
Answer: fence

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

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

21. I’m always in front of you but can’t be seen. What am I?
Answer: future

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

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

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

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

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

27. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: stairs

28. What’s full of gas but can’t drive anywhere?
Answer: balloon

29. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: light

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

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

32. I’m taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case; used by many but never seen. What am I?
Answer: pencil lead

33. I’m easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?
Answer: feather

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

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

36. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: book

37. What has an eye but cannot see, and moves endlessly?
Answer: hurricane

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

39. What has cities, rivers, and mountains but no people?
Answer: map

40. I’m lighter than a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me long. What am I?
Answer: breath

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

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

43. What can you keep after giving to someone?
Answer: your word

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

45. What can’t be used until it’s cracked?
Answer: egg

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

47. What never asks a question but is answered all the time?
Answer: phone

48. What can’t be seen but can be broken?
Answer: promise

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

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

51. What begins with P, ends with E, and has a thousand letters?
Answer: post office

52. What runs but never gets tired?
Answer: stream

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

54. What can you hold without touching it?
Answer: conversation

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

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

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

58. What has many keys but can’t open a single door?
Answer: piano

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

60. What kind of tree fits in your hand?
Answer: palm tree

61. What comes before you but can’t be seen or heard?
Answer: tomorrow

62. What gets clearer the more it’s dirty?
Answer: window

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

64. What can run but never walks, and has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: river

65. What can’t talk but will tell you the truth?
Answer: mirror

66. What grows only when it’s fed, but dies if it drinks water?
Answer: fire

67. What has 13 hearts but no organs?
Answer: deck of cards

68. What gets bigger when turned upside down?
Answer: number 6

69. What’s something you can’t keep for more than a few minutes?
Answer: breath

70. What has a bed but never sleeps, a mouth but never eats?
Answer: river

71. What has roots that nobody sees, is taller than trees, up it goes but never grows?
Answer: mountain

72. What gets broken if it’s not kept?
Answer: promise

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

74. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: short

75. What can you hear but not touch or see?
Answer: sound

76. What gets cleaner the more it gets dirtier?
Answer: soap

77. What has many stories but no floors?
Answer: book

78. What has a head but no eyes, a body but no tail?
Answer: cabbage

79. What can fly without moving its wings?
Answer: time

80. What can be stolen, given, or kept but never held?
Answer: heart

81. What goes through towns and hills but never moves?
Answer: road

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

83. What comes after night and before noon?
Answer: morning

84. What type of music do balloons hate?
Answer: pop

85. What starts with an E but only has one letter?
Answer: envelope

86. What can go up a chimney down but can’t go down a chimney up?
Answer: umbrella

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

88. What begins and ends with an E but has only one letter?
Answer: envelope

89. What gets whiter the dirtier it gets?
Answer: chalkboard

90. What’s black and white and read all over?
Answer: newspaper

91. What can fill your eyes but not your hands?
Answer: tears

92. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: leg

93. What has 88 keys but can’t open a door?
Answer: piano

94. What is always in bed but never sleeps?
Answer: river

95. What has branches but no fruit or leaves?
Answer: bank

96. What kind of dog never bites?
Answer: hot dog

97. What starts with “e” and ends with “e” but contains only one letter?
Answer: envelope

98. What runs but can’t walk, sometimes sings but never talks?
Answer: stream

99. What’s full of air but can sink?
Answer: ball

100. What can travel the world without leaving its place?
Answer: stamp