🔹 Hard Riddles (1–25)

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

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

3. I’m always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?
Answer: The Future

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

5. I am not alive, but I grow; I have no lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire

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

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

8. I’m taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case, but almost everyone uses me. What am I?
Answer: Pencil Lead

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

10. I speak without a mouth, hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
Answer: An Echo

11. I have keys but no locks. I can be played but not opened. What am I?
Answer: A Piano

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

13. I’m always hungry, must be fed, but if you give me water I die. What am I?
Answer: Fire

14. What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer: A Clock

15. What is so fragile that even speaking its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence

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

17. Forward I’m heavy, but backward I’m not. What am I?
Answer: The Word “Ton”

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

19. I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
Answer: A River

20. What begins with T, ends with T, and is filled with T?
Answer: A Teapot

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

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

23. The more you look at me, the less you see. What am I?
Answer: Darkness

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

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

🔹 Very Hard Riddles (26–50)

26. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right hand?
Answer: Your Right Elbow

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

28. The more you remove from me, the larger I grow. What am I?
Answer: A Hole

29. What gets broken before you can use it?
Answer: An Egg

30. I have branches, but no trunk or fruit. What am I?
Answer: A Bank

31. I’m always running but never move. What am I?
Answer: Time

32. What has teeth but doesn’t eat?
Answer: A Comb

33. What begins and ends with an E but has only one letter?
Answer: An Envelope

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

35. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A Deck of Cards

36. I’m found in socks, scarves, and mittens; often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
Answer: Yarn

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

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

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

40. I have a face, but no mouth. I can tell time but don’t speak. What am I?
Answer: A Clock

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

42. What belongs to you but is used by others more than you?
Answer: Your Name

43. What word has no beginning, middle, or end?
Answer: A Circle

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

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

46. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A Joke

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

48. I have one head, one foot, and four legs. What am I?
Answer: A Bed

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

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

🔹 Hard Brain Teasers (51–75)

51. I have no legs, yet I walk. No lungs, yet I breathe. What am I?
Answer: Wind

52. What can you break without touching it?
Answer: A Promise

53. The more you look at me, the less you see. What am I?
Answer: Darkness

54. What runs but never walks, murmurs but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, and a mouth but never eats?
Answer: A River

55. What is always in bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A Riverbed

56. The more you use me, the smaller I get. What am I?
Answer: A Pencil

57. I’m always hungry, and I’ll die if I’m not fed. But whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Answer: Fire

58. What word contains all 26 letters?
Answer: Alphabet (or “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”)

59. What comes before thunder?
Answer: Lightning

60. I’m seen in water but never get wet. What am I?
Answer: A Reflection

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

62. What has an endless cycle of rising and falling but never moves?
Answer: The Tide

63. What begins with “e” and only contains one letter?
Answer: Envelope

64. What flies without wings, cries without eyes, and wherever it goes, darkness follows?
Answer: A Cloud

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

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

67. I shave every day but my beard never grows. Who am I?
Answer: A Barber

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

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

70. What word is pronounced the same if you remove four letters?
Answer: Queue

71. What comes once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day?
Answer: The Letter E

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

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

74. I’m light as a feather but even the strongest man cannot hold me long. What am I?
Answer: Breath

75. I’m always moving forward, never backward. What am I?
Answer: Time

🔹 Extremely Hard Riddles (76–100)

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

77. I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
Answer: A Battery

78. What flies forever, rests never?
Answer: Time

79. I am always coming but never arrive. What am I?
Answer: Tomorrow

80. What gets bigger the more you share it?
Answer: Happiness

81. I am always in you, sometimes on you; if I surround you, I can kill you. What am I?
Answer: Water

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

83. What is always moving but never actually goes anywhere?
Answer: Time

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

85. What has an endless beginning and no end?
Answer: A Circle

86. The more you remove from me, the brighter I get. What am I?
Answer: A Hole in the Wall

87. What’s always in bed but never sleeps, can run but never walks?
Answer: A River

88. What is harder to catch the faster you run?
Answer: Your Breath

89. What word becomes longer when you add “short” to it?
Answer: Short → Shorter

90. I have a neck but no head. What am I?
Answer: A Bottle

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

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

93. What flies without wings, and is gone once it’s spoken?
Answer: A Secret

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

95. I’m invisible, weigh nothing, but if you put me in a barrel, it will become lighter. What am I?
Answer: A Hole

96. What is so light but can’t be held for long?
Answer: Breath

97. What has many keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A Keyboard

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

99. What’s always running but never moves an inch?
Answer: A Clock

100. What can be caught but never thrown?
Answer: A Cold