100 Household Riddles with answer
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1. What household item lets you see your face but never shows its own?
Answer: mirror

2. What sits on a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: pillow

3. What has hands but can’t clap, yet helps you stay on time?
Answer: clock

4. What has a mouth but never eats, and runs all day?
Answer: faucet

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

6. What has keys but can’t open doors?
Answer: keyboard

7. What lights up a room but is afraid of water?
Answer: lamp

8. What opens every morning but never leaves the house?
Answer: curtains

9. What has a door but no house, and shelves but no books?
Answer: refrigerator

10. What spins around but never gets dizzy?
Answer: fan

11. What cooks food but never eats?
Answer: stove

12. What holds water but has a hole in it?
Answer: sponge

13. What runs but never walks, and hums but never talks?
Answer: washing machine

14. What shows you moving pictures but never moves itself?
Answer: television

15. What keeps things cold but doesn’t like the cold itself?
Answer: freezer

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

17. What opens from both sides but never leaves the floor?
Answer: rug

18. What has legs but can’t walk, and holds your dinner?
Answer: table

19. What has ears but can’t hear?
Answer: corn (in the kitchen)

20. What needs to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: egg

21. What has shelves, doors, and food inside?
Answer: pantry

22. What takes your breath away but keeps you warm?
Answer: blanket

23. What holds clothes but doesn’t wear them?
Answer: wardrobe

24. What has steps but doesn’t climb?
Answer: stairs

25. What stays in the corner but travels around the world?
Answer: stamp

26. What bites but has no teeth?
Answer: cold air from AC

27. What can crack jokes and crack eggs?
Answer: kitchen counter

28. What sits in the kitchen and can crack but never jokes?
Answer: plate

29. What has a flap but can’t fly?
Answer: mailbox

30. What holds fire but doesn’t burn?
Answer: candle holder

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

32. What never asks questions but is often answered?
Answer: doorbell

33. What opens wide but never eats?
Answer: door

34. What sleeps in your room but never dreams?
Answer: bed

35. What has drawers but no money?
Answer: dresser

36. What carries food but isn’t hungry?
Answer: tray

37. What can be turned off but never on?
Answer: alarm clock (after ringing)

38. What has a blade but no hair?
Answer: knife

39. What sits in a corner and works all day making crumbs disappear?
Answer: vacuum cleaner

40. What shines but doesn’t glow?
Answer: polished spoon

41. What is full of holes but still holds things?
Answer: colander

42. What cries when you cut it but isn’t alive?
Answer: onion

43. What holds your secrets but has no lock?
Answer: diary

44. What stays hot even when kept in the cold?
Answer: thermos

45. What jumps but has no legs?
Answer: toaster

46. What rings only when you’re too late to answer?
Answer: alarm

47. What hangs on the wall and tells you stories?
Answer: calendar

48. What runs on electricity but never moves?
Answer: microwave

49. What stores things but is itself stored?
Answer: storage box

50. What wraps things but never gets wrapped?
Answer: plastic wrap

51. What feels light but when dropped makes a loud noise?
Answer: metal pan

52. What you open before you open the food?
Answer: packaging

53. What holds the roof up but stays silent?
Answer: pillars

54. What shakes but doesn’t dance?
Answer: washing machine

55. What softens your fall but never gets hurt?
Answer: cushion

56. What grows smaller the more you use it?
Answer: soap

57. What brightens a day without batteries?
Answer: window

58. What hides dust until you lift it?
Answer: carpet

59. What protects your feet but can’t walk?
Answer: slippers

60. What dries without moving?
Answer: drying rack

61. What comes in pairs but is never the same exactly?
Answer: socks

62. What opens when you close it?
Answer: umbrella

63. What never gets full no matter how much you fill it?
Answer: calendar with events

64. What guards your house but never sleeps?
Answer: lock

65. What keeps your food neat but is never eaten?
Answer: container

66. What holds your weight but isn’t alive?
Answer: chair

67. What fans you without touching you?
Answer: ceiling fan

68. What blows air but never breathes?
Answer: hair dryer

69. What helps you cook but hates being cooked?
Answer: pot

70. What holds your memories but isn’t your brain?
Answer: photo album

71. What stands tall and gives you light?
Answer: floor lamp

72. What keeps things warm but doesn’t like heat?
Answer: oven mitt

73. What wakes you up but never sleeps?
Answer: alarm clock

74. What has four legs but no feet?
Answer: sofa

75. What can be locked but never opened?
Answer: hair (hair lock)

76. What makes noise only when you step on it?
Answer: floorboard

77. What is always in front of you but you can’t see it?
Answer: future (calendar reminder)

78. What helps you talk but has no voice?
Answer: phone

79. What can hold heat or cold but feels neither?
Answer: mug

80. What is sharp but never cuts?
Answer: TV picture quality

81. What carries books but never reads?
Answer: bookshelf

82. What protects your table from heat?
Answer: coaster

83. What swings but doesn’t play?
Answer: door

84. What swallows your clothes?
Answer: laundry basket

85. What can be folded but never smiles?
Answer: blanket

86. What rolls but never moves itself?
Answer: rolling pin

87. What goes up when the lights go off?
Answer: electricity bill

88. What watches you eat but never tastes food?
Answer: dining table

89. What stops water but hates water pressure?
Answer: shower curtain

90. What hides valuables but has no secrets?
Answer: drawer

91. What cools you down without ice?
Answer: AC

92. What holds your reflection but never judges?
Answer: mirror

93. What locks but has no keyhole?
Answer: hair clip

94. What softens noise but can’t hear?
Answer: rug

95. What is lifted to let you sleep?
Answer: blanket

96. What organizes your life without complaining?
Answer: planner

97. What stays silent until you turn it on?
Answer: radio

98. What protects food from flies but can’t fly?
Answer: food cover

99. What runs on heat but stays cold to touch at first?
Answer: iron

100. What lights up only when you open something?
Answer: fridge light