100 Riddles for Teens with Answers | Fun Brain Teasers for Smart Minds
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1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.


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


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


4. What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin.


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


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


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


8. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.


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


10. What runs but never walks?
Answer: A river.


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


12. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.


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


14. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
Answer: An echo.


15. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.


16. What goes through cities and fields but never moves?
Answer: A road.


17. What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly.


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


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


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


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


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


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


24. What starts with “P,” ends with “E,” and has thousands of letters?
Answer: The post office.


25. What has four legs but no body?
Answer: A chair.


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


27. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs.


28. What has teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb.


29. What can you keep after giving it to someone?
Answer: Your word.


30. What begins with “E” and ends with “E” but only has one letter?
Answer: An envelope.


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


32. What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise.


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


34. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.


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


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


37. What can fly without wings and cry without eyes?
Answer: A cloud.


38. What goes up and down but stays in the same place?
Answer: Stairs.


39. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.


40. What’s full of keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A keyboard.


41. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed.


42. What’s always moving but never gets anywhere?
Answer: Time.


43. What’s always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.


44. What’s easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble.


45. What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?
Answer: A conversation.


46. What gets bigger when you take more away from it?
Answer: A hole.


47. What’s something you can’t see but is always ahead of you?
Answer: The future.


48. What has an eye but cannot see, and moves fast?
Answer: A hurricane.


49. What’s something that’s yours, yet other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.


50. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
Answer: A coat of paint.


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


52. What can be long or short, and can be bought or grown, but can also be painted?
Answer: Nails.


53. What’s a word that starts and ends with an “E” but only has one letter inside?
Answer: Envelope.


54. What goes through towns and fields but never stops moving?
Answer: A road.


55. What’s something everyone can open but nobody can close?
Answer: An egg.


56. What is always in fashion but never wears clothes?
Answer: A smile.


57. What’s something that never asks a question but gets answered all the time?
Answer: A phone.


58. What’s a room you can’t enter?
Answer: A mushroom.


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


60. What’s something that has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book.


61. What can’t talk but replies when spoken to?
Answer: An echo.


62. What’s something that has many eyes but can’t see?
Answer: A potato.


63. What’s always in motion but doesn’t move?
Answer: Time.


64. What’s a word that becomes longer when you remove a letter?
Answer: Lounger (remove “u” → longer).


65. What’s always right but sometimes wrong?
Answer: A clock.


66. What gets cleaner the dirtier it gets?
Answer: A towel.


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


68. What’s so light that the strongest person can’t hold it for long?
Answer: Their breath.


69. What’s something that gets smaller the more you use it?
Answer: A pencil.


70. What’s full of words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.


71. What can you find in the middle of March and April that you can’t find in the beginning or end?
Answer: The letter “R.”


72. What’s black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal.


73. What has a lot of eyes but can’t see?
Answer: A potato.


74. What’s a question you can never answer “yes” to?
Answer: Are you dead?


75. What’s always running but never gets tired?
Answer: A refrigerator.


76. What word contains all 26 letters?
Answer: The alphabet.


77. What’s a type of room you can eat?
Answer: A mushroom.


78. What has a face and hands but no body?
Answer: A clock.


79. What’s always ahead of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.


80. What gets longer the more you pull it?
Answer: A rubber band.


81. What’s something that can’t be touched but can break your heart?
Answer: Words.


82. What can’t be seen but can be felt and moves everything around you?
Answer: The wind.


83. What word is always spelled wrong?
Answer: Wrong.


84. What’s always on its way but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.


85. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A phone.


86. What’s a room full of secrets?
Answer: A locker room!


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


88. What’s a question you can’t answer truthfully?
Answer: Are you lying?


89. What do you throw out when you want to use it, but bring in when you don’t?
Answer: An anchor.


90. What’s something you’ll find once in a second, twice in a moment, but never in a lifetime?
Answer: The letter “O.”


91. What’s something that always comes but never goes?
Answer: Tomorrow.


92. What’s something that can run but doesn’t have legs?
Answer: Water.


93. What’s easy to lift but hard to throw?
Answer: A feather.


94. What’s full of air but can still sink?
Answer: A balloon with a hole.


95. What’s something that’s never used until it’s broken?
Answer: An egg.


96. What do you call a fish with no eyes?
Answer: Fsh.


97. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed.


98. What’s the most musical part of a turkey?
Answer: The drumstick.


99. What’s something that you can hold in your hands but never touch?
Answer: Your breath.


100. What’s something that comes out at night without being called and disappears by day without being stolen?
Answer: The stars.