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Looking for a fun way to test your brain, entertain a group or share a few laughs? This collection includes 100 fun riddles with answers for kids and adults, ranging from quick and easy questions to clever brain teasers that may take a little more thought.
Work your way through the entire list or jump to any section that catches your attention. When you think you have solved one, simply click the Reveal the answer button to see if you were right. Try not to peek too soon!
These riddles are perfect for family gatherings, classrooms, parties, road trips, work breaks or anytime you need a fun conversation starter. Challenge your friends and family to see who can solve the most!
Fun Riddles 1–20
Riddle 1
What room do ghosts avoid?
Answer
The living room! 👻
Riddle 2
What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer
Your name! 🏷
Riddle 3
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer
A cold! 🤧
Riddle 4
Why was the broom late?
Answer
It overswept! 🧹
Riddle 5
What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer
A comb! 🧾
Riddle 6
What thrives when you feed it but dies when you water it?
Answer
A fire! 🔥
Riddle 7
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer
The future! 🔮
Riddle 8
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer
Your age! 🎂
Riddle 9
What can go through glass without breaking it?
Answer
Light! 💡
Riddle 10
What has a neck but no head?
Answer
A bottle! 🍾
Riddle 11
What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer
A sponge! 🥽
Riddle 12
What runs all around a backyard but never moves?
Answer
A fence! 🏡
Riddle 13
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer
A window! 🪟
Riddle 14
Take off my skin — I won’t cry, but you will! What am I?
Answer
An onion! 🥥
Riddle 15
What is always on its way but never arrives?
Answer
Tomorrow! 📅
Riddle 16
What can be touched but can’t be seen?
Answer
Someone’s heart! ❤️
Riddle 17
What do you call two witches who live together?
Answer
Broommates! 🧹
Riddle 18
What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer
A teapot!
Riddle 19
Where does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?
Answer
In the dictionary! 📖
Riddle 20
What has a head but no brain?
Answer
Lettuce! 🥦
Riddles and Brain Teasers 21–40
Riddle 21
What comes down but never goes up?
Answer
Rain! 🌧️
Riddle 22
What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer
A gummy bear! 🐻
Riddle 23
What can you break without touching it?
Answer
A promise! 🤝
Riddle 24
It has keys but no locks, space but no room. You can enter but can’t go inside. What is it?
Answer
A keyboard! ⌨️
Riddle 25
What has branches but no fruit, trunk or leaves?
Answer
A bank! 🏦
Riddle 26
What do you buy to eat but never consume?
Answer
Cutlery! 🍴
Riddle 27
What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer
A hole! 🕳️
Riddle 28
I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
Answer
A battery! 🔋
Riddle 29
What kind of room has no walls, door or windows?
Answer
A mushroom! 🍄
Riddle 30
What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer
Lunch and dinner! 🍽️
Riddle 31
What runs through cities and fields but never moves?
Answer
A road! 🛣️
Riddle 32
What has a bottom at the top?
Answer
Your legs! 🦵
Riddle 33
When is a doctor most annoyed?
Answer
When he is out of patients! 😄
Riddle 34
What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?
Answer
Soap! 🧼
Riddle 35
What has a neck but no head and two arms but no hands?
Answer
A shirt! 👕
Riddle 36
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer
The letter M! 🔤
Riddle 37
I am 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! 🔥
Riddle 38
What has 88 keys but can’t open a single door?
Answer
A piano! 🎹
Riddle 39
What is more useful when it is broken?
Answer
An egg! 🥚
Riddle 40
I can be cracked, made, told and played. What am I?
Answer
A joke! 😄
Clever Riddles 41–60
Riddle 41
Which part of a road do ghosts love to travel most?
Answer
The dead end! 💀
Riddle 42
What goes up when the rain comes down?
Answer
An umbrella! ☂️
Riddle 43
When is it bad luck to see a black cat?
Answer
When you are a mouse! 🐭
Riddle 44
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?
Answer
A secret! 🤫
Riddle 45
What has four fingers and a thumb but is not living?
Answer
A glove! 🧦
Riddle 46
What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?
Answer
A relationship! ❤️
Riddle 47
What is the longest word in the dictionary?
Answer
Smiles — there’s a mile between the first and last letter! 😄
Riddle 48
What is at the end of a rainbow?
Answer
The letter W! 🌈
Riddle 49
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer
A palm tree! 🌴
Riddle 50
They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
Answer
Stars! ⭐
Riddle 51
A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman. Before leaving on a long trip, the bus driver gives her seven apples. Why?
Answer
An apple a day keeps the doctor away! 🍎
Riddle 52
Why did Tigger go to the bathroom?
Answer
He wanted to find his friend Pooh! 😄
Riddle 53
Why did Snap, Crackle and Pop get scared?
Answer
They heard there was a cereal killer on the loose! 🥣
Riddle 54
If two snakes marry, what will their towels say?
Answer
Hiss and hers! 🐍
Riddle 55
What does a man do only once in his lifetime but women do once a year after they turn 29?
Answer
Turn 30! 🎂
Riddle 56
Who has married many women but was never married?
Answer
The priest! ⛪
Riddle 57
What has many rings but no fingers?
Answer
A phone! 📱
Riddle 58
I sometimes run, but I can’t walk. What am I?
Answer
A nose! 👃
Riddle 59
Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Answer
Incorrectly! 📖
Riddle 60
How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Answer
Concrete floors are very hard to crack! 🥚
Tricky Riddles 61–80
Riddle 61
What has four wheels and flies?
Answer
A garbage truck! 🚛
Riddle 62
Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer
Short! 📏
Riddle 63
A monkey, a squirrel and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who gets the banana first?
Answer
None of them — coconut trees don’t grow bananas! 🥥
Riddle 64
What tastes better than it smells?
Answer
Your tongue! 👅
Riddle 65
What can jump higher than a building?
Answer
Anything — buildings can’t jump! 🏢
Riddle 66
You go at red and stop at green. What am I?
Answer
A watermelon! 🍉
Riddle 67
What color is the wind?
Answer
Blew! 💨
Riddle 68
I’m orange, I wear a green hat and I sound like a parrot. What am I?
Answer
A carrot! 🥕
Riddle 69
A woman shoots her husband, holds him underwater, then hangs him. But that night they go out to dinner together. How?
Answer
She’s a photographer! She took his picture, developed it, and hung it up to dry. 📸
Riddle 70
Can you name three consecutive days without using the days of the week?
Answer
Yesterday, today and tomorrow! 📅
Riddle 71
David’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and ____?
Answer
David! 😄
Riddle 72
A man rode out of town on Sunday, stayed a night, and rode back on Sunday. How?
Answer
His horse was named Sunday! 🐴
Riddle 73
A bus driver went the wrong way on a one-way street, passed a stop sign, and drove past a cop — no ticket. Why?
Answer
He was walking! 🚶
Riddle 74
Samuel was out walking in the rain with no hat or umbrella. His clothes were soaked but not a single hair got wet. Why?
Answer
He’s bald! 😄
Riddle 75
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
Answer
Mount Everest — it just hadn’t been discovered yet! 🏔️
Riddle 76
If an electric train is heading north, which way does the smoke go?
Answer
There’s no smoke — it’s electric! 💆
Riddle 77
A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder and wasn’t hurt. How?
Answer
She fell off the bottom step! 🪴
Riddle 78
Name the only place where today comes before yesterday.
Answer
The dictionary! 📖
Riddle 79
How many months have 28 days?
Answer
All of them! 📅
Riddle 80
What building has the most stories?
Answer
The library! 📚
Fun Riddles With Answers 81–100
Riddle 81
What begins and ends with E but only has one letter?
Answer
An envelope! ✉️
Riddle 82
I called my dog from the opposite side of a river. The dog crossed without getting wet. How?
Answer
The river was frozen! 🧪
Riddle 83
Two fathers and two sons are in a car but there are only three people. How?
Answer
Grandfather, father and son! 👴
Riddle 84
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer
Charcoal! 🔥
Riddle 85
I am white when I am dirty and black when I am clean. What am I?
Answer
A blackboard! 🖊️
Riddle 86
Only one colour but not one size. Stuck at the bottom yet easily flies. Present in sun but not in rain. What is it?
Answer
A shadow! 🌑
Riddle 87
I have no feet, no hands, no wings, but I climb to the sky. What am I?
Answer
Smoke! 💨
Riddle 88
You have three stoves but only one match. Which do you light first?
Answer
The match! 🔥
Riddle 89
What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer
A chalkboard! 🖊️
Riddle 90
Give me food and I will live. Give me water and I will die. What am I?
Answer
Fire! 🔥
Riddle 91
What can fill an entire room without taking up any space?
Answer
Light! 💡
Riddle 92
I break but never fall. I fall but never break. What are we?
Answer
Day and night! 🌅
Riddle 93
I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?
Answer
A feather!
Riddle 94
What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night?
Answer
A pillow! 🛌️
Riddle 95
I have 13 hearts but no lungs or stomach. What am I?
Answer
A deck of cards! 🃏
Riddle 96
What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer
A river! 🌊
Riddle 97
In 1990 a person is 15. In 1995 the same person is 10. How?
Answer
They were born in 2005 BC! 🏛️
Riddle 98
What is yours but everyone else uses more?
Answer
Your name! 🏷
Riddle 99
What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer
A clock! ⏰
Riddle 100
What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left?
Answer
Your left hand! 🥊
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