120 Riddles With Answers for Adults and Kids (Easy, Hard and Funny)
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There is something strangely satisfying about a good riddle.
It slips into your brain, makes you feel sure you know the answer, then catches you out just when you think you have worked it out. That is what makes riddles so much fun. They are clever, playful, and perfect for sharing with family, friends, children, or that one person who is always far too confident.
If you are here for a quick laugh, a challenge, or just a fun way to keep everyone entertained, you are in exactly the right place. We have put together 120 riddles with answers for adults and kids, including easy riddles, funny riddles, and a few that might leave you thinking for a bit longer than expected.
Some are ideal for children. Some are better for grown-ups. A few are wonderfully silly. All of them are here to entertain.
So whether you are testing the family at the dinner table, filling time on a rainy afternoon, planning a classroom activity, or simply avoiding doing something more important, here are 120 riddles to enjoy.
EASY RIDDLES WITH ANSWERS
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer
An egg
What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer
A clock
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer
A clock
What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer
A needle
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer
A towel
What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer
A comb
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer
Your age
What has a neck but no head?
Answer
A bottle
What comes down but never goes up?
Answer
Rain
What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
Answer
A stamp
What has four legs but cannot walk?
Answer
A table
What has an end but no beginning, a home but no family, and a space without a room?
Answer
A keyboard
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer
A cold
What kind of band never plays music?
Answer
A rubber band
What has words but never speaks?
Answer
A book
What runs but never walks?
Answer
Water
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer
A glove
What building has the most stories?
Answer
The library
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer
A teapot
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer
Light
What has a bottom at the top?
Answer
Your legs
What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
Answer
A road
What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer
A coin
What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer
A sponge
What can you hear but not touch or see?
Answer
Your voice
What begins with an E but only has one letter?
Answer
An envelope
What has a ring but no finger?
Answer
A telephone
What has legs but does not walk?
Answer
A chair
What goes up and down but stays in the same place?
Answer
A staircase
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer
Silence
FUNNY RIDDLES WITH ANSWERS
Why can you never trust stairs?
Answer
Because they are always up to something
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer
A mushroom
Why did the student eat his homework?
Answer
Because the teacher told him it was a piece of cake
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer
A palm
Why did the golfer bring two pairs of trousers?
Answer
In case he got a hole in one
What do you call a boomerang that does not come back?
Answer
A stick
Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Answer
Because he was outstanding in his field
What do you call cheese that is not yours?
Answer
Nacho cheese
Why was the calendar so popular?
Answer
Because it had so many dates
What do you call a sleeping bull?
Answer
A bulldozer
Why are fish so smart?
Answer
Because they live in schools
What do you call a fake noodle?
Answer
An impasta
What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer
A gummy bear
What did one wall say to the other wall?
Answer
I will meet you at the corner
What kind of shoes do ninjas wear?
Answer
Sneakers
Why did the tomato blush?
Answer
Because it saw the salad dressing
What do you call a pig that knows karate?
Answer
A pork chop
Why did the bicycle fall over?
Answer
Because it was two-tired
What do you call an alligator in a waistcoat?
Answer
An investigator
Why did the cookie go to the doctor?
Answer
Because it felt crumbly
What do you get if you cross a snowman and a vampire?
Answer
Frostbite
Why did the maths book look sad?
Answer
Because it had too many problems
What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary?
Answer
A thesaurus
Why did the computer go to the doctor?
Answer
Because it caught a virus
What did the left eye say to the right eye?
Answer
Between us, something smells
Why did the man put his money in the freezer?
Answer
He wanted cold hard cash
What kind of key opens a banana?
Answer
A monkey
Why was the broom late?
Answer
It swept in
What do clouds wear under their clothes?
Answer
Thunderwear
Why did the orange stop halfway up the hill?
Answer
Because it ran out of juice
RIDDLES FOR KIDS WITH ANSWERS
What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer
Corn
What has a tail but no body?
Answer
A coin
What kind of lion never roars?
Answer
A dandelion
What can hop but cannot walk?
Answer
A frog
What has stripes but is not a tiger?
Answer
A zebra crossing
What is orange, long, and grows in the ground?
Answer
A carrot
What kind of cup cannot hold water?
Answer
A cupcake
What has wings but cannot fly?
Answer
A penguin
What do you get when you tell a joke while standing on ice?
Answer
A cool joke
What can be bigger than an elephant but weighs nothing?
Answer
Its shadow
What animal is always at a baseball game?
Answer
A bat
What kind of ball does not bounce?
Answer
A snowball
What can you serve but never eat?
Answer
A tennis ball
What has a horn but does not honk?
Answer
A unicorn
What has a shell but is not from the beach?
Answer
A turtle
What kind of bow cannot be tied?
Answer
A rainbow
What is black and white and read all over?
Answer
A newspaper
What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?
Answer
A kangaroo
What has spots but is not a cheetah?
Answer
A ladybird
What can race around the garden but never gets tired?
Answer
The wind
What has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer
A river
What has a bark but no bite?
Answer
A tree
What kind of fish only swims at night?
Answer
A starfish
What can sing but has no mouth?
Answer
A bird
What goes round and round the yard but never moves?
Answer
A fence
What has whiskers but is not always a cat?
Answer
A rabbit
What can fly without feathers?
Answer
A plane
What lives in a stable but is not a horse?
Answer
Hay
What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?
Answer
The post office
What can light up the night but is not a lamp?
Answer
The moon
HARD RIDDLES WITH ANSWERS
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer
Footsteps
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
Answer
An echo
What can you keep after giving it to someone else?
Answer
Your word
I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?
Answer
The future
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Answer
Silence
A man leaves home, turns left three times, and returns home to find two men wearing masks. Who are they?
Answer
The catcher and the umpire
What can run but never tires, has a mouth but never talks, and has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer
A river
The person who makes it does not need it. The person who buys it does not use it. The person who uses it does not know they are using it. What is it?
Answer
A coffin
What is seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
Answer
The letter R
What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer
A joke
What has cities, but no houses, forests, but no trees, and rivers, but no water?
Answer
A map
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer
A window
If two is company and three is a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer
Nine
I have keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go outside. What am I?
Answer
A keyboard
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer
The letter M
What can go through glass without breaking it?
Answer
Light
You see a boat filled with people, but there is not a single person on board. How is that possible?
Answer
They are all married
What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer
A bed
What question can you never answer yes to honestly?
Answer
Are you asleep yet?
What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer
Your brain
RIDDLES FOR ADULTS WITH ANSWERS
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
Answer
A doughnut
You buy me to eat, but you never eat me. What am I?
Answer
A plate
What is easy to lift but hard to throw?
Answer
A feather
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
Answer
Your name
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I?
Answer
A barber
What has thirteen hearts but no other organs?
Answer
A deck of cards
What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
Answer
Your left hand
What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
Answer
A hole
A man was driving a truck. His lights were off, the moon was not out, and he was dressed all in black. A black dog crossed the road, yet he stopped in time. How?
Answer
It was daytime
What has plenty of eyes but cannot see?
Answer
A potato
We really hopes you enjoyed these! A good riddle does more than give you an answer. It gives you that brief pause before the answer, the moment where your brain starts whirring and everybody suddenly thinks they know best.
That is why riddles never really go out of style. They are fun for children, oddly addictive for adults, and brilliant for passing a few minutes without anyone reaching for a screen.
Whether you solved all 120 or only managed a handful before peeking at the answers, hopefully this list gave you something to smile about. And if you are feeling competitive, save it for later and test somebody else. It is always more fun when you are the one asking the questions.
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