Easy riddles are designed to be fun and enjoyable for people of all ages, making them the perfect way to exercise your mind by solving all sorts of interesting and fun puzzles. Test your knowledge and problem-solving abilities with these fun and simple riddles – you might even surprise yourself with how much you know! Take a break from your everyday worries and relax with some brain-teasing riddles today!
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Easy Riddles with Answers
Riddle: I go on red, but stop for green. What am I doing?
Answer: Eating a watermelon
Riddle: What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?
Answer: Time to fix the fence!
Riddle: What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don’t want to use it?
Answer: Anchor.
Riddle: What has hands but cannot write or clap?
Answer: A clock.
Riddle: A man in a car saw a golden door, a silver door, and a bronze door. Which door did he open first?
Answer: The car door.
Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
Riddle: How many months of the year have 28 days?
Answer: 12
Riddle: What has stripes and goes through the air?
Answer: A basketball.
Riddle: Pearl white chest without key or lid. Inside of which, a golden treasure is hid. What am I?
Answer: An egg
Riddle: What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel.
Riddle: What’s the capital in France?
Answer: The letter F is the only capital in France.
Riddle: I am yellow and I write, and my mate is white.
Answer: A pencil.
Riddle: Six letters it contains; remove one letter, and twelve remain. What is it?
Answer: Dozens
Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open any doors?
Answer: A piano.
Riddle: I can fly but have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
Answer: Clouds
Riddle: What has a neck but no head and arms but no hands?
Answer: A shirt.
Riddle: After a train crashed, every single person died. Who survived?
Answer: All of the couples.
Riddle: When things go wrong, what can you always count on?
Answer: Your fingers.
Riddle: A bus driver was heading to town. He went right past a stop sign without stopping. Then, he turned left where there was a no left turn sign. Finally, he traveled down a one-way street opposing traffic, passed a policeman, and waved hello. He didn’t get a ticket. Why not?
Answer: He was walking, not driving.
Riddle: Remove my skin and I won’t cry, but you might!
Answer: An onion.
Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
Riddle: What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear.
Riddle: People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: Cutlery.
Riddle: What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?
Answer: A relationship.
Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps.
Riddle: What fish costs the most?
Answer: A goldfish!
Riddle: What can you keep after giving to someone?
Answer: Your word.
Riddle: I travel all around the world, but never leave the corner. What am I?
Answer: A stamp.
Riddle: A man shaves several times a day but still has a beard. How?
Answer: He’s a barber.
Riddle: What has a tongue but cannot talk?
Answer: A shoe.
Riddle: What can you hold in your left hand but not your right?
Answer: Your right elbow.
Riddle: Thousands lay up gold within this house, but no man made it. Spears past counting guard this house, but no man wards it.
Answer: Beehive.
Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
Riddle: What is easier to get into than out of?
Answer: Trouble.
Riddle: What coat is best put on wet?
Answer: A coat of paint.
Riddle: If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
Answer: You would be in the 2nd place.
Riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
Riddle: What begins with T ends with T and has a T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
Riddle: I have keys, but no locks. I have space, but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?
Answer: A computer keyboard.
Riddle: How do you fix a cracked pumpkin?
Answer: With a pumpkin patch.
Riddle: What sleeps through the day and comes out at night? The more it weeps, the more it creates light.
Answer: A candle.
Riddle: I have a 100 legs but cannot stand. A long neck but no head. And I eat the maids life.
Answer: Broom
Riddle: What 2 things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
Riddle: What number is odd until you take away one letter; then it becomes even?
Answer: Seven.
Riddle: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
Riddle: Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: They weigh the same.
Riddle: Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught three fish. One father said, “that is enough for all of us. We will have one each.” How can that be possible?
Answer: There were only three men. The grandfather was fishing with his son and grandson.
Riddle: There is one word spelled wrong in every English dictionary. What is it?
Answer: Wrong.
Riddle: What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward, or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
Answer: NOON.
Riddle: What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band.
Riddle: What can you catch but never throw?
Answer: A cold.
Riddle: I have wings, I am able to fly, I’m not a bird yet I soar high in the sky. What am I?
Answer: An airplane.
Riddle: What can you find in a cupboard that can never be put in a saucepan?
Answer: Its lid.
Riddle: What has legs but cannot walk?
Answer: A chair.
Riddle: What has teeth, but cannot chew?
Answer: A comb.
Riddle: I am so simple, that I can only point yet I guide men all over the world.
Answer: Compass.
Riddle: What’s green, but not a leaf, and mimics others, but is not a monkey?
Answer: A parrot.
Riddle: I sometimes run but cannot walk. You follow me around. What am I?
Answer: Your nose.
Riddle: Mr. Smith has four daughters. Each of his daughters has a brother. How many children does Mr. Smith have?
Answer: Five.
Riddle: What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?
Answer: Frostbite.
Riddle: Light as a feather, there’s nothing in it, but the strongest man can’t hold it much more than a minute.
Answer: Breath.
Riddle: I can be cracked or played; told or made. What am I?
Answer: A joke!
Riddle: I am always in front and never behind. What am I?
Answer: The future.
Riddle: What goes through towns and over mountains but never moves?
Answer: A road.
Riddle: What runs around the whole yard without moving?
Answer: A fence.
Riddle: I give you one, and you have two or none. What am I?
Answer: A choice.
Riddle: They have no flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone, but they do have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they?
Answer: Gloves
Riddle: Why are teddy bears never hungry?
Answer: Because they are always stuffed.
Riddle: I have a tail and a head, but no body. What am I?
Answer: A coin.
Riddle: What belongs to you but is used most often by everyone else?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle: If you have me, you will want to share me. If you share me, you will no longer have me. What am I?
Answer: A secret.
Riddle: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise.
Riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
Riddle: I fall but I never get hurt.
Answer: Snow.
Riddle: What always ends everything?
Answer: The letter G.
Riddle: What fruit can you never cheer up?
Answer: A blueberry.
Riddle: A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
Answer: He was born on February 29th.
Riddle: What answer can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
Riddle: Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle, and hard all around. What am I?
Answer: A bed.
Riddle: How do you catch a school of fish?
Answer: With a bookworm.
Riddle: What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?
Answer: The Post Office.
Riddle: If you drop me, I’m sure to crack. Give me a smile, and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror.
Riddle: What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library.
Riddle: If you feed it, it lives; If you water it, it dies.
Answer: Fire.
Riddle: What has words, but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
Riddle: A clerk in a butcher shop stands 5’10” and wears size 13 shoes. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat.
Riddle: What type of music do rabbits listen to?
Answer: Hip hop!
Riddle: I’m the rare case when today comes before yesterday. What am I?
Answer: A dictionary.
Riddle: How does the gingerbread man make his bed?
Answer: With cookie sheets.
Riddle: What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge.
Riddle: When is “L” greater than “XL”?
Answer: When you use Roman numerals.
Riddle: What begins and ends with an ‘e’ but only contains one letter?
Answer: Envelope.
