Funny Riddles
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Riddles offer that perfect combination of making your brain work while also being a source of deep amusement. There are riddles for adults in just about every mood, interest, or setting. Take math riddles — suddenly a subject that can feel stressful to follow brings a bag of laughs. Try the question, “You have a basket that’s one foot in diameter and one foot deep. How many apples can you fit in the empty basket?” The answer: “Only one, because then it’s not empty anymore.”
Then there’s word riddles like, “What do the letter ‘t’ and an island have in common?” The answer: “They’re both in the middle of water.” Or there’s “What starts with a ‘p,’ ends with an ‘e’ and has thousands of letters?” The answer: “The post office.”
Riddles are also a great way to bond with your kids, thanks to lots of age appropriate riddles out there. There’s the classic one, “I sometimes run, but I cannot walk. What am I?” The answer: “Your nose.” They might also enjoy riddles like, “What’s bright orange with green on top and sounds like a parrot?” The answer: A carrot, of course.
So, the only question left is what riddle for kids and adults are you going to try first?
Riddles for Kids
What gets bigger the more you take away? Answer: A hole
If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I? Answer: A promise
My teddy bear is never hungry. Why? Answer: He’s stuffed
Kids can make it, but never hold it or see it. What is it? Answer: Noise
What has to be broken before you can eat it? Answer: An egg
Riddles
What is so fragile that saying its name will make it break? Answer: Silence
I sometimes run, but I cannot walk. What am I? Answer: Your nose
What has a head and a tail but no body? Answer: A coin
What room do ghosts avoid? Answer: The living room
I will fill a room, but take up no space. What am I? Answer: Light
Riddles
The more of this there is, the less you can see. What is it? Answer: Darkness
Everyone has it, but no one can lose it. What is it? Answer: A shadow
What has many keys, but cannot unlock a single door? Answer: A piano
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand? Answer: A palm tree
What two things can you never eat for breakfast? Answer: Lunch and dinner
Riddles
What’s bright orange with green on top and sounds like a parrot? Answer: A carrot
What has many rings but no fingers? Answer: A phone
People buy me to eat, but I cannot be eaten. What am I? Answer: A plate
What building has the most stories? Answer: A library
What has holes all over, but still holds water? Answer: A sponge
Riddles
How do you catch a school of fish? Answer: A bookworm
What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire? Answer: Frostbite
Nobody empties me, but I never stay full for long. What am I? Answer: The moon
When the water comes down, I go up. What am I? Answer: An umbrella
What kind of cup doesn’t hold water? Answer: A cupcake
What gets wet while drying? Answer: A towel
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Best Riddles
Why is Europe like a frying pan? Answer: Because it has Greece at the bottom
It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can't go inside. What is it? Answer: A keyboard
Who has married many women but was never married? Answer: A priest
What has words, but never speaks? Answer: A book
What kind of band never plays music? Answer: A rubber band
What has one eye, but can’t see? Answer: A needle
If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in? Answer: Second place
What can go through glass without breaking it? Answer: Light
Riddles
What can you keep after giving it to someone? Answer: Your word
Where do you take a sick boat? Answer: To the dock-tor
What has a neck but no head? Answer: A bottle
I have a face and arms, but no legs. What am I? Answer: A clock
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I? Answer: A candle
What kind of apples do computers prefer? Answer: Macintosh
Riddles
What did the sea say to the sand? Answer: Nothing, it just waved
I have no life, but I can die. What am I? Answer: A battery
I go around the world, but never leave the corner. Answer: A stamp
What’s black and white and read all over? Answer: A newspaper
If you threw a black stone into the Red Sea, what would it become? Answer: Wet
What is the fastest way to double your money? Answer: Place it in front of the mirror
Why did the golfer put on a second pair of pants? Answer: He hit a hole in one
Riddles
If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. Answer: A secret
What has 13 hearts but no other organs? Answer: A deck of cards
What month of the year has 28 days? Answer: All of them
What tastes better than it smells? Answer: Your tongue
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? Answer: Footsteps
Easy Riddles
What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand? Answer: Your left hand
I cannot talk, but I always reply when spoken to. What am I? Answer: An echo
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? Answer: The future
What is white, but smells like blue paint? Answer: White paint
What kind of foods are the most fun at parties? Answer: Fungi
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I? Answer: A barber
What has a head but no eyes, nose or mouth? Answer: Lettuce
What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves? Answer: A fence
Riddles
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I? Answer: A bank
What has a bottom at the top? Answer: Legs
What fruit can you never cheer up? Answer: A blueberry
What has four fingers and a thumb but isn’t alive? Answer: A glove
Why did the citrus tree go to the hospital? Answer: Lemon-aid
What goes up and down but doesn’t move? Answer: A staircase
What can you catch, but not throw? Answer: A cold
What has hands, but can’t clap? Answer: A clock
John’s father has three sons: Huey, Louie, and _____? Answer: John
What goes through cities and fields, but never moves? Answer: A road
Animal Riddles
If two snakes marry, what will their towels say? Answer: Hiss and hers
I jump when I walk, and sit when I stand. What am I? Answer: A kangaroo
The alphabet goes from A to Z but I go Z to A. What am I? Answer: A zebra
What kind of lion never roars? Answer: A dandelion
Who wears shoes while sleeping? Answer: A horse
What do you call a bear with no teeth? Answer: A gummy bear
Riddles
A rooster is sitting on the roof of a barn facing west. If it laid an egg, would the egg roll to the north or to the south? Answer: It’s impossible. Roosters don’t lay eggs
Why did the chicken cross the playground? Answer: To get to the other slide
Why do bees have sticky hair? Answer: They use honeycombs
What has a thousand needles but cannot sew? Answer: A porcupine
What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing? Answer: An elephant’s shadow
Which fish costs the most? Answer: A goldfish
Math Riddles
I saw my math teacher with a piece of graph paper yesterday. I think he must be plotting something.
During which month do people sleep the least? Answer: February
Which number stays the same no matter what number you multiply it with? Answer: Zero
What goes up, but never comes down? Answer: Age
You have a basket that’s one foot in diameter and one foot deep. How many apples can you fit in the empty basket? Answer: Only one, because then it’s not empty anymore
When things go wrong, what can you always count on? Answer: Your fingers
Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle, hard all around. What am I? Answer: A bed
Riddles
What did the triangle say to the circle? Answer: You are pointless
Why was six afraid of seven? Answer: Because seven, eight, nine
How many times can you subtract 10 from 25? Answer: Once, then it becomes 15
If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five? Answer: Nine
Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers? Answer: Neither, they’re both a ton
What comes before 11 and after 15? Answer: 10 and 16
I add five to nine and get two. The answer is correct, so what am I? Answer: A clock
What can you put between four and five so that the result is more than four, but less than five? Answer: A decimal point
Word Riddles
What is the longest word in the dictionary? Answer: Smiles, because there is a mile between each “s”
Where is the only place where today comes before yesterday? Answer: The dictionary
What do you see once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May? Answer: The letter “e”
What is at the end of a rainbow? Answer: The letter “w”
Forward, I am heavy; backward, I am not. What am I? Answer: A ton
Riddles
What starts with “t,” ends with “t,” and has “t” in it? Answer: A teapot
What do the letter “t” and an island have in common? Answer: They’re both in the middle of water
What comes at the end of everything? Answer: The letter “g”
What starts with a “p,” ends with an “e” and has thousands of letters? Answer: The post office
What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter? Answer: An envelope
Where does Thursday come after Friday? Answer: The dictionary
Riddles
Which letter of the alphabet has the most water? Answer: The letter “c”
Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly? Answer: Incorrectly
What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days? Answer: The letter “n”
What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters? Answer: Queue
A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains, what is it? Answer: Dozen
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in 1,000 years? Answer: The letter “m”
How do you make the number one disappear? Answer: Add the letter “g” and it’s “gone”
Riddles
What word contains 26 letters but has only three syllables? Answer: The alphabet
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters? Answer: Eat
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I? Answer: Seven
How many letters are there in the alphabet? Answer: Eleven: three in “the” and eight in “alphabet”
You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I? Answer: The letter “r”
