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Simple Enigmas
Answer: Short
2. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg
3. What has a neck but has no head?
Answer: Guitar
4. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in 1,000 years?
Answer: The letter “M.”
5. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
Answer: A coat of paint.
6. How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?
Answer: Just one—after that, your stomach’s not empty anymore.
7. Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
Answer: C
8. What has ten letters and starts with gas?
Answer: Automobile
9. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
10. What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue
11. Jared’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and…?
Answer: Jared
12. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise
13. Which month has 28 days?
Answer: All of them
14. What has legs, but does not walk?
Answer: A chair
15. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness
16. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano
17. What runs around the whole yard without moving?
Answer: Fence
18. Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: In the dictionary
19. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase
20. What is harder to catch the faster you run?
Answer: Your breath
21. What flowers are kissable?
Answer: Tulips
22. What has hands, but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock
23. What has words, but never speaks?
Answer: A book
24. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
25. What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library
26. I am weightless but put me in a bucket and I will make it lighter. What am I?
Answer: A hole
27. What has many hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards
Riddles for Children
Answer: David
29. I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow
30. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano
31. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Answer: Your right elbow
32. What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard
33. What gets bigger when more is taken away?
Answer: A hole
34. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Your breath
35. I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
Answer: Yarn
36. Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: The dictionary
37. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window
38. If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?
Answer: A secret
39. What can’t be put in a saucepan?
Answer: It’s lid
40. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase
41. If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Answer: Second place
42. It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
Answer: Your name
Amusing Enigmas
43. What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
Answer: A potato
44. What has one eye, but can’t see?
Answer: A needle
45. What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?
Answer: A Christmas tree
46. What has hands, but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock
47. What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table
48. What has one head, one foot and four legs?
Answer: A bed
49. What can you catch, but not throw?
Answer: A cold
50. What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band
51. What has many teeth, but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb
52. What is cut on a table, but is never eaten?
Answer: A deck of cards
53. What has words, but never speaks?
Answer: A book
54. What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?
Answer: A fence
55. What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
Answer: A stamp
56. What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?
Answer: A glove
57. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
58. Where does one wall meet the other wall?
Answer: On the corner
59. What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library
60. What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue
61. What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards
62. It stalks the countryside with ears that can’t hear. What is it?
Answer: Corn
63. What kind of coat is best put on wet?
Answer: A coat of paint
64. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs
65. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck
Riddles in Mathematics
Answer: Seven
67. If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine
68. What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?
Answer: One, two and three
69. Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Mary have?
Answer: Five—each daughter has the same brother.
70. Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: Neither—they both weigh a ton.
71. Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Bill actually have?
Answer: None. He has three sisters.
72. Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
Answer: They are a grandfather, father and son.
73.The day before yesterday I was 21, and next year I will be 24. When is my birthday?
Answer: December 31; today is January 1.
74. A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going home, all but three break. How many eggs are left unbroken?
Answer: Three
75. A man describes his daughters, saying, “They are all blonde, but two; all brunette but two; and all redheaded but two.” How many daughters does he have?
Answer: Three: A blonde, a brunette and a redhead
76. If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?
Answer: You have two apples.
77. A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Answer: Four sisters and three brothers
Puzzles with Words
Answer: Short
79. What begins with an "e" and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope
80. A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?
Answer: Dozens
81. What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
Answer: The letter “o”
82. You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e”
83. Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
Answer: The letter “r”
84. I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
Answer: Also the letter “e”
85. What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
Answer: NOON
86. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: The word “not”
87. What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?
Answer: Chicago
88. I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?
Answer: Few
89. What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
Answer: Stone
90. What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “g”
91. What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue
92. I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?
Answer: Isle (add “a” to make “aisle”)
93. What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Answer: Heroine
94. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
95. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river
96. Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?
Answer: The river was frozen.
97. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light
98. If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror
99. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Response: Sound of steps
100. I rotate once, keeping out what's outside. I rotate again, keeping in what's within. What am I?
Response: An instrument for locking