Riddle
Riddle
Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I? Answer: A candle.
Riddle: What has keys but can’t open locks? Answer: A piano.
Riddle: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? Answer: A penny.
Riddle: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for much longer than a minute.
What am I? Answer: Your breath.
Riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? Answer:
The letter “M”.
Riddle: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? Answer: A stamp.
Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock? Answer: A map.
Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? Answer: Footsteps.
Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? Answer: The future.
Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space? Answer: Light.
Riddle: What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t alive? Answer: A glove.
Riddle: What has one eye but can’t see? Answer: A needle.
Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it? Answer: An egg.
Riddle: I’m not alive, but I can 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: What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps, and has a mouth but never eats?
Answer: A river.
Riddle: The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I? Answer: Darkness.
Riddle: What can you catch but not throw? Answer: A cold.
Riddle: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? Answer: Silence.
Riddle: What has an end but no beginning, a home but no family, and a space but no room? Answer:
The letter “E”.
Riddle: What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do? Answer: Your name.
Riddle: I’m not alive, but I can tell you all the world’s stories. What am I? Answer: A book.
Riddle: What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, and yet never grows?
Answer: A mountain.
Riddle: I’m round on both sides and high in the middle. What am I? Answer: Ohio.
Riddle: What goes up but never comes down? Answer: Your age.
Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? Answer: A sponge.
Riddle: What is as light as a feather, yet the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold it for more than a
minute? Answer: His breath.
Riddle: What can you keep after giving to someone? Answer: Your word.
Riddle: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? Answer: A clock.
Riddle: I’m where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow’s in the middle. What am I? Answer: A
dictionary.
Riddle: I fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness flies. What am I? Answer: A
cloud.
Riddle: What goes through cities and fields, but never moves? Answer: A road.
Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I? Answer: A pencil.
Riddle: I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I? Answer: A bank.
Riddle: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, and
has a bed but never sleeps? Answer: A river.
Riddle: What is as big as you are and yet does not weigh anything? Answer: Your shadow.
Riddle: What is it that you can’t keep after giving it to someone? Answer: Your word.
Riddle: What starts with “P”, ends with “E”, and has thousands of letters? Answer: A post office.