Riddle Collection – 1 to 100

1) You are my brother, but I am not your brother. Who am I?
Show AnswerYou are my sister.

2) I shrink smaller every time I take a bath. What am I?
Show AnswerSoap.

3) I sleep by day, I fly by night. I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?
Show AnswerOwl.

4) What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?
Show AnswerA teapot.

5) I belong to you but others use me more often than you do. What am I?
Show AnswerYour name.

6) I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Show AnswerSeven.

7) What is an astronaut’s favorite key on a keyboard?
Show AnswerSpacebar.

8) They come out at night without being called. They are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
Show AnswerStars.

9) What has a head and a tail, but no body or legs?
Show AnswerA coin.

10) What goes up and down, but does not move?
Show AnswerA staircase.

11) I am easy to waste. I am unstoppable. What am I?
Show AnswerTime.

12) I start with “e” end with “e”. I have whole countries inside me. What am I?
Show AnswerEnvelope.

13) I have a face and two hands, but I have no arms or legs. Six plus seven is one. What am I?
Show AnswerA clock.

14) What comes in many different sizes but is always only 1 foot long?
Show AnswerA ruler.

15) I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Show AnswerJoke.

16) What building has the most stories?
Show AnswerA library.

17) Tuesday, Sam and Peter went to a restaurant. After eating lunch, they paid the bill. Sam and Peter did not pay, Who did?
Show AnswerTuesday is the name of the third person, so Sam and Peter paid the bill.

18) What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Show AnswerA palm tree.

19) What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Show AnswerA mushroom.

20) I’m an animal. I love marching. I always wear tuxedo. What am I?
Show AnswerA drum.

21) Roast, boast, coast, post. What do you put in a toaster?
Show AnswerBread.

22) Tear one off and scratch its head. What was red is black instead. What is it?
Show AnswerA match.

23) I have four fingers and a thumb, but I’m not living. What am I?
Show AnswerA glove.

24) What starts with “p” and ends with “orn” and is really popular in the movie industry?
Show AnswerPopcorn.

25) What word begins and ends with an E, but only has one letter?
Show AnswerAn envelope.

26) What is full of holes but still holds water?
Show AnswerA sponge.

27) You hold my tail while I fish for you. What am I?
Show AnswerA glove.

28) What can you catch but not throw?
Show AnswerA cold.

29) What can hold a car but can’t lift a feather?
Show AnswerA garage.

30) What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Show AnswerA window.

31) The more it dries, the wetter it becomes. What is it?
Show AnswerA towel.

32) What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
Show AnswerA hole.

33) What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
Show AnswerSilence.

34) I have six faces but not even one body connected, 21 eyes in total but cannot see. What am I?
Show AnswerA dice.

35) If two is company and three is a crowd, what is four and five?
Show AnswerEven.

36) What is the saddest fruit?
Show AnswerBlueberries.

37) I have a neck but no head. I have a body but no arm. I have a bottom but no leg. What am I?
Show AnswerA bottle.

38) Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
Show AnswerNothing.

39) You walk into a room with a rabbit holding a carrot, a pig eating slop, and a chimp holding a banana. Who is the smartest animal in the room?
Show AnswerYou.

40) What has to be broken before you can use it?
Show AnswerAn egg.

41) I am gentle enough to soothe your skin, light enough to fly in the sky, strong enough to crack rocks. What am I?
Show AnswerCloud.

42) I have a neck and no head, two arms but no hands. I’m with you to school, I’m with you to work. What am I?
Show AnswerA tie.

43) I walk on 4 legs when I was little, 2 legs when I was strong, and 3 legs when I was old. What am I?
Show AnswerMan.

44) What side of a cat has the most fur?
Show AnswerThe outside.

45) What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?
Show AnswerTrouble.

46) What gets broken without being held?
Show AnswerA promise.

47) I’m tall when I’m young. I’m short when I’m old. I can light up your world. What am I?
Show AnswerA candle.

48) What do you get when you mix lemons with gun powder?
Show AnswerA sourpuss.

49) Mr. Red lives in the red house. Mr. Blue lives in the blue house. Mrs. Pink lives in the pink house. Who lives in the white house?
Show AnswerPresident of the United States.

50) I have an eye, but can’t see. I usually have to work with something in my eye. What am I?
Show AnswerA needle.

51) Given them to the girls whenever, And they’ll be best friends forever. Shiny, pretty stones, Bought with massive loans.
Show AnswerA diamond.

52) I am lighter than air, but a hundred people cannot lift me. Careful, I am fragile. What am I?
Show AnswerA bubble.

53) When you take away the whole from me, there is always some left. What am I?
Show AnswerNoon.

54) What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Show AnswerA stamp.

55) What goes through towns and over hills and never moves?
Show AnswerA road.

56) What time of day, when written in a capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards, and upside down?
Show AnswerNoon.

57) I am a kind of coat that can only be put on when I am wet. What am I?
Show AnswerA coat of paint.

58) Soft, hairy, from door to door. I am the pet that always stays on the floor. What am I?
Show AnswerA doormat.

59) What is deaf, dumb, and blind, but always tells the truth?
Show AnswerA mirror.

60) I cannot be other than what I am, until the man who made me dies. Power and glory will fall to me, only when he last closes his eyes. Who am I?
Show AnswerA widow.

61) What three letters change a boy into a man?
Show AnswerAge.

62) The last man on Earth received a phone call, who was the caller?
Show Answer“A Woman”

63) Tear off my skin. I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?
Show AnswerOnion.

64) Everyone has me except for a few. You may not be able to identify me but I can always identify you. What am I?
Show AnswerShadow.

65) What is harder to catch the faster you run?
Show AnswerYour breath.

66) Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot. All is cool where it is not. What is it?
Show AnswerThe wind.

67) I cannot be burned in fire or drowned in water. What am I?
Show AnswerIce.

68) I’m a word that is not even strange. What am I?
Show AnswerNormal.

69) What gets sharper the more you use it?
Show AnswerIntelligence.

70) Fatherless and Motherless, born without sin. Roared when it entered the world, And never spoke again. What’s it?
Show AnswerThunder.

71) Who is the most foreign visitor you could imagine?
Show AnswerTomorrow.

72) I go up and I go down, towards the sky and the ground. I’m present and past tense too, let’s go for a ride, me and you. What am I?
Show AnswerTime.

73) What can be heard in court or used to carry briefs?
Show AnswerCase.

74) I touch the Earth, I touch the sky, but if I touch you, you’ll likely die. What am I?
Show AnswerLightning.

75) Walk on the living, they don’t even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble. What are they?
Show AnswerLeaves.

76) I have a head but never weeps. I have a bed but never sleep. I can run but never walks. I have a bank but no money. What am I?
Show AnswerRiver.

77) Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have five daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are there in the Mustard family?
Show AnswerSeven.

78) Fashions change, but what can a person wear that is never out of style?
Show AnswerA smile.

79) If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
Show AnswerWet.

80) I cover what’s real; hide what is true, but sometimes bring out the courage in you. What am I?
Show AnswerA mask.

81) Who is your mother’s only sister’s son’s brother’s aunt’s daughter’s sister’s father?
Show AnswerYou.

82) Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Show AnswerIncorrectly.

83) What goes into the water black and comes out red?
Show AnswerA lobster.

84) What has 88 keys, but can’t open a single door?
Show AnswerA piano.

85) What always goes to bed with its shoes on?
Show AnswerA horse.

86) You cannot keep me until you have given me. What am I?
Show AnswerA promise.

87) What type of house weighs the least?
Show AnswerA lighthouse.

88) What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back?
Show AnswerA stick.

89) I can fly but I have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
Show AnswerA cloud.

90) What jumps when it walks, but sits when it stands?
Show AnswerA kangaroo.

91) What is black and white and red all over?
Show AnswerA newspaper.

92) Railroad Crossing, look out for the cars. Can you spell that, without any R’s?
Show AnswerT-H-A-T.

93) What type of dress can never be worn?
Show AnswerAn address.

94) If you have it, you don’t share it. If you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?
Show AnswerA secret.

95) A man shaves several times a day, yet he still has a beard. Who is this man?
Show AnswerA barber.

96) It flies around all day but never goes anywhere? What is it?
Show AnswerA flag.

97) I Know a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be. What is the word?
Show AnswerFew.

98) With a halo of water and a tongue of wood, stone as skin long I stood. What am I?
Show AnswerA lighthouse.

99) You do not want me when you don’t have me, but when you have me you don’t want to lose me. What am I?
Show AnswerA lawsuit.

100) What goes around the wood but never goes into the wood?
Show AnswerThe bark of a tree.

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