These brain-teasers range from super-easy to downright mind-boggling.
Easy Riddles
Math Riddles
Funny Riddles
Hard Riddles
Similar to knowing how to juggle,
having a wide knowledge of trivia
facts or being overall great at
telling jokes, keeping an arsenal
of tricky and hilarious riddles for
adults on hand will always serve
as a great icebreaker. Luckily, if
you’re running low on impressive
brain teasers to share at your next
work event or to entertain your
family and friends, we have a
great list of puzzling questions for
you to try out (with the answers
included!).
EVEN MORE RIDDLES
Ranging from super-tough head-
scratchers to unbelievably easy
queries, these riddles are just as
fun for adults to solve as they are
for kids. We've got everything
from funny riddles for when you
need a quick laugh to math
riddles that will keep your mind
sharp and help you learn a little
along the way.
So get ready to put your logic and
problem solving skills to the test
and try your hand at the riddles
below. Be sure to let us know
which was your favorite in the
comments!
Q: I'm not a blanket, yet I cover
the ground; a crystal from
heaven that doesn't make a
sound. What am I?
A: Snowflake.
Q: I'm sweet and cold with a
stick to hold; a treat on a hot
day, worth more than gold.
What am I?
A: Popsicle.
Q: What has a head but no
brain?
A: A lettuce.
Q: Why do cats make good
warriors?
A: Because they’ve got nine lives.
Q: I have a neck, but no head. I
have two arms, but no hands.
What am I?
A: A shirt.
Q: What word contains 26
letters but only has three
syllables?
A: The alphabet.
Q: What comes down but never
goes up?
A: Rain.
Q: What five-letter word typed
in all capital letters can be read
the same upside down?
A: SWIMS.
Q: The more you take, the more
you leave behind. What am I?
A: Footsteps.
Q: David's father has three sons:
Snap, Crackle and _____?
A: David.
Q: What is more useful when it
is broken?
A: An egg.
Q: I am easy to lift, but hard to
throw. What am I?
A: A feather.
Q: Where do you take a sick
boat?
A: To the dock-tor.
Q: Which fish costs the most?
A: A goldfish.
Q: What goes up, but never
comes down?
A: Age.
Q: A cowboy rode into town on
Friday. He stayed for three
nights and rode out on Friday.
How is this possible?
A: His horse's name is Friday.
Q: What has a neck but no
head?
A: A bottle.
Q: What is full of holes but still
holds water?
A: A sponge.
Q: How do you spell COW in
thirteen letters?
A: SEE O DOUBLE YOU.
Q: Why is Europe like a frying
pan?
A: Because it has Greece at the
bottom.
Q: What do the numbers 11, 69
and 88 all have in common?
A: They all read the same way
when placed upside down.
Q: If 2 is company and 3 is a
crowd, what are 4 and 5?
A: 9.
Q: I add 5 to 9 and get 2. The
answer is correct, so what am I?
A: A clock. When it is 9 a.m.,
adding 5 hours would make it 2
p.m.
Q: Rachel goes to the
supermarket and buys 10
tomatoes. Unfortunately, on the
way back home, all but 9 get
ruined. How many tomatoes are
left in a good condition?
A: 9.
Q: What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat,
and 2/4 goat?
A: Chicago!
Q: If a zookeeper had 100 pairs
of animals in her zoo, and two
pairs of babies are born for each
one of the original animals,
then (sadly) 23 animals don’t
survive, how many animals do
you have left in total?
A: 977 animals (100 x 2 = 200;
200 + 800 = 1000; 1000 – 23 =
977)
Q: I saw my math teacher with a
piece of graph paper yesterday.
A: I think he must be plotting
something.
Q: If you multiply this number
by any other number, the
answer will always be the same.
What number is this?
A: Zero.
Q: I am an odd number. Take
away a letter and I become
even. What number am I?
A: Seven.
Q: What three numbers give the
same result when multiplied
and added together?
A: 1, 2, and 3 (1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and
1 x 2 x 3 = 6).
Q: What's a single-digit number
with no value?
A: Zero.
Q: A tree doubled in height each
year until it reached its
maximum height over the
course of ten years. How many
years did it take for the tree to
reach half its maximum height?
A: Nine years.
Q: How can you drop a raw egg
from a height onto a concrete
floor without cracking it?
A: Concrete floors are very hard to
crack.
Q: What do you call a bear with
no teeth?
A: A gummy bear.
Q: What has many rings but no
fingers?
A: A phone.
Q: What can you break without
touching it?
A: A promise.
Q: I sometimes run, but I can’t
walk. What am I?
A: A nose.
Q: It has keys, but no locks. It
has space, but no room. You can
enter, but can’t go inside. What
is it?
A: A keyboard.
Q: I have pointed fangs, and I
sit and wait. I have piercing
force, and I crunch with weight.
I grab my victims, but they do
not fight. I join them each with
a single, quick bite. What am I?
A: A stapler.
Q: Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three, two
letters there are, and two only
in me. I’m double, I’m single,
I’m black blue and gray, I’m
read from both ends, and the
same either way. What am I?
A: Eye.
Q: Who has married many
women but was never married?
A: The priest.
Q: Forward, I am heavy;
backward, I am not. What am I?
A: Ton.
Q: What can you hold in your
right hand, but never in your
left hand?
A: Your left hand.
Q: If two snakes marry, what
will their towels say?
A: Hiss and hers.
Q: What does a man do only
once in his lifetime, but women
do once a year after they are
29?
A: Turn 30.
Q: Ask this question all day
long, but always get completely
different answers, and yet all
the answers will be correct.
What is the question?
A: What time is it?
Q: What loses its head in the
morning but gets it back at
night?
A: A pillow.
Q: Four cars come to a four-way
stop, each coming from a
different direction. They can’t
decide who got there first, so
they all go forward at the same
time. All four cars go, but none
crash into each other. How is
this possible?
A: They all made right-hand turns.
Q: I have a head like a cat and
feet like a cat, but I am not a
cat. What am I?
A: A kitten.
Q: Who makes it, has no need of
it. Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor
feel it. What is it?
A: A coffin.
Q: What has hands but cannot
clap?
A: A clock.
Q: Paul's height is six feet, he's
an assistant at a butcher's shop,
and wears size 9 shoes. What
does he weigh?
A: Meat.
Q: What gets broken without
being held?
A: A promise.
Q: Poor people have it. Rich
people need it. If you eat it you
die. What is it?
A: Nothing.
Q: What is the longest word in
the dictionary?
A: Smiles, because there is a mile
between each ‘s’.
Q: Throw away the outside and
cook the inside, then eat the
outside and throw away the
inside. What is it?
A: Corn on the cob.
Q: What is at the end of a
rainbow?
A: The letter W!
Q: What kind of tree can you
carry in your hand?
A: A palm!
Q: They come out at night
without being called, and are
lost in the day without being
stolen. What are they?
A: Stars!
Q: What is always in front of
you, but can’t be seen?
A: The future.
Q: You’ll find me in Mercury,
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and
Uranus. But never Neptune, or
Venus. What am I?
A: The letter “R”.
Q: How many months have 28
days?
A: Every month has 28 days.
Q: I can be cracked, made, told
and played. What am I?
A: A joke.
Q: I cannot talk, but I always
reply when spoken to. What am
I?
A: An echo.
Q: When is the top of a
mountain similar to a savings
account?
A: When it peaks one’s interest.
Q: A man goes out for a walk
during a storm with nothing to
protect him from the rain. He
doesn’t have a hat, a hood or an
umbrella. But by the end of his
walk, there isn’t a single wet
hair on his head. Why doesn’t
the man have wet hair?
A: He’s bald.
Q: I love to dance and twist. I
shake my tail as I sail away.
When I fly wingless into the sky.
What am I?
A: A kite.
Q: When you stop to look, you
can always see me. But if you
try to touch me, you can never
feel me. Although you walk
towards me, I remain the same
distance from you. What am I?
A: The horizon.
Q: You see a boat filled with
people. It has not sunk. But
when you look back, you don’t
see a single person on the boat.
Why?
A: All the people on board are
married.
Q: What is it that no one wants
to have, but no one wants to
lose either?
A: A lawsuit.
Q: I welcome the day with a
show of light, I stealthily came
here in the night.I bathe the
earthy stuff at dawn, But by
noon, alas! I'm gone.
A: The morning dew.
Q: What goes through cities and
fields, but never moves?
A: A road.
Q: What can be touched but
can't be seen?
A: Someone’s heart.
Q: In a bus, there is a 26-year-
old pregnant lady, a 30-year-old
policeman, a 52-year-old
random woman, and the driver
who is 65 years old. Who is the
youngest?
A: The baby of the pregnant lady.
Q: When it is alive we sing,
when it is dead we clap our
hands. What is it?
A: A birthday candle.
Q: What can go through glass
without breaking it?
A: Light.
Q: What gets bigger the more
you take away?
A: A hole.
Q: I have no life, but I can die.
What am I?
A: A battery.
Q: What kind of room has no
walls, door or windows?
A: A mushroom.
Q: It belongs to you, but your
friends use it more. What is it?
A: Your name.
Q: What two things can you
never eat for breakfast?
A: Lunch and dinner.
Q: I make a loud sound when
I’m changing. When I do
change, I get bigger but weigh
less. What am I?
A: Popcorn.
Q: It has keys, but no locks. It
has space, but no room. You can
enter, but can’t go inside. What
is it?
A: A keyboard.
Q: I’m orange, I wear a green
hat and I sound like a parrot.
What am I?
A: A carrot.
Q: What runs all around a
backyard, yet never moves?
A: A fence.
Q: Take off my skin — I won't
cry, but you will! What am I?
A: An onion.
Q: What invention lets you look
right through a wall?
A: A window.
Q: What is always on its way
but never arrives?
A: Tomorrow.
Q: Two girls were born to the
same mother, on the same day,
at the same time, in the same
month and year, and yet they're
not twins. How can this be?
A: The two babies are two of a set
of triplets.
Q: What has a bottom at the
top?
A: Your legs.
Q: What can you catch but
never throw?
A: A cold.
Q: What has many teeth but
cannot bite?
A: A comb.
Q: What has branches, but no
fruit, trunk or leaves?
A: A bank.
Q: What thrives when you feed
it but dies when you water it?
A: A fire.
Q: What do you buy to eat but
never consume?
A: Cutlery.
Q: Two fathers and two sons are
in a car, yet there are only three
people in the car. How?
A: They are grandfather, father,
and son.
Q: A bus driver goes the wrong
way down a one-way street. He
passes the cops, but they don’t
stop him. Why?
A: He was walking.
Q: If an electric train is
traveling south, then which way
is the smoke going?
A: There is no smoke — it's an
electric train.
Q: Where is the only place
where today comes before
yesterday?
A: The dictionary.
Q: What can you put in a bucket
to make it weigh less?
A: A hole.
Q: How can kids drink beer and
not get drunk?
A: By sticking to root beer.
Q: What is black when it’s clean
and white when it’s dirty?
A: A chalkboard.
Q: I have one eye but am unable
to see. What am I?
A: A needle.
Q: What two keys can’t open
any door?
A: A monkey and a donkey.
Q: A man and his boss have the
same parents but are not
siblings. How is this possible?
A: He’s self-employed.
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