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Updated November 2026.

1. What has 88 keys but can't open a single door? Answer: A piano
2. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? Answer: A clock
3. What gets wetter the more it dries? Answer: A towel
4. What little white house has no doors or windows, so you have to break in to reach the gold? Answer: An egg
5. What has one eye but can't see, and is sharp at the other end? Answer: A needle
6. What has a neck and a cap but no head? Answer: A bottle
7. What has teeth but never bites, and runs through your hair every morning? Answer: A comb
8. What goes up by one every birthday and never comes back down? Answer: Your age
9. What has two arms, four legs and a back, but has never taken a step? Answer: An armchair
10. What is full of holes but still holds water? Answer: A sponge
11. What has a mouth but never eats, a bed but never sleeps, and runs all day without legs? Answer: A river
12. I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old, and I glow my whole life. What am I? Answer: A candle
13. What building has the most stories? Answer: A library
14. What room can you eat? Answer: A mushroom
15. What has four wheels and flies? Answer: A garbage truck
16. How many months have 28 days? Answer: All twelve
17. What gets bigger the more you take away from it? Answer: A hole
18. What has a head and a tail but no body? Answer: A coin
19. What kind of band never plays music but snaps if you stretch it too far? Answer: A rubber band
20. What two things can you never eat for breakfast? Answer: Lunch and dinner
21. What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary? Answer: The word "wrong"
22. What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it? Answer: A teapot
23. What has a ring for every birthday but no fingers to wear them on? Answer: A tree
24. What can fill a whole room the second you flip a switch, without taking up any space? Answer: Light
25. What invention lets you look straight through a wall? Answer: A window
26. What has ears but can't hear, and grows taller than you in a field? Answer: Corn
27. What kind of tree fits in your hand? Answer: A palm tree
28. What can you hear but never see, and it only speaks after you do? Answer: An echo
29. What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing at all? Answer: The elephant's shadow
30. What has a tongue but never talks, and gets tied up before it goes anywhere? Answer: A shoe
31. What runs all the way around a yard without moving? Answer: A fence
32. What goes up when the rain comes down? Answer: An umbrella
33. What has lots of eyes but can't see a thing? Answer: A potato
34. What kind of key opens a banana? Answer: A monkey
35. What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Answer: Nacho cheese
36. A rooster lays an egg on the very top of a barn roof. Which way does it roll? Answer: It doesn't. Roosters don't lay eggs.
37. How do you spell candy with just two letters? Answer: C and Y
38. If two is company and three is a crowd, what are four and five? Answer: Nine
39. What can jump higher than a house? Answer: Almost anything. Houses can't jump.
40. Which is faster, hot or cold? Answer: Hot. Anyone can catch a cold.
41. What do you call a sleeping dinosaur? Answer: A dino-snore
42. What room do ghosts stay out of? Answer: The living room
43. Why was six afraid of seven? Answer: Because seven ate nine
44. What has a head, a foot and four legs? Answer: A bed
45. What gets whiter the dirtier it gets? Answer: A chalkboard (or blackboard)
46. What kind of nut has a hole, no shell and sometimes sprinkles? Answer: A doughnut
47. What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? Answer: A stick
48. What kind of dog never bites and comes in a bun? Answer: A hot dog
49. I'm an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I? Answer: Seven
50. Lily's mom has four kids. Three are named April, May and June. What is the fourth one's name? Answer: Lily
51. If there are five cookies on a plate and you take three, how many do you have? Answer: Three
52. How many seconds are there in a year? Answer: Twelve: January second, February second, and so on
53. A red house is made of red bricks and a blue house is made of blue bricks. What is a greenhouse made of? Answer: Glass
54. An electric train is heading north and the wind is blowing west. Which way does the smoke blow? Answer: There is no smoke. It's electric.
55. You are in a race and you pass the runner in second place. What place are you in now? Answer: Second place
56. What do you sit on, sleep on and brush your teeth with? Answer: A chair, a bed and a toothbrush
57. What color is the wind? Answer: Blew
58. What do you call a snowman in July? Answer: A puddle
59. What did the zero say to the eight? Answer: Nice belt
60. What did the ocean say to the beach? Answer: Nothing. It just waved.
61. Why do bees have sticky hair? Answer: They use honeycombs
62. What do you lose every time you stand up? Answer: Your lap
63. What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands? Answer: A kangaroo
64. What flies without wings and cries without eyes? Answer: A cloud
65. What is always hungry for wood but can't survive one drink of water? Answer: Fire
66. What howls with no mouth and pushes with no hands? Answer: The wind
67. What come out at night by the thousands without being called, and are gone by morning without being stolen? Answer: The stars
68. What gets up every morning without an alarm and goes down every evening without a bed? Answer: The sun
69. What falls all winter and never gets hurt? Answer: Snow
70. What changes shape every night for a month but never changes size? Answer: The moon
71. What grows upside down in winter and drips when the sun comes out? Answer: An icicle
72. What always shows up a few seconds after the flash, grumbling? Answer: Thunder
73. What leaves a silver trail and carries its house on its back? Answer: A snail
74. What bird wears a tuxedo every day, swims like a fish and can't fly? Answer: A penguin
75. What horse wears striped pajamas all day? Answer: A zebra
76. What animal can look into a second-floor window without a ladder? Answer: A giraffe
77. What spins its own house and catches dinner without ever leaving home? Answer: A spider
78. What takes its trunk everywhere but never packs a thing? Answer: An elephant
79. What paddles around the pond with a bill it never has to pay? Answer: A duck
80. What has a mouse that no cat will chase? Answer: A computer
81. Which bird always wants to know who's there? Answer: An owl
82. What has feathers, a wake-up call and no snooze button? Answer: A rooster
83. What goes to sleep crawling and wakes up flying? Answer: A caterpillar (it wakes up as a butterfly)
84. What starts life with a tail and no legs, and ends up with legs and no tail? Answer: A frog
85. What do you call a deer with no eyes? Answer: No idea
86. What fish costs the most? Answer: A goldfish
87. What kind of jam makes you late for school? Answer: A traffic jam
88. What kind of bow shows up after the rain and can never be tied? Answer: A rainbow
89. What kind of star walks on a red carpet? Answer: A movie star
90. What bird can lift the most weight? Answer: A crane
91. What dog always knows what time it is? Answer: A watchdog
92. What kind of horse only comes out after bedtime? Answer: A nightmare
93. What kind of flower grows right under your nose? Answer: Tulips
94. What kind of driver has no license and lives in a toolbox? Answer: A screwdriver
95. What animal lives in a pen but can't write a word? Answer: A pig
96. What can you wear on your finger and hear from a phone? Answer: A ring
97. What flies around at night and also hits home runs? Answer: A bat
98. What calf has never lived on a farm and goes wherever you walk? Answer: The one on your leg
99. What nails should you never hit with a hammer? Answer: Your fingernails
100. Where on your body is there a drum that nobody plays? Answer: In your ear
101. What has a cap but never wears a hat, and bends every time you sit down? Answer: Your knee
102. What has a bridge that no one can cross, and runs without legs? Answer: Your nose
103. What do you open first thing every morning without using your hands? Answer: Your eyes
104. What do you make every morning that nobody eats? Answer: Your bed
105. What goes into the washing machine as a pair and comes out alone? Answer: A sock
106. What has a horn, a hood and a trunk but is not an animal? Answer: A car
107. What kind of belt do you only wear sitting down? Answer: A seat belt
108. What has buttons but no shirt, and takes you upstairs without any stairs? Answer: An elevator
109. What says welcome all day and gets walked on for it? Answer: A doormat
110. What sits on your nose, hangs on your ears and gets lost on top of your head? Answer: Glasses
111. Who copies every move you make, but raises a left hand when you raise your right? Answer: Your reflection
112. What gets smaller every time it takes a bath? Answer: A bar of soap
113. What roll can't be eaten and always runs out when you need it most? Answer: Toilet paper
114. What dives into the soup empty and comes out full? Answer: A spoon (or ladle)
115. What comes to the party in a square box and gets cut into triangles, even though it's round? Answer: A pizza
116. What pops when it gets hot and gets eaten in the dark at the movies? Answer: Popcorn
117. What goes in soft and white and jumps out brown and crunchy? Answer: A slice of toast
118. What sits on the stove and whistles when it has had enough heat? Answer: A kettle
119. What gets bigger when you breathe into it and louder when it meets a pin? Answer: A balloon
120. What gets wrapped by someone who knows what's inside and unwrapped by someone who doesn't? Answer: A present
121. What gets hit with a stick at a party and pays everyone back in candy? Answer: A piñata
122. What animal gets a new tail at birthday parties from kids wearing blindfolds? Answer: The donkey
123. What do people sing to right before they cut it into pieces? Answer: A birthday cake
124. What do you wear at a party that comes to a point but has no point? Answer: A party hat
125. What gets tossed in the air at a party and found in the couch for months? Answer: Confetti
126. In what game does one seat go missing every time the music stops? Answer: Musical chairs
127. What game do you win by being the person nobody can find? Answer: Hide and seek
128. What gets passed around the circle fast because nobody wants to be holding it when the music stops? Answer: The hot potato
129. What sleepover fight leaves feathers on the floor and nobody hurt? Answer: A pillow fight
130. What do you roast on a stick until it turns gold, or until it catches fire? Answer: A marshmallow
131. What do you say to make everyone smile for a photo, even though it's a food? Answer: Cheese
132. What can you drink at a party even though it sounds like it should hurt? Answer: Punch
133. What kind of music are balloons afraid of? Answer: Pop music
134. Why didn't the skeleton go to the party? Answer: He had no body to go with
135. How do you throw a party in outer space? Answer: You planet
136. What did the cake say to the knife? Answer: You want a piece of me?
137. What does the dog always get blamed for eating? Answer: Your homework
138. What makes mistakes disappear and gets smaller every time it does? Answer: An eraser
139. What king is best at measuring things? Answer: A ruler
140. Why was the math book so sad? Answer: It had too many problems
141. What table do you learn in math class but never eat dinner on? Answer: The times table
142. Which letter of the alphabet is always asking a question? Answer: Y
143. Which three letters can sting you, blink at you and fill your cup? Answer: B, I and T
144. What has a head like a cat, feet like a cat and a tail like a cat, but isn't a cat? Answer: A kitten
145. In a one-story house where everything is yellow, what color are the stairs? Answer: There are no stairs
146. If you threw a white stone into the Red Sea, what would it become? Answer: Wet
147. In which month do people sleep the least? Answer: February. It has the fewest nights.
148. When is a car not a car? Answer: When it turns into a driveway
149. What instrument do you keep in the bathroom? Answer: A tuba toothpaste
150. What does a cloud wear under its raincoat? Answer: Thunderwear
151. What did the left eye say to the right eye? Answer: Between us, something smells
152. What do you call a bee that can't make up its mind? Answer: A maybe
153. How much did the pirate pay to get his ears pierced? Answer: A buck an ear
154. Why did the teddy bear say no to dessert? Answer: It was already stuffed
155. What do you call a bear with no teeth? Answer: A gummy bear
156. What do you call a dinosaur with a big vocabulary? Answer: A thesaurus
157. What flies all day long but never leaves its pole? Answer: A flag
158. What tells time by running out of sand? Answer: An hourglass
159. What picture do you have to build before you can see it? Answer: A jigsaw puzzle
160. What has two wheels, two pedals and a bell, and falls over as soon as it stops? Answer: A bicycle
161. What has stripes and a whistle and runs the whole game without ever scoring? Answer: A referee
162. What has a net that can't catch anything because there's a big hole in the bottom? Answer: A basketball hoop
163. What has a spine and a jacket but no bones and no arms? Answer: A book
164. What can you catch just by watching someone open their mouth wide? Answer: A yawn
165. What vegetable can make you cry without saying one mean word? Answer: An onion
166. What fruit never goes anywhere alone? Answer: A pear
167. What wears a yellow jacket, grows in a bunch and makes cartoon characters slip? Answer: A banana
168. What is always coming but never arrives? Answer: Tomorrow
169. What has many hooks but has never caught a fish? Answer: A coat rack
170. What sound keeps the whole house awake but never wakes the person making it? Answer: Snoring
171. What is always lost in the couch right when your show is starting? Answer: The TV remote
172. Where can you find a pitcher that holds no water and a plate nobody eats from? Answer: A baseball field
173. The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? Answer: Footsteps
174. What belongs to you, but other people use it far more than you do? Answer: Your name
175. What travels all over the world while staying in one corner? Answer: A stamp
176. What has cities without houses, forests without trees and rivers without water? Answer: A map
177. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? Answer: Silence
178. What kind of coat can only be put on wet? Answer: A coat of paint
179. If you have it, you want to share it. Once you share it, you no longer have it. What is it? Answer: A secret
180. Where does Friday come before Thursday? Answer: In the dictionary
181. What has branches but no leaves, and keeps other people's money? Answer: A bank
182. What tastes better than it smells? Answer: Your tongue
183. What has thirteen hearts but no other organs? Answer: A deck of cards
184. What do sailors throw overboard when they want to stay and haul back up when they want to go? Answer: An anchor
185. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it and gray when you throw it away? Answer: Charcoal
186. Spelled forward, I'm heavy. Spelled backward, I'm not. What word am I? Answer: Ton
187. What five-letter word gets shorter when you add two letters to it? Answer: Short
188. What word has three syllables and twenty-six letters? Answer: Alphabet
189. What begins with an E, ends with an E, and usually holds just one letter? Answer: An envelope
190. What is always ahead of you, never behind you, and can't be seen? Answer: The future
191. What sits at the bottom of the sea and shakes? Answer: A nervous wreck
192. What did the grape do when it got stepped on? Answer: It let out a little wine
193. What do lawyers wear to court? Answer: Lawsuits
194. What has a foot on each end and a third foot in the middle? Answer: A yardstick
195. What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon and three in the evening? Answer: A person
196. What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and lets you enter but never leave? Answer: A computer keyboard
197. What kind of ship has two mates, no captain and an anniversary? Answer: A relationship
198. What is harder to catch the faster you run? Answer: Your breath
199. The more of me there is, the less you see, and one match is enough to beat me. What am I? Answer: Darkness
200. What goes around and around the wood but never goes into the wood? Answer: The bark of a tree
201. What three different positive whole numbers give the same answer whether you add them or multiply them? Answer: One, two and three
202. Two mothers and two daughters each order a burger. Only three burgers come, and nobody goes without. How? Answer: They are a grandmother, a mother and a daughter
203. A farmer has seventeen sheep and all but nine run away. How many does he have left? Answer: Nine
204. How many times can you subtract five from twenty-five? Answer: Once. After that it's twenty.
205. The doctor hands you three pills and says to take one every half hour. How long until they're gone? Answer: One hour
206. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain on Earth? Answer: Mount Everest
207. How far can a dog run into the woods? Answer: Halfway. After that it's running out.
208. Pointing at a photo, a man says: I have no brothers or sisters, but that man's father is my father's son. Who is in the photo? Answer: His son
209. A ladder hangs off a ship with its bottom rung just touching the water. The tide rises three feet. How many rungs are under water now? Answer: None. The ship rises with the tide.
210. You have two coins worth thirty cents together, and one of them is not a nickel. What are they? Answer: A quarter and a nickel. The quarter is the one that isn't a nickel.
211. What is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order when you spell it out? Answer: Forty
212. Which number has exactly as many letters as its own value? Answer: Four
213. What is thirty divided by one half, plus ten? Answer: Seventy
214. A woman has seven daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many children does she have? Answer: Eight
215. What can you put between a five and a six to get a number bigger than five and smaller than six? Answer: A decimal point
216. When Jo was six, her sister was half her age. Jo is forty now. How old is her sister? Answer: Thirty-seven
217. A snail is at the bottom of a ten-foot well. Each day it climbs three feet, and each night it slides back two. On which day does it get out? Answer: Day eight
218. A pen and a notebook cost $1.10 together. The notebook costs a dollar more than the pen. How much is the pen? Answer: Five cents
219. A patch of clover doubles in size every day and covers the whole lawn on day thirty. On which day did it cover half the lawn? Answer: Day twenty-nine
220. If five machines take five minutes to make five toys, how long do a hundred machines take to make a hundred toys? Answer: Five minutes
221. What letter comes next: O, T, T, F, F, S, S? Answer: E, for eight
222. A man shaves a dozen times a day and still has a full beard. How? Answer: He's a barber
223. A man walks through pouring rain with no hat, hood or umbrella, and not one hair on his head gets wet. How? Answer: He's bald
224. A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays three nights and rides out on Friday. How? Answer: His horse is named Friday
225. A truck driver goes the wrong way down a one-way street, right past a police officer, and doesn't get a ticket. Why? Answer: He was walking
226. You walk into a dark cabin with one match. There is a candle, an oil lamp and a fireplace. What do you light first? Answer: The match
227. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it? Answer: Easily. Concrete floors are very hard to crack.
228. The butcher is six feet tall and wears size twelve shoes. What does he weigh? Answer: Meat
229. What has six faces and twenty-one eyes but can't see? Answer: A die
230. What can be cracked, made, told and played? Answer: A joke
231. What can be driven without wheels and sliced without a knife? Answer: A golf ball
232. I'm dug out of the ground and shut inside a wooden case that I never leave, yet nearly everyone has used me. What am I? Answer: Pencil lead (graphite)
233. What word sounds exactly the same after you take away four of its five letters? Answer: Queue
234. What seven-letter word has hundreds of letters in it? Answer: Mailbox
235. What goes through a door but never comes in or goes out? Answer: A keyhole
236. What can you swallow by the glass that can also swallow you whole? Answer: Water
237. Throw me off a rooftop and I'll be fine. Drop me in a puddle and I'm ruined. What am I? Answer: A sheet of paper
238. What has room for ten fingers but can only be filled by empty hands? Answer: A pair of gloves
239. What goes in dry, comes out wet, and the longer it stays in, the stronger the drink gets? Answer: A tea bag
240. What connects two people but touches only one? Answer: A wedding ring
241. What can you steal in front of thousands of people, with an umpire watching, and get cheered for it? Answer: A base
242. What kind of running means you'll be walking? Answer: Running out of gas
243. What kind of stones are never found in the ocean? Answer: Dry ones
244. What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer? Answer: One sells watches and the other watches cells
245. What is the difference between a cat and a comma? Answer: One has claws at the end of its paws. The other is a pause at the end of a clause.
246. What is the difference between a teacher and a train conductor? Answer: One trains minds and the other minds trains
247. I saw a cruise ship packed with people, yet there wasn't a single person on board. How? Answer: They were all married
248. My grandfather is only six years older than my father. How is that possible? Answer: He is my mother's father
249. How many birthdays does a ninety-year-old have? Answer: One. The rest are anniversaries.
250. What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot? Answer: Carpet
251. What was tomorrow yesterday and will be yesterday tomorrow? Answer: Today
252. What falls every evening without breaking, and what breaks every morning without falling? Answer: Night and day
253. What do you get twice for free but have to pay for the third time? Answer: Teeth
254. What can you spend, save, waste, tell and run out of? Answer: Time
255. What can you keep only after you've given it to someone? Answer: Your word (or a promise)
256. What do you break every morning without making a sound? Answer: Your fast
257. What can you draw without a pencil and then soak in? Answer: A bath
258. What has a crown without being a king and a root without being a plant? Answer: A tooth
259. Which two parts of your body share their names with a tree and a fish? Answer: Your palm and your sole
260. What has a pupil but no classroom and a lid but no jar? Answer: Your eye
261. What has six pockets but has never worn pants? Answer: A pool table
262. What state is round at both ends and high in the middle? Answer: Ohio
263. What do you call a number that can't sit still? Answer: A roamin' numeral
264. What do you call a line of rabbits hopping backward? Answer: A receding hare line
265. What do you call a belt made out of watches? Answer: A waist of time
266. What is the leading cause of dry skin? Answer: Towels
267. What did the buffalo say when his son left for college? Answer: Bison
268. A sandwich walks into a bar. What does the bartender say? Answer: Sorry, we don't serve food here
269. What is the difference between ignorance and apathy? Answer: I don't know and I don't care
270. What is the difference between a badly dressed man on a tricycle and a well dressed man on a bicycle? Answer: Attire
271. Two antennas got married. How was the wedding? Answer: The ceremony was dull, but the reception was great
272. What do you set at night, hate in the morning, and hit to buy nine more minutes? Answer: Your alarm clock
273. What do you check a hundred times a day, though it has never once checked on you? Answer: Your phone
274. What does your landlord raise every year without lifting a finger? Answer: The rent
275. What could that hour-long meeting have been? Answer: An email
276. At a meeting, what can run for pages and still be only minutes? Answer: The minutes
277. What ladder do you climb without ever leaving your desk? Answer: The corporate ladder (or career ladder)
278. What do you break at a party to get strangers talking? Answer: The ice
279. What do you hand your boss that takes two weeks to work? Answer: Your notice
280. What bar serves no drinks and can take years to pass? Answer: The bar exam
281. What bar gets lower every round, and nobody orders a drink at it? Answer: The limbo bar
282. What do you file every spring, dread all winter and sometimes get money back from? Answer: Your taxes
283. What has thirty years of interest and no curiosity at all? Answer: A mortgage
284. What grows on a palm tree and is also something you go on with someone you like? Answer: A date
285. What always starts on Monday and is over by Wednesday's donuts? Answer: A diet
286. What membership do people pay for all year and use in January? Answer: A gym membership
287. What do you make on January first and break by February? Answer: A New Year's resolution
288. What list gets longer every time you cross something off? Answer: Your to-do list
289. What relatives did you get for free on your wedding day? Answer: Your in-laws
290. What is the most expensive party you'll ever throw, where you barely get to eat? Answer: Your wedding
291. What do couples fight over every night, even though it covers them both? Answer: The blanket
292. What do you drink to start working and spill the moment you wear white? Answer: Coffee
293. What do you nurse the morning after a big night, though it will never grow up? Answer: A hangover
294. What lies in a cellar for years getting better, until somebody pulls its cork? Answer: Wine
295. What comes at the end of every restaurant meal, though nobody ordered it? Answer: The check (or the bill)
296. What do you leave on the table on purpose when you walk out of a restaurant? Answer: The tip
297. What can you book for dinner but never read? Answer: A table
298. What ride at the airport is only for suitcases? Answer: The baggage carousel
299. What little book gets you out of the country and has the worst photo of you ever taken? Answer: Your passport
300. How can a flight land earlier than it took off? Answer: By crossing time zones
301. What is the one device in the house that two people set to two different temperatures? Answer: The thermostat
302. What drawer in every kitchen holds batteries, tape, one birthday candle and nothing you're looking for? Answer: The junk drawer
303. What do you have a whole cabinet of, though none of them has a lid that fits? Answer: Food containers
304. What do you make up yourself, type every day and still forget? Answer: Your password
305. What do you agree to every time without reading a word of it? Answer: The terms and conditions
306. What fix does tech support always try first? Answer: Turning it off and on again
307. What can you throw, crash and leave early? Answer: A party
308. What gets tied at a wedding even though nobody brought rope? Answer: The knot
309. What can you eat at breakfast and raise at a wedding? Answer: A toast
310. What card game can you lose with nobody else playing? Answer: Solitaire
311. What chess piece can only move forward but dreams of becoming a queen? Answer: A pawn
312. What puzzle hands you clues going across and down, though no crime took place? Answer: A crossword
313. What dance move is also something you do to a chip? Answer: The dip
314. What arrives every month without an invitation and always asks for money? Answer: A bill
315. How many times do you write the digit nine when you count from one to a hundred? Answer: Twenty
316. Turn me on my side and I'm everything. Cut me in half and I'm nothing. What number am I? Answer: Eight
317. How many bricks does it take to finish a brick house? Answer: One: the last one

Tips for a better game

• Offer one hint for the hard riddles, such as the first letter of the answer.
• With kids, let them read the riddles to the adults. They enjoy knowing the answer.
• Start a round with two easy riddles so that everyone has scored before the hard ones.

What is a riddle?

A riddle is a question or statement that describes something in a deliberately puzzling way, and the listener has to work out what it is. Good riddles have one answer that fits every clue.

Questions people ask

What makes a good riddle?

Every clue fits the answer, and the answer feels obvious once you hear it. A riddle that could have several answers frustrates people, so the riddles here were checked to have one answer that fits every clue.

Are these riddles suitable for kids?

The kids list is written for ages 6 to 10 and uses everyday words. None of the riddles on the site is dark or violent.

Can I use these riddles in a classroom or at work?

Yes. They work as a warm-up for a lesson or a meeting. One riddle takes about a minute.

What are some good riddles?

Five from this list: What has a ring for every birthday but no fingers to wear them on? (A tree) What fish costs the most? (A goldfish) What instrument do you keep in the bathroom? (A tuba toothpaste) What is thirty divided by one half, plus ten? (Seventy) At a meeting, what can run for pages and still be only minutes? (The minutes)

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