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1. One person reads the riddle. Reading it twice is allowed.
2. Everyone guesses out loud, or teams write one answer down.
3. Reveal the answer. The first correct guess scores a point, and the winner reads the next riddle.

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 has one eye but can't see, and is sharp at the other end? Answer: A needle
5. What has a neck and a cap but no head? Answer: A bottle
6. What has teeth but never bites, and runs through your hair every morning? Answer: A comb
7. What goes up by one every birthday and never comes back down? Answer: Your age
8. What has two arms, four legs and a back, but has never taken a step? Answer: An armchair
9. What is full of holes but still holds water? Answer: A sponge
10. 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
11. What building has the most stories? Answer: A library
12. What room can you eat? Answer: A mushroom
13. What has a head and a tail but no body? Answer: A coin
14. What kind of band never plays music but snaps if you stretch it too far? Answer: A rubber band
15. What can fill a whole room the second you flip a switch, without taking up any space? Answer: Light
16. What invention lets you look straight through a wall? Answer: A window
17. What kind of tree fits in your hand? Answer: A palm tree
18. What has a tongue but never talks, and gets tied up before it goes anywhere? Answer: A shoe
19. What goes up when the rain comes down? Answer: An umbrella
20. What kind of key opens a banana? Answer: A monkey
21. Why was six afraid of seven? Answer: Because seven ate nine
22. What kind of dog never bites and comes in a bun? Answer: A hot dog
23. 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
24. What gets up every morning without an alarm and goes down every evening without a bed? Answer: The sun
25. What falls all winter and never gets hurt? Answer: Snow
26. What leaves a silver trail and carries its house on its back? Answer: A snail
27. What bird wears a tuxedo every day, swims like a fish and can't fly? Answer: A penguin
28. What horse wears striped pajamas all day? Answer: A zebra
29. What animal can look into a second-floor window without a ladder? Answer: A giraffe
30. What takes its trunk everywhere but never packs a thing? Answer: An elephant
31. What paddles around the pond with a bill it never has to pay? Answer: A duck
32. What has a mouse that no cat will chase? Answer: A computer
33. Which bird always wants to know who's there? Answer: An owl
34. What has feathers, a wake-up call and no snooze button? Answer: A rooster
35. What kind of jam makes you late for school? Answer: A traffic jam
36. What kind of bow shows up after the rain and can never be tied? Answer: A rainbow
37. What kind of star walks on a red carpet? Answer: A movie star
38. What can you wear on your finger and hear from a phone? Answer: A ring
39. What flies around at night and also hits home runs? Answer: A bat
40. What nails should you never hit with a hammer? Answer: Your fingernails
41. What do you open first thing every morning without using your hands? Answer: Your eyes
42. What do you make every morning that nobody eats? Answer: Your bed
43. What goes into the washing machine as a pair and comes out alone? Answer: A sock
44. What has a horn, a hood and a trunk but is not an animal? Answer: A car
45. What kind of belt do you only wear sitting down? Answer: A seat belt
46. What has buttons but no shirt, and takes you upstairs without any stairs? Answer: An elevator
47. What says welcome all day and gets walked on for it? Answer: A doormat
48. What sits on your nose, hangs on your ears and gets lost on top of your head? Answer: Glasses
49. What gets smaller every time it takes a bath? Answer: A bar of soap
50. What roll can't be eaten and always runs out when you need it most? Answer: Toilet paper
51. What dives into the soup empty and comes out full? Answer: A spoon (or ladle)
52. What comes to the party in a square box and gets cut into triangles, even though it's round? Answer: A pizza
53. What pops when it gets hot and gets eaten in the dark at the movies? Answer: Popcorn
54. What goes in soft and white and jumps out brown and crunchy? Answer: A slice of toast
55. What sits on the stove and whistles when it has had enough heat? Answer: A kettle
56. What gets bigger when you breathe into it and louder when it meets a pin? Answer: A balloon
57. What gets wrapped by someone who knows what's inside and unwrapped by someone who doesn't? Answer: A present
58. What gets hit with a stick at a party and pays everyone back in candy? Answer: A piñata
59. What do people sing to right before they cut it into pieces? Answer: A birthday cake
60. What do you wear at a party that comes to a point but has no point? Answer: A party hat
61. What gets tossed in the air at a party and found in the couch for months? Answer: Confetti
62. In what game does one seat go missing every time the music stops? Answer: Musical chairs
63. What game do you win by being the person nobody can find? Answer: Hide and seek
64. What gets passed around the circle fast because nobody wants to be holding it when the music stops? Answer: The hot potato
65. What sleepover fight leaves feathers on the floor and nobody hurt? Answer: A pillow fight
66. What do you roast on a stick until it turns gold, or until it catches fire? Answer: A marshmallow
67. What do you say to make everyone smile for a photo, even though it's a food? Answer: Cheese
68. What can you drink at a party even though it sounds like it should hurt? Answer: Punch
69. What does the dog always get blamed for eating? Answer: Your homework
70. What makes mistakes disappear and gets smaller every time it does? Answer: An eraser
71. What king is best at measuring things? Answer: A ruler
72. Why was the math book so sad? Answer: It had too many problems
73. Which letter of the alphabet is always asking a question? Answer: Y
74. 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
75. What flies all day long but never leaves its pole? Answer: A flag
76. What tells time by running out of sand? Answer: An hourglass
77. What picture do you have to build before you can see it? Answer: A jigsaw puzzle
78. What has two wheels, two pedals and a bell, and falls over as soon as it stops? Answer: A bicycle
79. What has stripes and a whistle and runs the whole game without ever scoring? Answer: A referee
80. What can you catch just by watching someone open their mouth wide? Answer: A yawn
81. What vegetable can make you cry without saying one mean word? Answer: An onion
82. What wears a yellow jacket, grows in a bunch and makes cartoon characters slip? Answer: A banana
83. What is always coming but never arrives? Answer: Tomorrow
84. What sound keeps the whole house awake but never wakes the person making it? Answer: Snoring
85. What is always lost in the couch right when your show is starting? Answer: The TV remote
86. Where can you find a pitcher that holds no water and a plate nobody eats from? Answer: A baseball field
87. What has branches but no leaves, and keeps other people's money? Answer: A bank
88. What can you spend, save, waste, tell and run out of? Answer: Time
89. What has six pockets but has never worn pants? Answer: A pool table
90. What do you set at night, hate in the morning, and hit to buy nine more minutes? Answer: Your alarm clock
91. What do you check a hundred times a day, though it has never once checked on you? Answer: Your phone
92. What does your landlord raise every year without lifting a finger? Answer: The rent
93. What could that hour-long meeting have been? Answer: An email
94. What ladder do you climb without ever leaving your desk? Answer: The corporate ladder (or career ladder)
95. What do you break at a party to get strangers talking? Answer: The ice
96. What do you file every spring, dread all winter and sometimes get money back from? Answer: Your taxes
97. What grows on a palm tree and is also something you go on with someone you like? Answer: A date
98. What always starts on Monday and is over by Wednesday's donuts? Answer: A diet
99. What membership do people pay for all year and use in January? Answer: A gym membership
100. What do you make on January first and break by February? Answer: A New Year's resolution
101. What list gets longer every time you cross something off? Answer: Your to-do list
102. What relatives did you get for free on your wedding day? Answer: Your in-laws
103. What do couples fight over every night, even though it covers them both? Answer: The blanket
104. What do you drink to start working and spill the moment you wear white? Answer: Coffee
105. What lies in a cellar for years getting better, until somebody pulls its cork? Answer: Wine
106. What comes at the end of every restaurant meal, though nobody ordered it? Answer: The check (or the bill)
107. What do you leave on the table on purpose when you walk out of a restaurant? Answer: The tip
108. What can you book for dinner but never read? Answer: A table
109. What ride at the airport is only for suitcases? Answer: The baggage carousel
110. What little book gets you out of the country and has the worst photo of you ever taken? Answer: Your passport
111. What is the one device in the house that two people set to two different temperatures? Answer: The thermostat
112. What drawer in every kitchen holds batteries, tape, one birthday candle and nothing you're looking for? Answer: The junk drawer
113. What do you have a whole cabinet of, though none of them has a lid that fits? Answer: Food containers
114. What do you make up yourself, type every day and still forget? Answer: Your password
115. What do you agree to every time without reading a word of it? Answer: The terms and conditions
116. What fix does tech support always try first? Answer: Turning it off and on again
117. What can you throw, crash and leave early? Answer: A party
118. What gets tied at a wedding even though nobody brought rope? Answer: The knot
119. What can you eat at breakfast and raise at a wedding? Answer: A toast
120. What card game can you lose with nobody else playing? Answer: Solitaire
121. What chess piece can only move forward but dreams of becoming a queen? Answer: A pawn
122. What puzzle hands you clues going across and down, though no crime took place? Answer: A crossword
123. What dance move is also something you do to a chip? Answer: The dip
124. What arrives every month without an invitation and always asks for money? Answer: A bill

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.

Questions people ask

What are some good easy riddles?

Five from this list: What is full of holes but still holds water? (A sponge) What has feathers, a wake-up call and no snooze button? (A rooster) What do people sing to right before they cut it into pieces? (A birthday cake) What sound keeps the whole house awake but never wakes the person making it? (Snoring) What can you book for dinner but never read? (A table)

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