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Five from this list: What has lots of eyes but can't see a thing? (A potato) What kind of jam makes you late for school? (A traffic jam) Which letter of the alphabet is always asking a question? (Y) The butcher is six feet tall and wears size twelve shoes. What does he weigh? (Meat) What list gets longer every time you cross something off? (Your to-do list)

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What building has the most stories? Answer: A library
What room can you eat? Answer: A mushroom
What has four wheels and flies? Answer: A garbage truck
How many months have 28 days? Answer: All twelve
What kind of band never plays music but snaps if you stretch it too far? Answer: A rubber band
What two things can you never eat for breakfast? Answer: Lunch and dinner
What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary? Answer: The word "wrong"
What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it? Answer: A teapot
What invention lets you look straight through a wall? Answer: A window
What has ears but can't hear, and grows taller than you in a field? Answer: Corn
What kind of tree fits in your hand? Answer: A palm tree
What has lots of eyes but can't see a thing? Answer: A potato
What kind of key opens a banana? Answer: A monkey
What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Answer: Nacho cheese
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.
How do you spell candy with just two letters? Answer: C and Y
If two is company and three is a crowd, what are four and five? Answer: Nine
What can jump higher than a house? Answer: Almost anything. Houses can't jump.
Which is faster, hot or cold? Answer: Hot. Anyone can catch a cold.
What do you call a sleeping dinosaur? Answer: A dino-snore
What room do ghosts stay out of? Answer: The living room
Why was six afraid of seven? Answer: Because seven ate nine
What kind of nut has a hole, no shell and sometimes sprinkles? Answer: A doughnut
What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? Answer: A stick
What kind of dog never bites and comes in a bun? Answer: A hot dog
I'm an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I? Answer: Seven
Lily's mom has four kids. Three are named April, May and June. What is the fourth one's name? Answer: Lily
How many seconds are there in a year? Answer: Twelve: January second, February second, and so on
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
What do you sit on, sleep on and brush your teeth with? Answer: A chair, a bed and a toothbrush
What color is the wind? Answer: Blew
What do you call a snowman in July? Answer: A puddle
What did the zero say to the eight? Answer: Nice belt
What did the ocean say to the beach? Answer: Nothing. It just waved.
Why do bees have sticky hair? Answer: They use honeycombs
What do you lose every time you stand up? Answer: Your lap
What horse wears striped pajamas all day? Answer: A zebra
What takes its trunk everywhere but never packs a thing? Answer: An elephant
What paddles around the pond with a bill it never has to pay? Answer: A duck
What has a mouse that no cat will chase? Answer: A computer
Which bird always wants to know who's there? Answer: An owl
What has feathers, a wake-up call and no snooze button? Answer: A rooster
What do you call a deer with no eyes? Answer: No idea
What fish costs the most? Answer: A goldfish
What kind of jam makes you late for school? Answer: A traffic jam
What kind of bow shows up after the rain and can never be tied? Answer: A rainbow
What kind of star walks on a red carpet? Answer: A movie star
What bird can lift the most weight? Answer: A crane
What dog always knows what time it is? Answer: A watchdog
What kind of horse only comes out after bedtime? Answer: A nightmare
What kind of flower grows right under your nose? Answer: Tulips
What kind of driver has no license and lives in a toolbox? Answer: A screwdriver
What animal lives in a pen but can't write a word? Answer: A pig
What can you wear on your finger and hear from a phone? Answer: A ring
What flies around at night and also hits home runs? Answer: A bat
What calf has never lived on a farm and goes wherever you walk? Answer: The one on your leg
What nails should you never hit with a hammer? Answer: Your fingernails
What goes into the washing machine as a pair and comes out alone? Answer: A sock
What says welcome all day and gets walked on for it? Answer: A doormat
What sits on your nose, hangs on your ears and gets lost on top of your head? Answer: Glasses
What roll can't be eaten and always runs out when you need it most? Answer: Toilet paper
What comes to the party in a square box and gets cut into triangles, even though it's round? Answer: A pizza
What gets hit with a stick at a party and pays everyone back in candy? Answer: A piñata
What animal gets a new tail at birthday parties from kids wearing blindfolds? Answer: The donkey
What do people sing to right before they cut it into pieces? Answer: A birthday cake
What do you wear at a party that comes to a point but has no point? Answer: A party hat
What gets tossed in the air at a party and found in the couch for months? Answer: Confetti
What sleepover fight leaves feathers on the floor and nobody hurt? Answer: A pillow fight
What do you say to make everyone smile for a photo, even though it's a food? Answer: Cheese
What can you drink at a party even though it sounds like it should hurt? Answer: Punch
What kind of music are balloons afraid of? Answer: Pop music
Why didn't the skeleton go to the party? Answer: He had no body to go with
How do you throw a party in outer space? Answer: You planet
What did the cake say to the knife? Answer: You want a piece of me?
What does the dog always get blamed for eating? Answer: Your homework
What king is best at measuring things? Answer: A ruler
Why was the math book so sad? Answer: It had too many problems
Which letter of the alphabet is always asking a question? Answer: Y
Which three letters can sting you, blink at you and fill your cup? Answer: B, I and T
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
In a one-story house where everything is yellow, what color are the stairs? Answer: There are no stairs
If you threw a white stone into the Red Sea, what would it become? Answer: Wet
In which month do people sleep the least? Answer: February. It has the fewest nights.
When is a car not a car? Answer: When it turns into a driveway
What instrument do you keep in the bathroom? Answer: A tuba toothpaste
What does a cloud wear under its raincoat? Answer: Thunderwear
What did the left eye say to the right eye? Answer: Between us, something smells
What do you call a bee that can't make up its mind? Answer: A maybe
How much did the pirate pay to get his ears pierced? Answer: A buck an ear
Why did the teddy bear say no to dessert? Answer: It was already stuffed
What do you call a bear with no teeth? Answer: A gummy bear
What do you call a dinosaur with a big vocabulary? Answer: A thesaurus
What can you catch just by watching someone open their mouth wide? Answer: A yawn
What fruit never goes anywhere alone? Answer: A pear
What sound keeps the whole house awake but never wakes the person making it? Answer: Snoring
What is always lost in the couch right when your show is starting? Answer: The TV remote
Where can you find a pitcher that holds no water and a plate nobody eats from? Answer: A baseball field
What kind of coat can only be put on wet? Answer: A coat of paint
What tastes better than it smells? Answer: Your tongue
What five-letter word gets shorter when you add two letters to it? Answer: Short
What word has three syllables and twenty-six letters? Answer: Alphabet
What begins with an E, ends with an E, and usually holds just one letter? Answer: An envelope
What sits at the bottom of the sea and shakes? Answer: A nervous wreck
What did the grape do when it got stepped on? Answer: It let out a little wine
What do lawyers wear to court? Answer: Lawsuits
What kind of ship has two mates, no captain and an anniversary? Answer: A relationship
How many times can you subtract five from twenty-five? Answer: Once. After that it's twenty.
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
How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it? Answer: Easily. Concrete floors are very hard to crack.
The butcher is six feet tall and wears size twelve shoes. What does he weigh? Answer: Meat
What seven-letter word has hundreds of letters in it? Answer: Mailbox
What kind of running means you'll be walking? Answer: Running out of gas
What kind of stones are never found in the ocean? Answer: Dry ones
What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer? Answer: One sells watches and the other watches cells
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.
What is the difference between a teacher and a train conductor? Answer: One trains minds and the other minds trains
I saw a cruise ship packed with people, yet there wasn't a single person on board. How? Answer: They were all married
How many birthdays does a ninety-year-old have? Answer: One. The rest are anniversaries.
What can you draw without a pencil and then soak in? Answer: A bath
What has six pockets but has never worn pants? Answer: A pool table
What state is round at both ends and high in the middle? Answer: Ohio
What do you call a number that can't sit still? Answer: A roamin' numeral
What do you call a line of rabbits hopping backward? Answer: A receding hare line
What do you call a belt made out of watches? Answer: A waist of time
What is the leading cause of dry skin? Answer: Towels
What did the buffalo say when his son left for college? Answer: Bison
A sandwich walks into a bar. What does the bartender say? Answer: Sorry, we don't serve food here
What is the difference between ignorance and apathy? Answer: I don't know and I don't care
What is the difference between a badly dressed man on a tricycle and a well dressed man on a bicycle? Answer: Attire
Two antennas got married. How was the wedding? Answer: The ceremony was dull, but the reception was great
What do you set at night, hate in the morning, and hit to buy nine more minutes? Answer: Your alarm clock
What do you check a hundred times a day, though it has never once checked on you? Answer: Your phone
What does your landlord raise every year without lifting a finger? Answer: The rent
What could that hour-long meeting have been? Answer: An email
At a meeting, what can run for pages and still be only minutes? Answer: The minutes
What do you hand your boss that takes two weeks to work? Answer: Your notice
What bar serves no drinks and can take years to pass? Answer: The bar exam
What bar gets lower every round, and nobody orders a drink at it? Answer: The limbo bar
What has thirty years of interest and no curiosity at all? Answer: A mortgage
What grows on a palm tree and is also something you go on with someone you like? Answer: A date
What always starts on Monday and is over by Wednesday's donuts? Answer: A diet
What membership do people pay for all year and use in January? Answer: A gym membership
What list gets longer every time you cross something off? Answer: Your to-do list
What relatives did you get for free on your wedding day? Answer: Your in-laws
What is the most expensive party you'll ever throw, where you barely get to eat? Answer: Your wedding
What do couples fight over every night, even though it covers them both? Answer: The blanket
What do you drink to start working and spill the moment you wear white? Answer: Coffee
What do you nurse the morning after a big night, though it will never grow up? Answer: A hangover
What comes at the end of every restaurant meal, though nobody ordered it? Answer: The check (or the bill)
What can you book for dinner but never read? Answer: A table
What ride at the airport is only for suitcases? Answer: The baggage carousel
What little book gets you out of the country and has the worst photo of you ever taken? Answer: Your passport
What is the one device in the house that two people set to two different temperatures? Answer: The thermostat
What drawer in every kitchen holds batteries, tape, one birthday candle and nothing you're looking for? Answer: The junk drawer
What do you have a whole cabinet of, though none of them has a lid that fits? Answer: Food containers
What do you make up yourself, type every day and still forget? Answer: Your password
What do you agree to every time without reading a word of it? Answer: The terms and conditions
What fix does tech support always try first? Answer: Turning it off and on again
What can you throw, crash and leave early? Answer: A party
What gets tied at a wedding even though nobody brought rope? Answer: The knot
What can you eat at breakfast and raise at a wedding? Answer: A toast
What dance move is also something you do to a chip? Answer: The dip
What arrives every month without an invitation and always asks for money? Answer: A bill
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.

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What are some good funny riddles?: Five from this list: What has lots of eyes but can't see a thing? (A potato) What kind of jam makes you late for school? (A traffic jam) Which letter of the alphabet is always asking a question? (Y) The butcher is six feet tall and wears size twelve shoes. What does he weigh? (Meat) What list gets longer every time you cross something off? (Your to-do list)