Best Riddles and Puzzle
If you bored and want to do something interesting? What is better than solving some riddles and puzzles? These puzzles will give some much needed brain exercise.

You can start with 5 Funny and Easy Riddles before you go through these 101 riddles and puzzles.
- Riddle: What can you keep after giving to someone?
Answer: Your word (Promise) - Riddle: I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank

- Riddle: The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness - Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano - Riddle: Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: The dictionary - Riddle: What can’t be put in a saucepan?
Answer: It’s lid - Riddle: What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase - Riddle: It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
Answer: Your name - Riddle: What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
Answer: A potato - Riddle: What has one eye, but can’t see?
Answer: A needle

Fun Riddles for Kids and Adults
- Riddle: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river - Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light - Riddle: If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror - Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps - Riddle: People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money - Riddle: What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Answer: Day, and night - Riddle: What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
Answer: A road - Riddle: I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
Answer: A map - Riddle: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence. - Riddle: What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “g” - Riddle: What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
Answer: Stone - Riddle: I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?
Answer: Few - Riddle: What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?
Answer: Chicago - Riddle: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: The word “not” - Riddle: What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
Answer: NOON - Riddle: I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
Answer: Also the letter “e” - Riddle: Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
Answer: The letter “r” - Riddle: You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e” - Riddle: What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
Answer: The letter “o” - Riddle: A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?
Answer: Dozens
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Fun Riddle for All
- Riddle: What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope - Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short - Riddle: If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?
Answer: You have two apples. - Riddle: The day before yesterday I was 21, and next year I will be 24. When is my birthday?
Answer: December 31; today is January 1. - Riddle: Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
Answer: They are a grandfather, father and son. - Riddle: Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: Neither—they both weigh a ton. - Riddle: If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine - Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven - Riddle: What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck - Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs - Riddle: What kind of coat is best put on wet?
Answer: A coat of paint - Riddle: It stalks the countryside with ears that can’t hear. What is it?
Answer: Corn - Riddle: What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards - Riddle: What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue - Riddle: What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library - Riddle: Where does one wall meet the other wall?
Answer: On the corner - Riddle: What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin - Riddle: What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
Answer: A stamp - Riddle: What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?
Answer: A fence - Riddle: What has words, but never speaks?
Answer: A book
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Best Riddles For Kids
- Riddle: What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table - Riddle: What has hands, but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock - Riddle: What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?
Answer: A Christmas tree - Riddle: What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck - Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs - Riddle: What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?
Answer: One, two and three - Riddle: Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Mary have?
Answer: Five—each daughter has the same brother. - Riddle: A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going home, all but three break. How many eggs are left unbroken?
Answer: Three - Riddle: A man describes his daughters, saying, “They are all blonde, but two; all brunette but two; and all redheaded but two.” How many daughters does he have?
Answer: Three: A blonde, a brunette and a redhead - Riddle: If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?
Answer: You have two apples. - Riddle: A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Answer: Four sisters and three brothers - Riddle: What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
Answer: The letter “o” - Riddle: You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e” - Riddle: Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
Answer: The letter “r” - Riddle: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue - Riddle: What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “g” - Riddle: What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
Answer: Stone - Riddle: I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?
Answer: Few - Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light - Riddle: If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror

- Riddle: A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting?
Answer: The man’s son - Riddle: What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?
Answer: Nothing - Riddle: With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?
Answer: A stapler - Riddle: I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
Answer: A map - Riddle: I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?
Answer: A key - Riddle: People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money - Riddle: What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Answer: Day, and night - Riddle: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue - Riddle: A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going home, all but three break. How many eggs are left unbroken?
Answer: Three - Riddle: Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: Neither—they both weigh a ton. - Riddle: I’m always on the dinner table, but you don’t get to eat me. What am I?
Answer: Plates and silverware - Riddle: What is bright orange with green on top and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A Carrot - Riddle: What’s really easy to get into, and hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble - Riddle: What can you hear, but not see or touch, even though you control it?
Answer: Your Voice - Riddle: A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. Why?
Answer: She fell off the bottom step. - Riddle: I am often following you and copying your every move. Yet you can never touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: A Shadow
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- Riddle: What has hands, but can’t clap?
Answer: A Clock - Riddle: I add lots of flavor and have many layers, but if you get to close I’ll make you cry. What am I?
Answer: An Onion - Riddle: What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A Table - Riddle: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A Promise - Riddle: I run along your property and all around the backyard, yet I never move. What am I?
Answer: A fence - Riddle: I have to be opened, but I don’t have a lid or a key to get in. What am I?
Answer: An Egg - Riddle: Tom’s father has three sons: Jim, John, and what’s the third one’s name?
Answer: Tom - Riddle: What can you catch, but not throw?
Answer: Cold - Riddle: What kind of cup doesn’t hold water?
Answer: Cupcake or hiccup - Riddle: I am always in front of you and never behind you. What am I?
Answer: Your Future - Riddle: What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A Rubber Band - Riddle: Which month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them - Riddle: I have many teeth, but I cannot bite. What am I?
Answer: A Comb - Riddle: How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Answer: The Egg won’t crack the concrete floor! - Riddle: If there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have?
Answer: The 4 you took.
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