Riddles / Brain Teasers
Easy Riddles
Easy Riddles
1. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
2. Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What
am I?
3. Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them
4. Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?
5. Riddle: What question can you never answer yes to?
6. Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
7. Riddle: There’s a one-storey house in which everything is yellow.
Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
8. Riddle. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch
it?
9. Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
10. Riddle: A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or
hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
ANSWERS
1. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg
2. Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old.
What am I?
Answer: A candle
3. Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them
4. Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
5. Riddle: What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
6. Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
7. Riddle: There’s a one-storey house in which everything is
yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color
are the stairs?
Answer: There aren’t any—it’s a one-storey house.
8. Riddle. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or
touch it?
Answer: A promise
9. Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
10. Riddle: A man who was outside in the rain without an
umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
Answer: He was bald.
SET 2
11. Riddle: What can you keep after giving to someone?
12. Riddle: I shave every day, but my beard stays the same.
What am I?
14. Riddle: You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a
single person on board. How is that possible?
15. Riddle: You walk into a room that contains a match, a
kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light
first?
16. Riddle: A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this
possible?
17. Riddle: I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What
am I?
18. Riddle: What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
19. Riddle: The more of this there is, the less you see. What is
it?
20. Riddle: It belongs to you, but other people use it more than
you do. What is it?
21. 21. Riddle: Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of
feathers?
22. Riddle: Three doctors said that Raman was their brother.
Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Raman
actually have?
[Link]: Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are
only three people in the car. How?
24. Riddle: The day before yesterday I was 21, and next year I
will be 24. When is my birthday?
ANSWERS
12. Riddle: What can you keep after giving to someone?
13. Riddle: I shave every day, but my beard stays the same.
What am I?
Answer: A barber
14. Riddle: You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a
single person on board. How is that possible?
Answer: All the people on the boat are married.
15. Riddle: You walk into a room that contains a match, a
kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light
first?
Answer: The match
16. Riddle: A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this
possible?
Answer: He was born on February 29.
17. Riddle: I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What
am I?
Answer: A bank
18. Riddle: What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo
19. Riddle: The more of this there is, the less you see. What is
it?
Answer: Darkness
20. Riddle: It belongs to you, but other people use it more than
you do. What is it?
Answer: Your name
21. Riddle: Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of
feathers?
Answer: Neither—they both weigh a ton.
22. Riddle: Three doctors said that Raman was their brother.
Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Raman
actually have?
Answer: Three
[Link]: 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.
24. 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.