ENGLISH CLUB ACTIVITY: RIDDLE RACE
20 English Riddles (Easy – Medium – Hard)
■ EASY (Level 1 – Fun Warm Up)
1. What has hands but can’t clap?
2. What has to be broken before you can use it?
3. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
4. What has a neck but no head?
5. What gets wetter the more it dries?
6. What can you catch but not throw?
7. What has eyes but can’t see?
8. What runs but never walks?
9. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
10. What has keys but can’t open locks?
■ MEDIUM (Level 2 – Think Deeper)
11. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
12. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
13. What has many words but never speaks?
14. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
15. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
■ HARD (Level 3 – Brain Twister!)
16. I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
17. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am
I?
18. The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. What is it?
19. I’m taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I
am used by almost everyone. What am I?
20. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
■ ANSWERS
No Answer
1 A clock
2 An egg
3 A clock/watch
4 A bottle
5 A towel
6 A cold
7 A potato or a needle
8 Water or a river
9 Your name
10 A piano or a keyboard
11 A candle
12 Footsteps
13 A book
14 The letter 'M'
15 A bank
16 Fire
17 A map
18 A coffin
19 Pencil lead (graphite)
20 The word 'ton' ('not' backward)