300 Best Riddles (with Answers)
A big fun-packed list of 300 riddles with answers — short, clever, and ready for quizzes, games, or to
impress (or annoy) your friends. Enjoy! If you want these translated into Arabic, turned flirty, or made into a
printable PDF, tell me and I’ll do it. 😄
1. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am
I?
Answer: An echo.
2. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness.
3. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Breath.
4. What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano.
5. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
6. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
7. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
8. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
9. 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.
10. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
11. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
12. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
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13. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
14. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
15. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
16. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
17. I’m full of holes but still hold water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge.
18. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps.
19. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window.
20. What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?
Answer: A river.
21. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
22. What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
Answer: A coat of paint.
23. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly.
24. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase.
25. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb.
26. What can you hold without ever touching it?
Answer: A conversation.
27. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
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28. What has teeth but cannot eat?
Answer: A saw.
29. What has an eye but cannot see and is faster than any man?
Answer: A hurricane.
30. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
31. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.
32. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
33. What starts with an E, ends with an E, but only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope.
34. What can one catch that is not thrown?
Answer: A cold.
35. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
36. What building has the most stories?
Answer: A library.
37. What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
38. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.
39. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo.
40. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: A leg.
41. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise.
42. What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?
Answer: A fence.
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43. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm.
44. What has one head, one foot and four legs?
Answer: A bed.
45. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke.
46. 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 everybody. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead (graphite).
47. I have keys but open no locks, I have space but no room, you can enter but can’t go outside. What
am I?
Answer: A keyboard.
48. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table.
49. What can you serve but never eat?
Answer: A tennis ball (or tennis serve).
50. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
Answer: A road.
51. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke (or a palm tree, but artichoke is classic).
52. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain (or mind).
53. I have a face but no eyes, mouth, or nose. What am I?
Answer: A clock.
54. What can’t be seen, can’t be felt, can’t be heard, can’t be smelt, lies behind stars and under hills, and
empty holes it fills?
Answer: Darkness.
55. What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: A tongue.
56. What has many keys but can’t even open a single door?
Answer: A piano.
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57. What invention lets you see through walls?
Answer: A window.
58. What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?
Answer: Post office.
59. What runs but cannot walk, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.
60. What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep?
61. What begins with an "e" and only contains one letter?
Answer: Envelope.
62. What has holes yet holds water?
Answer: Sponge.
63. I fly without wings, I cry without eyes. Wherever I go darkness follows me. What am I?
Answer: A cloud.
64. What can be caught but not seen?
Answer: A cold (or feelings).
65. What goes up when rain comes down?
Answer: An umbrella.
66. I am not alive but I grow; I don’t have lungs but I need air; I don’t have a mouth but water kills me.
What am I?
Answer: Fire.
67. What room do ghosts avoid?
Answer: The living room.
68. I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
Answer: Yarn.
69. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.
70. What is cut on a table, but is never eaten?
Answer: A deck of cards.
71. What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band.
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72. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
73. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear.
74. What is easy to lift but hard to throw?
Answer: A feather.
75. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.
76. What has cities, forests and rivers but no people?
Answer: A map.
77. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
78. I have a tail and a head but no body. What am I?
Answer: A coin.
79. What goes through glass but never breaks it?
Answer: Light.
80. What kind of cup doesn’t hold water?
Answer: A hiccup.
81. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps.
82. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
83. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
84. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
85. What runs around the yard without moving?
Answer: A fence.
86. What kind of tree fits in your hand?
Answer: A palm.
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87. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
88. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.
89. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
90. What has many rings but no fingers?
Answer: A telephone.
91. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.
92. What is white when it’s dirty and black when it’s clean?
Answer: A chalkboard.
93. What starts with an E, ends with an E, and contains only one letter?
Answer: Envelope.
94. What do you throw away when you want to use it, but take in when you don’t want to use it?
Answer: An anchor.
95. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
96. I go all around the world but always stay in a corner. What am I?
Answer: A stamp.
97. Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: The dictionary.
98. What gets bigger as you take away from it?
Answer: A hole.
99. What can you hold without touching?
Answer: A conversation (or your breath).
100. What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but can’t go outside?
Answer: A keyboard.
101. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.
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102. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
103. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle.
104. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
105. What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
Answer: A stamp.
106. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
107. What runs, yet never walks; has a mouth, but never talks?
Answer: A river.
108. What has a head, a tail, but does not have a body?
Answer: A coin.
109. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke.
110. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps.
111. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.
112. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age.
113. What building has the most stories?
Answer: A library.
114. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel.
115. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
116. What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book.
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117. What kind of key opens a banana?
Answer: A monkey.
118. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
119. What goes up and down stairs without moving?
Answer: A carpet.
120. I have cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
121. What can you break without touching it?
Answer: A promise.
122. I’m light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold me for much longer than a
minute. What am I?
Answer: Breath.
123. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: A leg.
124. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.
125. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps?
Answer: A river.
126. What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle.
127. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
128. What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
Answer: Pride.
129. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke.
130. What can you catch that is not thrown?
Answer: A cold.
131. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
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132. What has a tongue but cannot talk?
Answer: A shoe.
133. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
134. I have teeth but cannot bite. What am I?
Answer: A comb.
135. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
136. What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
Answer: Fire.
137. I have a head and a tail but no body. What am I?
Answer: A coin.
138. What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: A tongue.
139. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
140. What is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: They weigh the same.
141. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
142. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window.
143. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.
144. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb.
145. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
146. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
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147. I go up and down the stairs without moving. What am I?
Answer: A carpet.
148. What can’t be used until it’s broken?
Answer: An egg.
149. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
150. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.
151. What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A potato.
152. What runs around a field but never moves?
Answer: A fence.
153. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
154. What has an end but no beginning, a home but no family, and can leave you stranded?
Answer: A road.
155. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed.
156. What is always hungry and will die if not fed, but eats no food?
Answer: Fire.
157. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.
158. What can be caught but not thrown?
Answer: A cold.
159. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.
160. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no rooms. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What
am I?
Answer: A keyboard.
161. What has cities but no houses, rivers but no water, and forests but no trees?
Answer: A map.
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162. What never asks a question but receives a lot of answers?
Answer: A telephone.
163. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
164. What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book.
165. What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise.
166. What has many keys yet cannot open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
167. What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard.
168. What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: A tongue.
169. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
Answer: A coat of paint.
170. What stands on one leg but can’t walk?
Answer: A flamingo (or a stool).
171. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
172. What runs but never walks?
Answer: Water (or a refrigerator? but classic: water/river).
173. I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?
Answer: The wind.
174. What begins with T ends with T and has T in it?
Answer: Teapot.
175. What can be heard and caught but never seen?
Answer: A remark (or cold).
176. I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?
Answer: The future.
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177. What has a neck but no head, two arms but no hands?
Answer: A shirt.
178. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny.
179. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
180. What breaks on the water but never on land?
Answer: A wave.
181. What goes up but never comes back down?
Answer: Age.
182. What grows when it eats but dies when it drinks?
Answer: Fire.
183. I’m not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
184. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain.
185. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
186. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise.
187. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.
188. What has to be broken before it can be used?
Answer: An egg.
189. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
190. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.
191. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
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192. What is white when it’s dirty and black when it’s clean?
Answer: A chalkboard.
193. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.
194. What has many keys but cannot open any doors?
Answer: A piano.
195. What goes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.
196. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
197. What building has the most stories?
Answer: A library.
198. What can run but never walks?
Answer: Water.
199. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke.
200. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
201. What begins with an E, ends with an E, but only contains one letter?
Answer: Envelope.
202. What can you catch that is not thrown?
Answer: A cold.
203. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
204. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm.
205. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle.
206. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
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207. What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book.
208. What can travel around the world but stays in one spot?
Answer: A stamp.
209. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
210. What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
211. What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano.
212. What runs, but never walks; has a mouth, but never talks?
Answer: A river.
213. What has one head, four legs, and one foot?
Answer: A bed.
214. What can’t be seen, touched, or heard but can be felt and can bring joy or sorrow?
Answer: Emotions.
215. What has an eye but cannot see and spins?
Answer: A hurricane.
216. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb.
217. What falls but never gets hurt?
Answer: Snow.
218. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
219. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel.
220. What do you call a sleeping bull?
Answer: A bulldozer.
221. What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band.
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222. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke.
223. What runs around a house but doesn’t move?
Answer: A fence.
224. What can you hold without ever touching it?
Answer: A conversation.
225. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T inside?
Answer: A teapot.
226. What goes up and down but never moves?
Answer: A staircase.
227. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
228. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
229. What kind of cup doesn’t hold water?
Answer: A hiccup.
230. What is full of holes yet still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
231. What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?
Answer: A river.
232. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
233. What can be broken but never held?
Answer: A promise.
234. What has many keys but can’t open one lock?
Answer: A piano.
235. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
Answer: A road.
236. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle.
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237. I am not alive but I grow; I don’t have lungs but I need air; I don’t have a mouth but water kills me.
What am I?
Answer: Fire.
238. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.
239. What has a head, a tail, is brown and has no legs?
Answer: A penny.
240. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain.
241. What travels around the world but stays in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
242. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.
243. What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer: A clock.
244. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
245. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
246. What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano.
247. What can travel around the world but stays in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
248. What goes up but never comes back down?
Answer: Age.
249. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
250. What goes up and down but never moves?
Answer: A staircase.
251. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
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252. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb.
253. What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle.
254. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.
255. What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
Answer: A coat of paint.
256. What belongs to you but others use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.
257. What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish?
Answer: A map.
258. What has one head, four legs and one foot?
Answer: A bed.
259. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel.
260. What starts with P, ends with E and has thousands of letters?
Answer: Post office.
261. What flies without wings and cries without eyes?
Answer: A cloud.
262. What grows when it eats but dies when it drinks?
Answer: Fire.
263. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke.
264. What can run but never walks?
Answer: Water.
265. What starts with an E, ends with an E, and contains only one letter?
Answer: Envelope.
266. What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
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267. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain.
268. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
269. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
270. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
271. What can be caught but not thrown?
Answer: A cold.
272. What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?
Answer: A river.
273. What has a head and tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
274. What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer: A clock.
275. 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 everybody. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
276. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
277. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel.
278. What is full of holes yet still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
279. What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
Answer: A stamp.
280. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle.
281. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
Answer: A road.
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282. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.
283. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke.
284. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb.
285. What can’t be seen but can be heard and makes people jump?
Answer: A loud noise (or thunder).
286. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
287. What has a tail and a head but no body?
Answer: A coin.
288. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age.
289. What starts with P, ends with E and has thousands of letters?
Answer: Post office.
290. What can be broken but never held?
Answer: A promise.
291. What gets sharp the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain.
292. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: A leg.
293. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
294. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear.
295. What building has the most stories?
Answer: A library.
296. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.
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297. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel.
298. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
299. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb.
300. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
If you want these reordered by difficulty, translated to Arabic, shortened into a printable PDF, or styled with
jokes and flirty lines between riddles, say which option and I’ll update it.
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