Elementary Riddles With Answers

What has one eye but cannot see?

What travels around the world while staying in one corner?

What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?

What has many ears but cannot hear?

I have many eyes but cannot see. I grow underground. What am I?

My rings tell my age, but I never wear jewelry. What am I?

I seem to change shape through the month, but I stay round. What am I?

I have a head and a foot but no body. I am made of rock. What am I?

There are three apples. You take away two. How many apples do you have?

I can be a solid, liquid or gas, but I am always the same thing. What am I?

I am in the air, invisible, and your body needs me every moment. What am I?

I look like a horn overflowing with fruit and vegetables. What am I?

What is taken before you get it?

What belongs to you but is used more by other people?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

What kind of door opens only when it gets smaller?

I can tell you it is late without showing numbers, hands, or light. What am I?

What box gets lighter as you use what is inside it?

I make sense when I am whole, but I become noise when you split me too much. What am I?

What mountain can fit in your pocket but is too sharp to climb?

What river can run through a city without getting wet?

What breakfast answers you before you ask a question?

I can race across a page, but I have no legs and never leave the paper. What am I?

What library gets bigger every time you forget to write something down?

What word gets heavier when you add four letters to its front?

What garden can grow on a fridge?

What question hides its answer inside itself?

What train can go around all day without ever leaving the room?

What cloud can you fold, carry, and lose in your bag?

In what race does the last person win by staying behind?

What book writes about you without holding a pen?

What puzzle has no pieces until someone explains the problem?

What map changes every day even when it stays on the same wall?

What coin can help you decide but cannot buy anything?

What kind of ice can warm you up?

What wall can you scroll but never climb?

What kind of star is awarded when people judge something?

What paper can cut through silence without making a sound?

What hat helps a group think, even when nobody wears it?

What key can lock you out if you forget it?

What window can show yesterday but never lets in air?

What line can create a crowd without drawing anything?

What fire can cool tempers instead of heating them?

What picture gets louder the more people look at it?

What empty cup can fill a whole room?

What pencil never writes, no matter how sharp it is?

What table has no legs but can still hold lots of information?

What bird can sit on your screen all day and never fly away?

What crown has no king, no queen, and no jewels?

What road starts in your mouth and can lead to an argument?

What rain can fall indoors without making anything wet?

What snake is made of letters and can still be hard to follow?

What home can fit on a key but has no rooms?

What cake tells you how old someone is?

What forest has no trees but can still be full of branches?

What shoe never walks, even when it has a sole?

Which digit can look the same in a mirror when written in a simple symmetrical style?

What sound can you see but not hear?

What bag gets smaller every time you use it?

What moon can you eat before it becomes full?