Riddles With Answers for Kids, Families & Adults

I hold many eggs but I am not a bird. What am I?

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?

What is taken before you get it?

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

What cannot talk but will always reply when spoken to?

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

I form a ring without making a sound, and people look up when I appear. What am I?

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?

What bridge can carry a friendship but not a footstep?

What can reflect the past in your mind but never show you the future?

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 shadow can arrive before the object that makes it?

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 ladder helps you rise but has no rungs?

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 room gets smaller every time more people enter it?

What book writes about you without holding a pen?

What lamp makes a room darker when you turn it on?

What puzzle has no pieces until someone explains the problem?

What chair makes you stand the moment you use it?

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 button starts an argument without being pressed?

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 fish lives in a browser and catches your attention?

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?

What ladder goes sideways instead of up?

What flag never flies but can still warn you?

What cup holds no drink but can still decide a winner?

What train can be lost without leaving a station?

What star is easiest to see after the lights go out?

What rope can hold a story together without tying a knot?

What clock runs on sand but never needs batteries?

What window opens a world but is not made of glass?

What plate never eats but can still be full?

What blanket can cover a whole town but weighs almost nothing?