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 can you spread on toast that also describes traffic stuck in a queue?

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?

Inside your head, I store things you have learned without books or shelves. What am I?

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?