Riddles
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house
David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?
If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
A potato
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
What has hands, but can’t clap?
A clock
What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
A table
It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
Your name
What is full of holes but still holds water?
What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window
What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
A staircase
Where does today come before yesterday?
In the dictionary
What question can you never answer yes to?
Are you asleep yet?
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
He was bald
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Your shadow
What gets bigger when more is taken away?
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
What gets wet while drying?
A towel
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
A bank
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
Yarn