Best Riddles
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A Penny
When will water stop running downhill?
When it gets to the bottom
I am strong enough to smash ships, but I fear the Sun. What am I?
Ice
A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.
Who am I?
A daughter
There are two monkeys on a tree and one jumps off. Why does the other monkey jump too?
Monkey see monkey do
What room do Ghosts avoid?
The Living Room
You live in a one-story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?
there aren't any stairs in a one-story house
I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?
a chick in an egg
I craft crowns of gold and bridges of silver. Who am I?
A Dentist
I have wings, I am able to fly, I‘m not a bird yet I soar high in the sky. What am I?
An Airplane
What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
Your name
Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?
9, all the sister share the same brother
6 girls
1 boy
2 parents
I have six faces, I do not wear makeup, I have twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What am I?
dice
I soar without wings, I see without eyes. I've traveled the universe to and fro. I've conquered the world, yet I've never been anywhere but home.
Who am I?
Your Imagination
If a car key opens a car and a house key opens a house, then what kind of key opens a banana?
A monkey
What is more useful when it is broken?
An egg
What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
Your left hand
I always follow you around, everywhere you go at night. I look very bright to people, but I can make the sun dark. I can be in many different forms and shapes. What am I?
The moon
When I left on my journey, I didn't know where I was going; when I got there, I didn't know where I was; when I returned, I didn't know where I had been.
Who was I?
Christopher Columbus
When does April come before January?
In the dictionary
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
When might your coat pocket be empty, and yet have something in it?
When there is a whole in it
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?
Fire
I carry a lot of secrets, happy or sad, I drive or walk to my destination rain or shine to make sure I give you what is truly yours. Everything that I bring with me is destined for only one place which is decided in advance. Who am I?
A mailman
What is often on the ground getting stepped on by others, but you don’t have to wash it because it never get dirty, in fact you couldn’t wash it even if you tried?
Your Shadow