Riddles 1
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
What gets wet while drying?
A towel
David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?
Answer: David
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window
What month of the year has 28 days?
All of them
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
Answer: A barber
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness
What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard
If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Answer: Second place
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.
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
Answer: All the people on the boat are married.
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow
What gets bigger when more is taken away?
Answer: A hole
It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
Answer: Your name
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.
A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
Answer: He was born on February 29.
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano
What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: Stairs
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Your breath
Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: The dictionary