Easy Riddles
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
The more you remove from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
A hole
What has keys but can’t open locks?
A piano
I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
What can travel around the world while staying in the same spot?
A stamp
What has words but never speaks?
A book
The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps
What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel
What comes down but never goes up?
Rain
What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock
I go up but never come down. What am I?
Your age
What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
A bed
The more you use me, the more you leave behind. What am I?
An eraser
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
I am taken from a mine and shut inside a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
A pencil lead
What can run but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never talks?
A river
What has an endless supply of letters but starts empty?
A mailbox
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
A barber
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"
I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?
A keyboard
What has four fingers and a thumb but isn’t alive?
A glove
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
A teapot
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence
What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
A map
What has a neck but no head?
A bottle
The more you feed me, the bigger I get. But if you give me water, I die. What am I?
A fire
I am always running, but never move. What am I?
A clock
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
A circle
What comes at the end of everything?
The letter “G”
You measure my life in hours, and I serve you by expiring. What am I?
A candle
I can fly without wings. I can cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
A cloud
What’s lighter than a feather, yet even the strongest man can’t hold it for long?
His breath
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A penny
What gets broken without being held?
A promise
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
An echo