Classic Riddles
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An Egg
You see a boat filled with people. It hasn’t sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person. Why?
All the people were married.
What can be broken but never held
A promise
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
your name
What comes after 3 but before 5 and is not 4?
The number 3.5
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What am I?
Seven
Why did the math book look sad?
It had too many problems
What has no body and no nose but can still smell?
Nobody knows
What 3-digit number has the same digit in the hundreds, tens, and ones place, and is divisible by 3 and 9?
999
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A penny
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps
What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?
Frostbite
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
A palm
Add me to myself and multiply by 4. Divide me by 8, and you will have me once more
Any number((algebra works!)
What can you catch but not throw?
A cold
Two fathers and two sons go fishing. Each catches one fish, but they come home with only three fish. How is this possible?
They are grandfather, father, and son.
What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Silence
What has a bottom at the top?
Your legs
Two people were born on the same day of the same month in the same year, but they’re not twins. How is that possible?
They’re triplets (or more)
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano
A plane crashes on the border between the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
Nowhere—survivors aren’t buried.
I’m not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Fire
What’s the end of everything?
The letter "g"
Why can't your nose be 12 inches long
Because then it would be a foot