Easy Riddles
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
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 has one eye, but can’t see?
A needle
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence.
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano
What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
A stamp
Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Neither—they both weigh a ton.
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
A promise
If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?
A secret
What kind of coat is best put on wet?
A coat of paint
Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
The letter “r”
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
A bank
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Your breath
What building has the most stories?
The library
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin
What can you keep after giving to someone?
Your word
Where does today come before yesterday?
The dictionary
What has words, but never speaks?
A book
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
They are a grandfather, father and son.
What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require and all men carry to their graves?
Nothing