Classic
I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Nine
What has words but never speaks?
A book
Mary’s father has five daughters: Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono, and ___. What is the fifth daughter’s name?
Mary
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A penny
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
I’m an odd number. Take away one letter, and I become even. What am I?
Seven
Forward, I’m heavy. Backward, I’m not. What am I?
Ton
A plane crashes on the border of the US and Canada. Where do you bury the survivors?
You don’t bury survivors.
The more you take away, the larger I get. What am I?
A hole
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter “M”
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Your right hand
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
The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps
I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit, and my hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What am I?
194
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
A teapot
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.
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers but no water. What am I?
A map
What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock
A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 ran away. How many sheep does he have left?
9
What has one eye but can’t see?
A needle
Two fathers and their sons went fishing, and each one caught a fish, yet the total catch was only three fish. How can this be explained?
There’s a grandfather, a father, and a son.
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for long. What am I?
Breath