Riddles 1
I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but can’t go outside. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard.
You can hold me in your left hand but not in your right. What am I?
Answer: Your right elbow.
I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo.
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny (coin).
I start with “e”, end with “e”, but usually contain only one letter. What am I?
Answer: An envelope.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps.
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
I have a heart that doesn’t beat. What am I?
Answer: An artichoke (or an artichoke heart). (Common riddle; artichoke is gentle and familiar.)
I fly without wings, I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
Answer: A cloud.
I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A joke.
Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: The word “ton” (forward “ton” = heavy; backward “not”).
I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
Answer: Yarn.
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water. What am I?
Answer: A map.
You see a boat filled with people — yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
Answer: All the people are married.
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I?
Answer: A barber.
Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
Answer: The letter “R”.
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness.
I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead (graphite).
A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why?
Answer: He’s playing Monopoly.
What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
I’m light as a feather, yet even the world’s strongest person couldn’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Breath.