Riddles: Easy
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg
David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?
Answer: David
What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
Answer: A potato
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow
What has one eye, but can’t see?
Answer: A needle
If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine
What begins with an "e" and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope
What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano
What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?
A Christmas tree
What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?
Answer: One, two and three
A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?
Answer: Dozens
What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Answer: Your right elbow
What has hands, but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock
Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Mary have?
Answer: Five—each daughter has the same brother.
What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
Answer: The letter “o”
What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard
What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table
Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer:Neither—they both weigh a ton.
You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e”