Easy Riddles
What has a neck, but no head?
A bottle
Every night I’m told what to do, and each morning I do what i’m told. But I still don’t escape your scold. What am I?
An alarm clock.
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven
What goes in the water black and comes out red?
Lobster
Ask this question all day long, but always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers will be correct. What is the question?
What time is it?
What has a head but no brain?
Lettuce.
What has many rings but no fingers?
A phone.
What do the numbers 11, 69 and 88 all have in common?
They all read the same way when placed upside down.
I can jump, I can swim, I swing from tree to tree and I make a house much bigger than myself.
What am I?
Spider
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
A palm!
What comes down but never goes up?
Rain
I sometimes run, but I can’t walk. What am I?
Nose
What three numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?
Zero
What king can you make if you take the head of a lamb, the middle of a pig,
the hind of a buffalo, and the tail of a dragon?
Lion
I love to dance and twist. I shake my tail as I sail away. When I fly wingless into the sky. What am I?
A kite
The more you take, the more you leave behind.
What am I?
Footsteps
It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can’t go inside. What is it?
A keyboard
A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years. How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?
Nine years.
A man walks out of a house that has four walls all facing north.
A bird walks past him. What is it?
Penguin
You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk. But when you look back, you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?
All the people on board are married.
I am easy to lift, but hard to throw. What am I?
A feather
What can you break without touching it?
A promise
If a zookeeper had 100 pairs of animals in her zoo, and two pairs of babies are born for each one of the original animals, then (sadly) 23 animals don’t survive, how many animals do you have left in total?
977 animals (100 x 2 = 200; 200 + 800 = 1000; 1000 – 23 = 977)
I have three heads. Cut off one, I become stronger.
Cut off two, I become ten. What am I?
Fox
What do you buy to eat but never consume?
Cutlery