A riddle is a fun type of Brain Teasers that exists as a question or statement to be solved.
Usually, riddles are worded in a puzzling or misleading way. Many have a double or hidden meaning that requires creative, outside the box thinking. Their answers are often unexpected, so the reader must think very carefully when solving them.
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Riddles with answers
“Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?”
Answer: A candle.
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“Riddle: Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?”
Answer: A map.
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“Riddle: There is a rooster sitting on top of a barn. If it laid an egg, which way would it roll?”
Answer: Roosters don’t lay eggs.
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“Riddle: What five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?”
Answer: Short (short+er).
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“Riddle: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?”
Answer: Silence.
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“Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?”
Answer: Your legs.
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“Riddle: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?”
Answer: A clock.
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“Riddle: How many months have 28 days?”
Answer: All 12 of them do.
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“Riddle: What’s black and white and read all over?”
Answer: A newspaper.
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“Riddle: What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?”
Answer: Wrong.
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“Riddle: I have no life, but I can die. What am I?”
Answer: A battery.
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“Riddle: What gets wetter as it dries?”
Answer: A towel.
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“Riddle: 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 single brother.
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“Riddle: You walk into a room which contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. What would you light first?”
Answer: The match.
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“Riddle: What has four wheels and flies?”
Answer: A garbage truck.
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“Riddle: What has many keys, but cannot open a single door?”
Answer: A piano.
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“Riddle: What has a bed but never sleeps, can run but never walks, and has a bank but no money?”
Answer: A river.
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“Riddle: The more you take the more you leave behind. What are they?”
Answer: Footsteps.
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“Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?”
Answer: A sponge.
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“Riddle: Who can shave 25 times a day but still have a beard?”
Answer: A barber.
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“Riddle: What begins with T, finishes with T, and has “T” in it?”
Answer: A teapot.
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“Riddle: Which weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?”
Answer: They weigh the same.
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“Riddle: Everyone has it and no one can lose it; what is it?”
Answer: A shadow.
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“Riddle: What goes up but never goes back down?”
Answer: Your age.
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“Riddle: What has one head, one foot, and four legs?”
Answer: A bed.
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“Riddle: What begins with an E but only has one letter in it?”
Answer: An envelope.
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“Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?”
Answer: Seven.
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“Riddle: After a train crashed, every single person died. Who survived?”
Answer: All of the couples.
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“Riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away?”
Answer: A hole.
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“Riddle: Three men were in a boat. It capsized, but only two got their hair wet. Why?”
Answer: One was bald.
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“Riddle: What 2 things can you never eat for breakfast”
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
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“Riddle: You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I?”
Answer: The letter 'R'.
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