Riddles with answers
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Easy No. 1
I have plenty of teeth, but I never bite. I spend my mornings in your hair. What am I?
Hint: You might find me next to a hairbrush.
A comb.
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Tips for solving riddles
- Look for words with two meanings. A riddle about a "tongue" or "eyes" may be talking about a shoe, not a face.
- Read hard riddles letter by letter. Many of them are about how a word is spelled, not what it means.
- Question the question. Trick riddles hide the answer in an assumption you made without noticing.
All 64 riddles
For reading aloud at the dinner table or in class. Each answer is folded away until you open it.
Easy riddles
I have plenty of teeth, but I never bite. I spend my mornings in your hair. What am I?
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A comb.
I'm full of holes, yet I stop the pasta from going down the sink. What am I?
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A colander.
When the rain comes down, I go up. When the sun comes out, I fold away. What am I?
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An umbrella.
I have a spine but no bones, and inside me there are lots of stories. What am I?
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A book.
I'm yellow and curved, and I come in my own wrapper that you peel off. What am I?
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A banana.
I have one eye, but I can't see a thing. I help mend the holes in your socks. What am I?
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A needle.
I'm a house you carry on your back, if you happen to be very slow. What am I?
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A shell.
I'm black and white and people cross me all day long, but I'm not an animal. What am I?
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A zebra crossing.
I get a little smaller every time you take a bath with me. What am I?
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A bar of soap.
I have four legs, but I never walk anywhere. You eat your dinner on top of me. What am I?
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A table.
I fall from the sky in winter. I'm cold and white, and you can build a person out of me. What am I?
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Snow.
I have a head and a tail but no body. People flip me to make decisions. What am I?
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A coin.
I'm orange, I grow underground, and rabbits think I'm delicious. What am I?
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A carrot.
You can crack me, tell me and play me, and I'm the reason this website exists. What am I?
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A joke.
I have a neck but no head, and I sometimes wear a cap. What am I?
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A bottle.
I'm a bat, but I never fly and I never sleep upside down. What am I?
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A cricket bat or a baseball bat.
I'm a star, but you won't find me in the sky. I live at the bottom of the sea. What am I?
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A starfish.
I used to crawl along on lots of little legs. Now I fly on colourful wings. What am I?
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A butterfly.
I'm white and fluffy and I float above your head. When I cry, you need an umbrella. What am I?
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A cloud.
I ring and I buzz, but I'm not a bell or a bee, and I sit in your pocket all day. What am I?
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A phone.
I have a lid, a spout and a handle, and I whistle or click when I'm ready. What am I?
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A kettle.
I'm a vegetable with lots of layers, and I make people cry when they cut me. What am I?
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An onion.
Medium riddles
The more of me you take, the more of me you leave behind. What am I?
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Footsteps.
I do my job by drying things, yet the harder I work, the wetter I get. What am I?
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A towel.
I have cities but no houses, rivers but no water, and forests without a single tree. What am I?
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A map.
On a present I'm a decoration, on a violin I make music, and an archer uses me to shoot. What am I?
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A bow.
You can hold me in your right hand, but never in your left. What am I?
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Your left hand (or your left elbow).
I have a tongue but I can't taste, and eyes but I can't see. I go wherever you walk. What am I?
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A shoe.
I get shorter every time I do my job, and I leave a grey trail wherever I go. What am I?
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A pencil.
I'm a staircase that does the walking for you. What am I?
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An escalator.
I'm round and sweet, there's a hole in my middle, and I'm not a ring. What am I?
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A doughnut.
I have a mouth at both ends but I never eat. I'm long and hollow, and you sip through me. What am I?
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A straw.
I fly without wings whenever the wind lets me, but someone always holds my string. What am I?
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A kite.
I have needles but I never sew, and I stay green when the snow falls. What am I?
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A pine tree.
I'm made entirely of water, yet if you drop me into water I slowly vanish. What am I?
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An ice cube.
You can't hear my bark, you can't pack my trunk, and you can't phone my branches. What am I?
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A tree.
I have two eyes, a bridge in the middle and arms that hold on to your ears. What am I?
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A pair of glasses.
The longer I stand, the shorter I get, and I cry wax tears while I light up the dark. What am I?
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A candle.
People throw me out when they need me and pull me back in when they're finished. What am I?
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An anchor.
I'm full of words but I never say a thing, and I can tell you what every one of them means. What am I?
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A dictionary.
I can travel all the way around the world while staying in one corner. What am I?
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A stamp.
I'm a fruit. Take away my first letter and I become something you hear with. What am I?
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A pear (take away the P and you get ear).
You have to break me before you can use me. What am I?
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An egg.
Hard riddles
I'm a word you stand in. Take away my last four letters and I still sound exactly the same. What am I?
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Queue (take away U-E-U-E and you're left with Q).
I'm an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
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Seven (take away the S).
I contain the vowels A, E, I, O and U, in that order, and I describe someone who isn't being serious. What word am I?
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Facetious.
I hold the soup on the stove. Spell me backwards and I'm the very highest point. What am I?
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A pot (backwards it spells top).
I sound like a single letter, but I'm big enough for whales to swim in. What am I?
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The sea (it sounds like C).
Some months have 30 days and some have 31. How many have 28?
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All twelve of them: every month has a 28th day.
A rooster sits on the very top of a barn roof and lays an egg. Which side does the egg roll down?
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Neither: roosters don't lay eggs.
I'm a two-digit number. My tens digit is twice my ones digit, and my two digits add up to nine. What number am I?
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63.
What letter comes next: J, F, M, A, M, J, J ...?
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A, for August (they're the months of the year).
What letter comes next: O, T, T, F, F, S, S ...?
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E, for eight (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven ...).
Pip's dad has three children: Monday, Tuesday and who?
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Pip.
I'm spelled the same forwards and backwards, and I'm the middle of the day. What am I?
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Noon.
I'm an English word with three double letters in a row, and I look after the accounts. What am I?
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Bookkeeper (oo, kk, ee).
I appear once in Monday, twice in Wednesday and never in week. What am I?
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The letter D.
I'm a vehicle that floats. Take away my first letter and horses will happily eat what's left. What am I?
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A boat (take away the B and you get oat).
I have thirteen hearts, but not one of them beats. What am I?
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A pack of playing cards.
How many letters are there in "the alphabet"?
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Eleven: T-H-E-A-L-P-H-A-B-E-T.
I'm an everyday English word that ends in the letters M and T, and I'm what you did while you were asleep. What am I?
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Dreamt.
If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
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Nine.
If you have me, you want to share me. Once you share me, you don't have me any more. What am I?
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A secret.
The more you take away from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
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A hole.
Questions
The checker said no, but my answer works too. Who's right?
Possibly you. Good riddles often have more than one fair answer, and the checker only knows the ones listed for each riddle. Reveal the answer to see ours, then decide whether yours deserves the point.
What makes a riddle easy, medium or hard?
Easy riddles describe an everyday object in a playful way. Medium ones hide the answer behind words with two meanings. Hard ones are letter and number puzzles and trick questions, where the wording itself is the trap.
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