Classic Riddles

Can you solve them by yourself?

1. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo

2. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness

3. What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano

4. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future

5. I am tall when I am young and short when I am old. What am I?
Answer: A candle

6. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M”

7. What runs but never walks?
Answer: Water

8. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel

9. What is full of holes but still holds a lot of weight?
Answer: A net

10. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise

11. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light

12. What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard

13. What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name

14. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke

15. What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot

16. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps

17. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain

18. What is always coming, but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow

19. What has a thumb and four fingers, but isn’t alive?
Answer: A glove

20. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke

21. I am not alive, but I grow. I do not have lungs, but I need air. I do not have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire

22. What is always in the future but never in the past?
Answer: Tomorrow

23. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke

24. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole

25. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed

26. What is it that no one wants, but no one wants to lose?
Answer: A lawsuit

27. I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard

28. What comes once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?
Answer: The letter “E”

29. What’s as light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold it for more than a few minutes?
Answer: Your breath

30. What has a face, but no eyes, nose, or mouth?
Answer: A clock

31. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future

32. I have a head, a tail, but no body. What am I?
Answer: A coin

33. What is black and white and read all over?
Answer: A newspaper

34. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano

35. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle

36. What can be heard, but not seen?
Answer: Sound

37. What starts with an E, ends with an E, but only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope

38. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain

39. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence

40. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold

41. The more you have of this, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Fog

42. What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle

43. What has no beginning and no end, but can be found at the start of a journey?
Answer: A circle

44. What can fill a room, but doesn’t take up any space?
Answer: Light

45. What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot

46. What’s black and white and red all over?
Answer: A newspaper

47. What is it that you can’t see but it can see you?
Answer: The future

48. What has teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb

49. What runs but never walks?
Answer: Water

50. What is full of holes but still holds a lot of weight?
Answer: A net

51. What has a head but no body?
Answer: A bottle

52. What is hard to hold but easy to lose?
Answer: Patience

53. What can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch or dinner

54. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle

55. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke

56. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle

57. What is as light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold it for long?
Answer: Breath

58. What is so light that it can’t be seen, yet it can fill a room?
Answer: Air

59. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain

60. What is invisible but you can feel it?
Answer: The wind

61. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age

62. What can travel around the world but stays in one corner?
Answer: A stamp

63. What starts with an E, ends with an E, and contains only one letter?
Answer: An envelope

64. What has a face but no eyes, nose, or mouth?
Answer: A clock

65. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed

66. What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
Answer: A map

67. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future

68. What has a foot but no legs?
Answer: A ruler

69. What is black and white and red all over?
Answer: A newspaper

70. What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle

71. What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t alive?
Answer: A glove

72. What can you hear but never touch or see?
Answer: Sound

73. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano

74. What has a face, but no eyes, nose, or mouth?
Answer: A clock

75. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke

76. What has no beginning or end but can be found at the start of a journey?
Answer: A circle

77. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain

78. What can fill a room, but doesn’t take up any space?
Answer: Light

79. What runs but never walks?
Answer: Water

80. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano

81. What’s always coming, but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow

82. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel

83. What has a head but no body?
Answer: A bottle

84. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold

85. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke

86. What is invisible but you can feel it?
Answer: The wind

87. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano

88. What has no beginning and no end, but can be found at the start of a journey?
Answer: A circle

89. What’s black and white and read all over?
Answer: A newspaper

90. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence

91. What is it that you can’t see but it can see you?
Answer: The future

92. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke

93. What comes in many shapes and sizes but is always in the center of the table?
Answer: A centerpiece

94. What can be seen once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M”

95. What is so light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold it for more than a few minutes?
Answer: Your breath

96. What is hard to hold but easy to lose?
Answer: Patience

97. What has teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb

98. What can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch or dinner

99. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future

100. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole

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