The Best Food Riddles

1. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it? / Answer: An egg.
2. Riddle: What begins with T, finishes with T, and has T in it? / Answer: A teapot.
3. Riddle: You bought me for dinner but never eat me. What am I? / Answer: Cutlery.
4. Riddle: If you took two apples from a pile of three apples, how many apples would you
have? / Answer: The one apple you took.
5. Riddle: What kind of vegetables are the most fun at parties? / Answer: Fungi.
6. Riddle: What is the richest nut? / Answer: A cash-ew.
7. Riddle: Why did the fruit salad skip its own wedding? / Answer: It had a lot of can’t-
elope.
8. Riddle: What kind of beer won’t get you drunk? / Answer: Root beer.
9. Riddle: What kind of poultry is always going to the bathroom? / Answer: Chick peas.
10. Riddle: Why did the citrus tree go to the hospital? / Answer: Lemon-aid.
11. Riddle: You cut me, slice me, dice me, and all the while, you cry. What am I? / Answer:
An onion.
12. Riddle: What kind of apples do computers prefer? / Answer: Macintosh.
13. Riddle: What has many ears but cannot hear? / Answer: Corn.
14. Riddle: What did the Mom tomato say to the dawdling Baby tomato? / Answer:
“Ketchup.”
15. Riddle: I’m a bird, a person, and a fruit. What am I? / Answer: A Kiwi.
16. Riddle: What do you call a cat who loves to swim? / Answer: A catfish.
17. Riddle: How many eggs would a rooster lay over three weeks, provided it is adequately
fed and housed? / Answer: Zero. Roosters do not lay eggs.
18. Riddle: I’m red or green and grow on a vine. I’m dried to make raisins and squeezed to
make wine. What am I? / Answer: Grapes.
19. Riddle: When I’m ripe, I’m green, when you eat me, I’m red, and when you spit me out,
I’m black. What am I? / Answer: A watermelon.
20. Riddle: I’m the father of fruits. What am I? / Answer: A papa-ya.

The Best Math Riddles

1. Riddle: If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five? / Answer: Nine!
2. Riddle: After a train crashed, every single person died. Who survived? / Answer: All of
the couples.
3. Riddle: Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle, hard all around. What am I? /
Answer: A bed.
4. Riddle: A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains, what is
it? / Answer: Dozens.
5. Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? / Answer: Footsteps.
6. Riddle: What goes up but never comes back down? / Answer: Your age.
7. Riddle: When things go wrong, what can you always count on? / Answer: Your fingers.
8. Riddle: How many letters are there in the English alphabet? / Answer: 18. Three in
“the,” seven in “English,” and eight in “alphabet.”
9. Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am
I? / Answer: Seven.
 10. Riddle: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? / Answer: A penny.
11. Riddle: What happens once in a lifetime, twice in a moment, but never in one hundred
years? / Answer: The letter “M.”
12. Riddle: How many months in the year have 28 days? / Answer: All months in the year
have at least 28 days.
13. Riddle: Using only addition and eight eights, how do you get 1,000? / Answer:
888+88+8+8+8
14. Riddle: If I add six to 11, I get five. How? / Answer: 11 a.m., six hours later, is 5 p.m.
15. Riddle: A phone and case cost $110 total. The phone costs $100 more than the case. How
much is the phone? / Answer: $105.

The Best Medical and Science Riddles

1. Riddle: What can you catch but not throw? / Answer: A cold.
2. Riddle: A boy and his father get into a car accident. When they arrive at the hospital, the
doctor sees the boy and exclaims, “that’s my son!” How can this be? / Answer: The
doctor is the boy’s mother.
3. Riddle: Light as a feather, there’s nothing in it, but the strongest man can’t hold it much
more than a minute.Answer: Breath.
4. Riddle: What has hands but doesn’t clap? / Answer: A clock.
5. Riddle: I have legs but cannot walk. What am I? / Answer: A chair.
6. Riddle: I can fill up a room without taking any space. What am I? / Answer: Light.
7. Riddle: What becomes wetter the more it dries? / Answer: A towel.
8. Riddle: What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to? / Answer: An echo.
9. Riddle: The more of this there is, the less you see. What am I? / Answer: Darkness.
10. Riddle: What has a neck but no head and arms but no hands? / Answer: A shirt.
11. Riddle: What did the fox scientist name his laboratory? / Answer: Den-sity.
12. Riddle: I’m excellent to taste but horrible to smell. What am I? / Answer: Tongue.
13. Riddle: I can be good for you; I can be bad. You can find me all over your body. What
am I? / Answer: Bacteria.
14. Riddle: What are the three Rs that keep our planet clean? / Answer: Reuse, recycle,
reduce.
15. Riddle: I am a gas that helps plants but cannot be bought at the gas station. What am I? /
Answer: Carbon dioxide.
16. Riddle: I can rush, I can be hot, I can be cold, I can be hard, I can slip through anything.
What am I? / Answer: Water.
17. Riddle: What period of time weighs the least? / Answer: A light-year.
18. Riddle: You cannot see me, I cannot be touched, you cannot feel me, but I can cook your
lunch. What am I? / Answer: A microwave particle.
19. Riddle: I am a tunnel, a shortcut that connects places across space and time. What am I? /
Answer: A wormhole.
20. Riddle: I have been around for millions of years but am only a month old. What am I? /
Answer: The moon.
21. Riddle: What is a priest’s favorite part about physics? / Answer: Mass.
22. Riddle: I am a rock bigger than Venus but smaller than Uranus. What am I? / Answer:
Earth.
The Best Family Riddles

1. Riddle: If a brother, his sister, and their dog weren’t under an umbrella, why didn’t they
get wet? / Answer: It wasn’t raining.
2. Riddle: I am so simple that I can only point, yet I guide men all over the world.Answer:
A compass.
3. Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? / Answer:
Shorter. (Short + ‘er’)
4. Riddle: What travels around the world but stays in one spot? / Answer: A stamp.
5. 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 brother.
6. Riddle: David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and…? / Answer: David!
7. Riddle: What belongs to you, but other people use it more? / Answer: Your name.
8. Riddle: Two fathers and two sons sit down for breakfast. They eat exactly three eggs,
and yet each person ate an egg. How? / Answer: One father is a grandfather, and
therefore only eats one egg.
9. Riddle: A doctor and a boy are together. The boy is the doctor’s son, but the doctor is not
the boy’s father. How? / Answer: The doctor is the boy’s mother.
10. Riddle: Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How
many brothers does Bill actually have? / Answer: None. He has three sisters.

The Best Geography Riddles

1. Riddle: What has four eyes but can’t see? / Answer: Mississippi.
2. Riddle: Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people? / Answer: A
map.
3. Riddle: What room do ghosts avoid? / Answer: The living room.
4. Riddle: What is the capital in France? / Answer: The letter F is the only capital letter in
France.
5. Riddle: What always comes into a house through the keyhole? / Answer: A key.
6. Riddle: Come up and we go, drop and we stay. What am I? / Answer: An anchor.
7. Riddle: I go up and down stairs without moving. What am I? / Answer: Carpet.
8. Riddle: Mississippi, Rhine, Amazon, Colorado, Nile, and Rio Grande. What are all of
these? / Answer: Rivers.
9. Riddle: What goes through towns and over mountains but never moves? / Answer: A
road.
10. Riddle: What is the laziest mountain in the world? / Answer: Mt. Ever-rest.

The Best All-Around Riddles

1. Riddle: Mr. Blue lives in the blue house. Mrs. Yellow lives in the yellow house. Mr.
Orange lives in the orange house. Who lives in the White House? / Answer: The
president.
2. Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? / Answer: A sponge.
3. Riddle: If a red house is made of red bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks,
what is a greenhouse made of? / Answer: Glass. All greenhouses are made of glass.
4. Riddle: What begins with an E but only has one letter? / Answer: An envelope.
5. Riddle: You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make it a longer
line? /Answer: Draw a short line next to it and now it’s the longer line.
6. Riddle: How can a leopard change its spots? / Answer: By moving from one spot to
another.
7. Riddle: What is easy to get into but hard to get out of? / Answer: Trouble.
8. Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I? / Answer: A
candle.
9. Riddle: What answer can you never answer yes to? / Answer: Are you asleep yet? /
10. Riddle: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? / Answer: Silence.
11. Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? / Answer: The future.
12. Riddle: What’s black, white, and blue? / Answer: A sad zebra.
13. Riddle: What has a neck but no head? / Answer: A bottle.
14. Riddle: What word is spelled wrong in the dictionary? / Answer: Wrong.
15. Riddle. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it? / Answer: A
promise.
16. Riddle: I’m filled with keys but can’t open a lock. What am I? / Answer: A piano.
17. Riddle: What has eyes, a tongue, and a soul but can’t see, taste, or die? / Answer: A
shoe.
18. Riddle: How do you make the number one disappear? / Answer: Add a “G” for “gone.”
19. Riddle: What has 13 hearts but can’t love? / Answer: A pack of cards.
20. Riddle: What bank never has any money? / Answer: A river bank.
21. Riddle: What goes in your pocket but keeps it empty? / Answer: A hole.
22. Riddle: I sometimes run but cannot walk. You follow me around. What am I? / Answer:
Your nose.
23. Riddle: Why did the kid bury his walkie-talkie? / Answer: Because the batteries died.
24. Riddle: What kind of ship has two mates but no captain? / Answer: A relationship.