Color Riddles

Face a rainbow of challenges and let your brain be enveloped in a cloud of bright shades and twists with these color riddles! Some will be bright and bold, others will be cool and calm, but they will all tickle your brain. These enigmas will test your reasoning skills and ability to think outside the box, only to surprise you with colorful answers you never even considered. Brace yourself, and let your imagination and thinking skills be taken over by the twisted hues and fun surprises of these color riddles with answers.

21 Color Riddles With Answers

I am seen in the water. If seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, a jay's feather, and lapis lazuli.

Answer: Blue

Other than being colors, what do the words orange, silver and purple have in common?

Answer: No word in the English language rhymes with them.

I usually wear a yellow coat. I usually have a dark head. I leave marks wherever I go.

Answer: Pencil

If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?

Answer: Wet

I unfurl across mountains, cloaking them in a rich canopy. In the heart of the jungle, I shelter life that thrives unseen. What deep color keeps the forest secrets?

Answer: Green

What is the color of the vest's sleeves?

Answer: Vests don't have sleeves.

I look green but what you eat is red, and what you spit out is black. What am I?

Answer: Watermelon

There was a yellow eye on a blue face, and a red eye on a green face. The yellow eye said to the red eye “we are both the same, only I'm higher, and you are lower“. What are they?

Answer: The sun in the sky, and a rose on the grass.

There is a house with four walls. All of the walls are facing south. A bear is circling the house. What color is the bear?

Answer: White. If all the walls face south, the house must be on the North Pole, so the bear is a polar bear.

When liquid splashes me, none seeps through. When I am moved a lot, liquid I spew. When I am hit, color I change. And color, I come in quite a range. What I cover is very complex, and I am very easy to flex.

Answer: Skin.

What is red and blue, and purple and green? No one can reach it, not even the queen.

Answer: A Rainbow

A time when they're green. A time when they're brown. But both of these times, cause me to frown. But just in between, for a very short while. They're perfect and yellow. And cause me to smile.

Answer: Bananas

I blush in the morning, painting skies with my first kiss. n gardens, I glow, wearing the day’s early light. What color am I that heralds the dawn?

Answer: Pink.

I am the yellow hem of the sea's blue skirt. What am I?

Answer: Beach.

What is red and smells like blue paint?

Answer: Red paint.

A blue house is made of blue bricks. A yellow house is made of yellow bricks. A red house is made of red bricks. An orange house is made of orange bricks. What would a green house be made of?

Answer: Glass

You're in a mansion and the power is out. You see a green door and a red door and choose the red one. Now you see a purple door and an orange door and choose the latter. Now you see a door with a golden handle and one with a silver handle and choose the golden one. Finally, you find the last three doors before exiting the mansion. The first says "Death by drowning," the second says "Death by machine guns" and the third says "Death by electric chair." Which door would you choose?

Answer: The door with "Death by electric chair", because the power is out.

Violet, indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are the colors you see after the storm has fled. What am I?

Answer: I am a Rainbow.

He stands beside the road. In a purple cap at tattered green cloak. Those who touch him, curse him.

Answer: Thistle

There is a pink single-story house and everything in it is pink. The doors are pink, the windows are pink and the TV is pink. What color are the stairs?

Answer: There are no stairs in a single-story house.

You live in a one-story house made “entirely of redwood“. What color would the stairs be?

Answer: What stairs? You live in a one-story house.

Let the hues and shades of these color riddles with answers take over and get ready to have lots of fun trying to solve them! The answers to these enigmas and conundrums are always related to the colors of the rainbow somehow, but that won’t make your job any easier because you still need to identify the clues and decipher them. Word riddles will have the clues embedded in their wording, while what am I riddles will invite you to see the world from the perspective of the color, and adult riddles will try to throw you off with some innuendo, for example. Can you see past the artifices of each of these enigmas and find the bright answer hiding in their shade?

Last Updated: Friday, August 9, 2024