Short Riddles

Riddles come in all shapes and sizes, even if size doesn’t matter. Just check these short riddles and see for yourself. While it’s true that hard riddles often sport longer texts, short enigmas are not to be disdained. To make up for their size, they normally employ some wordplay or tricky associations that catch the player by surprise. Solving them is less about interpreting the text and more about thinking outside the box. Why don’t you give them a go and try for yourself?

215 Short Riddles With Answers

What can touch someone once and last them a life time?

Answer: Love

I run around the city, but I never move.

Answer: Wall

Pregnant every time you see her, yet she never will give birth.

Answer: Moon

Captain is to Private as Master is to

Answer: Slave

What’s black in the morning, red in the afternoon, and white at night?

Answer: Coal

I pass before the sun, but make no shadow.

Answer: Wind

A hill full, a hole full, yet you cannot catch a bowl full.

Answer: Mist

Forwards I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?

Answer: A ton.

What goes up but never comes down?

Answer: Age.

I can honk without using a horn. What am I?

Answer: A goose.

You can spin, wheel and twist. But this thing can turn without moving.

Answer: Milk

How many letters are in the alphabet?

Answer: There are 11 letters in “THE ALPHABET.”Did you say 26?

Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again.

Answer: Record

How is it possible to shave three times a day and still grow a beard?

Answer: If you were a barber, you could shave other men three times a day and still grow your own beard

Why did the Indian chief wear so many feathers?

Answer: To keep his wigwam

What is black when clean and white when dirty?

Answer: A chalkboard

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done.

Answer: Potato

The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind.

Answer: Grass

If you say my name I am no more.

Answer: I am Silence. You are silent until u speak. When you say silence you break it. Therefore, silence does not exist when you say “it's”name

What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?

Answer: An umbrella

Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns and never falls.

Answer: Lantern

What can be heard and caught but never seen?

Answer: Remark

What is round on the ends and high in the middle?

Answer: oHIo

I'm as big as an elephant, but lighter than a feather. What am I?

Answer: The Wind

What flies forever, Rests never?

Answer: Wind

I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left.

Answer: Mirror

Who is he that runs without a leg. And his house on his back?

Answer: Snail

As light as a feather, but you can’t hold it for ten minutes.

Answer: Breath

What time is it when the clock strikes 13?

Answer: Time to get the clock fixed

Why can’t you trust an atom?

Answer: They make up everything.

I give milk and have a horn but I'm not a cow? What am I?

Answer: A milk truck

How Far Can You Walk into the woods?

Answer: HalfWay

What fastens two people yet touches only one?

Answer: A wedding ring

I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I lick will soon turn red.

Answer: Fire

A little house full of meat, no door to go in and eat.

Answer: Nut

Hard to catch, easy to hold. Can't be seen, unless it's cold.

Answer: Breath

I wear a red robe, with staff in hand, and a stone in my throat.

Answer: Cherry

Why do birds fly north in the spring?

Answer: Because it is too far to walk.

What goes all the way around the world but stays in a corner?

Answer: Stamp.

If you are a velophile, what is it that you love?

Answer: Bicycle

What always goes to bed with shoes on?

Answer: A Horse

I know a word with three letters. Add two, and fewer there will be.

Answer: The word “Few“

What do you serve that you can't eat?

Answer: A tennis ball

Whilst I was engaged in sitting. I spied the dead carrying the living

Answer: Ship

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

Answer: Beach.

What question can you never answer?

Answer: “What's it like to be dead?“

Hold the tail, while I fish for you.

Answer: Net

I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?

Answer: A candle.

What surrounds the world, yet dwells within a thimble?

Answer: Space

How do surfers greet each other?

Answer: They wave.

Short riddles and easy riddles are often bundled together, but even if they greatly overlap, they are not the same. It is true that simple and short sentences indeed tend to result in simpler word puzzles. However, the difficulty of a riddle is not measured by how much text it employs, but rather by how tricky and challenging it is for the brain. Check out our collection of hard riddles and you might be surprised to find many short ones there. Or you can keep solving the riddles in this category. Even if the easy ones might give you a run for your money.

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2025