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?
Short Riddles
What is round on the ends and high in the middle?
Answer: oHIo
Iron on a mammal. Mammal on your feet.
Answer: Shoe
Come up and let us go. Go down and here we stay.
Answer: Anchor
What is black when clean and white when dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
Answer: Remark
What do you use to hoe a row, slay a foe, and wring with woe?
Answer: Hands
You can't keep this until you have given it.
Answer: Your word
how do you make 30p with 2 coins? one of them is not a 20p..
Answer: a 20p and a 10p . one of them isnt a 20p, but the other one is!
What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner
What goes up when the rain comes down?
Answer: Umbrella
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age.
What word contains all of the twenty six letters?
Answer: Alphabet
What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be to you?
Answer: This person would be your mother
Forward I’m heavy, but backward I’m not. What am I?
Answer: Ton
What's the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?
Answer: To cover cows
In buckles or lace, they help set the pace. The farther you go, the thinner they grow.
Answer: Shoes
What kind of room has no windows or doors?
Answer: Mushroom
I sleep by day, I fly by night. I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?
Answer: A bat.
What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?
Answer: Work
What's as big as you are yet doesn't weigh an ounce?
Answer: Your shadow
What can go up and come down without moving?
Answer: The temperature
What kind of can never needs a can-opener?
Answer: A pelican!
I am a tree, but I am very small... Who am I?
Answer: grass
How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the Ark?
Answer: None, it was Noah
Long and think, red within, with a nail at the end.
Answer: Finger
You can take off all of my skin and I will not cry but YOU will Why ?
Answer: I'm an onion
I am the red tongue of the earth, that buries cities.
Answer: Lava
If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
Answer: Wet
What has one foot on each side and one in the middle?
Answer: A yardstick
David's father has three sons : Snap, Krackel, and _____ ?
Answer: David. (remember it's Davids father)
What question can you never answer?
Answer: “What's it like to be dead?“
How do surfers greet each other?
Answer: They wave.
Bright as diamonds, Loud as thunder, Never still, A thing of wonder.
Answer: Waterfall
If life gets tough, what do you have that you can always count on?
Answer: Your fingers!
A little house full of meat, no door to go in and eat.
Answer: Nut
I have four legs but no tail. Usually I am heard only at night.
Answer: Frog
A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I.
Answer: I'm their daughter
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
Answer: A doughnut
What has six faces and twenty-one eyes?
Answer: Die
In the night a mountain, in the morning a meadow.
Answer: Bed
What is that over the head and under the hat?
Answer: Hair
Hard to catch, easy to hold. Can't be seen, unless it's cold.
Answer: Breath
A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one and twelve remains
Answer: The word Dozens
What can you put in a barrel to make it lighter?
Answer: Hole
What do you throw out to use and take in when you're done?
Answer: Anchor
What wears a coat in the winter and pants in the summer?
Answer: A dog.
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
Answer: Only one time. After that, you would be subtracting from 20
I start with the letter B, and your feet go inside of me. What am I?
Answer: Boots
What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?
Answer: A kangaroo.
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: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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