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?

213 Short Riddles With Answers

What flies forever, Rests never?

Answer: Wind

What goes into the water black and comes out red?

Answer: A lobster

What’s the most boring element?

Answer: Boron

What kind of can never needs a can-opener?

Answer: A pelican!

How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?

Answer: Only one time. After that, you would be subtracting from 20

What is more useful when it is broken?

Answer: An egg

Who works when he plays and plays when he works?

Answer: Musician

What goes further the slower it goes?

Answer: Money

What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet never grows?

Answer: Mountain

What has four wheels and flies?

Answer: A garbage truck.

Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.

Answer: Railroad

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

Answer: Wet

What gets wetter the more it dries?

Answer: A towel.

What goes into the water red and comes out black?

Answer: A red-hot poker

What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?

Answer: Salt

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

Answer: Lantern

What has one foot on each side and one in the middle?

Answer: A yardstick

Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen.

Answer: Iceberg

A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I.

Answer: I'm their daughter

Feed me and I live, give me drink and I die.

Answer: Fire

What always goes to bed with shoes on?

Answer: A Horse

I run around the city, but I never move.

Answer: Wall

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

Answer: Penny

What can you put in a barrel to make it lighter?

Answer: Hole

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

Answer: A ton.

The more you take, the more you leave behind.

Answer: Steps

What never gets any wetter, no matter how much it rains?

Answer: The sea

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

Answer: The Wind

I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops.

Answer: Sandal

What can eat a lot of iron without getting sick?

Answer: Rust

What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?

Answer: A kangaroo.

What time is it when the clock strikes 13?

Answer: Time to get the clock fixed

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

Answer: Breath

A man lay dead in a room with 51 bicycles around him. What happened?

Answer: The man was playing a poker game and cheated. The bicycles are a type of card.

What has a neck and no head, two arms but no hands?

Answer: Shirt

What question can you never answer?

Answer: “What's it like to be dead?“

Of no use to one, Bliss to two. Men lie for it. The baby’s right,

Answer: Kiss

I hide but my head is outside.

Answer: Nail

No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month.

Answer: Calendar

What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?

Answer: Deck

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

Answer: A candle.

A hundred feet in the air, but it's back is on the ground. What is it?

Answer: A centipede flipped over

Scythe of darkness, Shadow’s light. Guiding eye of thirteenth sight.

Answer: Moon

Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?

Answer: The North Pole

David's father has three sons : Snap, Krackel, and _____ ?

Answer: David. (remember it's Davids father)

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

What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?

Answer: Pride

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

The more of it there is, the less you see.

Answer: Darkness

What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?

Answer: Death

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, December 5, 2024