Short Riddles

Riddle: I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken.

Answer: News

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: A goose.

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Mist

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Cherry

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Calendar

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Kiss

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What an fill a room but takes up no space?

Answer: Light

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What kind of can never needs a can-opener?

Answer: A pelican!

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: A ton.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I drive men mad for love of me. Easily beaten, never free.

Answer: Gold

Rating: 100%

Riddle: If a fire hydrant has H2O inside, what does it have on the outside?

Answer: K9P (you'll get it eventually)

Rating: 67%

Riddle: If life gets tough, what do you have that you can always count on?

Answer: Your fingers!

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: The Wind

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Camina sin patas y vuela sin alas

Answer: La nube

Rating: 67%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I go up and down, but never move. What am I?

Answer: A staircase.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Tengo lecho Y no me acuesto; Tengo un curso Y no soy maestro.

Answer: El río

Rating: 67%

Riddle: En vaina voy contenida y buenos platos doy a la cocina.

Answer: La judía

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Es cómo una paloma blanca y negra, pero vuela sin alas y habla sin lengua.

Answer: La carta

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I killed one fourth of mankind. Who am I?

Answer: Cain (who killed Abel)

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: The word “Few“

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Mirror

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What building has the most stories?

Answer: Library

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?

Answer: Pillow

Rating: 67%

Riddle: What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?

Answer: Work

Rating: 100%

Riddle: In the NBA, how many men are on the basketball court for each team?

Answer: Five....I'll bet you guessed 10

Rating: 100%

Riddle: In the night a mountain, in the morning a meadow.

Answer: Bed

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I pass before the sun, but make no shadow.

Answer: Wind

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Iron on a mammal. Mammal on your feet.

Answer: Shoe

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Lantern

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I row with four paddles but never leave home. What am I?

Answer: A turtle.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I run around the city, but I never move.

Answer: Wall

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I sleep by day, I fly by night. I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?

Answer: A bat.

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Coal

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?

Answer: Age.

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Iceberg

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Long and slinky like a trout, never sings till it's guts come out.

Answer: Gun

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Long and think, red within, with a nail at the end.

Answer: Finger

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Look into my face and I'm everybody. Scratch my back and I'm nobody.

Answer: Mirror

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Más fina que la hoja, Pasa el agua y no se moja.

Answer: La sombra

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Mientras que estoy preso, existo: Si me ponen en libertad, muero.

Answer: El secreto

Rating: 67%

Riddle: Muchas lamparitas muy bien colgaditas, siempre encandiladas y nadie las atiza.

Answer: Las estrellas

Rating: 100%

Riddle: My first is high, My second damp, My whole a tie, A writer's cramp.

Answer: Hyphen. The first two lines yield high-fen. A hyphen is used by a writer to tie (or cramp) two words together

Rating: 100%

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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