Short Riddles

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

Answer: Ship

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Soy un palito Muy derechito; Sobre la frente Llevo un mosquito.

Answer: La letra "i"

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Take off my skin, I won't cry, but you will.

Answer: Onion

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: The North Pole

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Why did the baseball coach tell the baseball player to go to the bank?

Answer: Because the baseball coach wanted his quarter back!

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What question can you never answer?

Answer: “What's it like to be dead?“

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What tree do Fortune Tellers look at?

Answer: A palm tree of course

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

Answer: Lunch and dinner

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What wears a coat in the winter and pants in the summer?

Answer: A dog.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What word contains all of the twenty six letters?

Answer: Alphabet

Rating: 100%

Riddle: The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind.

Answer: Grass

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What time is it when the clock strikes 13?

Answer: Time to get the clock fixed

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What year comes next in this sequence: 1973 1979 1987 1993 1997 1999

Answer: 2003: they are prime years

Rating: 100%

Riddle: When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

Answer: When you add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one o'clock

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Where are the lakes that are referred to in the “Los Angeles Lakers?“

Answer: In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Two words, my answer is only two words. To keep me, you must give me.

Answer: “Your word“

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Una caja pequeñita, blanquita como la cal, todo la saben abrir, nadie la sabe cerrar

Answer: El huevo

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Una en la Tierra, una en la Luna, pero en el cielo no encontrarás ninguna.

Answer: La letra "A"

Rating: 67%

Riddle: Un ángel sube al cielo, pega un grito y baja al suelo.

Answer: El cohete

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Love

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What can you catch but not throw?

Answer: Cold

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Hole

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What demands an answer, but asks no question?

Answer: Ring Ring A Telephone

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What do you fill with empty hands?

Answer: Gloves

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What do you serve that you can't eat?

Answer: A tennis ball

Rating: 88%

Riddle: What do you throw out to use and take in when you're done?

Answer: Anchor

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What do you use to hoe a row, slay a foe, and wring with woe?

Answer: Hands

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What falls but doesn't break, and what breaks but doesn't fall?

Answer: Night and Day

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?

Answer: There is a one dollar difference The same reason seven dollars is more than six. Because there is one more

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Why can’t you trust an atom?

Answer: They make up everything.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is harder to catch the faster you run?

Answer: Your breath!

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is it that given one, you’ll have either two or none?

Answer: Choice

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is it that is deaf, dumb and blind and always tells the truth?

Answer: A Mirror

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is it that you must give before you can keep it.

Answer: Word

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is more useful when it is broken?

Answer: An egg

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is often returned, but never borrowed/

Answer: Thanks

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?

Answer: A kangaroo.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

Answer: A coat of paint

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What kind of nut is empty at the center and has no shell?

Answer: Doughnut

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What kind of pet always stays on the floor?

Answer: Carpet

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What kind of room has no windows or doors?

Answer: Mushroom

Rating: 67%

Riddle: What kind of running means walking?

Answer: Running out of gas!

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?

Answer: A teapot

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What stays where it is when it goes off?

Answer: A Gun

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What's the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?

Answer: A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What's the difference between a penniless man and a feather bed?

Answer: One is hard up, while the other is soft down

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What's the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?

Answer: To cover cows

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What’s the most boring element?

Answer: Boron

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What surrounds the world, yet dwells within a thimble?

Answer: Space

Rating: 100%

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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