If you are a fan of languages and are especially interested in the peculiarities of English, then these word riddles with answers are perfect for you. Expect some serious head-scratching and brace yourself for some fun wordplay. Knowing that the solution to these word puzzles lies somewhere in their wording doesn’t mean they’re any easier to solve. Quite the opposite! Get ready to decipher meanings, untangle letters, and unravel the mysteries of these riddles!
Word Riddles
I'm a cheese that is made backwards. What am I?
Answer: Edam.
My first is in fish but not in snail, My second is in rabbit but not in tail. My third is in up but not in down, My fourth is in tiara but not in crown. My fifth is in tree you plainly see, My whole a food for you and me. What am I?
Answer: I am a fruit
A woman and a man go on a date. While on their date, the woman shoots the man, drowns the man, and hangs the man. The next night, the same man and woman go on a date and both of them are 100% fine. How is this possible?
Answer: The woman shoots a picture of him, drowns the picture to develop it, then she hangs the picture.
Where does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?
Answer: In the dictionary
How many E’s are in the 4th of July?
Answer: How many E’s are in the 4th of July?
I am pronounced as one letter, but written with three. Two letters there are, and two only in me: I`m double, I`m single, I`m black, blue and gray. Reverse me and I read the same either way. What am I?
Answer: An eye.
Why was the cat thrown out of the card game?
Answer: Because he was a Cheetah!
What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot.
Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg are white,” or “The yolk of the egg is white?“
Answer: Neither, because egg yolks are yellow.
Why did the sheriff arrest the chicken?
Answer: It used fowl language.
Other than being colors, what do the words orange, silver and purple have in common?
Answer: No word in the English language rhymes with them.
What band never plays music?
Answer: Rubber band
My first is twice in apple but not once in tart. My second is in liver but not in heart. My third is in giant and also in ghost. Whole I’m best when I am roast.
Answer: Pig
A seed am I, three letters make my name. Take away two and I still sound the same.
Answer: Pea
Which bus could cross the ocean?
Answer: Columbus.
I know a word with three letters. Add two, and fewer there will be.
Answer: The word “Few“
Name a word that starts with “f” and ends with “u-c-k”?
Answer: Firetruck!
If the end of the year is December 31st, what is the end of Christmas?
Answer: The letter 's'.
I'm related to you. I'm really close to you! I'm your cousins' aunt. Who am I?
Answer: My Mother
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
Answer: They are all married.
I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A joke
There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat.
A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I.
Answer: I'm their daughter
What do you call a dog who meditates?
Answer: Aware wolf
The alphabet goes from A to Z but I go Z to A. What am I?
Answer: A zebra.
There was a plane crash in which every single person was killed. Yet there were 12 survivors. How?
Answer: The 12 survivors were married, not single.
What word, describing a job title, has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper.
What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?
Answer: Aye matey
I am a solitary word, 5 letters long. Behead me once, I am the same. Behead me again, I am still the same.
Answer: Alone.
How many apples grow on an apple tree?
Answer: All of them
My first is in chocolate but not in ham, my second's in cake and also in jam, my third at tea-time is easily found, my whole is a friend who's often around. What am I?
Answer: A cat.
What's 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?
Answer: Chicago. The first three words out of seven of chicken is CHI, the first two words out of 3 of cat is CA, and first two words out of goat is GO. Therefore making, (CHI)(CA)(GO).
Late one night, two brothers were watching a horror flick on tape. One of the brothers fell asleep and dreamt that he was being pursued by the insane man from the movie who was attempting to murder him. He hid in a cabinet in his dream. and couldn’t hear anything but his heart thumping, and he had no clue where his insane captor was. He was terrified! The video ended at that point, and his brother placed his hand on his sleeping sibling’s shoulder to rouse him up. The shock of the situation was enough to cause the sleeping brother to have a massive heart attack and die immediately. Is this story true or false?
Answer: False – how would anybody know about his dream if he died suddenly?
There is a pink single-story house and everything in it is pink. The doors are pink, the windows are pink and the TV is pink. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There are no stairs in a single-story house.
A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one and twelve remains
Answer: The word Dozens
I'm the beginning of existence and the end of time, I'm the beginning of everything and the end of space. What am I?
Answer: The letter E.
What starts with "e," ends with "e," and contains one letter?
Answer: Envelope
What do call a criminal landing an airplane?
Answer: Condescending
What letter should replace the ? at the end: M M L J A R C C G E P C ?
Answer: T
What happens once every minute, twice every minute, but once every thousand years?
Answer: The letter ‘M‘
There’s only one word in the dictionary that’s spelled wrong. What is it?
Answer: The word “wrong" - W-R-O-N-G.
Two mothers and two daughters went fishing one day. They were there there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One mother said: "That is enough for all of us, we will have one each." How can this be possible?
Answer: There was the mother, her daughter, and her daughter's daughter. This equals 2 mothers and 2 daughters.
Three little letters. A paradox to some. The worse that it is, the better it becomes.
Answer: Pun
George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?
Answer: Elizabeth is drinking coffee. The letter E appears twice in her name, as it does in the names of the others drinking coffee.
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man told him, “If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I fail, I will pay you $50.” The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agreed, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end, the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
Answer: The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote “your exact weight” on the paper.
What fruit never wants to be alone?
Answer: A pear.
I act like a cat, I look like a cat, yet I am not a cat. What am I?
Answer: A kitten.
Who won the neck decorating contest?
Answer: It was a tie.
Here are six clues to six words: capital of France, snake, headache tablet, single article, twisted ankle, coarse file, equally. When arranged in the correct order, each word is an anagram of the previous word with a letter removed.
Answer: Aspirin, sprain, Paris, rasp, asp, as, a
When does Friday come before Thursday?
Answer: In the dictionary.
These word riddles with answers make use of all the tricks in the dictionary to create fun but also demanding challenges for those bent on finding their solution. Wordplay, sound play, double entendres, puns, everything is valid. Some are intended as purely funny riddles while others can take a more serious approach and turn into hard riddles, but one thing is certain: they are always a pleasant challenge that will prompt a few chuckles even when they take a dark turn. Can you solve them all?
Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2025
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