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
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.
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.
A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I.
Answer: I'm their daughter
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.
How many cats can be put in an empty box?
Answer: Only one; it’s no longer empty after the first.
What starts with "e," ends with "e," and contains one letter?
Answer: Envelope
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
What letter should replace the ? at the end: M M L J A R C C G E P C ?
Answer: T
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.
A seed am I, three letters make my name. Take away two and I still sound the same.
Answer: Pea
What's the center of gravity?
Answer: The letter V.
How many E’s are in the 4th of July?
Answer: How many E’s are in the 4th of July?
A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one and twelve remains
Answer: The word Dozens
I know a word with three letters. Add two, and fewer there will be.
Answer: The word “Few“
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
I have one, you have one. If you remove the first letter, a bit remains. If you remove the second, the bit still remains. If you remove the third, it still remains.
Answer: Habit
What role in baseball does a cat play?
Answer: The Cat-cher.
What kind of nut is empty at the center and has no shell?
Answer: Doughnut
What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?
Answer: Aye matey
What is the longest word in the English language?
Answer: Smiles – Because there’s a ‘mile’ between the two S’s
What did Santa need when he sprained his ankle?
Answer: A candy cane
If the end of the year is December 31st, what is the end of Christmas?
Answer: The letter 's'.
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
It starts with the letter “P” and ends with “O.R.N”. It plays a major role in the film industry. What is it?
Answer: Popcorn.
What will emerge from combining a cat with a tree trunk?
Answer: A cat-a-log.
What can break, but never fall? What can fall, but never break?
Answer: Day and night
Three little letters. A paradox to some. The worse that it is, the better it becomes.
Answer: Pun
What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue.
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.
What band never plays music?
Answer: Rubber band
What has many words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
What fruit never wants to be alone?
Answer: A pear.
What should do you do with a dead Chemist?
Answer: Barium!
Forward I’m heavy, but backward I’m not. What am I?
Answer: Ton
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.
Which bus could cross the ocean?
Answer: Columbus.
I'm a cheese that is made backwards. What am I?
Answer: Edam.
Why was the cat thrown out of the card game?
Answer: Because he was a Cheetah!
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 is orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot.
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 does every birthday end with?
Answer: The letter Y
Which is the most curious letter?
Answer: Y.
I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A joke
Where does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?
Answer: In the dictionary
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.
I act like a cat, I look like a cat, yet I am not a cat. What am I?
Answer: A kitten.
What word, describing a job title, has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper.
Name a word that starts with “f” and ends with “u-c-k”?
Answer: Firetruck!
The alphabet goes from A to Z but I go Z to A. What am I?
Answer: A zebra.
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, November 14, 2024
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