40+ Adult Riddles And Answers | MindYourLogic Riddles
Here are 40+ adult riddles and answers that will make you think and test your brainpower. These riddles are fun, tricky, and perfect for challenging yourself or sharing with friends. Each riddle comes with an answer, so you can see how many you get right. Get ready to put your thinking cap on and dive into these clever puzzles!
1. I have a neck, but no head. I have two arms, but no hands. What am I?
Answer: A shirt.
2. What five-letter word has one left when two letters are removed?
Answer: Stone.
3. What do you see once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May?
Answer: The letter "e."
4. What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?
Answer: Soap.
5. What do you buy to eat but never consume?
Answer: Utensils.
6. What's always found on the ground but never gets dirty?
Answer: A shadow.
7. What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
Answer: Your left hand.
8. What five-letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?
Answer: SWIMS.
9. Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?
Answer: The letter “R.”
10. No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?
Answer: A calendar.
11. What's lighter than a feather but impossible to hold for much more than a minute?
Answer: Your breath.
12. What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?
Answer: A relationship.
13. What word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly.
14. What runs around a whole yard without moving?
Answer:A fence.
15. What can't talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo.
16. What do you lose the moment you share it?
Answer: A secret.
17. What's bought by the yard and worn by the foot?
Answer:A carpet.
18. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.
19. Iron roof, glass walls. Burns and burns but never falls. What is it?
Answer: A lantern.
20. If you throw a blue stone into the Red Sea, what will it become?
Answer: Wet.
21. Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, when I have flown. What am I?
Answer: Time.
22. Who has married many people but has never been married himself?
Answer: A priest.
23. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: The word "ton.
24. I go in hard, come out soft, and am never the same. What am I?
Answer: Chewing gum.
25. Where can you finish a book without finishing a sentence?
Answer: prison
26. A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?
Answer: Suicide.
27. I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?
Answer: A Piano.
28. I do not speak, cannot hear or speak anything, but I will always tell the truth. What am I?
Answer: A mirror.
29. What's as small as a mouse but guards a house like a lion?
Answer: Lock.
30. What comes out at night without being called, and is lost in the day without being stolen?
Answer: The stars.
31. What can you always count on when you need to add things up during tough times?
Answer: Your fingers.
32. I have a spine but no bones. I have pages but no face. What am I?
Answer: A book
33. I’m a word of letters three, add two and fewer there will be. What am I?
Answer: Few
34. I build bridges of silver and crowns of gold. Who am I?
Answer: A dentist.
35. What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?
Answer: A pillow.
36. I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven.
37. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: Window.
38. Who can shave 25 times a day but still have a beard?
Answer: A barber
39. I have no feet, no hands, no wings, but I climb to the sky. What am I?
Answer: Smoke
40. What has three feet but cannot walk?
Answer: A yardstick.