100+ English Riddles With Answers | MindYourLogic Riddles

Here are 100+ English riddles with answers that will challenge your mind and make you laugh! Whether you're looking for easy riddles to warm up, riddles for kids that are perfect for young thinkers, or funny riddles to bring some humor to your day, you'll find them all here. If you're in the mood to test your math skills, dive into our collection of math riddles, or if you’re seeking a more intense brain workout, try out the hard riddles for adults that are sure to make you think twice. We've also sprinkled in some clever word riddles to keep things interesting. Ready to riddle? Let’s get started!

Easy Riddles

1. What has to be broken before you can use it?

2. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

3. What month of the year has 28 days?

4. What is full of holes but still holds water?

5. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

6. What gets wet while drying?

7. What goes up but never comes down?

8. What gets wet while drying?

9. What can you keep after giving to someone?

10. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?

11. What has an eye but cannot see?

12. What can fill a room but takes up no space?

13. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

14. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

15. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?

Riddles for kids

16. I am running all the time, but never get tired or hot. What am I? 

17. What 2 things can you never eat for breakfast?

18.I have no life, but I can die. What am I?

19. What has legs, but doesn’t walk? 

19. What has many teeth, but can’t bite? 

20. I have a tail and a head, but no body. What am I?

21. What kind of band never plays music?

22. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

23. What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?

24. What has legs but cannot walk?

25. I can be cracked. And I can be made. I can be told. And I can be played. What am I?

26. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?

27. What is always coming but never arrives?

28. What starts with “e” and ends with “e” but only has one letter in it?

29. What can you hold in your right hand but not in your left hand?

30. What is orange and sounds like a parrot?

31. What is black and white and read all over?

32. What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?

33. What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?

34. I’m always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch, will soon turn red. What am I?

Funny riddles

35. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

36. Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

37. What is red and smells like blue paint?

38. What ship has two mates, but no captain?

39. People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?

40. What word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

41. What has one head, one foot and four legs?

42. What does a house wear?

43. Where does one wall meet the other wall?

44. What building has the most stories?

45. What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?

46. What’s brown and sticky?

47. Where does today come before yesterday?

48. What do you call fake spaghetti?

49. It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?

Math riddles

50. I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

51. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?

52. If there are 4 apples and you take away 3, how many do you have?

53. If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is it?

54. How can you add eight 8’s to get the number 1,000?

55. How many sides does a circle have?

56. How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?

57. The day before yesterday I was 21, and next year I will be 24. When is my birthday?

58. Which number keeps going up and never reduces?

59. What is the next number in the sequence: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ___?

Hard riddles for adults

60. I have a neck, but no head. I have two arms, but no hands. What am I?

61. What five-letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?

62. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

63. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

64. If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?

65. People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?

66. I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?

67. What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

68. The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

69. I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?

70. You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy.

71. I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I?

72. What is able to go up a chimney when down but unable to go down a chimney when up?

73. What is stronger than steel but can’t handle the sun?

74. I can be long or can be short, I can be black, white, brown, or purple. You can find me the world over and I am often the main feature. What am I?

75. I am something people celebrate or resist. I change people’s thoughts and lives. I am obvious to some people but, to others, I am a mystery. What am I?

76. It’s shorter than the rest, but when you’re satisfied, you bring it up. What is it?

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

78. What bird do you associate with lifting weight?

79. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

Word riddles

80. What 7 letter word is spelled the same way backwards and forwards?

81. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

82. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

83. I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be. What is it?

84. What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

85. A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?

86. What word contains all of the twenty six letters?

87. What is the longest word in the dictionary?

88. What English word has three consecutive double letters?

89. From a word of 5 letters, take 2 letters and have 1?

90. I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?