Riddles in English

  

Riddles for kids, Riddles that make you think, Funny tricky riddles with answers

Tricky Riddles

Riddles for kids

1. David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?

Answer: David

2. I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?

Answer: Your shadow

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

Answer: A piano

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

 Answer: Your right elbow

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

Answer: A chalkboard

6. What gets bigger when more is taken away?

Answer: A hole

7. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?

Answer: Your breath

8. I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?

Answer: Yarn

9. Where does today come before yesterday?

Answer: The dictionary

10. What invention lets you look right through a wall?

Answer: A window

11. If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?

Answer: A secret

12. What can’t be put in a saucepan?

Answer: It’s lid

13. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?

Answer: A staircase

14. If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?

Answer: Second place

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

Answer: Your name

Funny Tricky Riddles with Answers

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

Answer: An egg

2. I am tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle

3. What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them

4. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge

5. What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?

6. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future

7. There is a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What colour are the stairs?
Answer: There are not any—it’s a one-story house.

8. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise

9. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age

10. A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or raincoat did not get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
Answer: He was bald.

 

11. What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel

12. What can you keep after giving to someone?
Answer: Your word

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

14. You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
Answer: All the people on the boat are married.

15. You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
Answer: The match

16. A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
Answer: He was born on February 29.

17. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank

18. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo

19. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness