🗂️ 72 riddles, sorted into categories — pick one below!
Riddle 1: What has keys but can't open locks?
Riddle 2: What gets wetter the more it dries?
Riddle 3: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
Riddle 4: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Riddle 5: What has a neck but no head?
Riddle 6: What has hands but can't clap?
Riddle 7: What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner?
Riddle 8: What has one eye but can't see?
Riddle 9: What comes down but never goes up?
Riddle 10: What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Riddle 11: What has a thumb and four fingers but isn't alive?
Riddle 12: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Riddle 13: What goes up but never comes down?
Riddle 14: What has legs but cannot walk?
Riddle 15: What begins with T, ends with T, and has T inside?
Riddle 16: What can you catch but not throw?
Riddle 17: What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
Riddle 18: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Riddle 19: What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
Riddle 20: What has a bottom at the top?
Math Riddle 1: If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
Math Riddle 2: I am an odd number. Remove one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Math Riddle 3: What is half of 8 plus 8?
Math Riddle 4: A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 run away. How many are left?
Math Riddle 5: What 3 numbers give the same answer when added together and multiplied together?
Math Riddle 6: If a rooster lays an egg on the roof of a house, which side does it roll down?
Math Riddle 7: What number do you get when you multiply all the numbers on a telephone keypad?
Math Riddle 8: I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
Math Riddle 9: What is 100 divided by half?
Math Riddle 10: If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
Math Riddle 11: A bat and a ball cost $1.10 total. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
Math Riddle 12: If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long would it take 100 cats to catch 100 mice?
Math Riddle 13: Which is heavier: 1 kg of feathers or 1 kg of bricks?
Math Riddle 14: If a clock takes 5 seconds to strike 5 times, how long does it take to strike 10 times?
Math Riddle 15: What number is spelled in alphabetical order?
Math Riddle 16: Add two to eleven and get one. How?
Math Riddle 17: How many months have 28 days?
Hard Riddle 1: What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Hard Riddle 2: The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?
Hard Riddle 3: I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I?
Hard Riddle 4: What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Hard Riddle 5: What has a head and a tail, but no body?
Hard Riddle 6: I am full of holes, but I can still hold water. What am I?
Hard Riddle 7: What always ends everything but begins everything too?
Hard Riddle 8: What has four letters, sometimes has nine, but never has five?
Hard Riddle 9: What runs all around a field but never moves?
Hard Riddle 10: What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
Very Hard Riddle 1: I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers but no water. What am I?
Very Hard Riddle 2: A man leaves home, turns left three times, and returns home to find two masked men waiting for him. Who are they?
Very Hard Riddle 3: You see a boat filled with people. It hasn't sunk, but when you look again you don't see a single person on the boat. Why?
Very Hard Riddle 4: A man is pushing his car along a road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
Very Hard Riddle 5: What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Very Hard Riddle 6: What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
Very Hard Riddle 7: What gets bigger the more you take away?
Impossible Riddle 1: Forward I am heavy. Backward I am not. What am I?
Impossible Riddle 2: What 8-letter word can have a letter removed and still make a word, until only one letter remains?
Impossible Riddle 3: What word is always pronounced wrong, even by the best speakers?
Impossible Riddle 4: What has one foot on each side of the wall, but never moves?
Impossible Riddle 5: I have only one eye but I have three legs. What am I?
Impossible Riddle 6: What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps?
Coding Riddle 1: What do you call 8 bits that are sad?
Coding Riddle 2: Why did the programmer quit their job?
Coding Riddle 3: There are 10 types of people in the world. Who are they?
Coding Riddle 4: What does a HTML tag say to a CSS class?
Coding Riddle 5: What has a screen but no pixels, and keys but no lock?
Coding Riddle 6: Why do programmers prefer dark mode?
Coding Riddle 7: What do you call a ghost in a computer?
Boss Riddle: A man walks into a room with a match. There is a candle, a lamp, and a fireplace. What does he light first?
Boss Riddle 2: I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
Boss Riddle 3: A plane crashes on the border of two countries. Where do they bury the survivors?
Boss Riddle 4: What can travel at the speed of light but stays in one place?
Boss Riddle 5: The more of me you take, the more you have. What am I?