Riddles
All Riddles A to Z
All 176 Quiz Zoomies riddles in one place, A to Z by type, and each riddle has its own page with a hint, the answer and three more riddles like it.
What am I riddles
43 riddles. See them as a list with answers.
- Feed me and I live, but give me a drink and I die. What am I?
- I am always in front of you, but you can never see me. What am I?
- I am always running, but I never get tired. I come out when you turn the tap. What am I?
- I am full of little rooms, but nobody lives in me except honey. Bees build me out of wax. What am I?
- I am made of water, but if you put me in warm water I disappear. What am I?
- I am round and full of air, I float and shine like a rainbow, and I pop if you touch me. What am I?
- I am round and I glow at night. I seem to change my shape every few days, but I never really change. What am I?
- I can be cracked, but I am not an egg. I hide a tasty seed inside a hard shell. What am I?
- I can be cracked, made, told and played. What am I?
- I can be long or short, painted or left bare, and you keep me at the tips of your fingers. What am I?
- I can fill a whole room, but I take up no space at all. What am I?
- I fly without wings and cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
- I follow you all day long, but I disappear when the lights go out. What am I?
- I get smaller every time I take a bath. What am I?
- I go up and down all day, but I never move from my spot. What am I?
- I have a bell, two pedals and two wheels. What am I?
- I have a bow, but I am not a violin player. I am wrapped around presents. What am I?
- I have a cap but no head, and you squeeze me before you brush your teeth. What am I?
- I have a face and a strap, and I sit on your wrist to tell you the time. What am I?
- I have a pouch on my belly and I hop on strong back legs. What am I?
- I have a ring but no finger. When I ring, you pick me up and say hello. What am I?
- I have a spine but no bones, and I am full of pages. What am I?
- I have a thumb and four fingers, but I am not alive. What am I?
- I have a tongue but I never taste, and you tie me up every morning. What am I?
- I have a very long neck and spots all over, and I eat leaves from the tops of tall trees. What am I?
- I have bark but no bite, and rings but no phone. I grow a little taller every year. What am I?
- I have four wheels and lots of flies, but I am not an airplane. What am I?
- I have hundreds of spikes on my back, but I am not a cactus. When I am scared, I roll into a ball. What am I?
- I have keys but no locks, a space but no room, and you can enter but never go inside. What am I?
- I have lids and lashes, I come in a pair, and you close me when you go to sleep. What am I?
- I have lots of sharp teeth, but I never eat. I help people cut wood. What am I?
- I have many needles, but I never sew. I stay green all winter long. What am I?
- I have no life, but I can still die. What am I?
- I have no mouth, but I answer you. Shout across a canyon and you will hear me. What am I?
- I have thousands of words but I never speak, and I keep them all in alphabetical order. What am I?
- I have wings and a tail and I fly very high, but I am not a bird and I never flap. What am I?
- I start as a seed, grow on a vine and wear orange on the outside. In autumn people carve faces into me. What am I?
- I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
- People make me, save me, spend me, change me and raise me. What am I?
- People throw me away when they want to use me, and pull me back in when they are done. What am I?
- The more of me there is, the less you can see. What am I?
- What goes up when the rain comes down?
- You can see me in the water, but I never get wet. What am I?
Classic riddles
45 riddles. See them as a list with answers.
- A hill full, a hole full, yet you cannot catch a bowl full. What is it?
- Higher than a house, higher than a tree, oh whatever can that be?
- I am lighter than a feather, yet even the strongest person cannot hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?
- I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
- I live alone in a little white house with no doors and no windows. When I want to go out, I must break through the wall. What am I?
- In marble walls as white as milk, lined with skin as soft as silk, within a fountain crystal clear, a golden apple does appear. No doors there are to this stronghold, yet thieves break in and steal the gold. What is it?
- It lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its root upward. What is it?
- It's black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away. What is it?
- Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let fly. Every time she went through a gap, a bit of her tail she left in a trap. What is she?
- Patch upon patch, without any stitches. What is it?
- Riddle me, riddle me, what is that, over your head and under your hat?
- Round as an apple, deep as a cup, and all the king's horses can't pull it up. What is it?
- The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
- Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still. What are they?
- Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear. All day we are pressed hard, yet we are full all day and empty when we go to rest. What are we?
- What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
- What can go up a chimney when it is down, but can't go down a chimney when it is up?
- What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
- What can you hold without ever touching it?
- What can you keep after you give it to someone?
- What disappears as soon as you say its name?
- What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
- What gets broken without being held?
- What gets wetter the more it dries?
- What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
- What goes up but never comes down?
- What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
- What has a head and a tail, but no body?
- What has a heart that never beats?
- What has a neck but no head?
- What has cities but no houses, and rivers but no water?
- What has four legs but can't walk?
- What has hands but can't clap?
- What has keys but can't open a single door?
- What has one head, one foot and four legs?
- What has teeth but cannot bite?
- What has to be broken before you can use it?
- What is always coming but never arrives?
- What is black and white and read all over?
- What is full of holes but still holds water?
- What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
- What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?
- What runs but never walks, and has a bed but never sleeps?
- What tastes better than it smells?
- What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening?
Wordplay riddles
32 riddles. See them as a list with answers.
- Forward I'm heavy, but backward I'm not. What am I?
- I am a word of three letters. Add two more letters and fewer there will be. What word am I?
- I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
- What can you catch, but not throw?
- What can you make that nobody can ever see?
- What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
- What do you call a bear with no teeth?
- What gets answered every day, even though it never asks a question?
- What has a bottom at the top?
- What has ears but cannot hear?
- What has four eyes but can't see?
- What is in the middle of nowhere?
- What is it that, after you take away the whole, some still remains?
- What is the longest word in the dictionary?
- What kind of band never plays any music?
- What kind of room has no doors and no windows?
- What kind of tree can you hold in your hand?
- What starts with E, ends with E, and usually has only one letter inside?
- What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?
- What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
- Where does today come before yesterday?
- Which 5-letter word gets shorter when you add two letters to it?
- Which building has the most stories?
- Which English word has three double letters in a row?
- Which four-letter word reads the same forward, backward and upside down when written in capital letters?
- Which kind of cheese is made backwards?
- Which letter is a buzzing insect?
- Which letter is a green vegetable?
- Which letter is a large body of water?
- Which word contains all 26 letters?
- Which word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
- Why is the letter A like a flower?
Math riddles
28 riddles. See them as a list with answers.
- A brick weighs 1 kilogram plus half a brick. How much does one whole brick weigh?
- A clock strikes 6 times at 6 o'clock, and it takes 5 seconds from the first strike to the last. How long does it take to strike 12 times at noon?
- A dad is 30 years older than his son. In 5 years he will be 3 times as old as his son. How old is the son now?
- A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 run away. How many are left?
- A frog is at the bottom of a 10 meter well. Each day it climbs up 3 meters, and each night it slides back 2 meters. On which day does it reach the top?
- A jar holds 3 spiders and 2 beetles. Spiders have 8 legs and beetles have 6. How many legs are in the jar?
- An egg box holds 12 eggs. How many boxes do you need for 50 eggs?
- Divide 30 by half and add 10. What do you get?
- Each hand has 5 fingers, counting the thumb. How many fingers are there on 10 hands?
- How many legs do 4 cats and 3 birds have altogether?
- How many times can you subtract 5 from 25?
- I am a number. Add me to myself or multiply me by myself, and you get the same answer. I am not zero. What number am I?
- I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is 5 more than my ones digit, and my hundreds digit is 8 less than my tens digit. What number am I?
- I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
- If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs does one hen lay in one day?
- It takes 5 minutes to boil one egg. How long does it take to boil 3 eggs together in one pot?
- Multiply all the numbers on a phone keypad together. What answer do you get?
- Multiply me by any number you like and the answer is always me. What number am I?
- Seven friends meet, and each one shakes hands with every other friend once. How many handshakes are there?
- Some months have 30 days and some have 31. How many months have 28 days?
- There are 3 apples and you take away 2. How many apples do you have?
- There are 3 apples on a table. You take 2, then put 1 back. How many apples are on the table now?
- Tom is 4 years old and his brother is 3 times as old. When Tom is 12, how old will his brother be?
- Two hens lay two eggs in two days. How many eggs does one hen lay in four days?
- Using only addition, how can you add eight 8s to get 1,000?
- When I was 6, my sister was half my age. Now I am 40. How old is my sister?
- Which number, written in English, has all its letters in alphabetical order?
- Which three different positive whole numbers give the same answer when you add them as when you multiply them?
Logic puzzles
28 riddles. See them as a list with answers.
- A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed for three days, and rode out on Friday. How?
- A drawer has 3 red socks and 3 blue socks. In the dark, how many socks must you take out to be sure you have a matching pair?
- A girl falls off a 20 foot ladder but is not hurt at all. How?
- A house has four walls, and every one of them faces south. A bear walks past. What color is the bear?
- A man looks at a photo and says: Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son. Who is in the photo?
- A man walks in the rain with no umbrella and no hat, but not a single hair on his head gets wet. How?
- A rooster lays an egg on the very top of a pointy roof. Which way does the egg roll?
- A truck driver goes the wrong way down a one-way street and passes a police officer, but gets no ticket. Why?
- A woman has 7 children and half of them are boys. How can that be?
- An electric train is heading north and the wind is blowing west. Which way does the smoke go?
- Five birds sit on a fence. A dog barks loudly and one bird flies away. How many birds are left on the fence?
- How can a person go eight days without sleep?
- If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don't have me anymore. What am I?
- In a race, you pass the person in last place. What place are you in now?
- Mary's father has five daughters: Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth one's name?
- Name three days in a row without saying Monday, Wednesday or Friday.
- Pat's sister is a doctor, but the doctor has no brothers. How can that be?
- Sam is 12 years old but has only had 3 birthdays. How is that possible?
- Two mothers and two daughters go fishing. Each one catches one fish, but only three fish are caught in total. How?
- What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
- What can you put in a bucket to make it lighter?
- What comes next: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221?
- What is your mother's brother's father to you?
- Which is correct: the yolk of an egg is white, or the yolk of an egg are white?
- Which is heavier, a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of bricks?
- You are running a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?
- You have two US coins that add up to 30 cents. One of them is not a nickel. What are the two coins?
- You walk into a dark cabin with one match. Inside there is a candle, an oil lamp and a fireplace. What do you light first?
Frequently asked questions
How many riddles does Quiz Zoomies have?
176: 43 what am i riddles, 45 classic riddles, 32 wordplay riddles, 28 math riddles, 28 logic puzzles. New riddles are added as the channel makes more riddle videos.
Can I share a single riddle?
Yes. Every riddle has its own page with the answer hidden until you tap it, so you can send a friend the link and let them guess first.
Where are the riddles sorted by age or difficulty?
See riddles for kids, riddles for adults, easy riddles and hard riddles. Each list has hints, hidden answers and a print button.
Riddle lists
Hard Riddles
Hard riddles with hints and answers for riddle experts.Riddles for Adults
Riddles for adults: wordplay, logic and number tricks with answers.Brain Teasers
Brain teasers with answers: wordplay and tricky classics.Math Riddles
Math riddles and number puzzles with answers.What Am I Riddles
What am I riddles with hints and answers.
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