40 Riddles With Answers: Easy, Hard, Funny and Riddles for Kids

By the Tressiv Games team · Quizzes · Updated 15 November 2026

Quick answerHere are 40 riddles with answers, sorted into easy riddles, hard riddles, funny riddles and riddles for kids. Read each riddle, have a guess, then tap it to reveal the answer. They are classic, well-loved riddles — great for school, road trips and parties.

Illustration of a large question mark beside a lit candle and a key, with the title Riddles with answers

Easy riddles

What has keys but can't open locks? Show answer
A piano.
What has to be broken before you can use it? Show answer
An egg.
What has hands but can't clap? Show answer
A clock.
What has a neck but no head? Show answer
A bottle.
What has one eye but can't see? Show answer
A needle.
What has many teeth but can't bite? Show answer
A comb.
What gets wet while it dries? Show answer
A towel.
What has a head and a tail but no body? Show answer
A coin.
What has words but never speaks? Show answer
A book.
What month has 28 days? Show answer
All of them.

Hard riddles

I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I? Show answer
A candle.
What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish? Show answer
A map.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? Show answer
Footsteps.
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I? Show answer
An echo.
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? Show answer
A stamp.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? Show answer
The letter M.
Two fathers and two sons go fishing. Each catches one fish, but they bring home only three. How? Show answer
There are only three people: a grandfather, his son and his grandson.
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you no longer have me. What am I? Show answer
A secret.
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Show answer
Short (add "er" to get "shorter").
Poor people have it, rich people need it, and if you eat it you die. What is it? Show answer
Nothing.

Funny riddles

What kind of room has no doors or windows? Show answer
A mushroom.
A rooster lays an egg on top of a barn roof. Which way does it roll? Show answer
Neither — roosters don't lay eggs.
What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary? Show answer
"Wrong."
You see a boat full of people, yet there isn't a single person on board. How? Show answer
Everyone on board is married.
A man was out in the rain with no umbrella or hat, but not a single hair on his head got wet. Why? Show answer
He was bald.
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I? Show answer
A barber.
What question can you never answer "yes" to? Show answer
"Are you asleep yet?"
What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do? Show answer
Your name.
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I? Show answer
A ton (backwards it spells "not").
What disappears as soon as you say its name? Show answer
Silence.

Riddles for kids

What is full of holes but still holds water? Show answer
A sponge.
What goes up but never comes down? Show answer
Your age.
What can you catch but not throw? Show answer
A cold.
What runs but never walks, and has a mouth but never talks? Show answer
A river.
What has 13 hearts but no other organs? Show answer
A deck of cards.
What can you break without touching it? Show answer
A promise.
What is always in front of you but can't be seen? Show answer
The future.
The more of it there is, the less you can see. What is it? Show answer
Darkness.
There's a one-storey house where everything is yellow. What colour are the stairs? Show answer
There aren't any stairs — it's a one-storey house.
What can you keep after giving it to someone? Show answer
Your word.

Tips for solving riddles

Don't read it literally. "Keys", "hands", "teeth" and "eye" usually mean parts of objects, not people.
Look for wordplay. Many riddles hide a pun or a spelling trick ("ton" backwards is "not").
Question the setup. Some riddles include an assumption that's simply false — roosters don't lay eggs.
Say it out loud. Hearing the words helps you notice double meanings.

More brain games

Liked these? Try our Christmas trivia questions and would you rather questions. For a puzzle you can play, build a bridge that holds a truck in Bridge Snap.

Frequently asked questions

What is a good riddle with an answer?

"What has keys but can't open locks?" — a piano. It's short, fair and fun for any age.

What is the hardest riddle?

Classic hard ones include "What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?" (the letter M) and "Poor people have it, rich people need it, and if you eat it you die" (nothing).

What are good riddles for kids?

Riddles with everyday answers work best: "What is full of holes but still holds water?" (a sponge) or "What goes up but never comes down?" (your age).

How do you get better at riddles?

Read for double meanings, look for puns and question the assumptions in the setup. The more riddles you solve, the faster you spot the patterns.

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