English Riddles and Their Answers

English Riddles and Their Answers
1. “I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?”
A candle.
2. “What has hands but can not clap?”
A clock.
3. “What is at the end of a rainbow?”
The letter W.
4. “What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?”
A teapot
5. “A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is
reading. How?”
The girl is blind and is reading braille.
6. “You walk into a room with a match, a karosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. Which do you light first?”
The match.
7. “What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?”
A Towel.
8. “You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make the line longer?”
You draw a shorter line next to it, and it becomes the longer line.
9. “Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?”
Neither, they both weigh one pound.
10. “What goes around and around the wood but never goes into the wood?”
The bark on a tree.
11. “Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one burger, yet only three burgers were eaten in
all. How is this possible?”
They were a grandmother, mother and daughter.
12. “A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days, then leaves on Friday. How did he do it?”
His horse’s name was Friday.
13. “You walk across a bridge and you see a boat full of people yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is
that possible?”
All the people on the boat are married.
14. “A boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room. The ER doctor saw the boy and said, “I cannot operate on
this boy. He is my son.” But the doctor was not the boy’s father. How could that be?”
The doctor was his mom.
15. “How far can a dog run into the woods?”
The dog can run into the woods only to the half of the wood – than it would run out of the woods.
16. “If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?”
If you take 2 apples, than you have of course 2.
17. “Beth’s mother has three daughters. One is called Lara, the other one is Sara. What is the name of the third
daughter?”
Beth.
18. “What’s full of holes but still holds water?”
A sponge.
19. “Say Racecar backwards.”
A: ‘Racecar backwards’
20. “I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?”
Seven (take away the ‘s’ and it becomes ‘even’).
21. “A boy fell off a 30 meter ladder but did not get hurt. Why not?”
He fell off the bottom step.
22. “What never asks questions but is often answered?”
A doorbell.
23. “What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?”
Your name.
24. “I have a large money box, 48 centemeters square and 42 centemeters tall. Roughly how many coins can I
place in my empty money box?”
Just one, after which it will no longer be empty.
25. “What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?”
Short.
26. “Imagine you’re in a room that is filling with water. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?”
Stop imagining.
27. “What invention lets you look right through a wall?”
A window.
28. “I travel all over the world, but always stay in my corner. What am I?”
A stamp.
29. “What do you call a bear without an ear?”
A “b”.
30. “What do you break before you use it?”
An egg!
31. “What are two things you wouldn’t eat after waking up?”
Lunch and dinner.

32. “Which is the most curious letter?”
Y?
33. “Why can’t someone living in Maine be buried in Florida?”
Because he’s still living!

34. “What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?”
The Post Office!

35. “What word begins and ends with an E, but only has one letter?”
Envelope!
36. “What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don’t want to use it?”
An anchor.
37. “What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?”
Trouble.
38. “The man who made it doesn’t want it. The man who bought it doesn’t need it. The man who needs it doesn’t
know it. What am I talking about?”
A coffin.
39. “Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die. What is it?”
Fire
40. “When there is more of it, the less you see. What is it?”
Darkness
41. “They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?”
Stars
42. “What kind of room has no windows or doors?”
A mushroom
43. “I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What is this object?”
A mirror
44. “If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?”
A secret
45. “You can't keep this until you have given it. What is it?”
A promise
46. “Take off my skin, I won't cry, but you will. What am I?”
An onion
47. “What goes up and never comes down?”
Your age
48. “No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?”
Silence
49. “You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?”
A telephone
50. “What question can you never answer "yes" to?”
Are you asleep?

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Lunch and dinner.

Because he’s still living!

The Post Office!

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