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Riddles

Total questions: 44

Worksheet time: 44mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What has to be broken before you can use it?

(a)  

2.

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

(a)  

3.

What month of the year has 28 days?

(a)  

4.

What is full of holes but still holds water?

(a)  

5.

What question can you never answer yes to?

(a)  

6.

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

(a)  

7.

There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?

(a)  

8.

What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?

(a)  

9.

What goes up but never comes down?

(a)  

10.

A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

(a)  

11.

What gets wet while drying?

(a)  

12.

What can you keep after giving to someone?

(a)  

13.

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

(a)  

14.

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

(a)  

15.

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

(a)  

16.

A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?

(a)  

17.

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

(a)  

18.

What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?

(a)  

19.

The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

(a)  

20.

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

(a)  

21.

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

(a)  

22.

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

(a)  

23.

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

(a)  

24.

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

(a)  

25.

What gets bigger when more is taken away?

(a)  

26.

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

(a)  

27.

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

(a)  

28.

Where does today come before yesterday?

(a)  

29.

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

(a)  

30.

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

(a)  

31.

What can’t be put in a saucepan?

(a)  

32.

What goes up and down but doesn’t move?

(a)  

33.

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

(a)  

34.

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

(a)  

35.

I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

(a)  

36.

If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?

(a)  

37.

What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?

(a)  

38.

Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Mary have?

(a)  

39.

The day before yesterday I was 21, and next year I will be 24. When is my birthday?

(a)  

40.

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

(a)  

41.

What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?

(a)  

42.

A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?

(a)  

43.

A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?

(a)  

44.

You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?

(a)