Windows are a common part of our everyday lives. They allow natural light into our homes and buildings while giving us views outside. Windows can inspire curiosity and wonder about the world around us. Riddles that incorporate windows often play with our perceptions and assumptions about these glass openings.
In this article, we have collected 57 riddles about windows along with their answers. Some focus on the properties and uses of windows themselves. Others use the window as a metaphor or thought experiment. How many can you solve on your own before peeking at the answers?
Riddles about windows
Riddle 1
What has windows but no rooms?
Answer: A computer.
Riddle 2
What has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
Answer: A keyboard.
Riddle 3
What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
Answer: A stamp.
Riddle 4
What has a neck but no head, gets wet but never rusts, and has two arms but no hands?
Answer: A shirt.
Riddle 5
What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
Answer: The letter “R.”
Riddle 6
What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
Answer: Noon.
Riddle 7
The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness.
Riddle 8
What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel.
Riddle 9
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
Riddle 10
What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
Riddle 11
What has a thumb and fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
Riddle 12
What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge.
Riddle 13
I have cities with no houses, forests with no trees, and water with no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
Riddle 14
What begins with T, ends with T, and is full of T?
Answer: A teapot.
Riddle 15
What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library.
Riddle 16
What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin.
Riddle 17
What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.
Riddle 18
What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
Riddle 19
What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.
Riddle 20
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny.
Riddle 21
What can clap but has no hands?
Answer: Thunder.
Riddle 22
What has four legs, one head, and a foot but no body?
Answer: A bed.
Riddle 23
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
Riddle 24
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.
Riddle 25
What has a bank but no money?
Answer: A river.
Riddles about looking through a window
Riddle 26
When you look through me your view improves. What am I?
Answer: A window.
Riddle 27
I have transparent sheets that allow you to see outside, though I’m an inside fixture. What am I?
Answer: A window.
Riddle 28
I’m not a door and can’t be opened, but I do have panels of glass set in frames. What am I?
Answer: A window.
Riddle 29
I let in light and fresh air, but keep out the cold and rain. You can see right through me. What am I?
Answer: A window.
Riddle 30
People stare through me but I never stare back. What am I?
Answer: A window.
Riddles about windows as metaphors
Riddle 31
What has panes but is not glass, through which you look into the past?
Answer: History.
Riddle 32
I expand your vision and open up opportunities. With me the future’s a clearer view. What am I?
Answer: A window.
Riddle 33
I have hinges but am not a door, transparent vision to see what’s in store. What am I?
Answer: A window.
Riddle 34
I frame the world so you can view beyond your walls. With me around, a small room never feels small. What am I?
Answer: A window.
Riddle 35
I bring in light but keep out the rain. I give you a glimpse without going insane. What am I?
Answer: A window.
General window riddles
Riddle 36
When is a car window not a car window?
Answer: When it becomes a jar.
Riddle 37
Which window is made to slide?
Answer: Window pane.
Riddle 38
Hannah’s mum had three windows in her house. One faced east, one faced south and one faced west. A bear came to the house and broke one of the windows. Which one was left?
Answer: The west-facing window.
Riddle 39
Why are windows so bright and cheerful?
Answer: Because they are always looking out!
Riddle 40
What do you call a dinosaur that smashes through windows?
Answer: A dinosore.
Riddle 41
Why couldn’t the window get on the bus?
Answer: It was pane-full.
Riddle 42
Why do windows make the best journalists?
Answer: They have panoramic views.
Riddle 43
What do you call a frozen window?
Answer: A window-sicle!
Riddle 44
Which part of a car is the laziest?
Answer: The window shields.
Riddle 45
How do spiders communicate while driving?
Answer: Through the web window.
Riddle 46
Why was the window so good at boxing?
Answer: It had a pane in every round.
Riddle 47
What sits at the window and goes “Oh oh oh”?
Answer: Santa and his ho ho hos!
Riddle 48
Why was the laptop jealous of the window?
Answer: It had better Windows!
Riddle 49
I clean windows for a living. When my boss asked me what floor I like working on the most, what’s the safest response?
Answer: The ground floor!
Riddle 50
Why don’t windows shop?
Answer: They already have panes!
Tricky window riddles
Riddle 51
A man pushes his car up to a hotel and says he’s bankrupt. Why?
Answer: He’s playing Monopoly.
Riddle 52
Arnold and his wife were driving to the mall when they collided with a truck. Arnold and his wife died on site, but the truck driver survived. How is this possible?
Answer: Arnold and his wife were goldfish and their bowl fell off the truck’s passenger seat.
Riddle 53
How far can a dog run into a forest?
Answer: Halfway, after that he’s running out.
Riddle 54
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.
Riddle 55
If there are 12 fish and half drown, how many are there?
Answer: 12, fish can’t drown.
Riddle 56
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, “If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me 50 cents, but if I cannot, I will pay you 50 cents.” The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the man writes he’ll get the money. In the end the boy ended up paying the man 50 cents. How did the man win the bet?
Answer: The man wrote “your exact weight” on the paper.
Riddle 57
Emily was sitting at her study table, home alone, on a cold and stormy night. Her parents had taken a flight earlier in the morning to Australia as her grandmother had passed away. She had wanted to follow her parents but she had an important English examination the next day which she could not miss. The storm was getting heavier by the minute and the wind was howling outside. All of a sudden, a huge wave of thunder and lightning cracked as streaks of light flashed through the sky. Emily’s room went dark all of a sudden and she heard a dripping sound. She got out of her room and went towards the switch board to check if the fuse had tripped. The dripping sound grew louder. As she was getting closer to the switch board, she felt the floor becoming wet and cold. When Emily crossed the room, she slipped and fell next to the switch board. Her foot felt icy cold as her socks started to get wet. She looked down and saw water dripping from the switch board. The gushing water followed the path of sparks from the short-circuited switch board and touched her feet. The switch board was raining. How could this happen?
Answer: Emily was imagining everything. She was caught up in her fear and imagination on the stormy night while studying.
