Adventure riddles are fun brain teasers that challenge you to think outside the box. They often involve imaginary scenarios that take you on an exciting journey as you try to solve the puzzle. Stretch your imagination and test your wit with these 95 adventure riddles and their answers!
Adventure Riddles
1. A doctor and a boy were fishing. The boy was the doctor’s son, but the doctor was not the boy’s father. Who was the doctor?
2. A man builds an ordinary house with four sides except that each side has a southern exposure. A bear comes to the door and rings the doorbell. What is the color of the bear?
3. Yesterday I went to a pet store and bought 4 dogs. Each dog had 7 pups. Each pup had 2 cats. Each cat had 4 kittens. How many legs did I count yesterday in the pet store?
4. Sam has to take out the trash every night. Each night he takes the elevator down from the 25th floor to the 1st. It takes him 1 minute to go down each floor. If it takes him 30 minutes total from the moment he leaves his apartment to taking the trash to the dumpster, how long does he spend at the dumpster each night?
5. A farmer had 17 sheep and all but 9 died. How many are left?
6. Emily’s father has three daughters. The first daughter is named April, the second daughter is named May. What is the third daughter’s name?
7. A woman shoots her husband, then holds him underwater for five minutes. Next, she hangs him. Right after, they enjoy a lovely dinner together. How can this be?
8. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
9. The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
10. Imagine you’re in a room that is filling with water. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?
11. I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
12. What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
13. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
14. What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
15. What goes up and down but does not move?
16. What has a neck but no head?
17. Where does today come before yesterday?
18. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
19. I am where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?
20. The more holes it has, the more water it can hold. What is it?
21. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
22. What has a mouth but cannot chew?
23. I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. What am I?
24. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
25. What goes up but never comes down?
26. The eight of us go forth, not back. To protect our king from a foe’s attack. What are we?
27. What can you catch but not throw?
28. What has 13 hearts but no organs?
29. What gets bigger the more you take from it?
30. I have cities but no houses. I have forests but no trees. I have water but no fish. What am I?
31. What starts with ‘e’ ends with ‘e’ and only contains one letter?
32. The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
33. What is it that lives if it is fed, and dies if you give it water?
34. What has a bed but does not sleep and runs but has no feet?
35. What has hands but can’t clap?
36. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it and gray when you throw it away?
37. What is full of holes but still holds water?
38. I am light as a feather yet the strongest person cannot hold me for long. What am I?
39. What building has the most stories?
40. What tastes better than it smells?
41. What has many keys but opens no door?
42. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
43. What has four legs but cannot walk?
44. What starts with T, ends with T and has T in it?
45. What always runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, and has a head but never weeps?
46. What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen in the beginning or end of either month?
47. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
48. I fly, but have no wings. I cry, but I have no eyes. Darkness follows me; lower light I never see. What am I?
49. What is so fragile even saying its name breaks it?
50. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
51. What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
52. What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
53. What goes up but never comes down?
54. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
55. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
56. What is broken every time it’s spoken?
57. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
58. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
59. What dice game has the most pawns?
60. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
61. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
62. What month of the year has 28 days?
63. What is full of holes but still holds water?
64. What has thirteen hearts, but no other organs?
65. What has a foot but no legs?
66. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
67. What has hands but can’t clap?
68. What has a neck but no head?
69. What tastes better than it smells?
70. Forward I’m heavy, backwards I’m not. What am I?
71. What building has the most stories?
72. What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?
73. What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
74. The more of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
75. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
76. What gets wetter the more it dries?
77. What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
78. What has a head and a tail but no body?
79. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
80. What has four wheels and flies?
81. What has one eye but can’t see?
82. Where does today come before yesterday?
83. I’m tall when I’m young, short when I’m old. What am I?
84. What is always coming but never arrives?
85. What never asks questions but receives many answers?
86. What goes up and never comes down?
87. What runs around a backyard all day without moving?
88. What has a tongue but can’t talk?
89. What has one head, one foot and four legs?
90. What has hands but can’t clap?
91. What has a bank but no money?
92. What is it that goes up and down the stairs without moving?
93. What has teeth but can’t bite?
94. What has words but never speaks?
95. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Adventure Riddle Answers
1. The doctor is the boy’s mother.
2. The bear is white – every side faces south at the North Pole.
3. 196 legs – each dog had 4 legs, each pup had 4 legs, each cat had 4 legs, each kitten had 4 legs.
4. 5 minutes – it takes him 25 minutes to go down, so 30 minus 25 is 5 minutes at the dumpster.
5. 9 sheep.
6. Emily.
7. They are acting out a play.
8. Queue.
9. Footsteps.
10. Stop imagining – you aren’t really in a room filling with water!
11. Seven.
12. A keyboard.
13. Footsteps.
14. Envelope.
15. A staircase.
16. A bottle.
17. In a dictionary.
18. Ton.
19. A dictionary.
20. A sponge.
21. A towel.
22. A river.
23. A miner.
24. A mushroom.
25. Your age.
26. Chess pawns.
27. A cold.
28. A deck of cards.
29. A hole.
30. A map.
31. Envelope.
32. Darkness.
33. Fire.
34. A river.
35. A clock.
36. Charcoal.
37. A sponge.
38. Breath.
39. Library.
40. Tongue.
41. A piano.
42. Footsteps.
43. A table.
44. Teapot.
45. A river.
46. The letter ‘R’.
47. A candle.
48. Cloud.
49. Silence.
50. The letter ‘M’.
51. A deck of cards
52. The letter R.
53. Age.
54. Corn on the cob.
55. A bank.
56. Silence.
57. Your name.
58. A towel.
59. Alphabetize.
60. Short.
61. Charcoal.
62. All of them.
63. A sponge.
64. A deck of cards.
65. A bed.
66. A road.
67. A clock.
68. A bottle.
69. The tongue.
70. Ton.
71. Library.
72. Teapot.
73. The letter R.
74. Footsteps.
75. A mushroom.
76. A towel.
77. Roads.
78. A coin.
79. A window.
80. A garbage truck.
81. A needle.
82. In a dictionary.
83. A candle.
84. Tomorrow.
85. A telephone.
86. Your age.
87. A fence.
88. A shoe.
89. A bed.
90. A clock.
91. A river.
92. A railing.
93. A comb.
94. A book.
95. Your name.
