Working in an office can be mundane at times. To liven things up, try challenging your coworkers with some tricky riddles! Here are 87 office-themed riddles with answers to entertain and engage even the brightest minds.
Riddles about Office Supplies
Get into the nitty-gritty of office work with these riddles about common supplies and tools found around the office.
1. What has keys that open no locks and space but no room?
A keyboard.
2. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A postage stamp.
3. What tool do you use to look right through a person?
A window.
4. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle.
5. What goes up but never comes down?
Your age.
6. The more you take away, the larger it becomes. What is it?
A hole.
7. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A clock.
8. What has rings but no fingers?
A binder.
9. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
10. What object has keys that open no locks?
A keyboard.
Riddles about Office Furniture
The office may start feeling like a second home. See if your coworkers can identify these common pieces of office furniture.
11. What has legs but cannot walk?
A desk.
12. What has four legs but can’t walk?
A table.
13. What has a back and a seat but no legs?
A chair.
14. I’m tall when I’m young, short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle.
15. What has a top and a bottom but no middle?
A drawer.
16. What has a foot but no leg?
A ruler.
17. What has a spine but no bones?
A book.
18. What has arms and a back but no legs?
A chair.
19. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin.
20. What has four legs but can’t walk?
A table.
Riddles about Office Workers
The characters of your office make it come alive. See if your coworkers can guess who these riddles describe.
21. What always types and writes but never reads?
A secretary.
22. What climbs stairs without moving its legs?
An escalator.
23. Who works when they play and plays when they work?
A musician.
24. What belongs to you but others use it more than you?
Your name.
25. What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel.
26. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A mushroom.
27. What goes up and down stairs without moving?
The railing.
28. What building has the most stories?
The library.
29. What has 13 hearts but no organs?
A deck of cards.
30. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
Riddles about Office Activities
The daily grind of office work lends itself to some peculiar puzzles. See if your coworkers can unravel the activities described in these riddles.
31. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Your brain.
32. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A clock.
33. What has a head, a tail, but never any legs?
A coin.
34. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle.
35. What object has keys that open no locks?
A keyboard.
36. What can fill up a room without taking up space?
Light.
37. What is broken every time it’s spoken?
Silence.
38. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence.
39. What begins with T, ends with T, and contains T?
A teapot.
40. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. What is it?
Nothing.
Riddles about the Office Environment
The surroundings of your office are so familiar. But do your coworkers see them as clearly as you do?
41. What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.
42. What falls but never breaks?
Night.
43. The more there is, the less you see. What could it be?
Darkness.
44. What goes up and down but does not move?
The temperature.
45. What can run but not walk?
Water.
46. What has four legs but can’t walk?
A desk.
47. What room has no walls, no doors, no windows, and no floors?
A mushroom.
48. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
49. What has a head, a tail, but never any legs?
A coin.
50. What has a face but no head?
A clock.
Riddles about Office Problems
Don’t let the headaches of office life discourage you. Turn those negative experiences into brain-teasing riddles.
51. What envelope can you never open?
A snowflake.
52. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short.
53. If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
A mirror.
54. What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night?
A pillow.
55. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle.
56. What’s full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge.
57. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light.
58. What breaks but never falls, and what falls but never breaks?
Day breaks, night falls.
59. What goes up but never comes down?
Your age.
60. What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.
Riddles about Office Policies
Rules are meant to be broken … figuratively, of course! Use office policies as inspiration for your next riddles.
61. What never asks questions but is often answered?
A doorbell.
62. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
A glove.
63. What has a head, a tail, but never any legs?
A coin.
64. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
The temperature.
65. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you die. What is it?
Nothing.
66. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano.
67. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock.
68. What has one eye but can’t see?
A needle.
69. What starts with E, ends with E, but only contains one letter?
An envelope.
70. What has a head, a tail, but never any legs?
A coin.
Riddles about Office Perks
All work and no play? Not with these riddles about the fun side of office life.
71. What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.
72. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin.
73. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle.
74. What demands an answer but asks no question?
A telephone.
75. What has four legs but can’t walk?
A desk.
76. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window.
77. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock.
78. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
79. What has a spine but no bones?
A book.
80. What has a head, a tail, but never any legs?
A coin.
Riddles about Office Management
If you’re in charge, these riddles are for you! See if your managers and executives can solve these leadership-themed puzzles.
81. What falls but never breaks?
Night.
82. What building has the most stories?
The library.
83. What is broken every time it’s spoken?
Silence.
84. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence.
85. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
86. What has a head, a tail but no body?
A coin.
87. What has four legs but can’t walk?
A desk.
Conclusion
How many of these office riddles could you solve? Riddles are a fun way to stimulate minds and bring some excitement to the workplace. With a mix of office supplies, furniture, coworkers, activities, environment, problems, policies, perks, and management, there’s a riddle sure to stump and engage your team.
Want to get the creative juices flowing? Try coming up with some original office riddles of your own. Feel free to take inspiration from the sights and sounds around your actual workspace. The more personalized the riddle, the more likely it is to resonate with your coworkers. What will you come up with next?
