Change can be difficult, but it also leads to growth and new possibilities. Riddles about change encourage us to think creatively about how both individuals and situations can transform over time. In this article, we have collected 55 riddles about change along with their answers. See how many you can get right!
Riddles about personal change
These riddles ask us to think about how people evolve and mature over the course of their lives.
Riddle 1
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
Riddle 2
What starts off on four legs, then two legs, and finally ends on three legs?
Answer: The human life cycle (crawling on four legs as a baby, walking on two legs as an adult, using a cane on three legs as a senior).
Riddle 3
What ages but never gets old?
Answer: Wisdom.
Riddle 4
I am free for the taking through all of your life, though given but once at birth. I am less than nothing in weight, but will fell the strongest of you if held.
Answer: Breath.
Riddle 5
What is it that you will break even when you name it?
Answer: Silence.
Riddle 6
The more places I be, the less you can see. What am I?
Answer: Darkness.
Riddle 7
I make you weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe, I keep you fine. I make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold, I visit the weak, but seldom the bold. What am I?
Answer: Fear.
Riddle 8
I am a burden when life begins. Some use me always, others now and then. Even those who want me sometimes wish me away. At the end, I am present night and day. What am I?
Answer: Responsibility.
Riddle 9
I make you cry, I make you grin, I make you humble, I make you sing. I can make you anything I choose, but only when I have nothing left to lose.
Answer: Hope.
Riddle 10
Though I do not speak, I teach lessons to those willing to learn. I have strength with no muscles, wisdom but no brain. If you follow me, I may lead you to success.
Answer: Experience.
Riddles about change in nature
The natural world is always shifting and evolving. These riddles encourage us to observe and appreciate the cycles of the seasons and passage of time.
Riddle 11
What falls but never breaks?
Answer: Night (night falls).
Riddle 12
What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise.
Riddle 13
I am fueled by my surroundings, I need that to grow. I can be different sizes, take many forms. Fire brings an end to me, what am I?
Answer: A tree.
Riddle 14
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
Riddle 15
What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 16
What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them.
Riddle 17
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
Riddle 18
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise.
Riddle 19
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
Riddle 20
What goes up and down without moving?
Answer: Stairs.
Riddles about change in situations
Situations and circumstances rarely stay the same for long. These riddles encourage flexible thinking about how contexts can transform.
Riddle 21
The more you take away, the more I become. What am I?
Answer: A hole.
Riddle 22
What never asks questions but receives many answers?
Answer: A telephone.
Riddle 23
What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 24
People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A plate.
Riddle 25
What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
Riddle 26
What is broken every time it’s spoken?
Answer: Silence.
Riddle 27
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
Riddle 28
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.
Riddle 29
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
Riddle 30
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
Riddles about change in language
Words and their meanings are always evolving. These riddles play with the flexibility of language.
Riddle 31
What word starts with “e” and ends with “e” but only has one letter?
Answer: Envelope.
Riddle 32
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
Riddle 33
What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Answer: Starting.
Riddle 34
What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
Answer: Noon.
Riddle 35
What begins with “t”, ends with “t”, and has t in it?
Answer: A teapot.
Riddle 36
What starts with E, ends with E, and has one letter in it?
Answer: Envelope.
Riddle 37
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 38
People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A plate.
Riddle 39
What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Answer: Heroine.
Riddle 40
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can never touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow.
Riddles about change in society
As communities grow and evolve, they go through many transformations. These riddles ask us to consider the waves of change that shape civilization.
Riddle 41
What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Answer: Day breaks, and night falls.
Riddle 42
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 43
Voiceless it cries, wingless it flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
Answer: The wind.
Riddle 44
I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place.
Answer: The letter E.
Riddle 45
What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 46
What is broken every time it’s spoken?
Answer: Silence.
Riddle 47
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
Riddle 48
I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
Riddle 49
What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
Riddle 50
People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money.
Riddles about change in math
Numbers and equations are constantly shifting and recombining in new ways. These math riddles play with the flexibility of numeric systems.
Riddle 51
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?
Answer: Chicago.
Riddle 52
What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge.
Riddle 53
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of playing cards.
Riddle 54
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
Riddle 55
What has one head, one foot and four legs?
Answer: A bed.
Conclusion
Change can be both challenging and thrilling. We hope these riddles have inspired you to see change as an opportunity for growth, flexibility and new possibilities. The world is constantly shifting – we must learn to adapt while holding onto our core values. How many of these riddles about change did you get right? Did any stump you? Discuss these riddles with friends and family to build your creative thinking skills together!
