Colors are all around us and an integral part of our lives. They influence our moods, inspire creativity, and add vibrancy to the world. Riddles involving colors provide a fun and engaging way to sharpen our minds and test our powers of deduction. Below are 59 color riddles with answers to entertain and challenge you.
Red Riddles
Red is associated with love, passion, danger, and excitement. Here are some riddles about the color red to get us started:
Riddle 1
Q: What is red and goes round and round?
A: A tomato in a blender.
Riddle 2
Q: I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
A: A map.
Riddle 3
Q: What is red and bad for your teeth?
A: A brick.
Riddle 4
Q: What is red, juicy and comes from cows?
A: Strawberries.
Riddle 5
Q: Why did the spider blush?
A: Because it saw the fly unzipped.
Orange Riddles
Orange is energetic, warm, and associated with creativity and joy. See if you can solve these orange riddles:
Riddle 6
Q: What fruit has to get married before it can be eaten?
A: Cantaloupe.
Riddle 7
Q: What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
A: A carrot.
Riddle 8
Q: What is orange and goes “click, click”?
A: An orange stick.
Riddle 9
Q: I’m a fruit with a thick skin. I’m also a color. What am I?
A: An orange.
Riddle 10
Q: What fruit do you use to mend a tear?
A: An orange.
Yellow Riddles
Yellow signifies happiness, optimism, and creativity. Stretch your mind with these yellow riddles:
Riddle 11
Q: What flies around the kindergarten room and doesn’t fly?
A: A kindergarten teacher.
Riddle 12
Q: What has yellow skin and writes?
A: A ballpoint banana.
Riddle 13
Q: I’m a fruit that’s yellow with a large black seed. Monkeys like me. What am I?
A: A banana.
Riddle 14
Q: What is yellow on the outside and gray on the inside?
A: A school bus full of elephants.
Riddle 15
Q: What goes up when rain comes down?
A: An umbrella.
Green Riddles
Green represents nature, growth, stability, and health. Try to figure out these green brain teasers:
Riddle 16
Q: What has green hair and runs through the forest?
A: A pineapple.
Riddle 17
Q: What is green and sings?
A: Elvis Parsley.
Riddle 18
Q: I have a green exterior and a soft interior. I am very refreshing on a hot summer day. What am I?
A: A watermelon.
Riddle 19
Q: What tastes better than it smells?
A: A tongue.
Riddle 20
Q: What is green on the outside and yellow inside?
A: A banana disguised as a cucumber.
Blue Riddles
Blue evokes calm, stability, wisdom, and confidence. Try to uncover the answers to these blue riddles:
Riddle 21
Q: What is blue and goes ding dong?
A: An Avon lady at the door.
Riddle 22
Q: I’m blue and made of paper. What am I?
A: A paper airplane.
Riddle 23
Q: What is blue and smells like red paint?
A: Blue paint.
Riddle 24
Q: What is blue and fuzzy?
A: A blueberry.
Riddle 25
Q: What is blue but turns red when you cook it?
A: A lobster.
Purple Riddles
Purple embodies luxury, power, and imagination. Try to solve these purple brain teasers:
Riddle 26
Q: What is purple and 5,280 feet long?
A: One mile in a purple mile.
Riddle 27
Q: What is purple and very dangerous?
A: A purple people eater.
Riddle 28
Q: I am a vegetable that is purple. People also call me eggplant. What am I?
A: An aubergine.
Riddle 29
Q: What is purple, covered in glue, and found stuck in pages?
A: A stuck Grape.
Riddle 30
Q: What do you call a sad eggplant?
A: A blueberry.
Pink Riddles
Pink represents playfulness, romance, and femininity. Try your hand at solving these pink puzzles:
Riddle 31
Q: What is pink and dangerous?
A: A shark with a sunburn.
Riddle 32
Q: I’m pink and I float. What am I?
A: Pink flamingo pool float.
Riddle 33
Q: What is pink and goes zig zig?
A: A piggy doing the zigzag dance.
Riddle 34
Q: What is pink and fluffy?
A: Pink cotton candy.
Riddle 35
Q: What is pink, loved by children and tastes great with sprinkles on top?
A: Strawberry ice cream.
Brown Riddles
Brown represents stability, earthiness, and reliability. Try out these brown riddles:
Riddle 36
Q: What is brown, has a head and a tail but no legs?
A: A penny.
Riddle 37
Q: I have a hard brown shell that I can retreat inside for safety. I move very slowly. What am I?
A: A turtle.
Riddle 38
Q: I’m brown and come from trees. People spread me on bread. What am I?
A: Peanut butter.
Riddle 39
Q: What is brown and very dangerous?
A: A brown bear.
Riddle 40
Q: What is brown, sweet and goes hoot hoot?
A: A chocolate owl.
Black Riddles
Black represents mystery, elegance, and sophistication. Exercise your mind with these black riddles:
Riddle 41
Q: What is black and white and red all over?
A: A newspaper.
Riddle 42
Q: I’m black when you buy me, red when you use me and gray when you throw me away. What am I?
A: Charcoal.
Riddle 43
Q: What is black and floats in the sky?
A: A filled up black balloon.
Riddle 44
Q: I’m a bird with black feathers that lives near ponds. What am I?
A: A black swan.
Riddle 45
Q: What is black, white and blue all over?
A: A penguin with a newspaper.
White Riddles
White represents purity, innocence, and perfection. Check out these white riddles:
Riddle 46
Q: What is white when dirty and black when clean?
A: A chalkboard.
Riddle 47
Q: What is white on top and black on the bottom?
A: A penguin.
Riddle 48
Q: I am white and very cold. What am I?
A: Snow.
Riddle 49
Q: What is white that falls from the sky and gets you all wet when it lands on you?
A: Snow.
Riddle 50
Q: What is white and has a horn?
A: A unicorn.
Gray Riddles
Gray represents neutrality, practicality, and subtlety. Try to figure out these gray riddles:
Riddle 51
Q: What is gray and cracking but is not an egg?
A: A cracked sidewalk.
Riddle 52
Q: What is gray, has a trunk and eats peanuts?
A: An elephant made of concrete.
Riddle 53
Q: What is gray and whispers all day?
A: A spy pigeon.
Riddle 54
Q: What is gray and can fly?
A: A pigeon.
Riddle 55
Q: I’m gray, live in the arctic and blend in with my surroundings. What animal am I?
A: A polar bear.
Rainbow Riddles
Rainbows represent hope, luck, and happiness. Take on these rainbow riddles:
Riddle 56
Q: What has a head, a rainbow tail, but no body?
A: A rainbow fish kite.
Riddle 57
Q: I appear after it rains and have colors of the rainbow. What am I?
A: A rainbow.
Riddle 58
Q: What is at the end of a rainbow?
A: The letter W.
Riddle 59
Q: I’m an arc shaped band of colors that appears in the sky. What am I?
A: A rainbow.
Conclusion
Colors add vibrancy and beauty to our world. These riddles encourage us to think creatively about colors and see them in new ways. Solving riddles exercises our brainpower and boosts our problem-solving abilities. Did you get stumped on any of these colorful riddles? Going through them again may reveal clues you missed the first time around. Keep challenging your mind and don’t be afraid to color outside the lines!
