Family is one of the most important things in life. Sharing laughs, memories, and good times with those closest to you is priceless. Riddles about family are not only fun to solve together, but they also help create bonds and inside jokes. Below are 81 riddles about family with the answers provided. See how many your family can get right!
Easy Family Riddles
These family riddles are suitable for kids and adults alike. Have fun solving them together!
Riddle 1
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
Riddle 2
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.
Riddle 3
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
Riddle 4
I’m full of keys but I can’t open any door. What am I?
Answer: A piano.
Riddle 5
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
Riddle 6
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
Riddle 7
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.
Riddle 8
What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
Answer: The railing.
Riddle 9
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 10
What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
Medium Family Riddles
These family riddles require a little more thought and teamwork. See if the whole family can figure them out together.
Riddle 11
What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
Riddle 12
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
Riddle 13
What can travel around the whole way without leaving the corner?
Answer: A postage stamp.
Riddle 14
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
Riddle 15
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny.
Riddle 16
What goes up when the rain comes down?
Answer: An umbrella.
Riddle 17
What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
Riddle 18
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
Riddle 19
What starts with a “t”, ends with a “t”, and has t in it?
Answer: A teapot.
Riddle 20
What is it that given one, you’ll have either two or none?
Answer: A choice.
Hard Family Riddles
These tricky family riddles will really put everyone’s thinking caps on. Work together to see if you can solve them all.
Riddle 21
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 22
A doctor and a taxi driver are both in love with the same attractive woman, named Mary. The taxi driver had to go on a long trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Mary seven apples. Why?
Answer: Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away!
Riddle 23
A man was driving a black truck. His lights were not on. The moon was not out. A lady was crossing the street. How did the man see her?
Answer: It was daytime.
Riddle 24
How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide?
Answer: There is no dirt in a hole.
Riddle 25
A man built a rectangular house with all red walls. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There are no stairs, it’s a one-story house.
Riddle 26
What word begins and ends with an “E” but only has one letter?
Answer: Envelope.
Riddle 27
Railroad crossing, watch out for cars. Can you spell that without any “r’s”?
Answer: T-H-A-T
Riddle 28
Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs, yet each person had an egg. How?
Answer: There were only three people at the table – a grandfather, father, and son.
Riddle 29
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in one thousand years?
Answer: The letter “m”.
Riddle 30
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps.
Tricky Family Riddles
These are some seriously tricky family riddles that will require deep thought. Put your collective thinking caps on for these mind-bending puzzles!
Riddle 31
If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
Answer: 2nd place.
Riddle 32
Which is correct: “The yolk of the egg are white” or “The yolk of the egg is white”?
Answer: Neither, egg yolks are yellow.
Riddle 33
Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
Answer: All of them – all months have 28 days at the least.
Riddle 34
If there are 3 apples and you take 2 away, how many do you have?
Answer: 2 apples.
Riddle 35
How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
Answer: A dozen.
Riddle 36
A farmer had 17 sheep and all but 9 died. How many are left?
Answer: 9 sheep.
Riddle 37
How many members are there in a family of mother, father, two daughters and two sons?
Answer: There are 3 members: mother, father and 2 children.
Riddle 38
Some months have 30 days, some 31. How many have 28?
Answer: All months have at least 28 days.
Riddle 39
If you throw a red stone into the blue sea, what will it become?
Answer: Wet.
Riddle 40
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.
Funny Family Riddles
These funny family riddles will get everyone laughing. Crack these jokes together for some great family bonding time!
Riddle 41
What’s the best thing to put into a pie?
Answer: Your teeth!
Riddle 42
Why was the broom late for school?
Answer: It overswept!
Riddle 43
What do you call a bee that can’t make up its mind?
Answer: A maybe!
Riddle 44
What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
Answer: Frostbite!
Riddle 45
What do you call cheese that’s not yours?
Answer: Nacho cheese!
Riddle 46
Why did the picture go to jail?
Answer: Because it was framed!
Riddle 47
What did the policeman say to his belly button?
Answer: You’re under a vest!
Riddle 48
Why did the kid cross the playground?
Answer: To get to the other slide!
Riddle 49
How do you make a tissue dance?
Answer: You put a little boogie in it!
Riddle 50
What do you give a sick lemon?
Answer: Lemon aid!
Tongue Twisters
These family tongue twisters are challenging to say fast. Try getting through them ten times fast without messing up!
Riddle 51
Red lorry, yellow lorry.
Riddle 52
Unique New York.
Riddle 53
Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.
Riddle 54
I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
Riddle 55
A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.
Riddle 56
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Riddle 57
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Riddle 58
Rubber buggy bumpers.
Riddle 59
Ed had edited it.
Riddle 60
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
What Am I Family Riddles
For these family riddles, you’ll have to guess what is being described. Test your deductive reasoning skills with these “What am I?” puzzles.
Riddle 61
I have four legs but no feet. What am I?
Answer: A table.
Riddle 62
I come out at night without being called, and lose my head in the morning. What am I?
Answer: A star.
Riddle 63
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
Riddle 64
I am where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow follows me. What am I?
Answer: The dictionary.
Riddle 65
I have four wings but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry. On the same spot I’m always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?
Answer: A windmill.
Riddle 66
People make me, save me, change me, and spend me. What am I?
Answer: Money.
Riddle 67
I am tall when young and short when old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
Riddle 68
You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e”.
Riddle 69
I have two hands but no feet. You can find me on faces and on streets. What am I?
Answer: A clock.
Riddle 70
I run around a field with no legs. What am I?
Answer: A fence.
What is it Family Riddles
Can you figure out what object or thing is being described in these family riddles? Put your heads together to solve these fun puzzles.
Riddle 71
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
Riddle 72
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 73
We’re five little items of an everyday sort; you’ll find us all in a tennis court. What are we?
Answer: Vowels A-E-I-O-U
Riddle 74
What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge.
Riddle 75
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
Riddle 76
What’s full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
Riddle 77
I am a box that holds keys without locks, Yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?
Answer: A piano.
Riddle 78
What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
Answer: A road.
Riddle 79
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
Riddle 80
What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed these 81 family riddles and their answers! Riddles are a great way to have fun, bond, and create memories with your loved ones. Don’t be afraid to get creative and make up your own family-friendly riddles too. The more laughing and joking the better. After all, families who laugh together last together. Stay connected with these fun riddles and puzzles. Keep making those special moments.
