The holiday shopping season is a busy time filled with hustle, bustle, and of course, riddles! Here are 77 riddles about the holiday shopping season to entertain and challenge you. See if you can figure out the answers!
Riddles about Shopping
1. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer:
A clock
2. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer:
A candle
3. People buy me to burn. What am I?
Answer:
A candle
4. I can point without hands, I can move without feet. What am I?
Answer:
A clock’s hands
5. I have numbers but no math, letters but no words. What am I?
Answer:
A calendar
6. People cut me down and then put me up. What am I?
Answer:
A Christmas tree
7. I am full of holes but I can still hold water. What am I?
Answer:
A sponge
8. I have eyes but cannot see. What am I?
Answer:
A potato
9. People make lines to get me, even though I’m free. What am I?
Answer:
Money from an ATM
10. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer:
A towel
11. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer:
The word “ton”
12. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer:
Your age
13. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer:
The letter M
14. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Answer:
Your name
15. What gets broken without being held?
Answer:
A promise
16. What has a neck but no head?
Answer:
A bottle
17. What goes up and down but does not move?
Answer:
Stairs
18. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer:
A clock
19. What has teeth but cannot bite?
Answer:
A comb
20. What has a thumb and fingers but is not alive?
Answer:
A glove
21. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer:
A coin
22. What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer:
A clock
23. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer:
The word “ton”
24. What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer:
A sponge
Riddles about Christmas
25. What falls at the North Pole but never gets hurt?
Answer:
Snow
26. What goes “Oh, Oh, Oh”?
Answer:
Santa walking backwards
27. What do snowmen eat for breakfast?
Answer:
Frosted flakes
28. Who is Santa’s favorite singer?
Answer:
Elf-is Presley
29. Why was Santa’s little helper depressed?
Answer:
Because he had low elf-esteem
30. Why does Santa have three gardens?
Answer:
So he can ho-ho-ho
31. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
Answer:
Frostbite
32. Why did the gingerbread man go to the doctor?
Answer:
He was feeling crummy
33. Why does Scrooge love reindeer so much?
Answer:
Because every buck is deer to him
34. Why is Christmas just like your job?
Answer:
You do all the work and some fat guy in a suit gets all the credit
35. What do elves learn in school?
Answer:
The elf-abet
36. Why was Santa’s little helper depressed?
Answer:
Because he had low elf esteem
37. What do you call an old snowman?
Answer:
Water
38. What do you get if you eat Christmas decorations?
Answer:
Tinselitus
39. What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus?
Answer:
Claustrophobic
40. How does Good King Wenceslas like his pizzas?
Answer:
One that’s deep pan, crisp and even
Riddles about Gifts
41. I have branches but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer:
A bank
42. What has a face but no head?
Answer:
A clock
43. What gets broken without being held?
Answer:
A promise
44. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer:
A map
45. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer:
Your age
46. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer:
Rain
47. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer:
Silence
48. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer:
Darkness
49. What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer:
A coin
50. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer:
A piano
51. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer:
A clock
52. What has a thumb and fingers but is not alive?
Answer:
A glove
53. What has a neck but no head?
Answer:
A bottle
54. What has words but never speaks?
Answer:
A book
55. What gets broken without being held?
Answer:
A promise
56. What has four fingers and a thumb, but is not alive?
Answer:
A glove
57. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer:
A phone
58. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer:
A coin
Riddles about Ornaments
59. What ornament is best for seeing at night?
Answer:
A star
60. I am weightless but you can still see me. What am I?
Answer:
A shadow
61. What ornament is as light as a feather but impossible to hold?
Answer:
A breath
62. Glittering, twinkling, hanging oh so high. What ornament am I?
Answer:
A star
63. What ornament comes from the sky but is not a star or angel?
Answer:
Snowflake
64. When they are caught, they are silver or gold. But set free, they are worth more than diamonds. What are they?
Answer:
Stars
65. What ornament belongs on top of your tree?
Answer:
A star
66. I start off small but grow quite tall. Adorned with decor, the tree’s crown I shall be. What am I?
Answer:
The tree topper
67. What ornament is as light as a feather but impossible to hold?
Answer:
A breath
68. What ornament can you wear?
Answer:
An ornament necklace
69. What beautiful ornament is as light as a breath?
Answer:
A bubble
70. I shimmer and shine on the bough so fine, reflecting the lights like a gem that is mine. What ornament am I?
Answer:
Tinsel
Riddles about Food
71. I’m plump and round with a thin sweet skin. I grow on trees and come in many colors. What am I?
Answer:
An apple
72. Crisp and sweet, juicy to eat. Red or green, best fruit I’ve seen. What am I?
Answer:
An apple
73. People cut me down and then put me up. What am I?
Answer:
A Christmas tree
74. I’m hot, I’m plant-based, and you pour gravy on me. What am I?
Answer:
Mashed potatoes
75. I’m a delicious plant that grows in the ground. I’m brown on the outside but white on the inside. What am I?
Answer:
A potato
76. I’m a fruitcake full of fruit and nuts. You either love me or think I’m nuts! What am I?
Answer:
Fruitcake
77. I’m a hot drink that will warm you up and give you energy. I come from beans, I’m brown in color, and you add milk and sugar to me. What am I?
Answer:
Coffee
