Houses are familiar places that we encounter in our daily lives. They can also be the source of intriguing riddles and brainteasers that challenge our logic and lateral thinking skills. In this article, we have collected 51 riddles that involve houses in their set-ups or solutions. Covering easy to difficult riddles taken from oral traditions, books, and the internet, see how many you can get right!
Easy house riddles
Let’s start with some easy house riddles to warm up our riddle-solving skills:
Riddle 1
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?
Answer: A map.
Riddle 2
What has keys that open no locks and space but no room?
Answer: A keyboard.
Riddle 3
What kind of room has no doors, no windows, no floors, and no roof?
Answer: A mushroom.
Riddle 4
What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
Riddle 5
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
Intermediate house riddles
Let’s level up the difficulty with these house riddles that require more logical thinking:
Riddle 6
A man builds a rectangular house with a square window. The window is two square feet in area. If the perimeter of the house is 50 feet, what is its total area?
Answer: 144 square feet. If the perimeter is 50 feet with a rectangular house, dimensions are 10 x 14 feet for 140 square feet. Add the 2 square foot window for a total of 144 square feet.
Riddle 7
If you break me, I do not stop working. If you touch me, I may be snared. If you lose me, nothing will matter. What am I?
Answer: Your heart.
Riddle 8
What can enter any house without opening the doors?
Answer: Light, sunlight.
Riddle 9
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
Riddle 10
What comes through the door but never goes in or out?
Answer: A keyhole.
Difficult house riddles
Let’s turn up the difficulty with these brain twisting house riddles:
Riddle 11
What has 13 hearts but no organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.
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 has a head, a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
Riddle 14
People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A cookbook.
Riddle 15
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
Very hard house riddles
Up for a serious riddle challenge? Try to solve these very hard house riddles:
Riddle 16
A man pushes his car to a hotel and loses his fortune. What happened?
Answer: He was playing Monopoly.
Riddle 17
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 18
What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise.
Riddle 19
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
Riddle 20
What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
Funny house riddles
Take a break from the brain strain with these funny and amusing house riddles:
Riddle 21
What did the big chimney say to the little chimney?
Answer: You’re too young to smoke.
Riddle 22
What’s the biggest room in the world?
Answer: Room for improvement.
Riddle 23
Why couldn’t the house go on vacation?
Answer: It had too much work to do around the yard.
Riddle 24
Why did the house wear a disguise?
Answer: It was undercover.
Riddle 25
How do you make a house feel better?
Answer: Treat it for its sympt-domes.
House riddles for kids
Get the whole family involved in riddle solving with these kid friendly house riddles:
Riddle 26
What did the big house say to the little house?
Answer: Hi, neighbor!
Riddle 27
What did one wall say to the other wall?
Answer: I’ll meet you at the corner!
Riddle 28
What did the painter say to the house?
Answer: I’ve got my eye on you.
Riddle 29
Why don’t houses like snow days?
Answer: It shingles their mood.
Riddle 30
Why was the house out of breath?
Answer: It had been running errands all day.
Good house riddles
Stretch your logic skills with these house riddles that strike a balance between easy and hard:
Riddle 31
What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
Riddle 32
What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
Riddle 33
What has four fingers and one thumb but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
Riddle 34
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
Riddle 35
What goes up and down stairs without moving?
Answer: The railing.
Hard house riddles
Give your riddle skills a tough workout with these challenging house riddles:
Riddle 36
The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness.
Riddle 37
What never asks questions but must always be answered?
Answer: A doorbell.
Riddle 38
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
Riddle 39
What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.
Riddle 40
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow.
Classic house riddles
Test your wit against these classic house riddles that have stood the test of time:
Riddle 41
You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e.”
Riddle 42
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
Riddle 43
What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
Riddle 44
What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
Riddle 45
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
Short house riddles
Try these quick and clever short house riddles:
Riddle 46
What has four walls, a roof, two floors and no stairs?
Answer: An elevator shaft.
Riddle 47
What has roots that nobody sees?
Answer: A mountain.
Riddle 48
What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
Riddle 49
What creeps and leaps but has no feet?
Answer: Fire.
Riddle 50
Where does Thursday come before Wednesday?
Answer: In the dictionary.
Conclusion
How many of these house riddles could you solve? Riddles provide fun brain teasers for all ages while strengthening our problem solving and critical thinking skills. Our familiarity with houses makes them a perfect source of riddle setups and solutions that delight and perplex us. Next time you visit a home, keep an eye out for anything that sparks a new house riddle of your own!
Riddle 51
What starts with a “t”, ends with a “t”, and has t in it?
Answer: A teapot.
