Riddles can be a fun way to challenge your mind and think logically about ordinary objects in new ways. Here are 89 riddles about common objects along with their answers to test your riddle-solving skills.
Riddles about Food
1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
2. What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
3. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
A teapot
4. What comes down but never goes up?
Rain
5. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A mushroom
6. What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel
7. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin
8. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock
9. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle
10. What has words but never speaks?
A book
11. What has a thumb and fingers but is not alive?
A glove
12. What has a face but no head?
A clock
13. What has a bed but doesn’t sleep?
A river
14. What has teeth but doesn’t bite?
A comb
15. What has a tongue but can’t taste?
A shoe
16. What’s white when dirty and black when clean?
A chalkboard
17. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
A staircase
18. What belongs to you but others use it more than you?
Your name
19. The more you take away, the larger it becomes. What is it?
A hole
20. What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?
A pillow
Riddles about Animals
21. What has four legs but can’t walk?
A table
22. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock
23. What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
SWIMS
24. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Your name
25. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
A map
26. What gets broken without being held?
A promise
27. What has 13 hearts but no organs?
A deck of cards
28. What has words but never speaks?
A book
29. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin
30. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle
31. What can travel around the whole way without moving?
A stamp
32. What is so fragile even saying its name can break it?
Silence
33. What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel
34. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock
35. What has one eye but can’t see?
A needle
36. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin
37. What has no beginning, end, or middle?
A doughnut
38. What gets bigger the more you take away?
A hole
39. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
40. What is always behind you but can’t be seen?
Your future
41. What can you break without touching it?
A promise
Riddles about Nature
42. What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
43. What is so fragile even saying its name breaks it?
Silence
44. What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel
45. What comes down but never goes up?
Rain
46. What goes through towns and hills but never moves?
A road
47. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock
48. What can fill up a room without taking up space?
Light
49. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Your name
50. What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?
Post office
51. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Your brain
52. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A penny
53. What has 88 keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano
54. What is always behind you but can’t be seen?
The past
55. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, and has a head but never weeps?
A river
56. What is full of holes but can still hold water?
A sponge
57. What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow
58. What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?
An icicle
Riddles about Objects
59. I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
60. What gets broken without being held?
A promise
61. What has 21 eyes but can’t see?
A die
62. What has one eye but can’t see?
A needle
63. What has a thumb and fingers but is not alive?
A glove
64. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle
65. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin
66. What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
67. What comes down but never goes up?
Rain
68. What goes all around the yard but never moves?
A fence
69. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock
70. What can fly without wings?
Time
71. What has four keys but can’t open a single lock?
A keyboard
72. What has a face but no head?
A clock
73. What has a bed but never sleeps?
A river
74. What has a bank but no money?
A river
75. What has no beginning, end or middle?
A doughnut
76. What gets broken without being held?
A promise
77. What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
78. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
A deck of cards
79. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
80. What can go up a chimney down but can’t go down a chimney up?
An umbrella
81. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
Your name
82. What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel
83. What has four wheels and flies?
A garbage truck
84. What has one eye but can’t see?
A needle
85. What runs around a backyard but doesn’t move?
A fence
86. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A penny
87. What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow
88. What gets bigger the more you take away?
A hole
89. What can fill up a room but takes up no space?
Light
Conclusion
How did you do with these riddles? Riddles are a great way to challenge your deductive reasoning skills. The best riddles make you think logically about ordinary things in new ways. Next time you encounter a common object, see if you can think of a clever riddle about it!
