Riddles can be a fun way to challenge your brain and think about objects in clever new ways. Here are 95 riddles about everyday items and places to stump your friends and family!
Opening Questions
What makes riddles engaging? Riddles encourage us to think creatively, make connections between disparate concepts, and problem solve in unusual ways. Solving riddles gives our brains a workout as we analyze clues, make inferences, and interpret figurative language. Riddles about objects encourage us to think more deeply about items we encounter regularly. Coming up with a clever riddle challenges the riddle-maker to consider objects from different perspectives. Solving one requires careful reasoning to decode the clues. Riddles are an enjoyable test of comprehension, logic, and lateral thinking.
Everyday Object Riddles
1. I have four legs but no feet. I help you cook and provide you a seat. What am I?
A stool.
2. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle.
3. What has a face but no body, hands but no arms, tells time but does not speak?
A clock.
4. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin.
5. What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.
6. What has a neck but no head, and will cost you money if you break it?
A bottle.
7. What belongs to you but others use it more than you?
Your name.
8. What is full of holes yet can hold water?
A sponge.
9. What is always behind you but never catches up?
Your shadow.
10. What goes up and down but does not move?
Stairs.
11. What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?
A glove.
12. What has a bottom at its top?
Your legs.
13. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock.
14. What has a ring but no finger?
A telephone.
15. What has a spine but no bones?
A book.
16. What has teeth but cannot bite?
A comb.
17. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
18. What jumps when walking and sits when standing still?
A kangaroo.
19. What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?
A pillow.
20. What goes around the house but never moves?
A fence.
Food Riddles
21. What is brown and sticky?
A stick.
22. What did the ocean say to the shore?
Nothing, it just waved.
23. What do you call a cheese that’s not yours?
Nacho cheese.
24. What building has the most stories?
The library.
25. What rock group has four guys who don’t sing?
Mount Rushmore.
26. Where do pencils go on vacation?
Pencil-vania.
27. What do you call a bear with no ears?
B.
28. Why did the invisible man turn down the job offer?
He couldn’t see himself doing it.
29. Want to hear a pizza joke?
Nevermind, it’s too cheesy.
30. What do you get from a pampered cow?
Spoiled milk.
Animal Riddles
31. What do you get if you cross a cat with a lemon?
A sourpuss.
32. How do cats end a fight?
They hiss and make up.
33. What do you call a sleeping bull?
A bulldozer.
34. What do you get when you cross a rabbit with shellfish?
A hare shell.
35. Why don’t sharks like to eat clowns?
They taste funny.
36. What musical instrument do horses like best?
Trom-bone.
37. Why did the pony cough?
He was a little hoarse.
38. How do sheep get clean?
With a baaath.
39. What do you call a sleeping bull?
A bulldozer.
40. Why don’t elephants chew gum?
They find it hard to peel the wrappers off with their toes.
41. What do you get if you cross a parrot with a centipede?
A walkie-talkie.
42. Why did the chicken cross the playground?
To get to the other slide.
43. Where do polar bears vote?
The North Poll.
44. What do you call a funny mountain goat?
Hill-arious.
45. How do snails fight?
They slug it out.
Job and Place Riddles
46. What building has the most stories?
The library.
47. When does a boat sleep?
When it’s in port.
48. What room has no doors or windows?
A mushroom.
49. What has lots of eyes but can’t see?
A potato.
50. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A clock.
51. What bow can’t be tied?
A rainbow.
52. What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
The railing.
53. Where does the king keep his armies?
In his sleevies.
54. What is wet when drying?
A towel.
55. What kind of room has no walls?
A mushroom.
56. What never asks questions but receives many answers?
A phone.
57. What has a face but no head?
A clock.
58. What goes through towns and hills but never moves?
A road.
59. What has four wheels and flies?
A garbage truck.
60. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
A coat of paint.
Tricky Riddles
61. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A penny.
62. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light.
63. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?
A secret.
64. What goes up and down without moving?
A staircase.
65. What has four wheels and flies?
A garbage truck.
66. What can you break without touching it?
A promise.
67. What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.
68. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano.
69. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock.
70. What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.
71. What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
A stamp.
72. What has a thumb and fingers but is not alive?
A glove.
73. What has a head, a tail, but never any legs?
A coin.
74. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter M.
75. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your name.
Silly Riddles
76. What did one toilet say to the other?
You look flushed.
77. Why did the picture go to jail?
Because it was framed.
78. What did one wall say to the other wall?
I’ll meet you at the corner.
79. What do you call a nose with no body?
Nobody knows.
80. What do you call a deer with no eyes?
No eye deer.
81. What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?
Still no eye deer.
82. Why couldn’t the bike stand up?
Because it was two tired.
83. Why did the cookie go to the hospital?
Because he felt crummy.
84. Why was the baby ant confused?
Because all his uncles were ants.
85. What did one hat say to the other?
You stay here. I’ll go on ahead.
86. What starts with E, ends with E, and only contains one letter?
An envelope.
87. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
Frostbite.
88. What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back?
A stick.
89. What do you call a fish with two knees?
A two-knee fish.
90. What did the traffic light say to the car?
Don’t look! I’m changing.
Hard Riddles
91. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short.
92. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
Meat.
93. What can you catch but not throw?
A cold.
94. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
A staircase.
95. What type of room has no doors or windows?
A mushroom.
Conclusion
How many of these riddles could you solve? Riddles are a fun and challenging way to engage our minds. The best riddles make us think about objects and concepts in new ways. Riddles about everyday items encourage us to consider the puzzling properties of things we take for granted. Hard riddles stretch our logical thinking abilities. Silly riddles tickle our funny bones and bring smiles to our faces. Share these riddles with family and friends and see how they exercise your cleverness.
