Riddles can be a fun way to engage your mind and connect with coworkers in the office. Here are 89 riddles about the workplace to challenge your brain.
General Office Riddles
These riddles cover various common objects, scenarios and sayings related to office work.
1. What has a lot of keys but can’t open a single lock?
A keyboard.
2. What always ends everything?
The letter G (endinG).
3. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
4. What gets sharper the more you use it?
A pencil.
5. What has a spine but no bones?
A book.
6. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle.
7. What is full of holes but can still hold water?
A sponge.
8. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, water but no fish. What am I?
A map.
9. What is often returned but never borrowed?
Thanks or gratitude.
10. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
A staircase.
11. What has four wheels and flies?
A garbage truck.
12. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?
A glove.
13. What has a head, a tail, but no body?
A coin.
14. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock.
15. What is filled with air but weighs a lot?
A blimp.
16. What is often found in the sea but never grows?
The letter C (sea).
17. I am where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?
A dictionary or encyclopedia.
18. What tastes better than it smells?
A tongue.
19. What has a foot but no legs?
A snail.
20. What has a ring but no finger?
A telephone.
21. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A clock.
22. What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.
23. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin.
24. What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?
A glove.
25. What starts with E, ends with E but only has one letter?
An envelope.
26. What has a neck that never gets dirty?
A giraffe.
Office Supply Riddles
Try to guess what common office supplies are described in these riddles.
27. What has teeth but cannot bite?
A comb.
28. What has a point at one end and an eraser at the other?
A pencil.
29. What has ink but cannot write?
A stamp.
30. What object has keys that open no locks?
A keyboard.
31. What has a clip but will never be on TV?
A clipboard.
32. What has a net but doesn’t catch fish?
A stapler.
33. What is sticky and can roll off your tongue?
Scotch tape.
34. What has teeth all around but cannot bite?
A stapler.
35. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
36. What has prongs but won’t sting?
A fork.
37. What has a cap and foil but needs no head?
A highlighter.
38. What has lead but will never rule?
A pencil.
39. What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge.
40. What object can fly without wings?
Time (time flies).
41. What has a point at one end and an eraser at the other?
A pencil.
42. What has a head, a tail, but no body?
A coin.
43. What is often returned but never borrowed?
Thanks.
Workplace and Career Riddles
Stretch your mind around these riddles related to jobs, managers and work environments.
44. What gets larger the more you take away?
A hole.
45. What goes up but never comes down?
Your age.
46. What smells bad but can make you rich?
Trash.
47. The more places I be, the less you can see. What am I?
Darkness.
48. What flies without wings?
Time.
49. Where does today come before yesterday?
In the dictionary.
50. If you have me, you’ll want to share me. If you share me, you’ll no longer have me. What am I?
A secret.
51. What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Day breaks and night falls.
52. I have cities with no houses, forests without trees, and water without fish. What am I?
A map.
53. What goes all around a backyard yet never moves?
A fence.
54. What can run all day without ever getting tired?
A river.
55. David’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?
David.
56. What is it that you will break even when you name it?
Silence.
57. The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness.
58. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence.
59. Feed me and I live, give me a drink and I die. What am I?
Fire.
60. What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Trouble.
61. I am what I am because of what we all are. What am I?
A manager.
62. What goes up and never comes down?
Your age.
63. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter ‘M’.
Office Furniture Riddles
How observant are you of the fixtures and furnishings around your workplace? See if you can solve these office furniture brain teasers.
64. What has four legs but can’t walk?
A table.
65. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
A chair.
66. What has a back and a seat but no legs?
A bench.
67. What has a top and a bottom but no middle?
A desk.
68. What has arms and a back but no face?
A sofa.
69. What wobbles but never falls down?
A chair.
70. What has a foot but no ankle or knee?
A stool.
71. What has four legs, a sturdy back but isn’t alive?
A chair.
72. What has a head, legs and a foot but never walks or stands?
A bed.
73. What has a mattress inside without sheets or blankets?
A pillow.
74. What’s got drawers but is not clothing?
A filing cabinet.
75. What’s tall when it’s new and short when it’s old?
A pencil.
Coworker Riddles
How well do you know your office mates? Test your coworker knowledge with these fun brain teasers.
76. What gets wet when drying?
A towel.
77. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
A coat of paint.
78. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
Your name.
79. What can you catch but not throw?
A cold.
80. What starts with a T, ends with a T, and is full of T?
A teapot.
81. What goes up but never comes down?
Your age.
82. The eight of us go forth, not back. To protect our king from a foe’s attack. What are we?
Chess pawns.
83. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light.
84. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
A road.
85. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano.
86. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock.
87. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
88. What gets broken without being held?
A promise.
89. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A penny.
Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed this collection of 89 office riddles and their answers! Riddles are a fun way to stimulate your mind and make work a little less ordinary. Next time you’re taking a break or chatting with coworkers, try sharing a riddle or two to make each other think and spark creativity.
