Riddles can be a fun way to challenge your brain and think about things in new ways. Here are 79 riddles that focus on the present time, along with the answers to help if you get stumped!
Riddles About the Current Day
1. What day comes before all others?
Answer: Today.
2. I’m sometimes fast and sometimes slow. I go on continuously whether you like it or not. What am I?
Answer: Time.
3. I happen once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years. What am I?
Answer: The letter M.
4. What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel.
5. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
6. You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter E.
7. What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them.
8. What seven-letter word contains hundreds of letters?
Answer: Mailbox.
9. What room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.
10. I have keys but no locks, space but no room, you can enter but can’t go outside. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard.
11. What happens once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
12. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase.
13. What has a face but no head, is counted but not seen?
Answer: A clock.
14. What sticks to a magnet but not to glue?
Answer: Iron.
15. What jumps when you cut off its head?
Answer: A match.
Riddles About Food and Drink
16. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Breath.
17. What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge.
18. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.
19. People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A plate.
20. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
21. What breaks but never falls?
Answer: Day.
22. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
Answer: A road.
23. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
24. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel.
25. David’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and ______?
Answer: David.
26. What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter?
Answer: Envelope.
27. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
Answer: A barber.
28. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.
29. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
30. What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise.
31. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
32. I’m sometimes white and always wrong. What am I?
Answer: A lie.
Riddles About Animals
33. What has four legs but can’t walk?
Answer: A table.
34. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
35. What animal is made of two elements?
Answer: Polar bear (pole + bear).
36. This animal is grey and has a trunk but is not an elephant. What is it?
Answer: A mouse.
37. What is black and white and red all over?
Answer: A newspaper.
38. What belongs to you but others use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.
39. I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. Who am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
40. This thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face. What is it?
Answer: A clock.
41. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
42. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
43. What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
Answer: The letter “R.”
44. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
45. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
Riddles About Objects
46. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
47. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
48. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
49. You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e.”
50. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
51. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
52. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
53. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
Answer: Nothing.
54. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
55. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “m.”
56. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
57. What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise.
58. What goes all around the yard without moving?
Answer: A fence.
59. What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
60. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
61. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.
62. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
63. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
64. What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them.
Riddles About The Human Body
65. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
66. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
67. What body part is pronounced as one letter but written with three, only two different letters are used?
Answer: Eye.
68. What starts with E, ends with E, and has only 1 letter?
Answer: Envelope.
69. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.
70. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.
71. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
72. People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A plate.
73. What starts with a “t”, ends with a “t”, and has t in it?
Answer: A teapot.
74. What starts with “e” and ends with “e” but only has one letter?
Answer: An envelope.
75. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
Answer: Breath.
Riddles About Places
76. What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel.
77. What begins with “t”, ends with “t”, and has “t” in it?
Answer: A teapot.
78. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
79. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
Answer: Nothing.
Conclusion
So there you have it – 79 riddles about the present and their answers! Some focus on specific categories like food, animals and objects, while others are more general brain teasers. How many were you able to get right on the first try? Riddles are great for challenging your logical thinking in fun ways. They make you think about words, phrases and concepts in totally different lights. Hopefully you enjoyed these riddles and they got your mind working and thinking outside the box!
