Riddles can be a fun way to challenge your mind and think about ordinary things in new ways. Here are 73 riddles about common household items and places in the home to test your riddle-solving skills.
Kitchen Riddles
1. What has a bottom at the top?
A legs up.
2. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
Your name.
3. What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel.
4. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle.
5. What has teeth but cannot bite?
A comb.
6. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
A glove.
7. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
8. What has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
A river.
9. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
A table.
10. What gets broken without being held?
A promise.
11. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin.
12. What has a neck but no head, two arms but no hands?
A shirt.
13. What has a ring but no finger?
A telephone.
14. What has a tongue but cannot taste?
A shoe.
15. What’s full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge.
16. What is often returned but never borrowed?
Thanks.
17. What gets wet with drying?
A towel.
18. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano.
Bedroom Riddles
19. What has hands but can not clap?
A clock.
20. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A clock.
21. What has numbers but no math?
A calendar.
22. What has a neck but no head?
A shirt.
23. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Your name.
24. I have cities with no houses, forests with no trees, water with no fish. What am I?
A map.
25. What gets bigger the more you take away?
A hole.
26. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
27. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
A glove.
28. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin.
29. What has a neck but no head, two arms but no hands?
A shirt.
30. What has teeth but cannot bite?
A comb.
Bathroom Riddles
31. What falls but never breaks?
Night.
32. What breaks but never falls?
Day.
33. What runs all around a backyard yet never moves?
A fence.
34. What can fill up a room but takes up no space?
Light.
35. What is always behind you but can’t be seen?
The past.
36. What can you catch but never throw?
A cold.
37. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Stairs.
38. What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.
39. What wears clothes and has fingers but no hands?
A scarecrow.
40. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
41. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin.
42. What can you serve but never eat?
A tennis ball.
Living Room Riddles
43. What has four fingers and a thumb but is not a hand?
A glove.
44. What has a neck but no head, two arms but no hands?
A shirt.
45. What goes up when rain comes down?
An umbrella.
46. What has a head, a tail, but never a body?
A coin.
47. What gets wet when drying?
A towel.
48. What has two hands, a round face, always runs, but stays in place?
A clock.
49. What has a bottom at the top?
Legs.
50. What has words but never speaks?
A book.
51. What has needles but doesn’t sew?
A Christmas tree.
52. What has a ring but no finger?
A telephone.
53. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle.
54. What can fill up an entire room without taking up any space?
Light.
Basement and Attic Riddles
55. What has branches and leaves but no bark?
A library.
56. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
A penny.
57. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.
58. What has 88 keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano.
59. What has six faces but does not wear makeup?
A die.
60. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock.
61. What is full of holes but can still hold water?
A sponge.
62. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
A glove.
63. What has a head, a tail, but never a body?
A coin.
64. What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.
65. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Your name.
Garage Riddles
66. What has four wheels and flies?
A garbage truck.
67. What has four fingers and a thumb, but is not flesh?
A glove.
68. What has teeth but can’t bite?
A comb.
69. What has a neck and no head, two arms but no hands?
A shirt.
70. What bow can’t be tied?
A rainbow.
71. What building has the most stories?
The library.
72. What is full of holes but holds water?
A sponge.
73. What has four legs, a head, but no body?
A bed.
Conclusion
How did you do with these household riddles? Riddles are a great way to challenge your thinking in fun ways. See how many you can solve, create some of your own, and have fun challenging family and friends!
