Umbrellas are a common everyday object that can inspire some clever riddles. Here are 69 riddles about umbrellas along with their answers to challenge your lateral thinking.
Funny umbrella riddles
Riddle 1
What did the umbrella say to the rain?
Answer: You go on without me!
Riddle 2
Why are umbrellas so slow to complain?
Answer: They tend to hold everything inside!
Riddle 3
I have lots of ribs but no heart, two caps but no head. What am I?
Answer: An umbrella.
Riddle 4
What happened to the umbrella who went out on a very windy day?
Answer: It turned inside out!
Riddle 5
Why did the umbrella go to the bathroom?
Answer: It wanted to use the rain shower!
Tricky umbrella riddles
Riddle 6
Mary needs an umbrella but has to buy it from a shop that only sells umbrellas without the handles. How can Mary use the umbrella she buys?
Answer: She can attach a handle to the umbrella herself after buying it.
Riddle 7
If it can’t fly but it can soar, what opens but never closes, always holds memories but can forget tomorrow?
Answer: An umbrella.
Riddle 8
I protect you from rain, sleet, and snow. When folded up I’m short, open me up and I’ll grow. What am I?
Answer: An umbrella.
Riddle 9
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
Riddle 10
Lighter than a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for long. What am I?
Answer: Breath.
Umbrella riddles for kids
Riddle 11
What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
Answer: A potato.
Riddle 12
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
Riddle 13
What goes up and down but does not move?
Answer: Stairs.
Riddle 14
What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
Riddle 15
What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
Riddle 16
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
Riddle 17
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
Riddle 18
What has teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb.
Riddle 19
What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
Riddle 20
What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
Hard umbrella riddles
Riddle 21
What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Answer: Day breaks and night falls.
Riddle 22
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”.
Riddle 23
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.
Riddle 24
A man dressed in all black is walking down a country lane. Suddenly, a large black car without any lights on comes round the corner and screeches to a halt. How did the driver see the man?
Answer: It was daylight.
Riddle 25
What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
Answer: Swims.
Funny umbrella riddles for adults
Riddle 26
I have a large money box that can hold coins and notes. You put money in me but can only take it out by standing on your head. What am I?
Answer: A piggy bank.
Riddle 27
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 28
People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money.
Riddle 29
What has roots that nobody sees and is taller than trees? Up, up it goes and yet it never grows.
Answer: A mountain.
Riddle 30
Voiceless I cry, wingless I flutter, toothless I bite, mouthless I mutter. What am I?
Answer: The wind.
Classic umbrella riddles
Riddle 31
What’s full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge.
Riddle 32
I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
Riddle 33
What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them!
Riddle 34
What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
Answer: The carpet.
Riddle 35
What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin.
Hard umbrella riddles for adults
Riddle 36
What has cities but no houses, rivers but no water, and forests but no trees?
Answer: A map.
Riddle 37
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper.
Riddle 38
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in one thousand years?
Answer: The letter ‘M’.
Riddle 39
What belongs to you but others use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle 40
The more you take away, the larger it becomes. What is it?
Answer: A hole.
Animal umbrella riddles
Riddle 41
What animal can jump higher than a house?
Answer: Any animal, houses can’t jump!
Riddle 42
What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
Answer: A human (crawling as a baby, walking upright as an adult, using a cane when old).
Riddle 43
I wiggle and cannot see, snug in my hole I be. I’ll come out when it rains, and wiggle my tail again. What am I?
Answer: A worm.
Riddle 44
This animal eats hay and grass. When it sees red, it stamps and kicks up dust. What is it?
Answer: A bull.
Riddle 45
I have feathers and can fly, but I’m not a bird. I say “hoo hoo” but I’m not an owl. What am I?
Answer: An owl.
Food umbrella riddles
Riddle 46
Mary needs to carry tomatoes home from the market. She brought a small basket which holds 6 tomatoes. If she buys 48 tomatoes, how many baskets does she need to carry all the tomatoes home?
Answer: 8 baskets.
Riddle 47
What do you call an angry pancake?
Answer: A hotcake!
Riddle 48
What do you call a fake noodle?
Answer: An impasta!
Riddle 49
I’m light as a feather but the strongest person can’t hold me for over 5 minutes. What am I?
Answer: Breath.
Riddle 50
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
Tricky umbrella riddles
Riddle 51
What 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Answer: Starting.
Riddle 52
What word begins and ends with an ‘E’ but only has one letter?
Answer: Envelope.
Riddle 53
I am not alive but I grow. I don’t have lungs but need air. I don’t have a mouth but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
Riddle 54
What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
Riddle 55
What has many keys but can’t even open a single door?
Answer: A piano.
Funny umbrella riddles for kids
Riddle 56
What room can you not enter?
Answer: A mushroom!
Riddle 57
What did the scientist say when he found 2 atoms of helium?
Answer: HeHe!
Riddle 58
What did one plate say to the other plate?
Answer: Lunch is on me!
Riddle 59
What do you call a dog magician?
Answer: A labracadabrador.
Riddle 60
Why did the picture go to jail?
Answer: Because it was framed!
Funny adult umbrella riddles
Riddle 61
What do you call a pony with a sore throat?
Answer: A little horse.
Riddle 62
My life can be measured in hours. I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick. Fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
Riddle 63
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow.
Riddle 64
People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money.
Riddle 65
What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library!
Nature umbrella riddles
Riddle 66
I am sweet to the tongue but dangerous in excess. I am present from the start until death. What am I?
Answer: Water.
Riddle 67
What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.
Riddle 68
I am clear as ice but will burn you like fire. What am I?
Answer: The sun.
Riddle 69
What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
Conclusion
Did you enjoy these 69 riddles about umbrellas? Riddles are a fun way to challenge your thinking in new ways. Umbrellas make for an unexpected riddle topic but can inspire some clever wordplay. Next time it’s raining, bring an umbrella and see if you can stump your friends with these riddles!
