Shadows can be mysterious, spooky, or fun. Riddles that involve shadows spark creativity and get us thinking in new ways. Here are 63 riddles about your shadow along with the answers to test your puzzling skills!
Shadow Riddles
1. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
2. The more there is, the less you see. What could it be?
Answer: Darkness or shadows.
3. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
4. What has a face but no eyes, hands but no arms, eats but doesn’t bite?
Answer: A clock.
5. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
6. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
7. I follow you all day long, and copy your every move. But I never leave your side, until the sun begins to groove. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow.
8. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps.
9. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
10. What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library.
11. 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”.
12. What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue.
13. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.
14. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise.
15. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.
16. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
17. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
18. What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them.
19. What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
20. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly.
21. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
22. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.
23. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
24. What turns everything around without moving?
Answer: A mirror.
25. What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?
Answer: An icicle.
More Shadow Riddles
26. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
27. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.
28. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
29. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
30. How many months have 28 days?
Answer: All 12 months.
31. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
32. If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror.
33. What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge.
34. 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.
35. I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I’m always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?
Answer: A windmill.
36. 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.
37. Feed me and I live, give me drink and I die. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
38. People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money.
39. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and grey when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal.
40. I am a seed with three letters in my name. Take away the last two and I still sound the same. What am I?
Answer: Pea.
41. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
42. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
43. What kind of room has no windows or doors?
Answer: A mushroom.
44. What falls but never breaks?
Answer: Night.
45. What weighs nothing but can last a lifetime?
Answer: A thought.
Tricky Shadow Riddles
46. There’s a one-story house where everything is yellow. The walls are yellow, the doors are yellow, the furniture is yellow, the beds are yellow, the bathtubs are yellow, even the sinks are yellow. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
47. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
Answer: A telephone.
48. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window.
49. I am weightless but you can see me. Put me in a bucket and I’ll make it lighter. What am I?
Answer: A hole.
50. What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
51. I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone, and cities with no buildings. What am I?
Answer: A map.
52. What can you catch but never throw?
Answer: A cold.
53. What fastens two people yet touches only one?
Answer: A wedding ring.
54. The more you take away, the larger I become. What am I?
Answer: A hole.
55. What goes all around a backyard yet never moves?
Answer: A fence.
56. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
57. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
58. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
59. What has four fingers and a thumb, but is not living?
Answer: A glove.
60. What word looks the same backwards and upside down?
Answer: SWIMS.
Funny Shadow Riddles
61. What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?
Answer: A teapot.
62. What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library.
63. What does once in a minute but twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
Conclusion
Shadows and riddles go hand in hand. These shadow riddles encourage creative thinking, problem-solving, and fun. How many were you able to guess correctly? Riddles spark our imagination, help improve memory, and keep our brains active. Send these entertaining shadow riddles to family and friends and see if they can figure them out.
