111 Funny Riddles To Make You Think With A Smile in 2025
Are you looking for some funny riddles to liven up the party or delight some friends? These are a collection of actually good riddles with answers. Some are real brain teasers, and some are just for laughs. Read through them and memorize your favorites to whip out when there's a lull in conversation at your next dinner party.
You’ll find riddles for adults and kids that work on all occasions, from pre-meeting brain teasers to elementary school lessons on critical thinking. Or just use them as funny questions to ask when you’re bored with the family.
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Good Riddles With Answers
In these sections, you’ll find jokes for kids and jokes for adults. They're perfect additions to your next DIY escape room or team-building activities that need a little mystery. Regardless, they’re all solid riddles with excellent answers. Read through them all and select your favorites to memorize for the right occasion. We recommend only scrolling enough to see the riddle, leaving the answer off the page. Try to answer the riddle yourself before revealing the answer. It’s more fun that way.
1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
2. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
3. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
4. What question can you never answer “yes” to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
5. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.
6. What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel.
7. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain.
8. What can you keep after giving it to someone?
Answer: Your word.
9. What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?
Answer: A map
10. What can you catch but can’t throw?
Answer: A cold.
11. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Your breath.
12. What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book.
13. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window.
14. 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
15. 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.
16. I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
17. What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “m”.
18. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness.
19. Who can shave twenty‐five times a day and still have a beard?
Answer: A barber.
20. What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you’ll die?
Answer: Nothing.
21. A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
Answer: He was bald.
22. You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
Answer: The match.
23. What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb.
24. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
25. What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band.
26. Two monkeys were sitting on a tree. One monkey jumped and the other followed too. Why did the other monkey jump as well?
Answer: Monkey see monkey do.
27. What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?
Answer: Humans (babies walk on all fours, adults walk on two legs, and in old age, they may need a cane to balance).
28. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
29. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo.
30. What has a neck but no head, two arms but no hands?
Answer: A shirt.
31. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase.
32. I have keys but no locks. I can open many doors but I don’t have a keyhole. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard.
33. 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.
34. What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard.
35. If you pass the person in second place in a race, what place are you in?
Answer: Second.
36. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot
37. What belongs to you, but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name.
Easy Riddles With Answers
How hard or easy a riddle is really depends on the person. You may be exceptionally good at extrapolative thought and critical decision-making and have an easier time answering riddles. Alternatively, you may be a more plain-spoken, matter-of-fact person and struggle with riddles. Regardless, the riddles in this section should be easy-ish for literally everyone.
38. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
39. I’m made of sand, and I might have a moat. Build me near water, but I’m not a boat. What am I?
Answer: A sandcastle.
40. I have a sail but no captain or crew. I fly in the sky, and kids love me too. What am I?
Answer: A kite.
41. I’m sticky and sweet and come on a stick. But eat me too slowly, and I’ll do a quick trick. What am I?
Answer: A popsicle.
42. What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: A cornfield.
43. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table.
44. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
45. What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano.
46. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
47. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.
48. I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven
49. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.
50. I go through towns and over hills but never move. What am I?
Answer: A road.
51. I have branches but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.
52. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny.
53. What has an end but no beginning, a home but no family, and a space without a room?
Answer: A keyboard.
54. I’m your home and the third from the Sun. I’ve got water and life—aren’t I the fun one? What am I?
Answer: Earth.
55. I’m green and jump, but I’m not a frog. I croak and sing, especially in the fog. What am I?
Answer: A toad.
56. What comes once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?
Answer: The letter “E.”
57. What has no beginning, end, or middle?
Answer: A circle.
58. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A joke.
59. I have four wheels and flies but am not an airplane. What am I?
Answer: A garbage truck.
60. What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library.
61. I can fly without wings, I can cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
Answer: A cloud.
62. What word is always pronounced wrong?
Answer: “Wrong”.
63. What is at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The letter “w”.
64. Why is the moon like a dollar?
Answer: Because it has four quarters.
65. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
Answer: A telephone.
66. What kind of goose fights with snakes?
Answer: A mongoose.
67. How did the pancake hurt itself?
Answer: Doing back‐flips.
68. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
69. What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle.
70. I am used to keeping your feet warm, but I have no shoes. What am I?
Answer: A sock.
71. I have a shell but I don’t live in the ocean. What am I?
Answer: A snail.
72. What royalty has no country, no seal, no throne, no tax base, yet has thousands of subjects?
Answer: A queen bee.
73. I have wings but I’m not a bird. What am I?
Answer: A butterfly.
74. I’m round and yellow, and I shine bright. What am I?
Answer: The sun.
75. I can be seen after it rains, but I’m not a puddle. What am I?
Answer: A rainbow.
Funny Riddles With Answers
If you have the right mindset, all riddles are fun. However, the riddles in this list are a little more fun than most. They may be more fun to ask, more fun to answer or just more fun to think about. Read on for a good time.
76. I’m always running, but I have no legs. You need me, but I don’t need you. What am I?
Answer: Time.
77. What does a house wear?
Answer: Address.
78. Where would you take a sick boat?
Answer: To the dock.
79. What is orange, wears a green hat and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot.
80. What tastes much better than it smells?
Answer: A tongue.
81. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.
82. I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?
Answer: Popcorn.
83. What type of music do rabbits listen to?
Answer: Hip-hop!
84. What are two things you can never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
85. Why did the skeleton not go to the party?
Answer: Because he had no body to go with. (This is a good Halloween riddle or Halloween joke)
86. What do you call a snail on a ship?
Answer: A snailor!
87. What has one head, one foot and four legs?
Answer: A bed.
88. How many letters are in “The Alphabet”?
Answer: Eleven.
89. What is the center of gravity?
Answer: The letter “V”.
90. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs.
91. What can you spell in thirteen letters that means “cow”?
Answer: “See o double you” (C-O-W).
92. I can be hard, and I can be soft. I can be hot, and I can run. What am I?
Answer: Water.
93. What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
94. What ball can you roll but cannot bounce or throw?
Answer: An eyeball.
95. I go up but never come down. What am I?
Answer: Your age.
96. What word starts and ends with “h”, and people often describe this word as wealth?
Answer: Health.
97. What runs all around a backyard but never moves?
Answer: A fence.
98. What is mostly always on the ground but never gets dirty?
Answer: A shadow.
99. Why can’t you trust an atom?
Answer: Because they make up everything.
100. What do you call two witches sharing an apartment?
Answer: Broom-mates.
101. Why did the math book look sad?
Answer: Because it had too many problems.
102. What animal is always at a baseball game?
Answer: A bat.
103. What did the zero say to the eight?
Answer: Nice belt!
104. Why did the bicycle fall over?
Answer: Because it was two-tired. (A fun Fall joke, for sure.)
105. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree. (And a great Summer joke.)
106. Why don’t skeletons fight each other?
Answer: They don’t have the guts.
107. What kind of key opens a banana?
Answer: A monkey.
108. What did one wall say to the other wall?
Answer: I’ll meet you at the corner.
109. What’s brown and sticky?
Answer: A stick.
110. Why did the golfer bring two pairs of pants?
Answer: In case he got a hole-in-one.
111. I’m the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e”.
Riddles are a fantastic exercise. Some make you think or laugh out loud when you finally hear the answer. This collection of funny riddles is designed to entertain, challenge and spark great conversations. You can use them anywhere, from family game nights to classroom warm-ups, as a quick icebreaker at work, or even as Christmas riddles for your next Secret Santa. You can even use them creatively as scavenger hunt clues or hints in a fun game you’re playing. And if you really want to turn things up, try these really hard riddles that even the geniuses will have trouble with.
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