Riddles

  • What has a neck but no head?
Answer

A bottle

  • What has a head but no brain?
Answer

A lettuce

  • I have a neck, but no head. I have two arms, but no hands. What am I?
Answer

A shirt

  • What word contains 26 letters, but only has three syllables?
Answer

The “alphabet”

  • What comes down but never goes up?
Answer

Rain

  • What five-letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?
Answer

SWIMS or MOW

  • The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer

Footprints

  • David’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
Answer

David

  • What is more useful when it is broken?
Answer

An egg

  • I am easy to lift, but hard to throw. What am I?
Answer

A feather

  • What goes up, but never comes down?
Answer

Age

  • What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer

A sponge

  • What can you break without touching it?
Answer

A promise

  • It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can’t go inside. What is it?
Answer

A keyboard

  • What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer

A clock

  • Ask this question all day long, but always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers will be correct. What is the question?
Answer

“What time is it?”

  • What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night?
Answer

A pillow

  • Four cars come to a four-way stop, each coming from a different direction. They can’t decide who got there first, so they all go forward at the same time. All four cars go, but none crash into each other. How is this possible?
Answer

They all made right-hand turns

  • He who makes it, has no need of it. He who buys it, has no use for it. He who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
Answer

A coffin

  • Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
Answer

Meat

  • Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you die. What is it?
Answer

Nothing

  • Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
Answer

Corn on the cob

  • I cannot talk, but I always reply when spoken to. What am I?
Answer

An echo

  • A man goes out for a walk during a storm with nothing to protect him from the rain. He doesn’t have a hat, a hood, or an umbrella. But by the end of his walk, there isn’t a single wet hair on his head. Why not?
Answer

He’s bald

  • You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk. But when you look back, you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?
Answer

All the people on the boat are married

  • What is it that no one wants to have, but no one wants to lose either?
Answer

A lawsuit

  • What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
Answer

A road

  • When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?
Answer

A birthday candle

  • It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?
Answer

Your name

  • What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer

Lunch and dinner

  • What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer

A window

  • What is always on its way but never arrives?
Answer

Tomorrow

  • Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year, and yet they’re not twins. How can this be?
Answer

They are two of three triplets

  • What can you catch but never throw?
Answer

A feather

  • What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer

A comb

  • What has branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves?
Answer

A bank, or a library

  • If you feed me, I thrive, but if you water me, I die. What am I?
Answer

A fire

  • Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
Answer

They are grandfather, father, and son

  • A bus driver goes the wrong way down a one-way street. He passes the cops, but they don’t stop him. Why?
Answer

He is walking

  • Where is the only place where today comes before yesterday?
Answer

The dictionary

Source: Good Housekeeping