You’ll have to stretch your brain to figure out some of these easy, funny and hard riddles for adults
1. What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?
Answer: Time to fix the fence.
2. What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel.
3. What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?
Answer: An umbrella.
4. What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
Answer: Your left hand.
5. What can you catch, but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
6. What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band.
7. What question can you never say yes to?
Answer: “Are you asleep?”
8. What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
Answer: A potato.
9. What has one eye, but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
10. What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
Answer: A stamp.
11. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
12. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.
13. What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?
Answer: Their middle names.
14. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mount Everest, it just wasn’t discovered yet.
15. What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “G.”
16. What part of the chicken has the most feathers?
Answer: The outside.
17. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs.
18. How far can you walk into the woods?
Answer: Halfway. After that, you’re walking out.
19. What is red and smells like blue paint?
Answer: Red paint.
20. When is a door no longer a door?
Answer: When it’s ajar.
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Challenging riddles for adults
21. Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?
Answer: The letter “R.”
22. A plane crashed between the border of France and Belgium. Where were the survivors buried?
Answer: They weren’t. Survivors don’t need to be buried.
23. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
Answer: Nothing.
24. What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?
Answer: A river.
25. Spelled forward, I’m what you do every day; spelled backward, I’m something you hate. What am I?
Answer: Live.
26. The person who makes it has no need for it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin.
27. 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.
28. No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?
Answer: A calendar.
29. If your uncle’s sister is not your aunt, what relation is she to you?
Answer: Your mother.
30. What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
31. The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States of America had the same parents but were not brothers. How can this be possible
Answer: They were the same man: Grover Cleveland.
32. Sara has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Sara have?
Answer: Five, each daughter has the same brother.
33. Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?
Answer: A match.
34. Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet only three people are in the car. How?
Answer: They are grandfather, father and son.
35. Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me when I have flown. What am I?
Answer: Time.
36: What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope.
37. What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?
Answer: An anchor.
38. A man goes out in heavy rain with nothing to protect him from it. His hair doesn’t get wet. How does he do that?
Answer: He’s bald.
39. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
40. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.
41. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
42. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
Answer: A coat of paint.
43. How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?
Answer: Just one. After that, your stomach’s not empty anymore.
44. Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
Answer: “C.”
45. What has 10 letters and starts with gas?
Answer: Automobile.
46. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
47. What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue.
48. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise.
49. Which month has 28 days?
Answer: All of them.
50. What has legs, but does not walk?
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