With many people spending more time at home amid the Covid-19 restrictions, puzzles, online quizzes and brain teasers have soared in popularity.
So if you feel like a challenge then see if you can solve these 30 riddles, ranging in difficulty from easy to head scratching, and then test someone you know.
And don't worry - all the answers are below. Good luck!
| Riddles |
| 1 - What has an eye but cannot see? 2 - What has a neck but no head? 3 - What has words but never speaks? 4 - What has teeth but cannot bite? 5 - What is white when it's dirty? 6 - What month of the year has 28 days? 7 - What is full of holes but still holds water? 8 - I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I? 9 - What has to be broken before you can use it? 10 - What question can you never answer yes to? 11 - It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it? 12 - Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday? 13 - There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs? 14 - A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why? 15 - If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in? 16 - I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I? 17 - Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers? 18 - If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have? 19 - A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family? 20 - Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How? 21 - What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? 22 - What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter? 23 - What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right? 24 - Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I? 25 - You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I? 26 - I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I? 27 - What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? 28 - If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I? 29 - The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? 30 - What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? |
| Answers |
| 1 – A needle 2 – A shirt 3 – A book 4 – A comb 5 – A chalkboard 6 – All of them 7 – A sponge 8 – A candle 9 – An egg 10 – Are you asleep yet? 11 – Your name 12 – Yesterday, today and tomorrow 13 – There aren’t any - it’s a one-story house 14 – He was bald 15 – Second place 16 – Seven 17 – Neither - they both weigh a ton 18 – You have two apples 19 – Four sisters and three brothers 20 – They are a grandfather, father and son 21 – Short 22 – An envelope 23 – NOON 24 – The word 'not' 25 – The letter 'e' 26 – A key 27 – Silence 28 – A mirror 29 – Footsteps 30 – A river |