50 riddles in English with answers
Puzzle: 1 I can be dropped from the tallest of buildings and survive, but drop me from the smallest ship and I won’t. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Piece of Paper
Puzzle: 2 What heavy seven-letter word can you take two away from and be left with eight?
Answer This Puzzle: Weights
Puzzle: 3 what’s that 7-letter word with thousands of letters in it?
Answer This Puzzle: Mailbox
Puzzle: 4 Tear one off and scratch my head, what once was red is black instead!
Answer This Puzzle: Match
Puzzle: 5 There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
Answer This Puzzle: Meat
Puzzle: 6 A father’s child, a mother’s child, yet no one’s son.
Answer This Puzzle: Daughter
Puzzle: 7 I warn you about meetings, and I assist you in your life, I can help you do most of your work unless I have a bug. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Computer
Puzzle: 8 Take away my first letter and I remain the same. Take away my last letter and I remain unchanged. Remove all my letters and I’m still me. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Mailman
Puzzle: 9 He has one and a person has two, a citizen has three and a human being has four, a personality has five and an inhabitant of the earth has six. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Syllables
Puzzle: 10 Without a bridle, or a saddle, across a thing I ride astraddle. And those I ride, by the help of me, though almost blind, are made to see. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Glasses
Puzzle: 11 One strand dangles. Two strands twist. Three or more can fashion this.
Answer This Puzzle: Braids
Puzzle: 12 I am the first you ever saw, what greets you every morning, and what goes out in the end?
Answer This Puzzle: Light
Puzzle: 13 What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer This Puzzle: Stamp
Puzzle: 14 What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?
Answer This Puzzle: Stone
Puzzle: 15 What has 4 eyes but can’t see?
Answer This Puzzle: Mississippi
50 riddles in English with answers
Puzzle: 16 What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer This Puzzle: Penny
Puzzle: 17 What word looks the same upside down and backward?
Answer This Puzzle: Swims
Puzzle: 18 What starts with the letter T, is filled with T, and ends in T?
Answer This Puzzle: Teapot
Puzzle: 19 Travel a mile and I will change, travel a million and I will end as I started. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Odometer
Puzzle: 20 What can be measured but has no length, width, or height?
Answer This Puzzle: Temperature
it is not a door but you can open it answer?
Puzzle: 21 Precious stones in a pack of cards.
Answer This Puzzle: Diamonds
Puzzle: 22 What 11 letter English word is always pronounced incorrectly?
Answer This Puzzle: Incorrectly
Puzzle: 23 What is all over a house?
Answer This Puzzle: Roof
Puzzle: 24 Your reflection can be seen here, as long as you’re not moving.
Answer This Puzzle: Water
Puzzle: 25 Can you think of a crime that is punishable if attempted but not punishable if actually committed?
Answer This Puzzle: Suicide
Puzzle: 26 Handy when you need to measure something or run a kingdom.
Answer This Puzzle: Ruler
Puzzle: 27 What has 4 fingers and a thumb, but is not living?
Answer This Puzzle: Glove
Puzzle: 28 Even if you throw it away, it still comes back.
Answer This Puzzle: Yo-yo
Puzzle: 29 I have Eighty-eight keys but cannot open a single door? What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Piano
Puzzle: 30 Guided, I am scraping along, leaving behind my snow-white dust against that which I am scraping, for when I am scraping, I must. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Chalk
Puzzle: 31 What has black spots and a white face, is fat not thin, and helps you to win, but tumbles all over the place?
Answer This Puzzle: Dice
Puzzle: 32 I am seen in the water and in the sky. I am in the rainbow and a jay’s feather. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Blue
Puzzle: 33 I can be as thin as a picture frame but my insides have many things you can see.
Answer This Puzzle: Television
Puzzle: 34 What is something you will never see again?
Answer This Puzzle: Yesterday
Puzzle: 35 What seven-letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?
Answer This Puzzle: Lounger
Puzzle: 36 What time is spelled the same forwards and backward?
Answer This Puzzle: Noon
Puzzle: 37 I’m where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Dictionary
Puzzle: 38 I have an eye but cannot see. I’m faster than any man alive and have no limbs. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Hurricane
Puzzle: 39 I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Fingernails
Puzzle: 40 When I point up it’s bright, but when I point down it’s dark. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Light Switch
50 riddles in English with answers
Puzzle: 41 In your fire you hear me scream! Creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your heart.
Answer This Puzzle: Log
Puzzle: 42 I have a pet; his body is full of coins.
Answer This Puzzle: Piggy Bank
Puzzle: 43 Lighter than what I’m made of, more of me is hidden than is seen. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Iceberg
Puzzle: 44 Forwards I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer This Puzzle: Ton
Puzzle: 45 What type of dress can never be worn?
Answer This Puzzle: Address
Puzzle: 46 He’s small but he can climb a tower.
Answer This Puzzle: Ant
Puzzle: 47 Never ahead, ever behind, Yet flying swiftly past; For a child I last forever, for adults I’m gone too fast.
Answer This Puzzle: Childhood
Puzzle: 48 What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer This Puzzle: Needle
Puzzle: 49 I have joy in bringing two together, but darning my existence! My life hangs by a thread, filled with ups, downs, and resistance!
Answer This Puzzle: Sewing Machine
Puzzle: 50 What five-letter word, no matter how you pronounce it, is always pronounced wrong?
Answer This Puzzle: Wrong
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