50 Awesome For Riddles for Adults with Answers
1. When is a door no longer a door?
Answer: When it’s ajar.
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2. What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue.
3. What building has the most stories?
Answer: A library.
4. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs.
5. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.
6. What month of the year has 28 days in it?
Answer: All of them.
7. What can you put in a bucket to make it weigh less?
Answer: A hole.
8. What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
9. Where is the only place where today comes before yesterday?
Answer: The dictionary.
10. What goes all around the world but stays in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
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11. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.
12. What comes at the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “g.”
13. What do the letter “t” and an island have in common?
Answer: They’re both in the middle of water.
14. What type of cheese is made backwards?
Answer: Edam.
15. What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?
Answer: A relationship.
16. Who has married many people but has never been married himself?
Answer: A priest.
17. If you throw a blue stone into the Red Sea, what will it become?
Answer: Wet.
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18. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly.
19. What has three feet but cannot walk?
Answer: A yardstick.
20. What do you call a nose that’s 12 inches long?
Answer: A foot.
Easy Riddles for Adults
21. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
22. What gets shorter as it grows older?
Answer: A candle.
24. What can you catch but never throw?
Answer: A cold.
25. What runs around a whole yard without moving?
Answer: A fence.
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26. What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope.
27. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.
28. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.
29. What has many keys but cannot open a single lock?
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Answer: A piano.
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30. What’s always found on the ground but never gets dirty?
Answer: A shadow.
31. What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel.
32. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
33. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
34. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb.
35. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed.
36. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
37. What can you find in a cupboard that can never be put in a saucepan?
Answer: Its lid.
38. What’s a single-digit number with no value?
Answer: Zero.
39. What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?
Answer: Soap.
40. What’s always running but never gets hot?
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Answer: A refrigerator.
Hard Riddles for Adults
41. What do you see once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May?
Answer: The letter “e.”
42. What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue.
43. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
44. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
45. What five-letter word has one left when two letters are removed?
Answer: Stone.
46. What has branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves?
Answer: A bank.
47. What word contains 26 letters but has only three syllables?
Answer: The alphabet.
48. What do you bury when it’s alive and dig up when it’s dead?
Answer: A plant.
49. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo.
50. What is taken before you can get it?
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