60 Challenging Riddles for Adults

What has hands but can’t clap?

What gets wetter as it dries?

What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What is it?

What comes down but never goes up?

What belongs to you, but others use it more than you do?

What has a neck but no head?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

What has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night?

What has words but never speaks?

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps, and has a mouth but never eats?

The more of me you take, the bigger I get. What am I?

What can fill a room but takes up no space?

I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?

What has keys but can’t open locks?

What goes up but never comes down?

What has an eye but can’t see?

What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

Forward I’m heavy, but backward I’m not. What am I?

What flies without wings and cries without eyes?

What kind of room has no doors or windows?

What can be cracked, made, told, and played?

What has a bottom at the top?

What is black when clean and white when dirty?

What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?

What has many teeth but can’t bite?

What has one eye but can’t see?

I go up but never come back down. What am I?

I am not alive, but I grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?

A man shaves several times a day, yet still has a beard. Who is he?

What can you hold without ever touching it?

What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed three days and rode out on Friday. How?

What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

What has cities but no houses, rivers but no water, and forests but no trees?

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

What disappears the moment you say its name?

A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why?

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

You see a boat filled with people. It hasn’t sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person. Why?

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?

What has one letter and starts and ends with E?

A plane crashes on the border of the US and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?

What gets bigger the more you take away?

What can you catch but not throw?

What goes through cities and fields but never moves?

What begins and has no end, and is the end of all you know?

What has 13 hearts but no other organs?

I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone, and roads with no cars. What am I?

I am taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?

I am always hungry, must be fed, or I will die. What am I?

I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?

If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?

The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The person who uses it doesn’t know it. What is it?

You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. What am I?

I go in dry and come out wet. The longer I'm in, the stronger I get. What am I?

If you drop me, I’m sure to crack. But give me a smile, and I’ll always smile back. What am I?

What English word has three consecutive double letters?