Famous Riddles with Answers Everyone Should Know

What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?

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

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

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

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

The person who makes it sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The person who uses it never knows. What is it?

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

I have branches but no leaves, roots, or bark. What am I?

What question can you never answer yes to?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

I am not alive, yet I grow. I have no lungs, yet I need air. I have no mouth, yet water kills me. What am I?

What has keys but can open no locks?

What gets wetter the more it dries?

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

What can fill a room but takes up no space?

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

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

What gets bigger the more you take away?

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

What word starts with E, ends with E, but only has one letter in it?

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

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

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

What has one eye but cannot see?

What can you catch but not throw?

What goes up but never comes down?

What is always coming but never arrives?

What has hands but cannot clap?