Riddles for Adults With Answers

What has many teeth but cannot bite?

What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?

What do you call a bear with no teeth?

Why did the scarecrow win an award?

What building has the most stories?

What gets broken without being held?

What has a bottom at the top?

What has a neck but no head?

What goes up and down but does not move?

What comes down but never goes up?

What has hands but cannot clap?

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

What has a ring but no finger?

What can you hold without ever touching?

What is always in front of you but cannot be seen?

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

What type of cheese is made backward?

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

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

If it takes five machines five minutes to make five widgets, how long would one hundred machines take to make one hundred widgets?

You have a three-gallon jug and a five-gallon jug. How do you measure exactly four gallons?

A man is twenty years old but has only had five birthdays. How?

How many times can you subtract five from twenty-five?

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

If a rooster lays an egg on the peak of a barn roof, which way does the egg roll?

What has thirteen hearts but no other organs?

What has one bee at one end and five at the other?

Which timepiece has the most moving parts?

What is harder to catch the faster you run?

What can cut like a knife, sting like a bee, and bite like a lion, yet is gentle to touch?

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

The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?

What question can you never answer yes to?

What has words but never speaks?

What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?

What has a heart that does not beat?

The person who makes it has no need of it. The person who buys it doesn’t use it. The person who uses it doesn’t know it. What is it?

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?

A man is looking at a photograph. Someone asks, 'Whose picture are you looking at?' He replies, 'Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.' Who is in the photo?

I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?

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

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How?

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

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. The wind is my enemy. What am I?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. 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 8-letter word remains a word as you remove each letter one by one?

I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?

What begins and ends with an 'e', but only contains one letter?

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

What can fill a room but takes up no space?

I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I?

What has four fingers and a thumb, but is not alive?

What word is always pronounced wrong?

First you see me in the sky, then I fall to the ground. I cause silence and sound. What am I?

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

What disappears as soon as you say its name?