# Riddles 100 classic riddles for kids and families: tricky questions, clever answers, and a hint if you get stuck. Click any riddle to open its own page with a hint and a hidden answer. Riddles are great brain exercise for kids: they build vocabulary, logic, and creative thinking. All 100 riddles below are clean and family-friendly. - [What has keys but cannot open a single lock?](/riddle-piano/) - [What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?](/riddle-clock/) - [What gets wetter the more it dries?](/riddle-towel/) - [What has a neck but no head?](/riddle-bottle/) - [What has one eye but cannot see?](/riddle-needle/) - [What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, and has a bed but never sleeps?](/riddle-river/) - [What can you catch but never throw?](/riddle-cold/) - [What goes up but never comes down?](/riddle-age/) - [What has many teeth but cannot bite?](/riddle-comb/) - [What is full of holes but still holds water?](/riddle-sponge/) - [What has a head and a tail but no body?](/riddle-coin/) - [What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?](/riddle-name/) - [What has four legs but cannot walk?](/riddle-table/) - [What can fill a whole room without taking up any space?](/riddle-light/) - [What travels around the world but stays in a corner?](/riddle-stamp/) - [What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?](/riddle-glove/) - [What can you break without touching it?](/riddle-promise/) - [What is always in front of you but cannot be seen?](/riddle-future/) - [What gets bigger the more you take away?](/riddle-hole/) - [What has words but never speaks?](/riddle-book/) - [What runs around the yard without ever moving?](/riddle-fence/) - [What has a bottom at the top?](/riddle-legs/) - [What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?](/riddle-chalkboard/) - [What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?](/riddle-map/) - [The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?](/riddle-footsteps/) - [What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?](/riddle-silence/) - [What has ears but cannot hear?](/riddle-corn/) - [What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?](/riddle-trouble/) - [What invention lets you look right through a wall?](/riddle-window/) - [What is at the end of a rainbow?](/riddle-rainbow/) - [What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?](/riddle-teapot/) - [What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?](/riddle-incorrectly/) - [What goes through cities and fields but never moves?](/riddle-road/) - [What can you keep after giving it to someone?](/riddle-word/) - [What has a heart that does not beat?](/riddle-artichoke/) - [What kind of room has no doors or windows?](/riddle-mushroom/) - [What is always coming but never arrives?](/riddle-tomorrow/) - [What has thirteen hearts but no other organs?](/riddle-cards/) - [What can be cracked, made, told, and played?](/riddle-joke/) - [What has a ring but no finger?](/riddle-telephone/) - [What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?](/riddle-short/) - [I am tall when I am young and short when I am old. What am I?](/riddle-candle/) - [What has to be broken before you can use it?](/riddle-egg/) - [What is full of holes but can still hold a lot of weight?](/riddle-net/) - [What goes up and down but never moves?](/riddle-staircase/) - [What kind of band never plays music?](/riddle-rubber-band/) - [What is the center of gravity?](/riddle-gravity/) - [What gets sharper the more you use it?](/riddle-brain/) - [What has four wheels and flies?](/riddle-garbage-truck/) - [What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?](/riddle-shadow/) - [What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?](/riddle-post-office/) - [What can you hold in your left hand but never in your right hand?](/riddle-elbow/) - [What tastes better than it smells?](/riddle-tongue/) - [What has two heads, four eyes, six legs, and a tail?](/riddle-horse-rider/) - [What kind of cheese is made backwards?](/riddle-edam/) - [What is cut on a table but never eaten?](/riddle-deck/) - [What do you throw out when you want to use it and take in when you do not?](/riddle-anchor/) - [What has branches but no fruit and a trunk but no wood?](/riddle-bank/) - [What is made of water but disappears if you put it in water?](/riddle-ice/) - [What is harder to catch the faster you run?](/riddle-breath/) - [What never asks questions but is often answered?](/riddle-doorbell/) - [What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?](/riddle-carpet/) - [What is in the middle of nowhere?](/riddle-nowhere/) - [What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?](/riddle-minute/) - [What is the longest word in the dictionary?](/riddle-smiles/) - [What can you hear but never touch or see?](/riddle-voice/) - [What is always hungry and must always be fed?](/riddle-fire/) - [What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space?](/riddle-eternity/) - [What has six faces and twenty-one eyes?](/riddle-dice/) - [What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?](/riddle-palm/) - [I am round and I glow in the dark. What am I?](/riddle-moon/) - [What has roots that nobody sees and grows taller than trees?](/riddle-mountain/) - [Thirty white horses on a red hill: first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still. What are they?](/riddle-teeth/) - [What has a horn but never honks?](/riddle-rhino/) - [What animal can jump higher than a house?](/riddle-house-jump/) - [What falls but never gets hurt?](/riddle-snow/) - [What has a foot but no legs?](/riddle-snail/) - [What is the best month for a parade?](/riddle-march/) - [What is the difference between a hill and a pill?](/riddle-hill-pill/) - [Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?](/riddle-feathers/) - [What is the easiest way to double your money?](/riddle-mirror/) - [What is the capital of France?](/riddle-capital/) - [What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?](/riddle-pillow/) - [What has one head, one foot, and four legs?](/riddle-bed/) - [What has many needles but never sews?](/riddle-pine/) - [What is the end of everything?](/riddle-everything/) - [What begins with E but only has one letter?](/riddle-envelope/) - [What goes up when the rain comes down?](/riddle-umbrella/) - [What room do ghosts avoid?](/riddle-living-room/) - [What is black and white and red all over?](/riddle-newspaper/) - [What has four eyes but cannot see?](/riddle-mississippi/) - [What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?](/riddle-sphinx/) - [What runs but has no legs?](/riddle-nose/) - [What belongs to December but to no other month?](/riddle-december/) - [What has teeth but cannot eat?](/riddle-zipper/) - [What can you see in the middle of March and April but never at the beginning or end of either month?](/riddle-march-april/) - [What has a tongue but cannot talk?](/riddle-shoe/) - [How many months have 28 days?](/riddle-months-28/) - [What has a neck but no head, and two arms but no hands?](/riddle-shirt/) - [What has many rings but no fingers?](/riddle-tree/) ## More laughs - [Joke of the Day](/joke-of-the-day/) - [Dad jokes](/dad-jokes/) - [Kids jokes](/kids-jokes/) - [Knock-knock jokes](/knock-knock-jokes/) ## Frequently asked questions ### What is a riddle? A riddle is a tricky question or puzzle with a clever answer. Classic riddles play with words and ideas, like 'What has keys but cannot open a single lock? A piano.' Solving them is great exercise for young brains. ### Are these riddles good for kids? Yes. All 100 riddles are clean, kind, and written in simple language. Each riddle page includes a hint, so kids can get help without seeing the answer right away. ### How can I use these riddles? Use them for family game nights, classroom warm-ups, car rides, birthday parties, or rainy-day fun. Every riddle has its own page you can link to or print. ### Is this really free? Yes. Reading all 100 riddles, with hints and answers, costs nothing and needs no account. Toolantern's riddle pages are free forever.