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Riddles for Teens

Trickier riddles for older students and adults: think sideways, read every word, and don't trust your first answer.

22 questionsMultiple choiceEnglish

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The questions

  1. 1

    What has to be broken before you can use it?

    • A bone
    • A chair
    • A promise
    • An egg

    Answer: An egg

  2. 2

    What has many keys but can't open a single lock?

    • A door
    • A key ring
    • A piano
    • A safe

    Answer: A piano

  3. 3

    What has a neck but no head?

    • A bottle
    • A guitar case
    • A snake
    • A spoon

    Answer: A bottle

  4. 4

    What gets wetter the more it dries?

    • A river
    • A sponge in water
    • A towel
    • Rain

    Answer: A towel

  5. 5

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

    • A clock
    • A spider
    • A stamp
    • A suitcase

    Answer: A stamp

  6. 6

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

    • Breaths
    • Footsteps
    • Notes
    • Photos

    Answer: Footsteps

  7. 7

    What has one eye but can't see?

    • A camera
    • A cup
    • A needle
    • A spoon

    Answer: A needle

  8. 8

    What can you catch but not throw?

    • A ball
    • A cold
    • A fish
    • A frisbee

    Answer: A cold

  9. 9

    What goes up but never comes down?

    • A ball
    • A lift
    • A rocket
    • Your age

    Answer: Your age

  10. 10

    What is full of holes but still holds water?

    • A bucket
    • A cloud
    • A net
    • A sponge

    Answer: A sponge

  11. 11

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

    • A calendar
    • A clock
    • A map
    • A snow globe

    Answer: A map

  12. 12

    What has hands but can't clap?

    • A clock
    • A drum
    • A glove
    • A robot

    Answer: A clock

  13. 13

    What can fill a room but takes up no space?

    • Air
    • Furniture
    • Light
    • Water

    Answer: Light

  14. 14

    What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?

    • "Dictionary"
    • "Mistake"
    • "Spelling"
    • "Wrong"

    Answer: "Wrong"

  15. 15

    If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don't have me. What am I?

    • A secret
    • A toy
    • Cake
    • Money

    Answer: A secret

  16. 16

    What has a head and a tail but no body?

    • A cat
    • A coin
    • A fish
    • A snake

    Answer: A coin

  17. 17

    What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?

    • A car
    • A clock
    • A dog
    • A river

    Answer: A river

  18. 18

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

    • A second
    • The letter M
    • The letter O
    • Time

    Answer: The letter M

  19. 19

    What disappears as soon as you say its name?

    • A ghost
    • A shadow
    • Darkness
    • Silence

    Answer: Silence

  20. 20

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

    • A chair (new, broken, then fixed with a stick)
    • A dog (puppy, dog, old dog with a limp)
    • A person (crawling baby, adult, old person with a stick)
    • A table (that loses legs and gets one back)

    Answer: A person (crawling baby, adult, old person with a stick)

  21. 21

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

    • A piano (backwards: "onaip")
    • A rock (backwards: "kcor")
    • A ton (backwards: "not")
    • A truck (backwards: "kcurt")

    Answer: A ton (backwards: "not")

  22. 22

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

    • Your car
    • Your money
    • Your name
    • Your phone

    Answer: Your name