15 Riddles and answers

Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?

Answer: An egg

2. Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

Answer: A candle

3. Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?

Answer: All of them

4. Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?

Answer: A sponge

5. Riddle: What question can you never answer yes to?

Answer: Are you asleep yet?

6. Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

Answer: The future

7. Riddle: There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?

Answer: There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.

8. Riddle. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?

Answer: A promise

9. Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?

Answer: Your age

10. Riddle: A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

Answer: He was bald.

11. Riddle: What gets wet while drying?

Answer: A towel

12. Riddle: What can you keep after giving to someone?

Answer: Your word

13. Riddle: I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

Answer: A barber

14. Riddle: You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

Answer: All the people on the boat are married.

15. Riddle: You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?

Answer: The match