Riddle Challenge
Instructions: Read each riddle carefully. Use the hint if you get stuck, and write your answer on the line provided.
- 1.
I have cities, but no houses live there. I have mountains, but no trees grow there. I have water, but no fish swim there. What am I?
Hint: You might unfold me or look at me on a wall.
- 2.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Hint: Think about walking on a sandy beach.
- 3.
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
Hint: Try shouting in a canyon.
- 4.
I have keys, but no locks. I have space, but no room. You can enter, but can't go inside. What am I?
Hint: You're probably looking at one right now.
- 5.
What has hands but can't clap?
Hint: It tells you something important every moment of the day.
- 6.
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
Hint: I give light and slowly melt away.
- 7.
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Hint: You flip me to make a decision.
- 8.
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Hint: You stick me on an envelope.
- 9.
I have teeth but cannot bite. What am I?
Hint: You use me every morning to look presentable.
- 10.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Hint: You reach for me after a bath.
- 11.
I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Hint: I make people laugh.
- 12.
What has one eye but cannot see?
Hint: You thread me to do some sewing.
- 13.
I have a neck but no head. What am I?
Hint: You might drink from me.
- 14.
The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The person who uses it never knows it. What is it?
Hint: Think about something used after a person passes away.
- 15.
What has many rings but no fingers?
Hint: Cut me down and count my age.
- 16.
I follow you everywhere but you can never catch me. What am I?
Hint: I appear when the sun is shining.
- 17.
What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
Hint: The answer is part of your own body.
- 18.
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Hint: I hold a warm beverage inside me.
- 19.
I am not alive, but I grow. I don't have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Hint: I am hot and dangerous if not controlled.
- 20.
What has a bed but never sleeps, and has a mouth but never eats?
Hint: I flow through landscapes and sometimes flood.