HowStuffWorks Newsletter Riddle

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

Answer: A joke.

Riddle: What flies without wings?

Answer: Time.

Riddle: Which word, when written in all capital letters, looks the same when viewed upside down?

Answer: SWIMS.

Riddle: What has only two words but thousands of letters?

Answer: The post office.

Riddle: What word has three consecutive double letters?

Answer: Bookkeeper.

Riddle: The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States of America had the same parents but were not brothers. How can this be possible?

Answer: They were the same man: Grover Cleveland.

Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

Answer: Seven.

Riddle: What do you buy to eat but never consume?

Answer: Flatware.

Riddle: What is red and smells like blue paint?

Answer: Red paint.

Riddle: I am strong enough to smash ships, but I fear the sun. What am I?

Answer: Ice.

Riddle: What do you call an elf wearing ear muffs?

Answer: Whatever you want. He can't hear you anyway.

Riddle: If your uncle's sister is not your aunt, what relation is she to you?

Answer: Your mother.

Riddle: How much dirt is in a hole that's 2 feet long by 3 feet wide?

Answer: None, it's a hole.

Riddle: What word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

Answer: Incorrectly.

Riddle: What is a mathematician’s favorite Thanksgiving food?

Answer: Sweet potato pi.

Riddle: What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?

Answer: Their middle names.

Riddle: What is taken before you can get it?

Answer: A photo.

Riddle: What has many teeth but cannot bite?

Answer: A comb.

Riddle: I have hundreds of ears, but I can’t hear a thing. What am I?

Answer: A cornfield.

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.

Riddle: Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet only three people are in the car. How?

Answer: They are grandfather, father and son.

Riddle: What grows when you feed it but dies when you water it?

Answer: A fire.

Riddle: What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?

Answer: An anchor.

Riddle: What begins with an "e" and only contains one letter?

Answer: An envelope.

Riddle: What part of the chicken has the most feathers?

Answer: The outside.

Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?

Answer: Your legs.

Riddle: What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?

Answer: A bar of soap.

Riddle: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in 1,000 years?

Answer: The letter “M.”

Riddle: What is harder to catch the faster you run?

Answer: Your breath.

Riddle: No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?

Answer: A calendar.

Riddle: What do you bury when it’s alive and dig up when it’s dead?

Answer: A plant.

Riddle: What has a neck, but has no head?

Answer: A guitar.

Riddle: What has one eye, but can’t see?

Answer: A needle.

Riddle: What starts with a T, ends with a T and has T in it?

Answer: A teapot.

Riddle: What’s always on the ground but is never dirty?

Answer: A shadow.

Riddle: You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?

Answer: The letter "E."

Riddle: What has 10 letters and starts with gas?

Answer: Automobile.

Riddle: Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?

Answer: The letter "R."

Riddle: When is a door no longer a door?

Answer: When it’s ajar.

Riddle: What kind of room has no doors or windows?

Answer: A mushroom.

Riddle: What has lots of eyes but can’t see?

Answer: A potato.

Riddle: What can you catch, but not throw?

Answer: A cold.

Riddle: What has a heart that doesn't beat?

Answer: An artichoke.

Riddle: I add 5 to 9 and get 2. The answer is correct, so what am I?

Answer: A clock. When it is 9 a.m., adding 5 hours would make it 2 p.m.

Riddle: What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?

Answer: Your left hand.

Riddle: I am strong enough to smash ships, but I fear the sun. What am I?

Answer: Ice.

Riddle: What is the longest word in the dictionary?

Answer: Smiles, because there is a mile between each 's'.

Riddle: Those who make it have no need of it. Those who buy it have no use for it. Those who use it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

Answer: A coffin.

Riddle: What is it that no one wants to have, but no one wants to lose either?

Answer: A lawsuit.

Riddle: I cannot talk, but I always reply when spoken to. What am I?

Answer: An echo.

Riddle: If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what are 4 and 5?

Answer: 9.

Riddle: You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, but never Neptune or Venus. What am I?

Answer: The letter R.

Riddle: They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

Answer: Stars.

Riddle: Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?

Answer: Corn on the cob.

Riddle: What is at the end of a rainbow?

Answer: The letter W.

Riddle: What can be touched but can't be seen?

Answer: Someone’s heart.

Riddle: When you stop to look, you can always see me. But if you try to touch me, you can never feel me. Although you walk towards me, I remain the same distance from you. What am I?

Answer: The horizon.

Riddle: What gets broken without being held?

Answer: A promise.

Riddle: How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?

Answer: Concrete floors are very hard to crack.

Riddle: Forward, I am heavy; backward, I am not. What am I?

Answer: A ton.

Riddle: Which fish costs the most?

Answer: A goldfish.

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

Answer: A sponge.

Riddle: What can you put in a bucket to make it weigh less?

Answer: A hole.

Riddle: What do you call a snowman with a six pack?

Answer: An abdominal snowman.

Riddle: What falls in the winter but never gets hurt?

Answer: Snow.

Riddle: What has a neck but no head?

Answer: A bottle.

Riddle: Where do you take a sick boat?

Answer: To the dock-tor.

Riddle: What happened to the turkey that got into a fight?

Answer: He got the stuffing knocked out of him.

Riddle: What can be measured, but has no length, width, or height?

Answer: The temperature.

Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?

Answer: All of them.

Riddle: I have hundreds of ears, but I can’t hear a thing. What am I?

Answer: A cornfield.

Riddle: I have a body, arms, legs and a head, but I’m heartless and have no guts. What am I?

Answer: A skeleton.