200+ Medium Riddles

Medium Riddles

Here is an extensive list of over 200 medium level difficulty riddles.

And, if you just want to read the list of medium riddles quickly, here is the full list where you don’t have to click to see the individual answers.

Medium Riddles (1-50)

1.  Three men jump into the water, but only two come out with wet hair. Why?  

2.  I turn once, so what is out will not get in. I turn again, so what is in will not get out. What am I?  

3.  What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in one thousand years?  

4.  In a single story house, there is a green chair, green bed, green computer, green couch, green flowers, green carpet and green table. What color is the staircase?  

5.  The more you take away, the more I become. What am I? 

6.  Why did the football coach go to the bank?  

7.  I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I? 

8.  Sally’s father has five daughters: Sammy, Stella, Sarah and Sadie. Guess the name of the fifth daughter?  

9.  You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why not?  

10.   I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I? 

11.  Tool of thief, toy of queen. Always used to be unseen. Sign of joy, sign of sorrow. Giving all likeness borrowed. What am I? 

12.  One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number. What is the pattern? 

13.  A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I? 

14.  What can hold water even though it has holes? 

15.  What falls down but never breaks? 

16.  An electric train is heading east at 400mph. How fast will the smoke blow?  

17.  The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father’s age is the son’s age reversed. How old could they be? (3 possible solutions). 

18.  What can be heard and caught but never seen? 

19.  People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I? 

20.  What do you call a person who is afraid of Santa Claus? 

21.  A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for three nights and rode out on Friday. How is this possible?  

22.  What two things can you never eat for breakfast?   

23.  What did the sea say to the sand?  

24.  I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I? 

25.  It is a 5 letter word if you take away first letter it is something you get from sun, if you remove second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it? 

26.  Which fish costs the most?  

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

28.  Which number stays the same no matter what number you multiply it with?  

29.  What is faster hot or cold? 

30.  I’m a god, a planet, and I measure heat. What am I? 

31.  Which word is the odd one out: Seventy, Brawl, Clover, Proper, Carrot, Swing, Change, Travel, Sacred, Stone? 

32.  What is as light as a feather, yet no person can hold it for long. What am I? 

33.  I may be simple, I may be complex; I may have a name, but no gender or sex; I am often a question, or statements as a setup; I tend to have an answer, ’til you find it I won’t let up. What am I? 

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

35.  What comes before 11 and after 15?  

36.  If a boy blows 18 bubbles, Then pops 6 eats 7 and then He pops 5 and blows 1. How many are left? 

37.  What has a neck, but no head?  

38.  What can you put between 4 and 5 so that the result is more than 4, but less than 5?  

39.  I have hundreds of legs but I can only lean; You make me feel dirty so you feel clean. What am I? 

40.  What goes up and never comes down?  

41.  Give me air and I will live. Give me water and I will die. What am I?  

42.  Two camels were facing in opposite directions. One was facing due East and one was facing due West. They were in the desert so there was no reflection. How can they manage to see each other without walking around or turning around or moving their heads? 

43.  Lily is a lilypad in a small pond. Lilly doubles her size each day, On the 20th day she covers the whole pond. On what day was Lily half the size of the pond? 

44.  How do you make the word “one” disappear?  

45.  What did Sir Lancelot wear to bed? 

46.  What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters? 

47.  Rachel goes to the supermarket and buys 10 tomatoes. Unfortunately, on the way back home, all but 9 get ruined. How many tomatoes are left in a good condition?  

48.  What game is dangerous for your mental health?  

49.  What did one math book say to the other math book? 

50.  When is 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same thing?  

Medium Riddles (51-100)

51.  You walk into a room that has a match, a candle and a fireplace. Which should you light first?  

52.  What two keys cannot open any doors?  

53.  How many sides does a square have?  

54.  How many animals did Moses take on the ark?  

55.  If there are three lollipops and you take away two, how many do you have? 

56.  A slender body, a tiny eye, no matter what happens, I never cry. What am I? 

57.  I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me. What am I?  

58.  What day would yesterday be if Thursday was four days before the day after tommorow? 

59.  I come in many colors and I am very thin, I am found in every country, even in your home, I am very important, you can be very creative with me, I can even help you learn. What am I? 

60.  I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness. What am I? 

61.  I go around the world, but never leave the corner. What am I?  

62.  I have a head and a tail that will never meet. Having too many of me is always a treat. What am I? 

63.  A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later? 

64.  I help you from your head to your toe. The more I work, the smaller I grow. What am I? 

65.  People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I? 

66.  Where does a werewolf like to hide? 

67.  How can Sarah go 8 days without sleep? 

68.  What flowers are kissable? 

69.  What loses a head in the morning, but gets it back at night?  

70.  What has 88 teeth, but has never brushed them?  

71.  There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. He has a wife and 2 kids. What does he weigh? 

72.  Amy threw the ball as hard as she could and it came back to her, without anything or anyone touching it. How?  

73.  Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I? 

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

75.  How do you fix a jack-o-lantern? 

76.  Kids can make it, but never hold it or see it. What is it?  

77.  What four-letter word can be written the same forward and backward, as well as upside down?  

78.  What is the end of everything? 

79.  I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I? 

80.  I’m tall when I’m young, I’m short when I’m old. What am I? 

81.  What kind of running means walking? 

82.  I’m (usually) white and used for cutting and grinding. When I’m damaged, humans usually remove me or fill me. For most animals I am a useful tool. What am I? 

83.  My life is measured in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy. What am I?  

84.  Bobby’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle and ___?  

85.  You heard me before, and then again. Afterward, I die, until you call me again. What am I? 

86.  Why do skeletons go on vacations alone? 

87.  When the water comes down, I go up. What am I? 

88.  I can wave my hands at you, but I never say goodbye. You are always cool when with me, even more so when I am high! What am I? 

89.  How do you know that a vampire loves baseball? 

90.  What runs without legs? 

91. A seed with three letters in my name. Take away two and I still sound the same. What am I?

92.  You go at red, but stop at green. What am I? 

93.  I will fill a room, but take up no space. What am I? 

94.  What is so fragile that saying its name will make it break?  

95.  Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?  

96.  You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I? 

97.  I have many teeth but I can’t bite. I’m often used early but rarely at night. What am I? 

98.  What is used by others, but only belongs to you?  

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

100.  I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I? 

Medium Riddles (101-150)

101.  A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver? 

102.  If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?  

103.  You won’t see me at all in March, May or January, but catch me once in June and twice in November. What am I?  

104.  What is the fastest way to double your money?  

105.  How do you catch a school of fish?  

106.  A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. His wife immediately called the police. The police questioned the wife and staff and got these alibis: The Wife said she was sleeping. The Cook was cooking breakfast. The Gardener was picking vegetables. The Maid was getting the mail. The Butler was cleaning the closet. The police instantly arrested the murderer. Who did it and how did they know? 

107.  What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?  

108.  What word has six letters, but if you remove one letter, you’ll be left with 12?  

109.  What kind of room has no walls, door or windows?  

110.  I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I? 

111.  What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish? 

112.  What can be stolen, but never leave you?  

113.  Bill, Judy, and Dane attended a baseball game together and bought one ticket each. How many tickets did they buy in total? 

114.  I’m clean when I’m black, Dirty when white; Get too close, And you might sneeze. What am I? 

115.  The one who makes me cannot use me. The one who buys me will not use me for themselves. The one who actually uses me, doesn’t know it. What am I?  

116.  What kind of candy would a prisoner want before he is executed? 

117.  There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word? 

118.  If your uncle’s sister is not your aunt, what relation is she to you? 

119.  What relation would your father’s sister’s sister-in-law be to you? 

120.  I can never be thrown but I can be caught. Ways to lose me are always being sought. What am I? 

121.  I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I? 

122. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

123.  Who wears shoes while sleeping?  

124.  I was carried into a dark room and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I? 

125.  A woman fell from a 30-foot ladder without getting hurt. How?  

126.  Where will you find Friday before Thursday?  

127.  What building has the most stories?  

128.  How do you make the number 7 even without adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing?  

129.  What happens when a sheep studies karate?  

130.  I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I? 

131.  How many times can you subtract 10 from 25?  

132.  What has legs but cannot walk?  

133.  Why did the turkey cross the road? 

134.  My teddy bear is never hungry. Why?  

135.  I’m not in Venus or Neptune, but you can find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus. What am I?  

136.  Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?  

137.  A plane crashed between the border of Canada and America. Where do you bury the survivors? 

138.  What is always in front of you but invisible?  

139.  What is always answered without being questioned?  

140.  Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot, All is cool where it is not. What is it? 

141.  I have no life, but I can die. What am I?  

142.  I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I? 

143.  A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have? 

144.  A man left home sprinting. He ran for awhile and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two people wearing masks. Who were they?  

145.  If a red house is made with red bricks, and a blue house is made with blue bricks, and an orange house is made with orange bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?  

146.  What can go up and come down without moving? 

147.  I am served at a table, In gatherings of two or four. Served small, white, and round. You’ll love some, and that’s part of the fun. What am I? 

148.  There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why? 

149.   I have wings, I am able to fly, I’m not a bird yet I soar high in the sky. What am I? 

150.  How do shells get around the ocean? 

Medium Riddles (151-200)

151.  A taxi driver is going down a one-way street the wrong way, and passes at least 10 cops.  

152.  What has to be broken before you can use it?  

153.  What would you call a man who does not have all fingers on one hand?  

154.  What is at the end of a rainbow?  

155.  How many months have 28 days?  

156.  When does a British potato change its nationality? 

157.  What is white, but smells like blue paint?  

158.  I sound like one letter but I’m written with three. I show you things when you look through me. What am I? 

159.  What month of the year has 28 days?  

160.  How do caterpillars swim laps? 

161.  What two whole, positive numbers that have a one-digit answer when multiplied and a two-digit answer when added? 

162.  I’m so fast you can’t see me, though everyone else can see straight through me. I won’t stop until the day you die. What am I? 

163.  Always in you, Sometimes on you; If I surround you, I can kill you. What am I? 

164.  Where do you take a sick boat? 

165.  Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn’t figure out how. There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off of, or a table. Just a puddle of water. How’d he do it? 

166.  I am easy to lift, but hard to throw. What am I?  

167.  I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I? 

168.  Everyone has it, but no one can lose it. What is it? 

169.  I have eyes but I can’t see. I live in the dark until you need me. What am I? 

170.  Mike has 3 strawberries and 2 oranges in one hand and 2 strawberries and 4 oranges in the other. How many oranges and strawberries did Mike have? 

171.  If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what are 4 and 5?  

172.  What has many keys, but cannot unlock a single door?  

173.  What English word has three consecutive double letters?  

174.  What word begins and ends in “E,” but only has one letter? 

175.  How did the pancake hurt itself? 

176.  What’s a frog’s favorite game?  

177.  There is a clothing store in Bartlesville. The owner has devised his own method of pricing items. A vest costs $20, socks cost $25, a tie costs $15 and a blouse costs $30. Using the method, how much would a pair of underwear cost? 

178.  What do you call a bear with no teeth? 

179.  Take off my skin and I won’t cry, but you will! What am I? 

180.  When was the latest year that is the same upside down? 

181.  I’m an instrument through which sounds are made, and yet, not something that can be played. What am I? 

182.  The rungs of a 10 foot ladder attached to a ship are 1 foot apart. If the water is rising at the rate of one foot an hour, how long will it take until the water covers over the ladder? 

183.  If the day before yesterday is the 23rd, then what is the day after tomorrow? 

184.  I have a face and arms, but no legs. What am I?  

185.  I have a bed but I never sleep. I have a mouth but I never speak. What am I? 

186.  A woman called her horse from the opposite side of a river. The horse crossed the river without getting wet, and without using a boat or bridge. How?  

187.  What four-legged animal can jump higher than a house? 

188.  A mother has 6 girls and each of them has a brother. How many children are there? 

189.  I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens. I’m found in the paws of playful kittens. What am I? 

190.  A group of campers have been on vacation so long, that they’ve forgotten the day of the week. The following conversation ensues. Darryl: What’s the day? I don’t think it is Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Tracy: Well that doesn’t narrow it down much. Yesterday was Sunday. Melissa: Yesterday wasn’t Sunday, tomorrow is Sunday. Ben: The day after tomorrow is Saturday. Adrienne: The day before yesterday was Thursday. Susie: Tomorrow is Saturday. David: I know that the day after tomorrow is not Friday. If only one person’s statement is true, what day of the week is it? 

191.  I’m where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I? 

192.  A sharpshooter hung up his hat and put on a blindfold. He then walked 100 yards, turned around, and shot a bullet through his hat. The blindfold was a perfectly good one, completely blocking the man’s vision. How did he manage this? 

193.  What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?  

194.  Imagine you are in trapped in a closet with a locked door. How will you get out?  

195.  What starts with a T, ends with a T and has T in it? 

196.  Johnny’s mother had three children. The first was named May, the next was named June. What was the name of the third child?  

197.  What is the hardest key to turn? 

198.  If you threw a black stone into the Red Sea, what would it become?  

199.  What’s black and white and read all over?  

200.  I have 13 hearts, but no other organs? What am I? 

Medium Riddles (200+)

201.  What are eight 8s that add up to 1,000? 

202.  Why is Peter Pan always flying? 

203.  What is something brown with a head and tail, but no legs?  

204.  When my father was 30 years old, I was 9 years old. Now, I am 40 years old, so what will be his age now?  

205.  Which three letters can frighten a thief away? 

206.  After an electric train crashed, every single person died. Who lived? 

207.  The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? 

208.  Who always enjoys poor health? 

209.  The more of this there is, the less you can see. What Am I? 

210.  Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly? 

211.  What gets wetter as it dries?  

212.  A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I? 

213.  I have two hands, but I can not scratch myself. What am I? 

214.  Why did the golfer put on a second pair of pants?  

215.  Why are Christmas trees bad at knitting? 

216.  Is it possible for a woman to go 10 days without sleeping?  

217.  Can a man legally marry his widow’s sister in the state of California? 

218.  What did Adam say the day before Christmas? 

219.  If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I? 

220.  What did the triangle say to the circle? 

221.  Put anything in me and I will make sure I’ll hold, doesn’t matter hot or cold. What am I?  

222.  What word contains all of the twenty six letters? 

223.  If fish lived on land, where would they live? 

224.  When Rebecca was 8 years old, her little brother, Bob, was half his age. If Rebecca is 20 years old today, how old is Bob?  

226.  What has toes but no feet or legs? 

227.  If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I? 

228.  I can fly but have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I? 

229.  A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him? 

230.  What did the sea say to the sand?  

Medium Riddles (Full List)

1.  Three men jump into the water, but only two come out with wet hair. Why?  

Answer:  The third man was bald.

2.  I turn once, so what is out will not get in. I turn again, so what is in will not get out. What am I?  

Answer:  A key.

3.  What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in one thousand years?  

Answer:  The letter “M.”

4.  In a single story house, there is a green chair, green bed, green computer, green couch, green flowers, green carpet and green table. What color is the staircase?  

Answer:  There is no staircase. It’s a single story house.

5.  The more you take away, the more I become. What am I? 

Answer:  A hole.

6.  Why did the football coach go to the bank?  

Answer:  He wanted his quarterback.

7.  I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I? 

Answer:  The wind

8.  Sally’s father has five daughters: Sammy, Stella, Sarah and Sadie. Guess the name of the fifth daughter?  

Answer:  Sally.

9.  You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why not?  

Answer:  They’re all married.

10.   I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I? 

Answer:  I’m a Sponge.

11.  Tool of thief, toy of queen. Always used to be unseen. Sign of joy, sign of sorrow. Giving all likeness borrowed. What am I? 

Answer:  A mask.

12.  One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number. What is the pattern? 

Answer:  One has three letters in the word three has five letters in it five has four letters and four has four letters in it (if you try more numbers they will always come back to the number four: so four is the magic number)

13.  A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I? 

Answer:  A Coconut.

14.  What can hold water even though it has holes? 

Answer:  A Sponge.

15.  What falls down but never breaks? 

Answer:  Nightfall

16.  An electric train is heading east at 400mph. How fast will the smoke blow?  

Answer:  Electric trains do not produce smoke.

17.  The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father’s age is the son’s age reversed. How old could they be? (3 possible solutions). 

Answer:  51 and 15. 42 and 24. 60 and 06.

18.  What can be heard and caught but never seen? 

Answer:  A remark.

19.  People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I? 

Answer:  Plates and cutlery.

20.  What do you call a person who is afraid of Santa Claus? 

Answer:  Claustraophobic.

21.  A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for three nights and rode out on Friday. How is this possible?  

Answer:  His horse’s name is Friday.

22.  What two things can you never eat for breakfast?   

Answer:  Lunch and dinner.

23.  What it it called when a dinosaur makes a soccer goal? 

Answer:   A dino-score.

24.  I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I? 

Answer:  Your fingernails.

25.  It is a 5 letter word if you take away first letter it is something you get from sun, if you remove second letter you will get something to eat, if you remove third letter you get a word you use in pointing at and if you remove the fourth letter you get something to drink. What is it? 

Answer:  Wheat.

26.  Which fish costs the most?  

Answer:  A goldfish.

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

Answer:  A calendar.

28.  Which number stays the same no matter what number you multiply it with?  

Answer:  0

29.  What is faster hot or cold? 

Answer:  Hot, you can easily catch a cold.

30.  I’m a god, a planet, and I measure heat. What am I? 

Answer:  Mercury

31.  Which word is the odd one out: Seventy, Brawl, Clover, Proper, Carrot, Swing, Change, Travel, Sacred, Stone? 

Answer:  Carrot. When the first and last letters are removed from the other words, they still spell another word.

32.  What is as light as a feather, yet no person can hold it for long. What am I? 

Answer:  Your breath

33.  I may be simple, I may be complex; I may have a name, but no gender or sex; I am often a question, or statements as a setup; I tend to have an answer, ’til you find it I won’t let up. What am I? 

Answer:  A riddle.

34.  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.

35.  What comes before 11 and after 15?  

Answer:  10 and 16.

36.  If a boy blows 18 bubbles, Then pops 6 eats 7 and then He pops 5 and blows 1. How many are left? 

Answer:  1

37.  What has a neck, but no head?  

Answer:  A bottle.

38.  What can you put between 4 and 5 so that the result is more than 4, but less than 5?  

Answer:  A decimal.

39.  I have hundreds of legs but I can only lean; You make me feel dirty so you feel clean. What am I? 

Answer:  A Broom.

40.  What goes up and never comes down?  

Answer:  Your age.

41.  Give me air and I will live. Give me water and I will die. What am I?  

Answer:  Fire.

42.  Two camels were facing in opposite directions. One was facing due East and one was facing due West. They were in the desert so there was no reflection. How can they manage to see each other without walking around or turning around or moving their heads? 

Answer:  The two camels were facing each other the entire time. Hence facing in opposite directions.

43.  Lily is a lilypad in a small pond. Lilly doubles her size each day, On the 20th day she covers the whole pond. On what day was Lily half the size of the pond? 

Answer:  Day 19, it’s not 10 because on day 20 she doubled from day 19, so 19 must be half the size of the pond.

44.  How do you make the word “one” disappear?  

Answer:  Add a “G” in front and it’s gone

45.  What did Sir Lancelot wear to bed? 

Answer:  A knight gown!

46.  What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters? 

Answer:  Eat and Ate.

47.  Rachel goes to the supermarket and buys 10 tomatoes. Unfortunately, on the way back home, all but 9 get ruined. How many tomatoes are left in a good condition?  

Answer:  9

48.  What game is dangerous for your mental health?  

Answer:  Marbles; you don’t want to lose them.

49.  What did one math book say to the other math book? 

Answer:  Do you want to hear my problems?

50.  When is 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same thing?  

Answer:  When it’s military time.

51.  You walk into a room that has a match, a candle and a fireplace. Which should you light first?  

Answer:  The match.

52.  What two keys cannot open any doors?  

Answer:  Monkey and donkey.

53.  How many sides does a square have?  

Answer:  4

54.  How many animals did Moses take on the ark?  

Answer:  Zero. Noah took them.

55.  If there are three lollipops and you take away two, how many do you have? 

Answer:   If you take two, then you have two.

56.  A slender body, a tiny eye, no matter what happens, I never cry. What am I? 

Answer:  A needle.

57.  I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me. What am I?  

Answer:  Your shadow.

58.  What day would yesterday be if Thursday was four days before the day after tommorow? 

Answer:  Friday.

59.  I come in many colors and I am very thin, I am found in every country, even in your home, I am very important, you can be very creative with me, I can even help you learn. What am I? 

Answer:  Paper

60.  I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness. What am I? 

Answer:  The letter S.

61.  I go around the world, but never leave the corner. What am I?  

Answer:  A stamp.

62.  I have a head and a tail that will never meet. Having too many of me is always a treat. What am I? 

Answer:  A Coin

63.  A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later? 

Answer:  He was an astronaut on a space walk

64.  I help you from your head to your toe. The more I work, the smaller I grow. What am I? 

Answer:  A Bar of Soap

65.  People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I? 

Answer:  Money.

66.  Where does a werewolf like to hide? 

Answer:  In your claws-it.

67.  How can Sarah go 8 days without sleep? 

Answer:   She only sleeps at night.

68.  What flowers are kissable? 

Answer:  Tulips.

69.  What loses a head in the morning, but gets it back at night?  

Answer:  A pillow.

70.  What has 88 teeth, but has never brushed them?  

Answer:  A piano.

71.  There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. He has a wife and 2 kids. What does he weigh? 

Answer:  Meat

72.  Amy threw the ball as hard as she could and it came back to her, without anything or anyone touching it. How?  

Answer:  She threw the ball upward into the air.

73.  Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I? 

Answer:  The letter r.

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

Answer:  The word Ton.

75.  How do you fix a jack-o-lantern? 

Answer:  With a pumpkin patch.

76.  Kids can make it, but never hold it or see it. What is it?  

Answer:  Noise.

77.  What four-letter word can be written the same forward and backward, as well as upside down?  

Answer:  Noon.

78.  What is the end of everything? 

Answer:   The letter “G.”

79.  I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I? 

Answer:  A baby chick in an egg. \

80.  I’m tall when I’m young, I’m short when I’m old. What am I? 

Answer:  A Pencil

81.  What kind of running means walking? 

Answer:  Running out of gas!

82.  I’m (usually) white and used for cutting and grinding. When I’m damaged, humans usually remove me or fill me. For most animals I am a useful tool. What am I? 

Answer:  A Tooth

83.  My life is measured in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy. What am I?  

Answer:  A candle.

84.  Bobby’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle and ___?  

Answer:  Bobby.

85.  You heard me before, and then again. Afterward, I die, until you call me again. What am I? 

Answer:  An echo.

86.  Why do skeletons go on vacations alone? 

Answer:  Because they have no-body to go with.

87.  When the water comes down, I go up. What am I? 

Answer:   An umbrella.

88.  I can wave my hands at you, but I never say goodbye. You are always cool when with me, even more so when I am high! What am I? 

Answer:  An electric fan.

89.  How do you know that a vampire loves baseball? 

Answer:  Because he turns into a bat every night.

90.  What runs without legs? 

Answer:  Water.

91.  A seed with three letters in my name. Take away two and I still sound the same. What am I? 

Answer:  A pea

92.  You go at red, but stop at green. What am I? 

Answer:  A watermelon. You eat the red part, and you stop eating at the green part.

93.  I will fill a room, but take up no space. What am I? 

Answer:   Light.

94.  What is so fragile that saying its name will make it break?  

Answer:  Silence.

95.  Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?  

Answer:  The number 8.

96.  You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I? 

Answer:  A reflection.

97.  I have many teeth but I can’t bite. I’m often used early but rarely at night. What am I? 

Answer:  A comb

98.  What is used by others, but only belongs to you?  

Answer:  Your name.

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

Answer:  The letter “M.”

100.  I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I? 

Answer:  Fire.

101.  A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver? 

Answer:  None. A pear tree does not bear plums.

102.  If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?  

Answer:  A promise.

103.  You won’t see me at all in March, May or January, but catch me once in June and twice in November. What am I?  

Answer:  The letter “E”.

104.  What is the fastest way to double your money?  

Answer:  Place it in front of the mirror.

105.  How do you catch a school of fish?  

Answer:  A bookworm.

106.  A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. His wife immediately called the police. The police questioned the wife and staff and got these alibis: The Wife said she was sleeping. The Cook was cooking breakfast. The Gardener was picking vegetables. The Maid was getting the mail. The Butler was cleaning the closet. The police instantly arrested the murderer. Who did it and how did they know? 

Answer:  It was the Maid. She said she was getting the mail. There is no mail on Sunday!

107.  What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?  

Answer:  An elephant’s shadow.

108.  What word has six letters, but if you remove one letter, you’ll be left with 12?  

Answer:  Dozens.

109.  What kind of room has no walls, door or windows?  

Answer:  A mushroom.

110.  I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I? 

Answer:  A bank

111.  What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish? 

Answer:  A map.

112.  What can be stolen, but never leave you?  

Answer:  Your identity.

113.  Bill, Judy, and Dane attended a baseball game together and bought one ticket each. How many tickets did they buy in total? 

Answer:  3

114.  I’m clean when I’m black, Dirty when white; Get too close, And you might sneeze. What am I? 

Answer:  A Chalkboard.

115.  The one who makes me cannot use me. The one who buys me will not use me for themselves. The one who actually uses me, doesn’t know it. What am I?  

Answer:  A coffin.

116.  What kind of candy would a prisoner want before he is executed? 

Answer:  A Life Saver.

117.  There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word? 

Answer:  Heroine

118.  If your uncle’s sister is not your aunt, what relation is she to you? 

Answer:  Your mother.

119.  What relation would your father’s sister’s sister-in-law be to you? 

Answer:  Your mother.

120.  I can never be thrown but I can be caught. Ways to lose me are always being sought. What am I? 

Answer:  A cold

121.  I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I? 

Answer:  A candle

122.  No sooner spoken than broken. What is it? 

Answer:  Silence

123.  Who wears shoes while sleeping?  

Answer:  A horse.

124.  I was carried into a dark room and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I? 

Answer:  A Candle.

125.  A woman fell from a 30-foot ladder without getting hurt. How?  

Answer:  She was standing on the bottom rung.

126.  Where will you find Friday before Thursday?  

Answer:  A dictionary.

127.  What building has the most stories?  

Answer:  A library.

128.  How do you make the number 7 even without adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing?  

Answer:  Take out the “S.”

129.  What happens when a sheep studies karate?  

Answer:  A lamb chop.

130.  I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I? 

Answer:  A Barber

131.  How many times can you subtract 10 from 25?  

Answer:  Once. After you subtract 10 from 25 the first time, it becomes 15.

132.  What has legs but cannot walk?  

Answer:  A stool.

133.  Why did the turkey cross the road? 

Answer:  To prove he wasn’t chicken

134.  My teddy bear is never hungry. Why?  

Answer:  He’s stuffed.

135.  I’m not in Venus or Neptune, but you can find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus. What am I?  

Answer:  The letter “R.”

136.  Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?  

Answer:  The letter “C”

137.  A plane crashed between the border of Canada and America. Where do you bury the survivors? 

Answer:  They are survivors, you don’t bury them.

138.  What is always in front of you but invisible?  

Answer:  The future.

139.  What is always answered without being questioned?  

Answer:  A doorbell.

140.  Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot, All is cool where it is not. What is it? 

Answer:  Sunshine.

141.  I have no life, but I can die. What am I?  

Answer:  A battery.

142.  I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I? 

Answer:  A joke.

143.  A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have? 

Answer:  Ten Cows. We can call the pigs cows but it doesn’t make them cows.

144.  A man left home sprinting. He ran for awhile and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two people wearing masks. Who were they?  

Answer:  The umpire and the catcher.

145.  If a red house is made with red bricks, and a blue house is made with blue bricks, and an orange house is made with orange bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?  

Answer:  Usually glass, so plants can grow more easily.

146.  What can go up and come down without moving? 

Answer:  The temperature.

147.  I am served at a table, In gatherings of two or four. Served small, white, and round. You’ll love some, and that’s part of the fun. What am I? 

Answer:  A ping-pong ball.

148.  There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why? 

Answer:  His father was in front of him when he was born, therefore he was born before him. His mother died while giving birth to him. Finally, he grew up to be a minister and married his sister at her ceremony.

149.   I have wings, I am able to fly, I’m not a bird yet I soar high in the sky. What am I? 

Answer:   A plane.

150.  How do shells get around the ocean? 

Answer:   A taxi crab.

151.  A taxi driver is going down a one-way street the wrong way, and passes at least 10 cops.  

Answer:  Why is she not caught? She was walking.

152.  What has to be broken before you can use it?  

Answer:  An egg.

153.  What would you call a man who does not have all fingers on one hand?  

Answer:  A man, because humans have fingers on both hands.

154.  What is at the end of a rainbow?  

Answer:  The letter “W.”

155.  How many months have 28 days?  

Answer:  All 12.

156.  When does a British potato change its nationality? 

Answer:  When it becomes a french fries.

157.  What is white, but smells like blue paint?  

Answer:  White paint.

158.  I sound like one letter but I’m written with three. I show you things when you look through me. What am I? 

Answer:  Eye

159.  What month of the year has 28 days?  

Answer:  All months have at least 28 days.

160.  How do caterpillars swim laps? 

Answer:  They do the butterfly.

161.  What two whole, positive numbers that have a one-digit answer when multiplied and a two-digit answer when added? 

Answer:  1 and 9.

162.  I’m so fast you can’t see me, though everyone else can see straight through me. I won’t stop until the day you die. What am I? 

Answer:  The blink of an eye.

163.  Always in you, Sometimes on you; If I surround you, I can kill you. What am I? 

Answer:  Water.

164.  Where do you take a sick boat? 

Answer:   To the dock-tor.

165.  Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn’t figure out how. There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off of, or a table. Just a puddle of water. How’d he do it? 

Answer:  He stood on a block of ice until it melted.

166.  I am easy to lift, but hard to throw. What am I?  

Answer:  A feather.

167.  I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I? 

Answer:  The letter “E”.

168.  Everyone has it, but no one can lose it. What is it? 

Answer:   A shadow.

169.  I have eyes but I can’t see. I live in the dark until you need me. What am I? 

Answer:   A potato.

170.  Kavita has 3 strawberries and 2 oranges in one hand and 2 strawberries and 4 oranges in the other. How many oranges and strawberries did Kavita have? 

Answer:   6 oranges and 5 strawberries.

171.  If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what are 4 and 5?  

Answer:  9

172.  What has many keys, but cannot unlock a single door?  

Answer:  A piano.

173.  What English word has three consecutive double letters?  

Answer:  Bookkeeper.

174.  What word begins and ends in “E,” but only has one letter? 

Answer:   Envelope.

175.  How did the pancake hurt itself? 

Answer:  Doing backflips.

176.  What’s a frog’s favorite game?  

Answer:  Leapfrog.

177.  There is a clothing store in Bartlesville. The owner has devised his own method of pricing items. A vest costs $20, socks cost $25, a tie costs $15 and a blouse costs $30. Using the method, how much would a pair of underwear cost? 

Answer:  $45. The pricing method consists of charging $5 for each letter required to spell the item.

178.  What do you call a bear with no teeth? 

Answer:  A gummy Bear.

179.  Take off my skin and I won’t cry, but you will! What am I? 

Answer:  An onion.

180.  When was the latest year that is the same upside down? 

Answer:  1961

181.  I’m an instrument through which sounds are made, and yet, not something that can be played. What am I? 

Answer:  Your voice.

182.  The rungs of a 10 foot ladder attached to a ship are 1 foot apart. If the water is rising at the rate of one foot an hour, how long will it take until the water covers over the ladder? 

Answer:  It will never cover the ladder because as the water rises, so will the floating ship.

183.  If the day before yesterday is the 23rd, then what is the day after tomorrow? 

Answer:  The 27th.

184.  I have a face and arms, but no legs. What am I?  

Answer:  A clock.

185.  I have a bed but I never sleep. I have a mouth but I never speak. What am I? 

Answer:  River

186.  A woman called her horse from the opposite side of a river. The horse crossed the river without getting wet, and without using a boat or bridge. How?  

Answer:  The river was frozen.

187.  What four-legged animal can jump higher than a house? 

Answer:  Any, Houses can’t jump.

188.  A mother has 6 girls and each of them has a brother. How many children are there? 

Answer:  7. Each girl has the same brother.

189.  I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens. I’m found in the paws of playful kittens. What am I? 

Answer:  Yarn.

190.  A group of campers have been on vacation so long, that they’ve forgotten the day of the week. The following conversation ensues. Darryl: What’s the day? I don’t think it is Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Tracy: Well that doesn’t narrow it down much. Yesterday was Sunday. Melissa: Yesterday wasn’t Sunday, tomorrow is Sunday. Ben: The day after tomorrow is Saturday. Adrienne: The day before yesterday was Thursday. Susie: Tomorrow is Saturday. David: I know that the day after tomorrow is not Friday. If only one person’s statement is true, what day of the week is it? 

Answer:  It is Wednesday. If it was any other day of the week, more than one statement would be true. To solve the riddle, evaluate each person’s statement and write down what day it could be according to the statement. David’s statement indicates it could be any day of the week except for Wednesday. When you list the days that it could be according to everyone’s statement, it turns out Wednesday is the day mentioned only one time. Darryl: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday Tracy: Monday Melissa: Saturday Ben: Thursday Adrienne: Saturday Susie: Friday David: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday

191.  I’m where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I? 

Answer:  A dictionary.

192.  A sharpshooter hung up his hat and put on a blindfold. He then walked 100 yards, turned around, and shot a bullet through his hat. The blindfold was a perfectly good one, completely blocking the man’s vision. How did he manage this? 

Answer:  He hung is hat on the barrel of his gun.

193.  What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?  

Answer:  A palm tree.

194.  Imagine you are in trapped in a closet with a locked door. How will you get out?  

Answer:  Stop imagining.

195.  What starts with a T, ends with a T and has T in it? 

Answer:  A teapot.

196.  Johnny’s mother had three children. The first was named May, the next was named June. What was the name of the third child?  

Answer:  Johnny.

197.  What is the hardest key to turn? 

Answer:  A don-key

198.  If you threw a black stone into the Red Sea, what would it become?  

Answer:  Wet.

199.  What’s black and white and read all over?  

Answer:  A newspaper.

200.  I have 13 hearts, but no other organs? What am I? 

Answer:  A deck of cards.

201.  What are eight 8s that add up to 1,000? 

Answer:   8 + 8 + 8 + 88 + 888 = 1,000.

202.  Why is Peter Pan always flying? 

Answer:  He Neverlands.

203.  What is something brown with a head and tail, but no legs?  

Answer:  A penny.

204.  When my father was 30 years old, I was 9 years old. Now, I am 40 years old, so what will be his age now?  

Answer:  61

205.  Which three letters can frighten a thief away? 

Answer:  ICU

206.  After an electric train crashed, every single person died. Who lived? 

Answer:   The couples.

207.  The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? 

Answer:  Footsteps.

208.  Who always enjoys poor health? 

Answer:  A doctor.

209.  The more of this there is, the less you can see. WhatAm I? 

Answer:  Darkness.

210.  Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly? 

Answer:   Incorrectly.

211.  What gets wetter as it dries?  

Answer:  A towel.

212.  A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I? 

Answer:  I am a Butterfly.

213.  I have two hands, but I can not scratch myself. What am I? 

Answer:  A clock

214.  Why did the golfer put on a second pair of pants?  

Answer:  He hot a hole in one.

215.  Why are Christmas trees bad at knitting? 

Answer:  Because they always drop their needles.

216.  Is it possible for a woman to go 10 days without sleeping?  

Answer:  Yes, she will sleep at night.

217.  Can a man legally marry his widow’s sister in the state of California? 

Answer:  No since she is a ‘widow’, the guy’s dead!

218.  What did Adam say the day before Christmas? 

Answer:  It’s Christmas, Eve!

219.  If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I? 

Answer:  Secret.

220.  What did the triangle say to the circle? 

Answer:  You’re pointless.

221.  Put anything in me and I will make sure I’ll hold, doesn’t matter hot or cold. What am I?  

Answer:  A cup.

222.  What word contains all of the twenty six letters? 

Answer:  Alphabet.

223.  If fish lived on land, where would they live? 

Answer:  In Finland.

224.  When Rebecca was 8 years old, her little brother, Bob, was half his age. If Rebecca is 20 years old today, how old is Bob?  

Answer:  16

225.  When may a man’s coat pocket be empty, and yet have something in it? 

Answer:  Smiles (there is a mile between the two S’s)

226.  What has toes but no feet or legs? 

Answer:  Tomatoes.

227.  If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I? 

Answer:  A mirror.

228.  I can fly but have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I? 

Answer:  Clouds

229.  A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him? 

Answer:  The third. Lions that haven’t eaten in three years are dead.

230.  Which one of Santa’s reindeer is the fastest? 

Answer:  Dasher.

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