Level 1: asy riddles that don't rhyme
Level 2: easy riddles that rhyme
Level 3: harder riddles that don't rhyme
Level 4: harder riddles that rhyme
What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot
You must keep it after giving it. Answer: Your word
Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb. Answer: Water
You break it even if you name it. Answer: Silence
Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die. Answer: Fire
What can you catch but not throw? Answer: A cold
Only two backbones, a thousand ribs. Answer: Railroad
What kind of room has no windows or doors? Answer: A mushroom
I run, yet I have no legs. What am I? Answer: A nose
What is black and white and is red all over? Answer: A newspaper
How much distance is there between the two s's in smiles? Answer: A mile
What grows in winter and dies in summer. And has roots that grow up? Answer: Icicle
I have a three-letter word with one syllable. If I add one letter, there are four letters, and three syllables. What is the word? Answer: Area
What two words have the most letters in it? Answer: Post Office
What one word has the most letters in it? Answer: Alphabet
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour. Answer: The letter M
What five letter English word does not change its pronunciation when four letters are taken away? Answer: Queue
What starts with "e" ends with "e" and contains only one letter? Answer: An envelope
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters? Answer: Eat or Ate
Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I? Answer: Ton
The more there is the less you see. Answer: Darkness
They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. Answer: Stars
Squeeze it and it cries tears as red as its flesh, but its heart is made of stone. Answer: Cherry
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. Answer: A whole Coconut
You use a knife to slice my head, and
weep beside me when I am dead. Answer: Onion
There was a green round house. Inside the green round house was a smaller white house. In the white house was a red house. And living in
the red house were lots of little black babies. Answer: A Watermelon
I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. Answer: Smoke
There is a certain crime, that if it is attempted, is punishable, but if it is committed, is not punishable. What is the crime? Answer: Suicide
It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones and blood all at the same time. What is this object? Answer: A Ring
The more you take the more you leave behind. Answer: Footsteps
Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute? Answer: Breath
As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone or fowl. Answer: Glove
What eats rocks, levels mountains, rusts metal, pushes the clouds across the sky, and can make a young man old? Answer: Time
What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in? Answer: Keyboard
What can fill a room but takes up no space. Answer: Light
It is weightless, you can see it and if you put it in a barrel it will make the barrel lighter? Answer: A Hole
If you throw it off the highest building it will not break. If you place it in the ocean it will. What is it? Answer: Tissue
I have two heads but only one body,
the more still I stand the faster I run. Answer: A Hourglass
The rich men want it, the wise men know it,
the poor all need it, and the kind men show it. Answer: Love
It goes up and down the stairs without moving. Answer: Carpet
What goes around the world and stays in a corner? Answer: A stamp
What has hands, but is not flesh, bone or blood? Answer: A clock
High born, my touch is gentle, purest white is my lace; silence is my kingdom, green is the colour of my death. What am I? Answer: Snow
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
Something wholly unreal, yet seems real to I
Think my friend, tell me where does it lie? Answer: In the mind
Goes over all the hills and hollows,
Bites hard, but never swallows. Answer: Frost
Nearly bright as the sun, sometimes dark as space. Like a pearl on black velvet, with diamonds twinkling in a case. What am I? Answer: The moon
What gets bigger the more you take away from it? Answer: A hole
Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it? Answer: Time
White bird, featherless, flying out o' paradise, flying over sea and land, dying in my hand. What is it? Answer: A snowflake
They try to beat me, they try in vain. And when I win, I end the pain. Answer: Death
Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts, often bites but seldom bit, to use me well you must have wit. Answer: Tongue
Can not be bought, can not be sold, even if it's made of gold. Answer: Heart
Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let fly; and every time she went through a gap, a bit of her tail she left in a
trap. What is she? Answer: A needle and thread
I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I? Answer: A windmill
Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear, all day we are bitterly pressed; Yet this I will say - we are full all the day, and empty when we go to rest. What are we? Answer: A pair of shoes
Who is it that rows quickly with four oars but never comes out from under his own roof? Answer: A turtle
I am a window, I am a lamp, I am clouded, I am shining, and I am coloured; set in white, I fill with water and overflow. I say much, but I have no words. What am I? Answer: An eye
I am two-faced but bear only one, I have no legs but travel widely. Men spill much blood over me, kings leave their imprint on me. I have greatest power when given away, yet lust for me keeps me locked away. What am I? Answer: A coin
Not born, but from a Mother's body drawn, I hang until half of me is gone. I sleep in a cave until I grow old, then valued for my hardened gold. What am I? Answer: Cheese
Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns and never falls. Answer: A lantern
When I live I cry, if you don't kill me I'll die. What am I? Answer: A candle
Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again. Answer: A record
Can not be bought, can not be sold, even if it's made of gold. Answer: A heart
