45 Short Riddles With Answers For Kids And Adults

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Here find some best collections of short riddles, short puzzle questions, and brain teasers for kids and adults. And to solve these puzzles we are also sharing the answer to the question.

Short Riddles With Answers For Kids

1. When is music like vegetables?

Answer: When there are two beats (beets) to the measure.

2. Which three letters can frighten a thief away?

Answer: I C U.

3. Why is a dirty rug like a bad boy?

Answer: Both need beating.

4. Why is the moon like a dollar?

Answer: Because it has four quarters.

5. How did the pancake hurt itself?

Answer: Doing backflips.

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6. How is a person in jail like a sinking ship?

Answer: Both want to be bailed out.

7. I am present in a laptop. I am also a human’s t-shirt. I have the highest mark in the class. I am usually described as something above. What am I?

Answer: I’m top.

8. I am the symbol of prying and meddling, for I smell fish that is worth a roundabout fish to fry. What am I?

Answer: A nose.

9. I am wet when drying. What am I?

Answer: A towel.

10. I’m flat. You use me every day. You need me to live. But you give me away every day. I’m colored and I have a founding father on me. What am I?

Answer: A bill.

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

Answer: In Finland.

12. If there are four sheep, two dogs, and one herds-men, how many feet are there?

Answer: Two. Sheep have hooves; dogs have paws; only people have feet.

13. If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?

Answer: Wet, duh!

14. Now matter what, I come to you round, Floating up, floating down, A single pop, I’m on the ground, Then comes your unpleasant frown. What am I?

Answer: I am a bubble. Bubbles always come out round no matter how you blow it. Bubbles also pop when they touch the ground. Usually, bubbles go up and then down. Most of the time you and I will frown when a bubble pops. Therefore, the answer is a bubble.

15. Slippery, wet and greasy, when it’s in its easy, when it’s out it jumps about, slippery wet, and greasy. What am I?

Answer: A Fish.

Short Riddles For Adults With Answers

16. The leaves are on the fruit, The fruits is on the leaves. What is it?

Answer: A pineapple.

17. The more you dry yourself with me the more I get wet. What am I?

Answer: A towel.

18. The one who has it does not keep it. It is large and small. It is any shape.

Answer: A gift.

19. The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind. What is it?

Answer: A blade of grass.

20. There are 10 birds on a branch, a man shot 5 of them. How many were left?

Answer: Zero, because when birds see someone coming or hear something they fly away.

21. There was a man who everybody called Batman he knew nothing about bats and thought they were gross. He still loved it when people called him Batman! How could this be?

Answer: He was the star baseball player!

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22. Tuesday, Bill and Jim went to a restaurant they ordered and ate their food and stuff like that. Then they paid the bill, but neither Bill nor Jim paid the bill. Who did?

Answer: Tuesday did because in English to say a day you say “on” before the day!!!

23. What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

Answer: NOON.

24. What animal would you get crossed a duck, a beaver, and an otter?

Answer: A platypus.

25. What came out from ONE hole and goes into TWO holes?

Answer: Farts.

26. What can be lost, but not returned?

Answer: Life.

27. What chins are never shaved?

Answer: Sea Urchins.

28. What color is the wind?

Answer: Blew.

29. What didn’t Adam and Eve have that everyone else has?

Answer: Parents.

30. What do outlaws eat with their milk?

Answer: Cookies.

31. What exists but nobody can enter and is unreachable in life?

Answer: Heaven.

Short Brain Teasers, Puzzle Questions With Answers

32. What has an eye but can not see?

Answer: A needle.

33. What is at the end of a rainbow?

Answer: The letter w.

34. What is it that is full all day and empty at night?

Answer: Shoes.

35. What is Medusa’s favorite cheese?

Answer: Gorgonzola.

36. What is that which never uses its teeth for eating purposes?

Answer: A comb.

37. What is the freedom of birds and the pen of old men?

Answer: Feathers. Feathers make up a bird’s wings, giving it flight or freedom. Quill pens were used by men in older times.

38. What is the noblest musical instrument?

Answer: An upright piano.

39. What is the proper length for a lady’s skirt?

Answer: A little above two feet.

40. What kind of goose fights with snakes?

Answer: A mongoose.

41. What word is always pronounced wrong?

Answer: Wrong!

42. When is a bright idea like a clock?

Answer: When it strikes one.

43. When is a man like a snake?

Answer: When he gets rattled.

44. Why were the tennis players arrested?

Answer: Because they had racquets.

45. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

Answer: A telephone.