Funny Riddles With Answers : While riddles often serve the function of entertaining the audience by proposing challenging questions to be solved, they also serve other purposes. For instance, they may allow for deeper thinking regarding an issue or to allow other questions to arise.
Funny Riddles with Answers

Riddle: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp
Riddle: When you use it, you throw it away, and when you do not use it, you bring it back.
Answer: An anchor
Riddle: Say my name, and I disappear. What am I?
Answer: Silence
Riddle: Washing makes it dirtier and dirtier; it is cleaner without washing.
Answer: Water
Riddle: When I go out, I am thick and fat. When I come home, I am like a skeleton. Then I am put in a corner against the wall, and my tears flow freely.
Answer: An umbrella
Riddle: It works hard all its life, counting numbers day and night, but never gets past 12. What is it?
Answer: A clock
Riddle: What four periodic elements, when combined, make up something that terrifies criminals?
Answer: Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorous & Sulfur (C + O + P + S)
Riddle: A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
Answer: Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Riddle: There are 30 cows in a field. 28 chickens. How many didn’t?
Answer: 10! (20 ATE chickens)
Riddle: Uncle Bill’s farm had a really bad storm, and all but seven sheep died. How many sheep were left?
Answer: Seven sheep
Riddle: I add six to eleven and get five—how can this be correct?
Answer: When it is 11 a.m., adding six hours makes it 5 p.m.
Riddle: When Jack was 8, his brother was half his age; now, Jack is 14; how old is his brother?
Answer: His brother is 10.
Riddle: Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: Neither, because they both weigh a ton.
Riddle: Two moms and two daughters are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car—how is that possible?
Answer: They are a grandma, mom, and daughter.
Riddle: You place a skirt around my bottom once I’ve been chopped. On the other end, a star or angel is how I get topped. What am I?
Answer: A Christmas tree!
Riddle: Which one of Santa’s reindeer is the fastest?
Answer: Dasher.
Riddle: The person who makes it, has no need for it; whoever buys it won’t use it; who uses it, never saw it—what am I?
Answer: A casket.
Riddle: How do you spell candy in 2 letters?
Answer: “C” and “Y.”
Riddle: What kind of beans won’t grow in your garden, but you can find them on Easter?
Answer: Jelly beans.
Riddle: What kind of bunny is cute and brown but can’t hop?
Answer: A chocolate bunny.

Riddle: I’m a word that becomes shorter when you add two letters to it. What am I?
Answer: Short!
Riddle: I’m something that everyone receives but nobody keeps. What am I?
Answer: A year!
Riddle: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for much longer than a minute. What am I?
Answer: Breath!
Riddle: I have a neck, but no head. What am I?
Answer: A bottle!
Riddle: I’m full of holes, but I can still hold water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge!
Riddle: I’m something you can catch but not throw. What am I?
Answer: A cold!
Riddle: I have a tail and a head but no body. What am I?
Answer: A coin!
Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle!
Riddle: I have a heart that doesn’t beat. What am I?
Answer: An artichoke!
Riddle: I’m not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire!
Riddle: I’m not man’s best friend, I’m their enemy, I can mark your end, yet you do not see me.
Answer: A Virus
Riddle: I never ask questions but I need an answer.
Answer: A cell phone
Riddle: Poor people have me. Rich people need me. If you eat me, you die.
Answer: nothing
Riddle: I live in a green house. Inside of me is a white house. Inside of the white house is a red house. Inside of the red house there are lots of babies. What am I?
Answer: Watermelon
Riddle: I’m contain every single letter, but I only have three syllables.
Answer: The alphabet (the word)
Riddle: I can break even though you can never touch me or pick me up.
Answer: A promise
Riddle: I’m red or green and grow on a vine. I’m dried to make raisins and squeezed to make wine. What am I?
Answer: Grapes.
Riddle: When things go wrong, you can always count on me
Answer: Fingers
Riddle: I have a head, a tail, and I’m brown, but I have no legs?
Answer: A penny.
Riddle: I have legs but cannot walk.
Answer: A chair
Funny Riddles

Riddle: What word has 26 letters but only three syllables?
Answer: Alphabet.
Riddle: Which weighs more: a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers?
Answer: They both weight a pound.
Riddle: I am an odd number, but if you take away a letter I am even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven.
Riddle: Where is the ocean the deepest?
Answer: On the bottom.
Riddle: Grandpa went for a walk in the rain with no umbrella but his hair didn’t get wet. How is that possible?
Answer: Grandpa is bald.
Riddle: I am always in front of you and never behind you. What am I?
Answer: The future.
Riddle: What starts with P, ends with E, and has over a thousand letters in it?
Answer: The post office.
Riddle: What do you find at the end of the rainbow?
Answer: The letter W.
Riddle: What has a tongue but cannot talk?
Answer: A shoe.
Riddle: I can run even though I have no legs. What am I?
Answer: Your nose.
Riddle: I have two equal opposite parallel sides but I am not a rectangle. What shape am I?
Answer: I am Parallelogram.
Riddle: I am a mathematical term and remain constant. I am also a sweet dessert that you love. I am related to a circle and have a day dedicated to celebrate me. What am I?
Answer: π pi.
Riddle: I am an odd number. Take an alphabet away from me and I become even. Which number am I?
Answer: Seven. Take off ‘s’ from seven and it becomes ‘even’!
Riddle: A grandmother, two mothers, and two daughters went to eat ice-cream. How many ice-creams did they buy in total?
Answer: Three- grandmother is also a mother & mother is also a daughter.
Riddle: There are 4 cupcakes and you take away 3. How many are you left with?
Answer: Three!
Riddle: Guess the number! Multiply this number with any other number, the product will always be the same.
Answer: Zero
Riddle: What weighs more? A pound of iron or a pound of feathers?
Answer: Both weigh the same – one pound!
Riddle: When I was 6 years old, my little sister, Anaya, was half my age. If I am 40 years old today, how old is
Answer: 37
Riddle: What can you put between 5 and 6 so that the result is greater than a 5, but less than a 6?
Answer: A decimal. 5.6 is greater than 5 and less than 6
Riddle: When Ben was 8, his brother was half his age. Now, Ben is 14. How old is his brother?
Answer: His brother is 10. Half of 8 is 4, so Ben’s brother is 4 years younger. This means when Ben is 14, his brother is still 4 years younger, so he’s 10.

Riddle: David’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and…?
Answer: David.
Riddle: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue.
Riddle: If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?
Answer: One cup of sugar.
Riddle: In a bus, there is a 26-year-old pregnant lady, a 30-year-old policeman, a 52-year-old random woman, and the driver who is 65 years old. Who is the youngest?
Answer: The baby of the pregnant lady.
Riddle: What has thirteen hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.
Riddle: A boy and an engineer were fishing. The boy is the son of the engineer but the engineer is the father of the boy. Then who is the engineer?
Answer: The engineer is the boy’s mother.
Riddle: A man started to town with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn. He came to a stream which he had to cross in a tiny boat. He could only take one across at a time. He could not leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How did he get them all safely over the stream?
Answer: He took the goose over first and came back. Then, he took the fox across and brought the goose back. Next, he took the corn over. He came back alone and took the goose.
Riddle: If a red house is made of red bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?
Answer: Glass.
Riddle: How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Answer: Concrete floors are very hard to crack.
Riddle: A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said “Parrot repeats everything it hears.” A young man bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it but it didn’t say a word. He tried to return the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied. How can this be? (Hint: it’s a trick question!)
Answer: The parrot was deaf!
Riddle: What rock group has four men that don’t sing?
Answer: Mount Rushmore.
Riddle: What is a 3 letter word that starts with gas?
Answer: Car
Riddle: What has a tongue but never says a word.
Answer: A shoe
Riddle: Which element is not on the periodic table?
Answer: The element of surprise!
Riddle: If Apple made a car, what would be missing?
Answer: Windows.
Riddle: You get me when you park in a place off limits. I live in a swamp. I’m the one who ribbits.
Answer: Toad/towed
Riddle: Lose me once i’ll come back stronger, lose me twice i’ll leave forever, what am I?
Answer: A tooth
Riddle: A man is alone in his house washing dishes. When he looks down, there are more glasses in the sink than there were before. How?
Answer: He dropped his spectacles in the sink.
Riddle: A man shot two arrows at its center and missed both times, but using a sword swung once at its center and hit it twice. What did he shoot at?
Answer: A donut
Riddle: I have 6 faces, but i don’t wear makeup. I have 21 eyes, but i can’t see. What am I?
Answer: A dice
Fun Riddles

Riddle: What did a small nail tell the magnet?
Answer: You are attractive
Riddle: What did the sculpture say to his girlfriend?
Answer: I love you with all of my art
Riddle: What do snakes give each other when they say goodbye?
Answer: A little hiss on the cheek
Riddle: Why did the banker break up with his girlfriend?
Answer: He was losing interest
Riddle: Why did the notebook marry the pencil?
Answer: She finally found Mr. Write
Riddle: Why should you avoid falling in love with a pastry chef?
Answer: They’ll only dessert you
Riddle: What did one light bulb say to the other light bulb?
Answer: I love you a whole watt
Riddle: What do you call two young married spiders?
Answer: Newly webs
Riddle: Why did the girl ask her boyfriend for a map?
Answer: Because she got lost in his eyes
Riddle: What did the left eyebrow say to the right?
Answer: You look surprised to see me
Riddle: What type of music do rabbits listen to?
Answer: Hip hop!
Riddle: During what month do people sleep the least?
Answer: February. It’s the shortest month!
Riddle: What is on the ground and also a hundred feet in the air?
Answer: A centipede on its back!
Riddle: I have a neck but no head, and I wear a cap. What am I?
Answer: A bottle.
Riddle: Why is someone who borrows money but does not pay it all back like a football agent?
Answer: Because sometimes he gives you a quarter back and sometimes a half back.
Riddle: What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A Mushroom
Riddle: What fruit can you never cheer up?
Answer: A blueberry.
Riddle: Why is England the wettest country?
Answer: Because the queen has reigned there for years!
Riddle: Mr. Blue lives in the blue house. Mr. Yellow lives in the yellow house. Mr. Black lives in the black house. Who lives in the white house?
Answer: The president!
Riddle: What can make the octopus laugh?
Answer: Ten tickles (tentacles)!
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