About This Quiz
Riddles are fun, challenging and usually make you laugh or groan. So put on your thinking cap and see how many of these clever queries you can get through. If you're someone who likes a play on words, a pun, or just something silly, you'll want to spend time guessing the correct answer on every riddle. Go on, memorize a few these and make your friends moan and groan with your relish for riddles.ÂÂ
We will give you a few tips along the way, like thinking about the keyword in the riddle and figuring out the answer by using its alternate meaning. Take for instance, "What are two things you cannot have for breakfast?" So the keyword is breakfast. Instead of thinking of breakfast foods, think of breakfast in another way, such as the first meal of the day. So, if it's the first meal of the day, the two things you cannot have for breakfast are... lunch and dinner!ÂÂ
See how it works? Enjoy the brain tease and enjoy how language and logic can make you laugh out loud. Here's your starter riddle: what begins with a Q and ends with a laugh? The answer: this quiz! Your silly riddles await. ÂÂ
In this day of cell phones, nobody needs clocks anymore, so this one may have been a bit hard for some of you.
Ah, so clever. If you want to make this quiz more challenging, try not to look at the choices and make a guess.
It's a riddle that makes you laugh when you figure it out! Oh, you had to be clever to get this one, since the "one letter" was something you mail.
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If you hesitated in choosing an answer, let us explain. Generally, we don't refer to a faucet as having a neck, but we do refer to bottles as having a neck. In fact, we call a traffic jam a "bottleneck."
Find a month on the calendar that DOESN'T have the 28th on it. All of them do! Always look for the tricks in these riddles.
If you spell each word backward you'll note that "edam" is the word "made". Here's a riddle tip: always look for a word that could mean two things.
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In most cultures, people bury those who have died. In this case, it's a funny way to convey the batteries are dead. Cute AND clever.
Although T (tea) and P (pee) contain water, the MOST water is found at C (sea). Silly, yet smart!
Since a single page can't have thousands of letters on it, the only correct answer is a post office as it's the only one that picks up and delivers thousands of letters a day.
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Although it's nicer if shoes are broken in before they are used, that's not the correct answer. In this case, only eggs need to be broken, in order to consume them.
In this riddle the "T" inside it, is referring to "tea." So the correct answer is "teapot." Remember to look for those plays on words.
If you're bald, you don't have hair to get wet. When it comes to riddles, you know a long explanation isn't the answer. Look for the shortest and simplest one.
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Another clever one. The only time Friday would come before Thursday is when there is an alphabetical listing, like in a dictionary, for example.
It's not magic, it's gravity. When Bobby throws the ball in the air it comes back to earth due to gravity. Gotcha!
Since it's Tracy's father, the name of the fifth daughter is Tracy. With many of these riddles you need to hear similar ones before you figure out how the question hides the answer.
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This might have taken some time to figure out as the answer is a word not an object that is breakable. But the answer is oh so clever, one has to forgive the misdirection.
Yep, we told you there would be moans and groans in this quiz. Although the answer could be "entree" and "shoetree," the best answer that will get you the biggest groan is "palm."
Remember to look for the trick in the question. In this case, it's an electric train, so there's no direction to choose because there is no smoke.
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Oh sure, there are answers like "hot air" and "the date" however, "your age" is the most obvious, and that's what riddles are all about.
This riddle used color as a distraction to make it harder to get the right answer. Forget about colors. Throw a rock into any body of water and it will become wet.
An open door and a window (without curtains) let you see from one room to another, or from inside to outside. What a clever invention!
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Did you need to re-read the question? It's amazing how our minds make assumptions and imagine a mango tree when it's a coconut tree is what the riddle referenced.
Another trick question. All the words in the dictionary are spelled correctly. Even incorrectly is correctly spelled.
All of these are funny answers, but the one that makes the most sense and is the best play on words is "because they are already stuffed."
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It's normal to have fingers on both hands, not just on one! The other answers were good, but "normal" is the best answer.
It's a play on words, of course. You need to connect a ship's deck with a deck of cards to be able to guess the correct answer.
When someone is caught for a crime such as stealing, they sometimes get a jail sentence, meaning time in prison. So the best answer uses a description of a calendar (12 months) to also provide the sentence for the crime.
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Any answer that plays off the characteristics of a moon and a restaurant will fit this riddle. Enjoy them all!
By changing the word "role," which refers to a role in a movie, to "roll" which refers to a hot dog bun, all the answers are a good fit for this riddle. Go with your favorite.
Although you shouldn't eat any of the first three answers for breakfast, you simply can't have lunch or dinner because you're having breakfast. Plus, it's most humorous answer of the bunch!
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All of these answers make sense but we think the cleverest one is cupcake. But the choice is yours!
The wittiest answer is a coin. The riddle misdirected your thinking so that a type of animal might come to mind.
Did we have you going there? It's all about misdirection to make you see how clever the riddle actually is. The President is the person who lives in the White House.
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They both weigh a pound as the riddle states. So they weigh the same, but there are a lot more feathers in one pound than bricks in one pound!
This riddle's key word is "rode." It might have led you to thinking about the horse, and then again, maybe it didn't. Either way, we hope you got a laugh.