20 Easy Riddles with Answers

1] What has to be broken before you can use it?

2] What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?

3] If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?

4] You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make the line longer?

5] They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

6] What gets wetter as it dries?

7] What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

8] How many letters are there in the English alphabet?

9] How many letters are there in the alphabet?

10] Bobby throws a ball as hard as he can. It comes back to him, even though nothing and nobody touches it. How?

11] It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?

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

13] How many months of the year have 28 days?

14] What has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile?

15] Kate’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle and ___?

16] I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?

17] I can fill a room, but I take up no space. What am I?

18] If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?

19] What goes away as soon as you talk about it?

20] What can jump higher than a building?

Answers:

1] An egg

2] The letter M

3] There is no smoke; it is an electric train!

4] You draw a shorter line next to it, and then it becomes the longer line.

5] Stars

6] A towel

7] Short

8] There are 18: 3 in the, 7 in English, and 8 in alphabet.

9] Eleven – T-h-e A-l-p-h-a-b-e-t

10] He throws it straight up.

11] Your name.

12] A promise.

13] All of them! Every month has *at least* 28 days.

14] A clock.

15] Kate! It’s Kate’s mother, after all.

16] Popcorn.

17] Light.

18] A secret.

19] Silence.

20] Anything that can jump — buildings don’t jump.