120 Everyday Lunch Box Riddles

I write riddles and put them in my daughter’s lunch box. A riddle a day is a nice way to keep your brain sharp, on its toes! 

Here are 120 riddles, with answers. 

Easy

1. What has hands but can't clap? A clock

2. What has teeth but can't bite? A comb

3. What gets wetter the more it dries? A towel

4. What has one eye but can't see? A needle

5. What has legs but can't walk? A table

6. What goes up but never comes down? Your age

7. What has a tail and a head but no body? A coin

8. What can you catch but not throw? A cold

9. What has many keys but no locks? A piano

10. What is full of holes but still holds water? A sponge

11. What runs but never walks? A river

12. What has words but never speaks? A book

13. What can travel around the world without moving? A stamp

14. What gets bigger the more you take away? A hole

15. What has a neck but no head? A bottle

16. What goes up when rain comes down? An umbrella

17. What has four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three at night? A human — baby crawls, adult walks, elderly uses a cane 

18. What is always in front of you but can't be seen? The future

19. What has a bottom at the top? Your legs

20. What can fill a room but takes up no space? Light

Medium

21. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body but come alive with wind. What am I? An echo

22. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? Footsteps

23. I have cities but no houses. I have mountains but no trees. I have water but no fish. What am I? A map

24. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps? A river

25. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? Silence

26. I have an eye in the middle but cannot see, and I form when the sky and sea meet. What am I? A hurricane

27. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it? A teapot

28. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? The letter M

29. What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left? Your left hand

30. What is black when clean and white when dirty? A chalkboard

31. What has a head and a tail but no body? A coin

32. What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary? Wrong

33. What has one head, one foot, and four legs? A bed

34. What starts with E, ends with E, and has one letter in it? An envelope

35. What building has the most stories? A library

36. What can you break without touching it? A promise

37. What is always coming but never arrives? Tomorrow

38. What goes through a door but never goes in or comes out? A keyhole

39. What has many needles but doesn't sew? A Christmas tree

40. What is cut on the table but never eaten? A deck of cards

Trickier

41. I have no doors but have keys. I have no rooms but have space. You can enter but can't go inside. What am I? A keyboard

42. What has four suits but never gets dressed? A deck of cards

43. What is yours but used more by others? Your name

44. I am 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? Fire

45. What can you hold without ever touching it? A conversation

46. What gets sharper the more you use it? Your mind

47. The person who makes it doesn't need it. The person who buys it doesn't use it. The person who uses it doesn't know it. What is it? A coffin

48.  I shrink every time I do my job. What am I? A bar of soap

49. I have no life but I can die. What am I? A battery

50. What has many rings but no fingers? A telephone

51. What can go through glass without breaking it? Light

52. What is harder to catch the faster you run? Your breath

53. The more you climb me the more you see, but I never move. What am I? A mountain 

54. What flies without wings? Time

55. The more you have of me the less you see. What am I? Darkness

56. What is always in front of you but can never be seen? The future

57. REPLACE

58. I can be cracked, made, told and played. What am I? A joke

59. What is yours but used more by others? Your name 

60. A woman shoots her husband, then holds him underwater for five minutes. An hour later they go out for dinner. How? She's a photographer. She shot his photo and developed it in a darkroom. 

Wordplay riddles

61. What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear

62. What do elves learn in school? The elf-abet

63. What do you call a sleeping bull? A bulldozer

64. What do you call a dinosaur that crashes their car? Tyrannosaurus wrecks

65. What has to be broken before you can use it? An egg

66. What do you call a man with a shovel? Doug

67. What do you call a sleeping dinosaur? A dino-snore

68. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything

69. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta

70. Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired

71. What do you call a snowman with a six-pack? An abdominal snowman

72. Why did the math book look so sad? Because it had too many problems

73. What do you call a dog magician? A labracadabrador

74. Why did the golfer bring an extra pair of pants? In case he got a hole in one

75. What do you call a factory that makes okay products? A satisfactory

76. What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop

77. What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator

78. Why did the tomato turn red? Because it saw the salad dressing

79. What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick

80. What do you call a cow with no legs? Ground beef

Nature and science riddles

81. What has a thousand needles but can't sew? A porcupine

82. What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands? A kangaroo

83. What animal can jump higher than a house? Any animal — houses can't jump

84. What is the longest word in the dictionary? Smiles — there is a mile between the first and last letter

85. What is always running but never gets tired? A refrigerator

86. What runs around a yard but doesn't move? A fence

87. What is easy to get into but hard to get out of? Trouble

88. What invention lets you look through a wall? A window

89. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand? A glove

90. What is orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot

91. What falls in winter but never gets hurt? Snow 

92. I disappear as I do my job. What am I? A candle

93. What starts cold, ends cold, but is hot in the middle? An igloo

94. I build my home without hands or tools. What am I? A bird

95. I have no mouth but I roar, no hands but I destroy. What am I? A storm

96. I am invisible but you can feel me, I have no shape but I can bend trees. What am I? Wind

97. What has feathers but isn't a bird, flies but has no wings? An arrow 

98. What season is it when you're on a trampoline? Springtime

99. What do you call a bear in the rain? A drizzly bear

100. What do you call a man with no arms and no legs hanging on a wall? Art

Brain teasers

101. A rooster lays an egg on top of a barn roof. Which way does it roll? Roosters don't lay eggs

102. How far can a dog run into the woods? Halfway — then it's running out

103. What can a whole apple do that half an apple can't? Look round

104. If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have? Four — the ones you took

105. How many months have 28 days? All of them

106. If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do you have? Two — the ones you took

107. A plane crashes on the border of Canada and the US. Where do you bury the survivors? You don't bury survivors 

108. What do you throw out when you need it and take in when you don't? An anchor

109. What can you add to a bucket of water to make it lighter? A hole

110. If a red house is made of red bricks, a blue house of blue bricks, what is a greenhouse made of? Glass

111. Two fathers and two sons go fishing. They each catch one fish. They bring home three fish. How? Grandfather, father, and son — three people

112. What do you answer even though it never asks you questions? A doorbell

113. A girl fell off a 20 foot ladder but didn't get hurt. How? She fell off the bottom rung

114. What has four wheels and flies? A garbage truck

115. What is at the end of a rainbow? The letter W

116. I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What am I? Seven — take away the S and you have even

117. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Short

118.  Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I? A ton

119. What is the next letter in the sequence: J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A? S — the first letter of each month

120. What do you call it when your parachute doesn't open? Jump to a conclusion

How many did you figure out?