Easy Riddles

Divide 20 by half and add 30, what do you get?

There are 12 kids in a classroom. 6 kids are wearing socks and 4 are wearing shoes. 3 kids are wearing both. How many are bare feet?

What 3 positive numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?

How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?

If the day before yesterday is the 23rd, then what is the day after tomorrow.

What is taken before you can get it?

Five men were eating apples, A finished before B, but behind C. D finished before E, but behind B.
What was the finishing order?

Bobby likes Jimmy but not Joe, apples but not pears, jeeps but not vans, shinny but not hockey, tennis but not squash. Who will he like, Sara or Sally?

There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. How many ducks are there?

Once upon a time there were seven dwarfs who were all brothers. They were all born two years apart. The youngest dwarf is seven years old. How old is his oldest brother?

There is a man in a 4 story building. He jumps out of the window and is unharmed. He used no padding, and had no harm done. How?

A girl was ten on her last birthday, and will be twelve on her next birthday. How is this possible?

What would you father's only sister's sister-in-law be to you?

There was a plane crash and every single person died.
Who survived?

Timmy's mother has three children. The first was named April. The next was named May. What is the final one's name?

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one,
Michael J Fox has a small one,
Madonna doesn't have one,
The pope has one but he never uses it,
Bill Clinton has one and he uses it all the time!
What is it?

You can tumble in it,
Roll in it, Burn it,
Animals eat it,
Used to cover floors,
Still used beyond stall doors.
Freshens whatever it is placed on,
Absorbs whatever is poured into it.
What is it?

The part of the bird, that is not in the sky,
Which can swim in the ocean and always stay dry.
What is it?

If I have it, I don't share it. If I share it, I don't have it.
What is it?

What is it that leaps and runs and yet, has no feet?

I live in a busy place in the city,
I'll let you stay with me for a while,
If you don't feed me, I can get you into trouble.
What am I?

I am the ruler of shovels,
I have a double,
I am as thin as a knife,
I have a wife.
What am I?

I am two-faced, but bear one head. Men spill their blood for me.
I have no legs but travel widely. I make kings immortal.
I am potent when shared; Yet lust for my power keeps me locked away.
What am I?

Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws.
Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all.
What am I?

I love to wake up at noon
And help with the many jobs
I prefer the countryside to the city
I help produce the things you eat
What am I?

I am a tale in children's minds.
I keep their secrets and share them inside.
I blur their thoughts into fantasies kept
Like a canvas of art or a submarine depth.
Though an illusion, it occurs every night;
I give them a fantasy, I give them a fright.
Nor good or bad, but always nigh'
It's interesting to tell.
What am I?

Made of ten but two we make,
When assembled others quake,
Five apart and we are weak,
Five together havoc wreak.
What are we?

I am a strange creature, Hovering in the air,
Moving from here to there, with a brilliant flare.
Some say I sing, but others say I have no voice.
So I just hum - as a matter of choice.
What am I?

I'm not the sort that's eaten, I'm not the sort you bake,
Don't put me in an oven; I don't taste that great,
But when applied correctly, around me you will find,
Problems are so simple when my digits come to mind.

What has a coat? Hugs you not in sympathy?
Whose smile you'd rather not see?
Whose stance is a terrible thing to see?
Who is it that brave men run away from?
Whose fingers are clawed?
Whose sleep lasts for months?
And who's company we shunt?

I cannot be felt, seen or touched;
Yet I can be found in everybody;
My existence is always in debate;
Yet there is a style of music named after me.

I have seven letters and am something you eat. My only anagram can help your pain. If you remove my first 2 letters I wear things down. Removing my first 3 letters is an adjective and removing my first 4 letters leaves a measure of time. What am I?

This on this.
That on that.
Growing tall,
But never fat.
What am I?

A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man.

What is red and smells like blue paint?

I am a seed, three letters in the name,
Take away two and I sound quite the same.
What am I?

Always well dressed, but I never fly.
Black and white, sometimes in a tie.
I swim and slide, and dance and glide,
With one person by my side.
What am I?

One simple click, one simple flash.
Preserving a memory, for years I will last.
What am I?

I stare at you, you stare at me.
I have three eyes, yet can't see.
Every time I blink, I give you commands.
You do as you are told, with your feet and hands.
What am I?

What is so delicate that even mentioning it breaks it?

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

A red house is made out of red bricks.
A blue house is made out of blue bricks.
What is a green house made out of?

When you do not know what I am, then I am something. But when you know what I am, then I am nothing. What am I?

What fastens two people yet touches only one?

Which popular cheese is made backwards?

What goes up and down without moving?

What kind of room has no doors or windows?

What kind of room doesn't have physical walls?

What type of house weighs the least?

What starts with a P, ends with an E and has a million letters in it?

I cannot hear or even see,
But sense light and sounds there may be,
Sometimes I end up on a hook,
I can be combined with a book.
What am I?

What has a head yet it never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps, can run but can not walks, and has a bank but not a cent to its name?

What lies in bed, and stands in bed? First white then red. The plumper it gets the better the old women like it?

What ship has no captain but two mates?

What starts with an "e" but only has a single letter in it?

What building has the most stories?

I have eight to spare and am covered with hair.

Which side of a cat has the most fur?

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

What always goes to bed with its shoes on?

What kind of cup doesn't hold water?

In spring I look gay, Covered in a green array, The warmer it gets the more clothing I wear, As the cold grows, I throw away my clothes.

I defend without weapons, stand without legs, wound without force, and I am harder to fight than to kill. What am I?

What can't you see, hear or feel, until it's too late.
What shadows love, and shopkeepers hate?

Though I should be unique, you've made most of us the same. I would be stronger, if my characters were stranger.

If you have me, you want to tell me.
If you tell me, you don't have me.

A blue house has blue bricks; a yellow house has a yellow bricks. What is a green house made of?

I love to dance and twist and prance,
I shake my tail, as away I sail,
wingless I fly into the sky.
What am I?

Although I'm far from the point, I'm not a mistake. I fix yours. What am I?

I have four legs, a back, but no head. What am I?

Everyone has me but nobody can lose me.
What am I?

What has 4 fingers and a thumb, but is not living?

What is all over a house?

What has 4 eyes but can't see?

What starts with the letter T, is filled with T and ends in T?

I am the first you ever saw, what greets you every morning and what goes out in the end.

Even if you throw it away, it still comes back.

A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.

I have a pet, his body is full of coins.

What has one eye but cannot see?

Tear one off and scratch my head, what once was red is black instead!

Never ahead, ever behind, yet flying swiftly past;
For a child I last forever, for adults I'm gone too fast.

I can be long, or I can be short.
I can be grown, and I can be bought.
I can be painted, or left bare.
I can be round, or square.
What am I?

I warn you about meetings, and I assist you in your life, I can help you do most of your work, unless I have a bug. What am I?

Without a bridle, or a saddle, across a thing I ride a-straddle. And those I ride, by help of me, though almost blind, are made to see. What am I?

I have joy in bringing two together, but darning my existence!
My life hangs by a thread, filled with ups, downs and resistance!

In your fire you hear me scream! Creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.

Take away my first letter and I remain the same. Take away my last letter and I remain unchanged. Remove all my letters and I'm still me. What am I?

Forwards I am heavy, but backwards I am not.
What am I?

When I point up it's bright, but when I point down it's dark. What am I?

I'm where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?

What seven-letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?

What heavy seven letter word can you take two away from and be left with eight?

He's small but he can climb a tower.

What time is spelled the same forwards and backwards?

What is something you will never see again?

What five-letter word, no matter how you pronounce it, is always pronounced wrong?

What's that 7 letter word with thousands of letters in it?

I can be as thin as a picture frame but my insides have many things you can see.

What type of dress can never be worn?