Short Riddles

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

When I take five and add six, I get eleven, but when I take six and add seven, I get one. What am I?

A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

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?

Can you guess the next letter in the series? "CYGTNLIT"

Two people are born at the same moment, but they don't have the same birthdays. How could this be?

What animal has no wings, but yet will fly?

Which bird does not belong in this group? Finch, gull, eagle, ostrich, or sparrow?

What is neither inside the house nor outside the house but a necessity for any home?

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

If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?

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?

MT_TF_S What are the missing letters? Why?

It's got twists and turns, but has no curves.
Twist it to fix it, turn it to ruin it.
What is it?

The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind. What is it?

Thousands of these come together to make a digital image. What is it?

Round as an apple, deep as a cup, and all the kings' horses can't fill it up. What is it?

Round like a dishpan and smaller than a bathtub. But the ocean can't fill it.
What is it?

What is it that makes tears without sorrow and takes its journey to heaven?

What is it something that you always have but you always leave behind?

Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, but even a river can't fill it up. What is it?

A hill full, a hole full; yet you cannot catch a bowl full. 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 am used to bat with, yet I never get a hit. I am near a ball, yet it is never thrown. What am I?

If you eat me, my sender will eat you.
What am I?

I'm lighter than air but a million men can't lift me. What am I?

I have a mouth on my head and eat everything. What am I?

I only have one entrance, but you can come out with three exits.
What am I?

I build up castles. I tear down mountains.
I make some men blind, I help others to see.
What am I?

I have no life, but I can die.
What am I?

I go around all the places; cities, towns and villages, but never come inside. What am I?

I am not alive but I grow. I don't have lungs but I need air. What am i?

I have no brain but am still smarter than the average human.
What am I?

Two bodies with ribs, exposed. What am I?

Sometimes I am light, sometimes I am dark. What am I?

Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me when I have flown. What am I?

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?

A long snake that smokes. What am I?

It is sharp but not pepper; white but not paper; green but not shaddock. What am I?

I never ask questions, but I am always answered. What am I?

People buy me to eat, but never eat me.
What am I?

I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old.
What am I?

Poorly behaved children often find themselves sitting in these.

I am nothing but holes tied to holes, yet am strong as iron.

A tree with 5 branches, no leaves and no fruits.

What can be swallowed, but can swallow you?

What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed and thought delicious?

What kinds of men are always above board?

Just head and foot yet never tires of dancing.

Although my cow is dead, I still beat her. What a racket she makes!

What is never used unless it's in a tight place?

It is hate and has hate in it, but it isn't hate.

Steals an event or even a mood. Reveals the truth or shatters it.

What can you throw but not catch?

What goes through a door but never goes in and never comes out?

Today he is there to trip you up and he will torture you tomorrow.

Not a priest, not a king but wears different kinds of clothes.

Who is it that rows quickly with four oars but never comes out under his own roof?

I have a thousand wheels, but move I do not. Call me what I am, call me a lot.

When is 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same thing?

The stack just might be sent all over. Full of what's new, yet it's nearly obsolete.

What is given but kept by the giver?

You can have it, and be at it,
But it never lasts forever.

When they are caught, they are thrown away.
When they escape, you itch all day.

What is lengthened by being cut at both ends?

A fruit on a tree. A tree on a fruit.

What gets broken without being hold?

It produces a flower but it is not its fruit; it produces branches which are its fruit.

We chop its feet; we drink its blood.

What has feet and legs and nothing else?

I wear a red coat and have a stone in my throat. What am I?

What can be right but never wrong?

What goes in the water red, and comes out black?

You'll have me at night and if you remove the first letter I denote the top, such as on a train.

You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?

Blend a teapot shot so the pearlies won't rot!

I grow for a surface, even if you cut me. I continue to grow even after death.

What do people want the least on their hands?

I have no wings but I fly, I have no teeth but I bite. What am I?

What can an elephant and a shrimp both be?

What has 3 feet but cannot walk?

What is red and nailed to a wall?

From that which comes within itself,
It builds its table on my shelf.

Three little letters, a paradox to some.
The worse that it is, the better it becomes.

Useful tool for who in darkness dwell.
Within you, corrupting like a deadly spell.

The more you take from me, the bigger I get. What am I?

What demands an answer, but asks no question?

What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

When it was young, it had a tail. When it grew up, it had knees.

What has ten letters and starts with gas?

What makes a loud noise when changing its jacket, becomes larger but weighs less?

Which bow can't be tied?

What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?

What is red and smells like blue paint?

What loses its head every morning only to get it back every night?