- Question: What has keys but can’t open locks?
- Answer: A piano.
- Question: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
- Answer: A penny.
- Question: What gets wetter as it dries?
- Answer: A towel.
- Question: What has a neck but no head?
- Answer: A bottle.
- Question: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
- Answer: A computer keyboard.
- Question: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
- Answer: A stamp.
- Question: What has a mouth but never speaks, runs but never walks, and has a bed but never sleeps?
- Answer: A river.
- Question: What has hands but can’t clap?
- Answer: A clock.
- Question: What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
- Answer: A map.
- Question: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
- Answer: An echo.
- Question: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?
- Answer: A glove.
- Question: What has one eye but can’t see?
- Answer: A needle.
- Question: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
- Answer: Footsteps.
- Question: What is full of holes but still holds water?
- Answer: A sponge.
- Question: What can you catch but not throw?
- Answer: A cold.
- Question: What has keys that open no locks, with space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
- Answer: A keyboard.
- Question: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
- Answer: The letter ‘m’.
- Question: What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
- Answer: An artichoke.
- Question: What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
- Answer: Your name.
- Question: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
- Answer: The future.
- What has keys but can’t open locks?
- What travels around the world but stays in one corner?
- What has a face and two hands but no body?
- What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
- What has a neck but no head?
- What is full of holes but still holds water?
- What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
- What has a head and a tail but no body?
- What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
- What has a bottom at the top?
- What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
- What can you catch but not throw?
- What gets wetter as it dries?
- What has a bed but never sleeps?
- What has a face but can’t smile?
- What is always hungry but never thirsty?
- What has a head and a tail but no body?
- What has an eye but can’t see?
- What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
- What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Another General riddles
- What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
- What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
- What has a head, a tail, but no body?
- What has keys but can’t open any locks?
- What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?
- What can you hold in your right hand but not in your left hand?
- What has many letters but can’t be read?
- What goes up but never comes down?
- What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
- What can be cracked, made, told, and played but never stopped?
- What has a neck but no head?
- What is full of holes but still holds water?
- What has a head and a tail but no body?
- What can be seen once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
- What starts with an ‘e’, ends with an ‘e’, but only contains one letter?
- What has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and allows you to enter but not go in?
- What comes down but never goes up?
- What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
- What can you break without touching it?
- What has a head and a tail but no body?
- What has keys but can’t open locks?
- What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
- What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
- What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
- What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
- What is full of holes but still holds water?
- What has a neck but no head?
- What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
- What can you catch but not throw?
- What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do?
- What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
- What has a bottom at the top?
- What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?
- What has keys but can’t open any doors?
- What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t”, and ends in “t”?
- What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
- What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
- What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
- What can you hold without touching it at all?
- What is always in bed but never sleeps?
Getting over with General riddles
- What has keys but can’t open locks?
- What is full of holes but still holds water?
- What has hands but cannot clap?
- What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
- What has a bed but never sleeps?
- What gets wetter as it dries?
- What belongs to you but is used more by others?
- What has many keys but can’t open any locks?
- What has eyes but cannot see?
- What has a mouth but never speaks?
- What is always coming but never arrives?
- What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
- What runs around the house but doesn’t move?
- What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
- What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
- What has a neck but no head?
- What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
- What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
- What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
- What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?
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