• Question: What has a golden crown but doesn’t rule a kingdom?
• Answer: The sun.
• Question: What gets hotter as it cools?
• Answer: Chili peppers.
• Question: I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
• Answer: A candle.
• Question: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
• Answer: A stamp.
• Question: What flies without wings?
• Answer: Heat.
• Question: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
• Answer: Silence.
• Question: What becomes white when it’s dirty?
• Answer: Snow.
• Question: I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
• Answer: A map.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks?
• Answer: A piano.
• Question: What can you catch but never throw?
• Answer: A cold.
• Question: What has a heart but no other organs?
• Answer: Artichoke.
• Question: What has a bed but never sleeps?
• Answer: A river.
• Question: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps?
• Answer: A river.
• Question: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
• Answer: The letter ‘m’.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks?
• Answer: A keyboard.
• Question: I have a head, a tail, but no body. What am I?
• Answer: A coin.
• Question: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
• Answer: A piano.
• Question: What has to be broken before you can use it?
• Answer: An egg.
• Question: What has one eye but can’t see?
• Answer: A needle.
• Question: What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
• Answer: A map.

• Question: What can be cracked, made, told, and can even be played?
• Answer: A joke.
• Question: I’m full of holes, yet I can hold water. What am I?
• Answer: A sponge.
• Question: What gets bigger when more is taken away?
• Answer: A hole.
• Question: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
• Answer: The future.
• Question: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
• Answer: A stamp.
• Question: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
• Answer: Silence.
• Question: What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
• Answer: A teapot.
• Question: What is always hungry, must be fed, but never eats?
• Answer: A fire.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks?
• Answer: A piano.
• Question: What can you catch but never throw?
• Answer: A cold.
• 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 hands but cannot clap?
• Answer: A clock.
• Question: What has wings but can’t fly?
• Answer: A plane.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks?
• Answer: A keyboard.
• Question: What has one eye but cannot see?
• Answer: A needle.
• Question: What has a neck but no head?
• Answer: A bottle.
• Question: What is as light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold it for long?
• Answer: Breath.
• Question: What comes down but never goes up?
• Answer: Rain.
• Question: What has a foot but no legs?
• Answer: A ruler.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open a single lock?
• Answer: A piano.

Another Hot riddles

• Question: What starts with a “c” and ends with a “t” and is hot and spicy?
• Answer: A chili pepper.
• Question: What can be cracked but never broken?
• Answer: A smile.
• Question: What can be as cold as ice but still make you sweat?
• Answer: Fear.
• Question: What can burn you when it’s alive and freeze you when it’s dead?
• Answer: A fever.
• Question: What can be found in a room but never seen?
• Answer: Heat.
• Question: What can be felt but never held?
• Answer: Emotions.
• Question: What can melt the coldest heart?
• Answer: Love.
• Question: What can be sharp or dull, yet still slice through the air?
• Answer: A blade.
• Question: What can create steam without water?
• Answer: Pressure.
• Question: What can be white, yellow, or red, and always leaves a trail of heat?
• Answer: Fire.
• Question: What can be as bright as the sun but never burns?
• Answer: Light.
• Question: What can make you shiver in the summer and sweat in the winter?
• Answer: A fever.
• Question: What can be poured but never drunk?
• Answer: Lava.
• Question: What can be invisible but still scorch your skin?
• Answer: Ultraviolet radiation.
• Question: What can be a source of warmth and a symbol of anger?
• Answer: Fire.
• Question: What can make metal soft but turns flesh into stone?
• Answer: Heat.
• Question: What can turn sand into glass but can’t be held?
• Answer: Fire.
• Question: What can be as gentle as a breeze or as destructive as a hurricane?
• Answer: Wind.
• Question: What can make you sweat when it’s hot and shiver when it’s cold?
• Answer: Temperature.
• Question: What can burn bright but leave no trace?
• Answer: Gas flame.

• Question: What can be as small as a pinprick but as hot as the sun?
• Answer: A laser beam.
• Question: What can make metal bend and rubber melt?
• Answer: Intense heat.
• Question: What can turn solid rock into molten lava?
• Answer: Volcanic activity.
• Question: What can be a beacon of hope in the darkness but also a destructive force?
• Answer: Fire.
• Question: What can make water bubble and boil?
• Answer: Boiling point.
• Question: What can turn sand into glass with just a touch?
• Answer: Furnace heat.
• Question: What can be harnessed to cook food and generate electricity?
• Answer: Thermal energy.
• Question: What can cause a mirage to appear in the desert?
• Answer: Heatwaves.
• Question: What can be a welcome sight in winter but a nuisance in summer?
• Answer: Central heating.
• Question: What can make ice cream melt but chocolate soften?
• Answer: Room temperature.
• Question: What can create a cozy atmosphere in a fireplace?
• Answer: Burning logs.
• Question: What can turn a frozen lake into a swimming pool?
• Answer: Sun’s rays.
• Question: What can be a danger to electronics but a necessity for cooking?
• Answer: Heat.
• Question: What can turn a candle into a puddle of wax?
• Answer: Continuous flame.
• Question: What can be the source of warmth in a hug but the cause of burns in an accident?
• Answer: Body heat.
• Question: What can be a synonym for passion but also for anger?
• Answer: Heat.
• Question: What can make metal expand and contracts?
• Answer: Temperature changes.
• Question: What can be a measure of intensity in spicy food?
• Answer: Scoville units.
• Question: What can create steam when it meets water?
• Answer: Boiling hotplate.
• Question: What can make a pot boil but a kettle sing?
• Answer: Stove heat.

Getting over with Hot riddles

• Question: What can be as relentless as the desert sun but as soothing as a warm bath?
• Answer: Heatwave.
• Question: What can make metal glow red and wood turn to ash?
• Answer: Intense heat.
• Question: What can turn ice into water and water into vapor?
• Answer: Heat energy.
• Question: What can be as intense as a thousand suns but invisible to the naked eye?
• Answer: Infrared radiation.
• Question: What can be the fuel for a roaring fire but also a symbol of anger?
• Answer: Firewood.
• Question: What can cause metal to expand and bridges to buckle?
• Answer: Extreme heat.
• Question: What can create a shimmering haze over hot asphalt?
• Answer: Heat distortion.
• Question: What can make a frying pan sizzle and a kettle whistle?
• Answer: Boiling water.
• Question: What can be the difference between a lukewarm bath and a scalding shower?
• Answer: Temperature control.
• Question: What can be a lifeline in the winter but a hazard in the summer?
• Answer: Heating system.
• Question: What can turn sand into glass and clay into pottery?
• Answer: Kiln heat.
• Question: What can create sparks in a forge and molten metal for casting?
• Answer: Foundry furnace.
• Question: What can be the warmth of a campfire and the radiance of a bonfire?
• Answer: Flames.
• Question: What can be the reason for sunburns and the cure for a cold?
• Answer: Heat therapy.
• Question: What can be the force behind geysers and the energy in a steam engine?
• Answer: Geothermal heat.
• Question: What can be as fierce as a dragon’s breath but as gentle as a summer breeze?
• Answer: Heatwave.
• Question: What can be the secret ingredient in a spicy dish and the source of tears?
• Answer: Chili pepper.
• Question: What can make glass shatter and metal malleable?
• Answer: Heat treatment.
• Question: What can be as intense as the fires of hell but as fleeting as a shooting star?
• Answer: Inferno.