• Question: What has words but cannot speak?
• Answer: A book.
• Question: What starts with an ‘e’, ends with an ‘e’, and contains only one letter?
• Answer: An envelope.
• Question: I’m filled with stories but have no words. What am I?
• Answer: An empty notebook.
• Question: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
• Answer: Silence.
• Question: What travels around the world while staying in a corner?
• Answer: A stamp.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks?
• Answer: A piano.
• Question: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
• Answer: An echo.
• Question: What belongs to you but is used more by others?
• Answer: Your name.
• Question: What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
• Answer: Trouble.
• Question: What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
• Answer: A map.
• Question: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
• Answer: The letter ‘m’.
• Question: What goes up but never comes down?
• Answer: Your age.
• Question: What can you catch but not throw?
• Answer: A cold.
• Question: What has a neck but no head?
• Answer: A bottle.
• Question: What can be read without seeing?
• Answer: Braille.
• Question: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
• Answer: A keyboard.
• Question: What has to be broken before you can use it?
• Answer: An egg.
• Question: What has hands but cannot clap?
• Answer: A clock.
• Question: What runs but never walks, murmurs but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps?
• Answer: A river.
• Question: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
• Answer: A clock.

• What has keys but can’t open locks, and helps you discover lands without walking blocks?
  A book.
• I’m a story that’s never told the same way twice. What am I?
  An oral tradition.
• What is full of holes but can still hold a lot of knowledge?
  A sieve of information.
• What is a word that begins with the letter “E,” but only has one letter in it?
  An envelope.
• What starts with “e,” ends with “e,” and contains only one letter?
  An envelope.
• What has many chapters, but no words?
  A blank notebook.
• I can be flipped and rolled, but never peeled. What am I?
  A page.
• I have keys that unlock your imagination. What am I?
  A library.
• What has a spine but cannot move?
  A book.
• What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
  A penny.
• I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for much longer than a minute. What am I?
  A breath.
• I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the power of words. What am I?
  A book on tape.
• What invention lets you look right through a wall?
  A window.
• I have keys but no locks. What am I?
  A keyboard.
• I’m always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
  A matchstick.
• I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
  A piano.
• I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What am I?
  The word “few.”
• What gets wetter as it dries?
  A towel.
• I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
  A fire.
• I’m not alive, but I can die if you put me in water. What am I?
  A fire.

Another Literacy riddles

• I have a spine but no bones, and I’m full of tales. What am I?
  A book.
• I’m a vessel of knowledge with many leaves but no roots. What am I?
  A book.
• What has pages but can’t be read?
  A closed book.
• I’m a treasure trove of words, yet I weigh nothing. What am I?
  A dictionary.
• What has a cover but no lock, and you can dive into its depths without getting wet?
  A book.
• I’m filled with letters but can’t be sent. What am I?
  An alphabet book.
• I have a story to tell but no mouth to speak. What am I?
  A book.
• I can be found between covers, but I’m not a bed. What am I?
  A book.
• What has characters but no actors?
  A book.
• I start with an “e,” end with an “e,” and have a single letter in me. What am I?
  An envelope.
• What belongs to you, but others use it more than you do?
  Your name.
• I’m often found in corners, but you can’t put me in one. What am I?
  A bookmark.
• What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
  A stamp.
• I have a face but no head, hands but no arms. What am I?
  A clock.
• What has keys but can’t open locks, and follows you wherever you go?
  A keyboard.
• I can be long or short, but I’m always just one word. What am I?
  A sentence.
• I’m full of holes but still hold water. What am I?
  A sponge.
• What runs around a city but never moves?
  A street.
• I’m a box without hinges, key, or lid, yet inside, golden treasures are hid. What am I?
  An egg.
• I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
  A joke.

• What is both a question and an answer, but requires no response?
  A riddle.
• What has keys but can’t open locks, and is full of stories?
  A typewriter.
• What can travel the world without moving?
  A book.
• What has many eyes but cannot see?
  A potato.
• What is full of holes but still holds water?
  A sponge.
• What begins with an “e,” ends with an “e,” and contains only one letter?
  An envelope.
• What can you hold without touching or using your hands?
  A conversation.
• What can be read without opening or turning any pages?
  A digital screen.
• What gets wetter as it dries?
  A towel.
• What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
  The future.
• What has a neck but no head?
  A bottle.
• What has keys but can’t open any locks?
  A piano.
• What has no beginning, end, or middle?
  A circle.
• What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
  Incorrectly.
• What has words but can’t speak?
  A book.
• What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t alive?
  A glove.
• What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
  A map.
• What has keys but can’t unlock anything?
  A computer keyboard.
• What has a bottom at the top?
  A leg.
• What has a head and a tail but no body?
  A coin.

Getting over with Literacy riddles

• What has pages but can’t be turned?
  A stone tablet.
• What starts with an “e,” ends with an “e,” and only contains one letter?
  An envelope.
• What has keys but can’t open doors?
  A piano.
• What is full of holes but still holds water?
  A sieve.
• What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
  A clock.
• What has a spine but doesn’t feel pain?
  A book.
• What has hands but can’t clap?
  A clock.
• What has a tail but no body?
  A comet.
• What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
  The future.
• What has a neck but no head?
  A bottle.
• What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
  A penny.
• What has words but can’t speak?
  A book.
• What has keys but can’t open locks?
  A typewriter.
• What is seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
  The letter “R.”
• What has one eye but can’t see?
  A needle.
• What has a face but no eyes, hands but no arms?
  A clock.
• What can you catch but not throw?
  A cold.
• What has legs but doesn’t walk?
  A table.
• What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
  A stamp.
• What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
  A map.