• Question: I am tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I? Answer: A candle.
• Question: I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water. What am I? Answer: A map.
• Question: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? Answer: A penny.
• Question: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? Answer: Footsteps.
• Question: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? Answer: The letter “M.”
• Question: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? Answer: A stamp.
• Question: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for much longer than a minute. What am I? Answer: Breath.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks? Answer: A piano.
• Question: The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? Answer: Darkness.
• Question: What belongs to you but others use it more than you do? Answer: Your name.
• Question: What can be cracked, made, told, and played? Answer: A joke.
• Question: What has a neck but no head? Answer: A bottle.
• Question: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it? Answer: Silence.
• Question: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? Answer: A glove.
• Question: What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it? Answer: A teapot.
• 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 one eye but can’t see? Answer: A needle.
• Question: I’m full of holes, but I can still hold a lot of water. What am I? Answer: A sponge.
• Question: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock? Answer: A piano.
• Question: What travels around the world while staying in a corner? Answer: A stamp.

• Question: I have a head, a tail, but no body. What am I? Answer: A coin.
• Question: What has hands but cannot clap? Answer: A clock.
• Question: I am always hungry, but you never have to feed me. What am I? Answer: A fire.
• Question: What has keys that open no locks, yet they are always right? Answer: A keyboard.
• Question: What has wings but cannot fly? Answer: A plane.
• Question: I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I? Answer: Pencil lead.
• Question: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? Answer: Footsteps.
• Question: I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I? Answer: A joke.
• Question: What has a neck but no head? Answer: A bottle.
• Question: What has to be broken before you can use it? Answer: An egg.
• Question: I start with an “e” and end with an “e”, but I usually contain only one letter. What am I? Answer: An envelope.
• Question: What is full of holes but still holds water? Answer: A sponge.
• Question: What gets wetter as it dries? Answer: A towel.
• Question: What has one eye but cannot see? Answer: A needle.
• Question: I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I? Answer: A keyboard.
• Question: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? Answer: A penny.
• Question: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps? Answer: A river.
• Question: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? Answer: A glove.
• Question: What can you catch but not throw? Answer: A cold.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks? Answer: A piano.

Another Measure riddles

• Question: I start with “t”, end with “t”, and have “t” in me. What am I? Answer: A teapot.
• Question: What has a heart that doesn’t beat? Answer: An artichoke.
• Question: What has keys that open no locks? Answer: A piano.
• Question: I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water. What am I? Answer: A map.
• Question: What has one foot on each side and one in the middle? Answer: A yardstick.
• Question: I am full of holes, but I can still hold water. What am I? Answer: A sponge.
• Question: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? Answer: A stamp.
• Question: I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I? Answer: The future.
• Question: What is as light as a feather, yet even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold it for long? Answer: A breath.
• Question: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? Answer: A penny.
• Question: I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I? Answer: Fire.
• Question: What is at the end of a rainbow? Answer: The letter “w.”
• Question: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? Answer: Silence.
• Question: I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case. Yet, I am used by almost every person. What am I? Answer: A pencil.
• Question: What is filled with keys but cannot open a single lock? Answer: A keyboard.
• Question: What has hands but cannot clap? Answer: A clock.
• Question: I am not alive, but I can die. What am I? Answer: A battery.
• Question: What has many keys but can’t open any locks? Answer: A piano.
• Question: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? Answer: The future.
• Question: What goes up but never comes down? Answer: Your age.

• Question: What has a neck but no head? Answer: A bottle.
• Question: What can be measured but has no length, width, or height? Answer: Time.
• Question: I am light as a feather, yet the strongest person cannot hold me for long. What am I? Answer: Breath.
• Question: What can you keep after giving it to someone else? Answer: Your word.
• Question: What gets wetter the more it dries? Answer: A towel.
• Question: What has a bottom at the top? Answer: Your legs.
• Question: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it? Answer: A promise.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks? Answer: A piano.
• Question: What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves? Answer: A fence.
• Question: What is full of holes but can still hold water? Answer: A sponge.
• 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 head and a tail but no body? Answer: A coin.
• Question: What goes up and down but never moves? Answer: A staircase.
• Question: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? Answer: A stamp.
• Question: What is at the end of a rainbow? Answer: The letter “w.”
• Question: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? Answer: A glove.
• Question: What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it? Answer: A teapot.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks? Answer: A piano.
• Question: What has one eye but cannot see? Answer: A needle.
• Question: What has a foot but no legs? Answer: A ruler.

Getting over with Measure riddles

• Question: What can be measured but has no weight? Answer: Sound.
• Question: What can fill a room but takes up no space? Answer: Light.
• Question: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? Answer: A clock.
• Question: What starts with “e”, ends with “e”, and contains only one letter? Answer: An envelope.
• Question: What has keys that open no locks? Answer: A piano.
• Question: What has many needles but cannot sew? Answer: A pine tree.
• Question: What has a ring but no finger? Answer: A phone.
• Question: What has a head and a tail but no body? Answer: A coin.
• Question: What has one foot on each side and one in the middle? Answer: A yardstick.
• Question: What has keys that open no locks, and space but no room? Answer: A computer keyboard.
• Question: What can you catch but not throw? Answer: A cold.
• Question: What can be cracked, made, told, and played? Answer: A joke.
• Question: What runs around the whole yard without moving? Answer: A fence.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks? Answer: A piano.
• Question: What can be measured but has no weight? Answer: Time.
• Question: What can be broken but is never held? Answer: A promise.
• Question: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? Answer: A penny.
• Question: What can you never get back once it’s given? Answer: Time.
• Question: What is full of holes but can still hold water? Answer: A sponge.