102 Riddles For Friends

Are you ready to embark on a journey through the maze of laughter, lateral thinking, and light-hearted challenges? 

Well, if you are, then this list of some amazing riddles are sure to entertain not just you, but your friends as well. 

Each riddle in this collection is carefully selected to tickle your brain and bring a smile to your face. 

So, without further ado, let the fun begin. 

Riddles for your Friends

  1. Nature: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

  2. Household Item: I have keys but open no locks, I have space but no room, you can enter but can’t go outside. What am I?

  3. Entertainment: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

  4. Hobby: I fly without wings, I cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness flies. What am I?

  5. Health: I’m not a doctor, but I can cure sickness with just my presence. What am I?

  6. Finance: I have a head and a tail, but no body. What am I?

  7. Nature: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

  8. Household Item: I start with “e” and end with “e” but usually contain only one letter. What am I?

  9. Entertainment: I am full of keys but can’t open a single lock. What am I?

  10. Hobby: I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?

  11. Health: I go around in circles, but always straight ahead. Never complain, no matter where I am led. What am I?

  12. Finance: I’m light as a feather, but not even the strongest person can hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?

  13. Nature: The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

  14. Household Item: The more you take away from me, the bigger I get. What am I?

  15. Entertainment: I am seen in the water, but I never get wet. What am I?

  16. Hobby: I come down, but I never go up. What am I?

  17. Health: I am not alive, but I can die. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?

  18. Nature: I’m light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold me for long. What am I?

  19. Household Item: I get wet while drying. What am I?

  20. Entertainment: I am not a cat, but I can purr. I am not a bird, but I can fly. What am I?

  21. Hobby: 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?

  22. Health: I am always hungry, I must always be fed, the finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?

  23. Finance: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

  24. Nature: I am not a snake, but I have a forked tongue. What am I?

  25. Household Item: I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?

  26. Entertainment: I am a protector. I sit on a bridge. One person can see right through me, while others wonder what I hide. What am I?

  27. Hobby: You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?

  28. Health: I am not a physician, but I can bring back the dead to life. What am I?

  29. Finance: I am small as an ant, big as a whale. I’ll approach like a breeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I’ll dance to the music, though I can’t hear. What am I?

  30. Nature: I have a heart that never beats, I have a home but I never sleep. What am I?

  31. Household Item: I have a neck, but no head, but I still wear a cap. What am I?

  32. Entertainment: I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken. What am I?

  33. Hobby: I am not a bow, but I can shoot. I’m loaded with film, but not with loot. What am I?

  34. Health: I am essential to life, yet I can play a role in death. I am at the heart of both sorrow and delight. What am I?

  35. Nature: What has roots that nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, yet it never grows?

  36. Household Item: I have a spine but no bones. What am I?

  37. Entertainment: I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?

  38. Hobby: I am bought by the yard but worn by the foot. What am I?

  39. Health: I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?

  40. Finance: The more you leave behind, the more you shall have. What am I?

  41. Nature: I can fly without wings, cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness flees. What am I?

  42. Household Item: I am full of holes but still hold water. What am I?

  43. Entertainment: I speak all languages, but never went to school. What am I?

  44. Hobby: I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?

  45. Health: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

  46. Finance: What has a bank but no money, runs but has no legs, and has a bed but never sleeps?

  47. Nature: I am a pearl, white and round, but hidden in a cave, never found. What am I?

  48. Household Item: I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?

  49. Entertainment: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

  50. Hobby: What has keys but can’t open locks?

  51. Health: What has teeth but cannot bite?

  52. Nature: I fall from the sky, but I’m not rain. I’m beautiful and delicate, and I disappear when I land. What am I?

  53. Household Item: I have a handle and a lid, but you can’t open me. I’m filled with water, yet I’m not a bottle. What am I?

  54. Entertainment: I’m not a tree, but I have leaves. I’m not a beast, but I have a spine. What am I?

  55. Hobby: I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?

  56. Health: I’m the part of the bird that’s not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?

  57. Finance: I stand tall and have many branches, but I’m not a tree. I’m where your money’s branches grow. What am I?

  58. Nature: I’m light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?

  59. Household Item: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

  60. Entertainment: I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?

  61. Hobby: I’m sometimes white, and always wrong. I can break a heart and hurt the strong. I can build love or tear it down. I can make a smile or bring a frown. What am I?

  62. Health: I am a protector. I sit on a bridge. One person can see right through me, while others wonder what I hide. What am I?

  63. Finance: I’m light as a feather, but not even the strongest person can hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?

  64. Nature: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

  65. Household Item: The more you take away from me, the bigger I get. What am I?

  66. Entertainment: I am not a cat, but I can purr. I am not a bird, but I can fly. What am I?

  67. Hobby: I go up and down, but I never move. What am I?

  68. Health: I am essential to life, yet I can play a role in death. I am at the heart of both sorrow and delight. What am I?

  69. Nature: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

  70. Household Item: I’m not a tree, but I have leaves. I’m not a beast, but I have a spine. What am I?

  71. Entertainment: I am a story that can be read and written but never told. What am I?

  72. Hobby: I can be caught but not thrown. I’m invisible, and you can’t live without me. What am I?

  73. Health: I cover what’s real, hide what is true, but sometimes bring out the courage in you. What am I?

  74. Finance: I have a head and a tail but no body. What am I?

  75. Nature: I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

  76. Household Item: I start and end with “E,” but I usually contain only one letter. What am I?

  77. Entertainment: Bright like diamonds, hard like rock, I’m crushed or cubed or solid block. What am I?

  78. Hobby: I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken. What am I?

  79. Health: I go in hard, come out soft, and am never the same. What am I?

  80. Finance: You use me from your head to your toes, the more I work, the thinner I grow. What am I?

  81. Nature: I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I?

  82. Household Item: What has a neck but no head, and arms but no hands?

  83. Entertainment: I am heavy forward, but backward I’m not. What am I?

  84. Hobby: I fly without wings, I cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness flies. What am I?

  85. Health: I am not alive, but I can die. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?

  86. Nature: What comes down but never goes up?

  87. Household Item: I have hands but I cannot clap. What am I?

  88. Entertainment: 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 everybody. What am I?

  89. Hobby: I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?

  90. Health: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

  91. Finance: I’m light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold me for long. What am I?

  92. Nature: I am heavy and hard to pick up, but backwards I am not. What am I?

  93. Household Item: I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?

  94. Entertainment: I’m not alive, but I can grow; I have no lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

  95. Hobby: I go up and down, but I never move. What am I?

  96. Health: I am always hungry, I must always be fed, the finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?

  97. Finance: I have a head and a tail but no body. What am I?

  98. Nature: I can fly without wings, I cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness flies. What am I?

  99. Household Item: The more you take away from me, the bigger I get. What am I?

  100. Entertainment: I am full of keys but can’t open a single lock. What am I?

  101. Hobby: I come down, but I never go up. What am I?

  102. Health: I am not a doctor, but I can cure sickness with just my presence. What am I?

Answers

  1. A Candle

  2. A Keyboard

  3. An Echo

  4. A Cloud

  5. Sunshine

  6. A Coin

  7. Fire

  8. An Envelope

  9. A Piano

  10. A Joke

  11. A Wheel

  12. Breath

  13. Darkness

  14. A Hole

  15. A Reflection

  16. Rain

  17. A Battery

  18. Breath

  19. A Towel

  20. A Drone

  21. A Pencil Lead

  22. Fire

  23. The Letter ‘M’

  24. A Lightning Rod

  25. A Joke

  26. Sunglasses

  27. The Letter ‘E’

  28. Water

  29. A Shadow

  30. A Fish

  31. A Bottle

  32. News

  33. A Camera

  34. Water

  35. A Mountain

  36. A Book

  37. A Piano

  38. Carpet

  39. The Letter ‘E’

  40. Footsteps

  41. A Cloud

  42. A Sponge

  43. An Echo

  44. Fire

  45. Fire

  46. A River

  47. A Tooth

  48. A Nail

  49. A Stamp

  50. A Piano

  51. A Comb

  52. A Snowflake

  53. A Kettle

  54. A Book

  55. A Map

  56. A Shadow

  57. A Bank

  58. Breath

  59. Fire

  60. A Joke

  61. A Lie

  62. Sunglasses

  63. Breath

  64. Footsteps

  65. A Hole

  66. A Drone

  67. A Staircase

  68. Water

  69. A River

  70. A Book

  71. A Journal

  72. Air

  73. Makeup

  74. A Coin

  75. Fire

  76. An Envelope

  77. Ice

  78. A Secret

  79. Chewing Gum

  80. Soap

  81. A Keyboard

  82. A Shirt

  83. The Word ‘Ton’

  84. A Cloud

  85. A Battery

  86. Rain

  87. A Clock

  88. Pencil Lead

  89. A Nail

  90. Fire

  91. Breath

  92. The Word ‘Ton’

  93. A Joke

  94. Fire

  95. A Staircase

  96. Fire

  97. A Coin

  98. A Cloud

  99. A Hole

  100. A Piano

  101. Rain

  102. Sunshine

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