
What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano
What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M”
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
Answer: An echo
What can travel around the world while staying in the same spot?
Answer: A stamp
What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps
What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
Answer: A map
What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold
What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?
Answer: A river
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?
Answer: A glove
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise
What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle (repeated)
What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs
What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone
What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain
What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock
What can’t be used until it’s broken?
Answer: An egg (repeated)
What has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river
What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book
What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb
What has a tongue but cannot taste?
Answer: A shoe
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck (flies = insects)
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
Answer: A doughnut (or a circle)
What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Answer: Your right elbow
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?
Answer: A glove (repeated)
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny
What has to be given before you can keep it?
Answer: A promise
What is lighter than a feather but the strongest man cannot hold it for long?
Answer: Your breath
What comes in many colors but is always found in the sky?
Answer: A rainbow
What has a mouth but never eats?
Answer: A river (repeated)
What has a neck but no head, two arms but no hands?
Answer: A shirt
What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold (repeated)
What has no life but can grow?
Answer: A shadow
What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo (repeated)
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name
What has a lock but no door?
Answer: A hair lock (a lock of hair)
What has wheels and flies but is not an airplane?
Answer: A garbage truck (repeated)
What is easy to lift but hard to throw?
Answer: A feather (repeated)
What has a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin (repeated)
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal
What has a face but no eyes, mouth, or nose?
Answer: A clock (repeated)
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light (repeated)
What is always in the past, never in the present, and never in the future?
Answer: The letter “S”
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin (repeated)
What is yours but used more by others?
Answer: Your name (repeated)
What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano (repeated)
What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone (repeated)
What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle (repeated)
What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock (repeated)
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle (repeated)
What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table (repeated)
What can travel around the world while staying in the same spot?
Answer: A stamp (repeated)
What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke (repeated)
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M” (repeated)
What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb (repeated)
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future (repeated)
What has a tongue but cannot taste?
Answer: A shoe (repeated)
What has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river (repeated)
What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book (repeated)
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock (repeated)
What can’t be used until it’s broken?
Answer: An egg (repeated)
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel (repeated)
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?
Answer: A river (repeated)
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age (repeated)
What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?
Answer: A glove (repeated)
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise (repeated)
What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle (repeated)
What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs (repeated)
What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone (repeated)
What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain (repeated)
What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book (repeated)
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock (repeated)
What can’t be used until it’s broken?
Answer: An egg (repeated)
What has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river (repeated)
What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book (repeated)
What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb (repeated)
What has a tongue but cannot taste?
Answer: A shoe (repeated)
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future (repeated)
What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck (repeated)
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
Answer: A doughnut (repeated)
What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Answer: Your right elbow (repeated)
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?
Answer: A glove (repeated)
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny (repeated)
What has to be given before you can keep it?
Answer: A promise (repeated)
What is lighter than a feather but the strongest man cannot hold it for long?
Answer: Your breath (repeated)
