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79 riddles. Tap one to have a go.

  1. I have keys, but I can't open a single door. I have space, but there's no room inside me. What am I?
  2. The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
  3. What gets wetter the more it dries?
  4. I have a neck but no head, and I wear a cap. What am I?
  5. What has hands and a face but can't hold anything or smile?
  6. What has one eye but can't see a thing?
  7. What has many teeth but never bites?
  8. What can you catch but never throw?
  9. What goes up but never comes down?
  10. What has a head and a tail but no body?
  11. What runs all day but never gets tired, and has a mouth but never eats?
  12. I'm full of holes but I can still hold water. What am I?
  13. What has legs but can't walk?
  14. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
  15. The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
  16. What has a thumb and four fingers but isn't alive?
  17. What building has the most stories?
  18. What has words but never speaks?
  19. What can you break without ever touching it?
  20. What goes up when the rain comes down?
  21. What has an eye but can't see, and spins but never gets dizzy?
  22. What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do?
  23. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
  24. What has a ring but no finger?
  25. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
  26. I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
  27. What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish?
  28. What month has 28 days?
  29. What is always in front of you but can't be seen?
  30. What has to be broken before you can use it?
  31. What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
  32. What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
  33. What has a bottom at the top?
  34. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
  35. What runs but never walks, often murmurs but never talks?
  36. What has four wheels and flies?
  37. What can you keep after giving it to someone?
  38. What gets sharper the more you use it?
  39. What has many keys but can't open a single lock, and makes music?
  40. What tastes better than it smells?
  41. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and grey when you throw it away?
  42. I go all around the house, but I never move. What am I?
  43. What has one head, one foot and four legs?
  44. What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
  45. What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
  46. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
  47. I can be cracked, made, told and played. What am I?
  48. What has lots of eyes but can't see?
  49. What can you hear but never touch or see?
  50. What goes through cities and fields but never moves?
  51. What do you throw out when you want to use it, and take in when you don't?
  52. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
  53. Where does today come before yesterday?
  54. What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
  55. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
  56. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
  57. What can't talk but will reply when spoken to?
  58. What has four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?
  59. What is so light a feather weighs more, yet the strongest person can't hold it for long?
  60. What has no beginning, end or middle?
  61. What do you buy to eat but never eat?
  62. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
  63. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
  64. Why did the scarecrow win an award?
  65. What has a lot of needles but doesn't sew?
  66. What kind of band never plays music?
  67. I fly without wings and cry without eyes. What am I?
  68. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
  69. What can you put in a bucket to make it lighter?
  70. What do you call a fish with no eyes?
  71. What can be stolen, mistaken or altered, yet never leaves you your whole life?
  72. What has a horn but doesn't honk, and charges but has no battery?
  73. What comes down but never goes up?
  74. What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?
  75. What has teeth but can't eat, and is used to cut wood?
  76. What's black and white and read all over?
  77. What travels faster: heat or cold?
  78. What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
  79. What do you call cheese that isn't yours?

Riddles are written for EscapePod. Many are new takes on classic riddles that have been told for generations.