20 Riddles for Adults (With Answers)

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Daily BrainDrop — nine daily brain boosts including a riddle, a free Android app

A good riddle is a proper little workout for the brain — that satisfying moment when the answer clicks into place. They’re perfect for a long car journey, a dinner-table challenge, or just keeping your own mind nimble. Here are twenty riddles for adults, with all the answers at the bottom. No peeking.

The riddles

  • 1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
  • 2. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
  • 3. What month of the year has 28 days?
  • 4. What is full of holes but still holds water?
  • 5. What question can you never honestly answer “yes” to?
  • 6. What goes up but never comes down?
  • 7. A man was out walking in the rain with no umbrella or hat, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How?
  • 8. What has hands but cannot clap?
  • 9. What has a head and a tail but no body?
  • 10. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
  • 11. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
  • 12. What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
  • 13. What gets wetter the more it dries?
  • 14. What has one eye but cannot see?
  • 15. What can you catch but never throw?
  • 16. What has a neck but no head?
  • 17. What comes down but never goes up?
  • 18. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
  • 19. What has words but never speaks?
  • 20. What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?

The answers

1. An egg · 2. A candle · 3. Every month · 4. A sponge · 5. “Are you asleep yet?” · 6. Your age · 7. He was bald · 8. A clock · 9. A coin · 10. Darkness · 11. A piano · 12. A stamp · 13. A towel · 14. A needle · 15. A cold · 16. A bottle · 17. Rain · 18. A bank · 19. A book · 20. A fence.

How many did you get? More than fifteen and you’re in fine form.

A daily brain workout

If those got your mind ticking, that’s exactly the idea behind Daily BrainDrop — a free Android app that serves up nine bite-sized brain boosts every day, including a fresh riddle, a joke, a word of the day, a quick maths challenge, fun facts and more. It’s a gentle daily habit that keeps you a little sharper, and it’s great for curious minds of any age.

Get Daily BrainDrop on Google Play

More on the app: the Daily BrainDrop page.

Keep your brain guessing — a new riddle lands every day.

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