Long car rides can be a test of patience, especially for kids. To keep everyone entertained and engaged, we’ve compiled a list of 301 riddles that are perfect for passing the time.
Whether you’re looking for a brain teaser, a laugh, or just something to keep the conversation flowing, these riddles will do the trick. Each riddle comes with an answer, so you can challenge your family and friends and then impress them with the solution. Enjoy the journey with these fun and thought-provoking car ride riddles!
Classic Riddles 🚗
- Riddle: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo. - Riddle: I have keys but can’t open locks. What am I?
Answer: A piano. - Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg. - Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle. - Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them. - Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge. - Riddle: What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet? - Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future. - Riddle: There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house. - Riddle: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise. - Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age. - Riddle: A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
Answer: He was bald. - Riddle: What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel. - Riddle: What can you keep after giving to someone?
Answer: Your word. - Riddle: I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
Answer: A barber. - Riddle: You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?
Answer: All the people were married. - Riddle: You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. What would you light first?
Answer: The match. - Riddle: A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How is this possible?
Answer: He was born on February 29. - Riddle: I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank. - Riddle: What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo. - Riddle: The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness. - Riddle: David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?
Answer: David. - Riddle: I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow. - Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano. - Riddle: What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Answer: Your right elbow. - Riddle: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence. - Riddle: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river. - Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light. - Riddle: What has one eye, but can’t see?
Answer: A needle. - Riddle: If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror.
Animal Riddles 🐾
- Riddle: What animal is always at a baseball game?
Answer: A bat. - Riddle: What do you call an alligator in a vest?
Answer: An investigator. - Riddle: Why are elephants never rich?
Answer: Because they work for peanuts. - Riddle: What has four legs but can’t walk?
Answer: A table. - Riddle: What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?
Answer: Frostbite. - Riddle: Why did the cow go to space?
Answer: To see the moooon. - Riddle: What do you get when you cross a sheep and a kangaroo?
Answer: A woolly jumper. - Riddle: What animal can you always find at a construction site?
Answer: A crane. - Riddle: What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear. - Riddle: Why don’t seagulls fly over the bay?
Answer: Because then they’d be bagels. - Riddle: What do you call a sleeping bull?
Answer: A bulldozer. - Riddle: What is the laziest mountain?
Answer: Mount Ever-rest. - Riddle: Why are frogs so happy?
Answer: Because they eat whatever bugs them. - Riddle: What is the strongest animal?
Answer: A snail because it carries its house. - Riddle: What do you get when you cross a parrot and a shark?
Answer: A bird that talks your ear off. - Riddle: What’s the most musical part of a turkey?
Answer: The drumstick. - Riddle: Why do cows wear bells?
Answer: Because their horns don’t work. - Riddle: What do you call a pig that knows karate?
Answer: A pork chop. - Riddle: Why do fish live in salt water?
Answer: Because pepper makes them sneeze. - Riddle: What’s a cat’s favorite color?
Answer: Purrr-ple. - Riddle: What do you call a horse that likes arts and crafts?
Answer: A hobby horse. - Riddle: What do you get when you cross a dog with a calculator?
Answer: A best friend you can count on. - Riddle: Why are ghosts bad at lying?
Answer: Because you can see right through them. - Riddle: What do you call a group of musical whales?
Answer: An orca-stra. - Riddle: Why don’t crabs give to charity?
Answer: Because they’re shellfish. - Riddle: What’s a frog’s favorite candy?
Answer: Lollihops. - Riddle: How do bees get to school?
Answer: On the school buzz. - Riddle: Why did the sheep go to the beach?
Answer: To play in the baaah-sand. - Riddle: What kind of bird works at a construction site?
Answer: A crane. - Riddle: What’s a dog’s favorite city?
Answer: New Yorkie.
Food Riddles 🍔
- Riddle: What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom. - Riddle: What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot. - Riddle: What do you call cheese that isn’t yours?
Answer: Nacho cheese. - Riddle: Why did the tomato turn red?
Answer: Because it saw the salad dressing. - Riddle: What do you call a fake noodle?
Answer: An impasta. - Riddle: Why don’t eggs tell jokes?
Answer: Because they’d crack each other up. - Riddle: What kind of key opens a banana?
Answer: A monkey. - Riddle: What do you get when you cross a vampire with a snowman?
Answer: Frostbite. - Riddle: Why did the banana go to the doctor?
Answer: Because it wasn’t peeling well. - Riddle: What do you call a potato that wears glasses?
Answer: A spec-tater. - Riddle: Why was the math book sad?
Answer: Because it had too many problems. - Riddle: What’s brown and sticky?
Answer: A stick. - Riddle: What did the grape do when it got stepped on?
Answer: Nothing, it just let out a little wine. - Riddle: What’s a vampire’s favorite fruit?
Answer: A blood orange. - Riddle: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
Answer: Pumpkin pi. - Riddle: What’s a computer’s favorite snack?
Answer: Microchips. - Riddle: What kind of tree fits in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree. - Riddle: Why do oranges wear sunscreen?
Answer: So they don’t peel. - Riddle: What do you call two banana peels?
Answer: A pair of slippers. - Riddle: Why did the melon jump into the lake?
Answer: Because it wanted to be a watermelon. - Riddle: What’s a ghost’s favorite dessert?
Answer: Ice scream. - Riddle: What did one plate say to the other?
Answer: Lunch is on me. - Riddle: What kind of beans never grow in a garden?
Answer: Jelly beans. - Riddle: What do you call a sad strawberry?
Answer: A blueberry. - Riddle: Why did the girl eat her homework?
Answer: Because her teacher said it was a piece of cake. - Riddle: What’s a skeleton’s least favorite room in the house?
Answer: The living room. - Riddle: Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Answer: Because he was outstanding in his field. - Riddle: What do you call a pile of cats?
Answer: A meowtain. - Riddle: What do you call an alligator in a vest?
Answer: An investigator. - Riddle: Why did the golfer bring two pairs of pants?
Answer: In case he got a hole in one.
Math Riddles 🧮
- Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven. - Riddle: If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine. - Riddle: What has numbers on it but can’t add or subtract?
Answer: A clock. - Riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M. - Riddle: How many seconds are there in a year?
Answer: 12 (January 2nd, February 2nd, etc.) - Riddle: If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do you have?
Answer: Two. - Riddle: I am an even number. If you take away one letter from me, I become odd. What number am I?
Answer: Four (remove the ‘u’ to get ‘for’). - Riddle: What is so fragile that even saying its name can break it?
Answer: Silence. - Riddle: What number can you multiply by any other number to always get the same answer?
Answer: Zero. - Riddle: What is the next number in the sequence: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, …?
Answer: 312211. - Riddle: If you multiply me by any other number, the answer will always remain the same. What number am I?
Answer: Zero. - Riddle: How can you add eight 8’s to get the number 1,000?
Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000. - Riddle: What three positive numbers give the same answer when multiplied and added together?
Answer: 1, 2, and 3. - Riddle: What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?
Answer: Your breath. - Riddle: What has four fingers and a thumb, but isn’t alive?
Answer: A glove. - Riddle: What number do you get when you multiply all of the numbers on a telephone’s number pad?
Answer: Zero (because 0 multiplied by anything is 0). - Riddle: A man was born in 1945 and died in 1935. How is this possible?
Answer: He was born in Room 1945 of a hospital and died in Room 1935. - Riddle: If you have three, you have three. If you have two, you have two. But if you have one, you have none. What am I?
Answer: Choices. - Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short. - Riddle: What is the smallest number that increases by 12 when it is flipped and reversed?
Answer: 86 (flipped and reversed becomes 98). - Riddle: Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Answer: Neither, they both weigh a pound. - Riddle: How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?
Answer: Once. After that, it’s 90. - Riddle: What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain. - Riddle: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp. - Riddle: What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin. - Riddle: If you throw a blue stone into the Red Sea, what will it become?
Answer: Wet. - Riddle: How many letters are in the alphabet?
Answer: 11 letters (T-H-E A-L-P-H-A-B-E-T). - Riddle: What can be caught but not thrown?
Answer: A cold. - Riddle: What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle. - Riddle: If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don’t have me. What am I?
Answer: A secret.
Funny Riddles 😂
- Riddle: Why did the scarecrow become a successful neurosurgeon?
Answer: Because he was outstanding in his field. - Riddle: What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: A cornfield. - Riddle: Why did the bicycle fall over?
Answer: Because it was two-tired. - Riddle: Why don’t skeletons fight each other?
Answer: They don’t have the guts. - Riddle: Why was the math book sad?
Answer: Because it had too many problems. - Riddle: Why can’t you give Elsa a balloon?
Answer: Because she will let it go. - Riddle: What do you get when you cross a snowman and a dog?
Answer: Frostbite. - Riddle: Why was the broom late?
Answer: It swept in. - Riddle: What kind of tree can you hold in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree. - Riddle: What did the grape do when it got stepped on?
Answer: Nothing, it just let out a little wine. - Riddle: Why don’t scientists trust atoms?
Answer: Because they make up everything. - Riddle: What kind of shoes do spies wear?
Answer: Sneakers. - Riddle: What do you call fake spaghetti?
Answer: An impasta. - Riddle: Why did the golfer bring an extra pair of pants?
Answer: In case he got a hole in one. - Riddle: Why don’t oysters donate to charity?
Answer: Because they are shellfish. - Riddle: What did one ocean say to the other ocean?
Answer: Nothing, they just waved. - Riddle: How do you organize a space party?
Answer: You planet. - Riddle: What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear. - Riddle: What do you get if you cross a vampire with a snowman?
Answer: Frostbite. - Riddle: Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Answer: Because he was outstanding in his field. - Riddle: What do you call a pig that does karate?
Answer: A pork chop. - Riddle: Why did the chicken go to the seance?
Answer: To talk to the other side. - Riddle: What kind of tree fits in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree. - Riddle: What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?
Answer: Frostbite. - Riddle: Why did the banana go to the doctor?
Answer: Because it wasn’t peeling well. - Riddle: What do you call a sad strawberry?
Answer: A blueberry. - Riddle: What did the left eye say to the right eye?
Answer: Between us, something smells. - Riddle: What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck. - Riddle: Why did the scarecrow become a successful neurosurgeon?
Answer: Because he was outstanding in his field. - Riddle: What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
Answer: Frostbite.
Wordplay Riddles 📝
- Riddle: What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano. - Riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M. - Riddle: What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly. - Riddle: What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot. - Riddle: What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter G. - Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short. - Riddle: What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin. - Riddle: What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Answer: Your right elbow. - Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano. - Riddle: What begins with an E but only has one letter in it?
Answer: An envelope. - Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future. - Riddle: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp. - Riddle: What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold. - Riddle: What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom. - Riddle: What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle. - Riddle: What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain. - Riddle: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny. - Riddle: What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel. - Riddle: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise. - Riddle: What word contains all of the twenty-six letters?
Answer: Alphabet. - Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age. - Riddle: What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock. - Riddle: What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke. - Riddle: What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle. - Riddle: What can run but never walks?
Answer: A river. - Riddle: What comes once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?
Answer: The letter E. - Riddle: What has four legs but can’t walk?
Answer: A table. - Riddle: What has an eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle. - Riddle: What starts with an E, ends with an E, but only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope. - Riddle: What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke.
Science Riddles 🔬
- Riddle: What planet is known as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars. - Riddle: What force keeps us anchored to the Earth?
Answer: Gravity. - Riddle: What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?
Answer: Diamond. - Riddle: What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?
Answer: Carbon dioxide. - Riddle: What is the chemical symbol for water?
Answer: H2O. - Riddle: What part of the cell contains genetic material?
Answer: The nucleus. - Riddle: What is the boiling point of water?
Answer: 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit). - Riddle: What planet is known for its rings?
Answer: Saturn. - Riddle: What is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: Nitrogen. - Riddle: What is the center of an atom called?
Answer: The nucleus. - Riddle: What is the powerhouse of the cell?
Answer: The mitochondria. - Riddle: What element does the symbol ‘O’ represent?
Answer: Oxygen. - Riddle: What is the speed of light?
Answer: Approximately 300,000 kilometers per second (186,282 miles per second). - Riddle: What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter. - Riddle: What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au. - Riddle: What gas do humans exhale?
Answer: Carbon dioxide. - Riddle: What part of the human body contains the smallest bones?
Answer: The ear. - Riddle: What is the closest planet to the sun?
Answer: Mercury. - Riddle: What is the freezing point of water?
Answer: 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit). - Riddle: What is the largest organ in the human body?
Answer: The skin. - Riddle: What is the most common element in the universe?
Answer: Hydrogen. - Riddle: What is the primary gas found in the sun?
Answer: Hydrogen. - Riddle: What is the chemical formula for table salt?
Answer: NaCl (sodium chloride). - Riddle: What type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms?
Answer: A covalent bond. - Riddle: What is the smallest unit of life?
Answer: A cell. - Riddle: What element is necessary for the production of thyroid hormones?
Answer: Iodine. - Riddle: What do you call the process by which plants make their food?
Answer: Photosynthesis. - Riddle: What element has the chemical symbol ‘Fe’?
Answer: Iron. - Riddle: What planet is known as the Evening Star?
Answer: Venus. - Riddle: What is the center of the Earth called?
Answer: The core.
Nature Riddles 🌿
- Riddle: What has roots that nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, and yet never grows?
Answer: A mountain. - Riddle: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp. - Riddle: What is always running but never moves?
Answer: A river. - Riddle: What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel. - Riddle: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence. - Riddle: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree. - Riddle: What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke. - Riddle: What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle. - Riddle: What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle. - Riddle: What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano. - Riddle: What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke. - Riddle: What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock. - Riddle: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp. - Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge. - Riddle: What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle. - Riddle: What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel. - Riddle: What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin. - Riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M. - Riddle: What is so fragile that even saying its name can break it?
Answer: Silence. - Riddle: What can run but never walks?
Answer: A river. - Riddle: What has four fingers and a thumb, but isn’t alive?
Answer: A glove. - Riddle: What can be caught but not thrown?
Answer: A cold. - Riddle: What can be seen once in a second, twice in a decade, but never in a millennium?
Answer: The letter D. - Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs. - Riddle: What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed. - Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light. - Riddle: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock. - Riddle: What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone. - Riddle: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove. - Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.
Animal Riddles 🐾
- Riddle: What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?
Answer: A human (crawling as a baby, walking as an adult, using a cane in old age). - Riddle: What has a bark but no bite?
Answer: A tree. - Riddle: What is black and white and read all over?
Answer: A newspaper. - Riddle: What animal can you always find at a baseball game?
Answer: A bat. - Riddle: What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear. - Riddle: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny. - Riddle: What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano. - Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future. - Riddle: What can run but never walks?
Answer: A river. - Riddle: What has an eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle. - Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge. - Riddle: What has four fingers and a thumb, but isn’t alive?
Answer: A glove. - Riddle: What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin. - Riddle: What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel. - Riddle: What can be caught but not thrown?
Answer: A cold. - Riddle: What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle. - Riddle: What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle. - Riddle: What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke. - Riddle: What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock. - Riddle: What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone. - Riddle: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove. - Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future. - Riddle: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence. - Riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M. - Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs. - Riddle: What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed. - Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light. - Riddle: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock. - Riddle: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove. - Riddle: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
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