We've selected some of the best riddles for teens. See if you can answer them all.
What can stand in place of a country but still fold away in a drawer?
See answerIf an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?
See answerI can be told and can make you crazy. Most people don't like me and think I'm harmful. What am I?
See answerOne strand dangles. Two strands twist.
Three or more can fashion this.
Prior to smartphones, people used this to record their lives.
See answerIf the day before yesterday is the 23rd, then what is the day after tomorrow.
See answerIf you have me, you want to tell me.
If you tell me, you don't have me.
What can you keep after giving it to someone?
See answerWhat is the last thing you take off before bed?
See answerI am the sweetest and most romantic fruit. What am I?
See answerPoor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
See answerI start in little but I end in full, you'll find me in half and complete.
See answerWhat do you have to know to get top grades in geometry?
See answerHow do you know that a vampire loves baseball?
See answerWhat animal has no wings, but yet will fly?
See answerTeenage girls are pros at creating me. Learn me in classes. What am I?
See answerI'm a pie, but I come with pepperoni and cheese.
See answerWhat is something that can go up quite easily, but is not as easy to bring back down?
See answerWhat creature starts yellow inside and white outside, then becomes its first five before becoming the whole?
See answerWhat has to be broken before it can be used?
See answerI don't exist unless you cut me, but if you stab me I won't bleed. I hate no one yet am abhorred by all. What am I?
See answerI am a term used to confirm. But take away my front, my face, I become known as human avarice.
See answerFuels backyard get-togethers.
See answerWhat needs to be taken from you before you have it?
See answerI'm unique in one way but you can find two of me in your daily drink. What am I?
See answerIt is the time in your life when you simultaneously know everything and nothing at an instance.
See answerArnold Schwarzenegger has a big one,
Michael J Fox has a small one,
Madonna doesn't have one,
The pope has one but he never uses it,
Bill Clinton has one and he uses it all the time!
What is it?
What can be seen but not touched?
See answerWhat seven-letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?
See answerWhat is that which, though black itself, enlightens the world without burning?
See answerWhat fruit never ever wants to be alone?
See answerI am nothing but holes tied to holes, yet am strong as iron.
See answerWhat did addition say to subtraction when they found each other on Facebook?
See answerWhat time of day, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards, and upside down?
See answerI end and begin the day,
Without me, you'll pay.
With the aid of sheep,
All my benefits you shall reap.
If I make you miss class,
You shall not pass!
What am I?
What happens every second, minute, month, and century. But not every hour, week, year, or decade?
See answerWhy is a bunny the luckiest animal?
See answerWhat fruit can you use to sip water?
See answerWhat word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
See answerMeat that has been cured by being cut into long, thin strips and dried.
See answerWhat travels from coast to coast without ever moving?
See answerI have an eye but cannot see.
I'm faster than any man alive and have no limbs.
What am I?
What can be measured but not seen?
See answerAlthough I’m not a window
I am something you look through
I’m often on a tripod
Things in space I help you view
I can swim but never get wet. I can run but never get tired. I follow you everywhere but never say a word. What am I?
See answerWhat has you stop on green and go on red?
See answerThe cloud is my mother, my father the wind. The lake is my son and the rainbow my bed. What am I?
See answerWho is never hungry during Christmas?
See answerWhat type of house weighs the least?
See answerWhat smells the best at thanksgiving dinner?
See answerI help you carry your books. What am I?
See answerMary's father has 4 daughters. Three are named Nana, Nene, and Nini. What is the fourth daughter's name?
See answerPeople walk in and out of me. They push and I follow. When they walk out on me, I close up and I stay waiting for the next person to walk into my life when I have a more open mind. What am I?
See answerBesides Paris, what is the capital of France?
See answerBorn in an instant. I tell all stories. I can be lost. But I never die. What am I?
See answerWhat has four legs, but can't walk?
See answerGoes over all the hills and hollows,
Bites hard, but never swallows.
A deep well full of knives
See answerIt may only be given,
Not taken or bought,
What the sinner desires,
But the saint does not.
What is born long, dies short, and spends its life leaving a trail?
See answerWhat can't you see, hear or feel, until it's too late.
What shadows love, and shopkeepers hate?
What is easy to get into, and hard to get out of?
See answerWhat is something you will never see again?
See answerYour parents come over for a surprise breakfast while you are sleeping. You get out pancakes toast maple syrup and jam. What do you open first.
See answerA building where people and stories are on stage.
See answerWhat is at the end of a rainbow?
See answerA single seater best accompanied by circus music and great balance.
See answerBrings celebrities into your home every night.
See answerI wear a green jacket on the outside, white jacket as a second layer, and a red jacket inside. I am pregnant with a lot of babies. What am I?
See answerI'm so simple I only point,
Yet I guide people all over the world.
What am I?
There's one in every deck of cards and in a famous movie.
See answerI am very afraid of doing scary activities. What am I?
See answerI get stuffed and I get dressed on Thanksgiving. What am I?
See answerBoth guys and women enhance their visual organs with this item.
See answerWhat can you hear but not touch or see?
See answerIs there a 4th of July in England?
See answerWhat's the largest pencil in the United States?
See answerWhy was the Easter Bunny so grumpy?
See answerPoorly behaved children often find themselves sitting in these.
See answerIf I drink, I die. If I eat, I am fine. What am I?
See answerI fly away as soon as you set me loose. People around you may slowly move away once they sense my presence. What am I?
See answerWhy is 6 afraid of 7?
See answerPoke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws.
Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all.
What am I?
I can be flipped and broken but I never move. I can be closed, and opened, and sometimes removed. I am sealed by hands. What am I?
See answerHow do you go from 98 to 720 using just one letter?
See answerMakeup for finger tips. What am I?
See answerIf 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?
See answerWhat does the Easter Bunny say when it burps?
See answerI go around all the places; cities, towns and villages, but never come inside. What am I?
See answer123=0
4235=0
656=2
5390=2
8890=6
1001=2
19235=1
What is 123456789?
I never was but am always to be, and everyone looks forward to me.
See answerNeeded to jack, but also to carp. I can’t be used In rust, but can in the grass. What am I?
See answerBefore Mt. Everest was discovered as the highest mountain in the world, which mountain was the highest?
See answerWhat can be found at the beginning of eternity the end of time and space the beginning of every end?
See answerNot a comb or a brush but makes the hair feel plush. What is it?
See answerThe more you take the more you leave behind.
See answerA young child goes up to a wise man and shocks him by asking him "What one thing do I have that God does not?"
See answerWhat can you throw but not catch?
See answerThis heavy and ancient suit was not worn with a tie, but was always worn in battle.
See answerIf Mississippi lent Missouri her New Jersey, what would Delaware?
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