99 Nevertells: Lateral Thinking Riddles

Lateral Thinking Riddles

  What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?

  What has keys but can’t open locks?

  What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

  The more you take away, the larger I become. What am I?

  An electric train is traveling south. Which way does the smoke go?

  Will an egg laid by a rooster on a 45 degree sloped barn roof roll off?

  I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?

  What has a heart that doesn’t beat?

  The more you take, the more you leave behind.

  What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not alive?

  A man is surrounded by water and dies of thirst; how is this possible?

  What can you hold in your left hand, but not in your right?

  I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water. What am I?

  What begins with an “e,” ends with an “e,” and only has one letter inside?

  How can a man go for 8 days without sleep?

  I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch, will soon turn red. What am I?

  I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

  What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, and has a head but never weeps?

  What has to be broken before you can use it?

  What goes up but never comes down?

  What goes through towns and over hills, but never moves?

  What has legs but can’t walk?

  What gets wet while drying?

  You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?

  I am full of holes, but still hold water. What am I?

  I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released. Yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?

  A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains. What am I?

  What tastes better than it smells?

 Embraced by your senses yet tangible to none, I come unbidden and conjure endless adventures. What am I?

  I go up and down the stairs without moving. What am I?

  I am always running, but never get tired or hot. What am I?

  You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I?

  It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?

  What starts with a T, ends with a T, and is full of T?

  What can be broken without being touched or seen?

  A man rode into town on Friday, stayed for three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do it?

  Take off my skin, I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?

  You see a house with the windows facing south, a bear walks by. What color is the bear?

  What can you catch, but not throw?

  What is tall when it’s young and short when it’s old?

  What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

  What can be seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?

  What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

  I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?

  What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

  What has one eye but cannot see?

  You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What am I?

  I am an odd number. Take away a letter, and I become even. What number am I?

  What has a bottom at the top?

  What is always coming but never arrives?

  What is often brown and always sticky?

  A plane crashes on the border of the United States and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?

  David’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and ____?

  Mary’s mother has four children: April, May, June, and ____?

  What flies without wings?

  You are in a pitch-black room with only one match. You have a candle, an oil lamp, and a gas stove. What do you light first?

  What travels around the world but stays in one spot?

  Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

  How many animals did Moses take on the Ark?

  What begins and has no end?

  What’s black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you’re all done with it?

  I have roots nobody sees and I am taller than my trees. What am I?

  What can you see that nobody else can see, and can destroy everything you see without a trace?

  What disappears once you say its name?

  What goes up and down but does not move?

  I’m alive without breath, and cold as death. I’m never thirsty but always drinking. What am I?

  What can be caught in a barrel, but not raised?

  I fly without wings, I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?

  What is always old and sometimes new, never sad and sometimes blue, never empty and sometimes full, never pushes and always pulls?

  What has many hearts that do not beat?

  What begins and has no end, and ends all that begins?

  What has a spine but no bones?

  I am the beginning of everything, the end of time and space. I am essential to creation and I surround every place. What am I?

  What makes you stop and scratch your head but can’t scratch itself?

  I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?

  I can fill a room but take up no space. What am I?

  What has a neck but no head?

  What has a face but no head, hands but no arms?

  I’m as light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?

  What has hands but can’t clap?

  What is at the end of a rainbow?

  What can’t be burned in fire, nor drowned in water?

  What has a foot but no legs?

  What seen is always old and sometimes shiny, but never new?

  What is fragile and falls but never gets hurt?

  What has teeth but can’t eat?

  What has four eyes but cannot see?

  What has no beginning, end, or middle?

  What can bring things to a standstill but also make time fly?

  A container sans hinges, key or lid; a golden treasure inside is hid.

  I build bridges of silver and crowns of gold. Who am I?

  I am not alive but can grow; I don’t have lungs but need air; I don’t have a mouth but can drown. What am I?

  What can you hold without touching or using your hands?

  I am alive without breath and cold as death. I am never thirsty but always drinking. What am I?

  If I drink, I die. If I eat, I am fine. What am I?

  What causes a room to become smaller?

  You can find me twice in a lifetime, but once in a year. What am I?

  What falls but never breaks, and what breaks but never falls?

 I am both a battlefield and a sanctuary, a cause of sadness and joy, the strongest force in the world, what am I?