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Riddles
Riddles are the dad joke's older, cleverer cousin: same setup, but the audience gets to guess before the reveal. Read each one aloud, let everyone shout their guesses, and only then tap the card to check the answer. No peeking — the thinking is the fun part.
I have keys all over me, but I can't open a single lock. What am I?
A piano.
I have a face and two hands, but no arms and no legs. What am I?
A clock.
I run all day but never walk, I have a mouth but never talk, and I have a bed but never sleep. What am I?
A river.
The more I dry, the wetter I get. What am I?
A towel.
I have rows of teeth, but I cannot bite. What am I?
A comb.
I belong entirely to you, yet your friends use me more than you do. What am I?
Your name.
What can you catch, but you can never throw?
A cold.
I have a head and a tail, but no body at all. What am I?
A coin.
What goes up every single year but never comes back down?
Your age.
I have plenty of eyes, yet I cannot see a thing. What am I?
A potato.
I have exactly one eye, but I still can't see. What am I?
A needle.
What can fill an entire room without taking up any space?
Light.
The more you take away from me, the bigger I grow. What am I?
A hole.
I have a long neck, but no head at all. What am I?
A bottle.
Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?
“Incorrectly.”
What can travel all the way around the world and still stay in its corner?
A postage stamp.
I have a thumb and four fingers, but I'm not alive. What am I?
A glove.
What comes down out of the sky but never, ever goes back up?
The rain.
I have pages full of words, but I have never spoken once. What am I?
A book.
You can find me once in a minute, twice in a moment, and not once in a thousand years. What am I?
The letter M.
I'm full of holes from top to bottom, yet I still hold water. What am I?
A sponge.
I have bark, but I never bite or make a sound. What am I?
A tree.
The more steps you take with me, the more of me you leave behind. What am I?
Your footsteps.
What can you hold in your left hand but never in your right hand?
Your own right elbow.
I begin with T, I end with T, and I have T inside me. What am I?
A teapot.
Telling them well
House rule that keeps riddles fun: the teller must give the guessers at least thirty honest seconds before revealing. The letter M (number 20) has defeated entire carloads — use it on long drives.
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25 riddles on this one — 25 waiting on each of the others.