I remember feeling bored at home or school and wishing for something fun to do.
Thatâs when I discovered Riddles for Teenagers.
They are short, clever, and make your brain think while also making you laugh.
I wanted to share riddles that are easy, exciting, and perfect for teens like you â nothing too hard, nothing boring.
If youâre alone or with friends, these riddles are a fun way to challenge yourself and enjoy some smart laughs.
Let’s dive in!
Tricky Riddles for Teenagers
- Riddle: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
Answer: An echo - Riddle: What has keys but canât open locks?
Answer: A keyboard - Riddle: What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel - Riddle: What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
Answer: A stamp - Riddle: What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin - Riddle: What building has the most stories?
Answer: A library - Riddle: What has many teeth but canât bite?
Answer: A comb - Riddle: What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain - Riddle: What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold - Riddle: What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot - Riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole - Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge - Riddle: Iâm tall when Iâm young and short when Iâm old. What am I?
Answer: A candle - Riddle: What breaks but never falls, and what falls but never breaks?
Answer: Day breaks, night falls - Riddle: What has one eye but canât see?
Answer: A needle
Funny Riddles for Teenagers
- Riddle: What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: A cornfield - Riddle: Why did the math book look sad?
Answer: It had too many problems - Riddle: Why canât you give Elsa a balloon?
Answer: Because sheâll let it go - Riddle: What do you call fake spaghetti?
Answer: An impasta - Riddle: What do you call cheese that isnât yours?
Answer: Nacho cheese - Riddle: What runs but never walks?
Answer: Water - Riddle: Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Answer: He was outstanding in his field - Riddle: What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck - Riddle: What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom - Riddle: What has hands but canât clap?
Answer: A clock - Riddle: Why did the bicycle fall over?
Answer: It was two-tired - Riddle: What do you call a sleeping bull?
Answer: A bulldozer - Riddle: What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?
Answer: Frostbite - Riddle: Whatâs orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot - Riddle: Why couldnât the leopard hide?
Answer: Because he was spotted
Brain Teaser Riddles for Teenagers
- Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age - Riddle: What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle - Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light - Riddle: What goes through cities and fields but never moves?
Answer: A road - Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps - Riddle: What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed - Riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M - Riddle: What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window - Riddle: What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain - Riddle: What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke - Riddle: What moves faster: heat or cold?
Answer: Heatâbecause you can catch a cold - Riddle: What has rivers but no water?
Answer: A map - Riddle: What belongs to you but is used by others?
Answer: Your name - Riddle: What has a thumb and four fingers but isnât alive?
Answer: A glove - Riddle: What has roots that nobody sees and grows taller than trees?
Answer: A mountain
Easy Riddles for Teenagers
- Riddle: What color is the wind?
Answer: Blow - Riddle: What has legs but doesnât walk?
Answer: A table - Riddle: Whatâs full of air but canât fly?
Answer: A balloon - Riddle: What has a face but canât smile?
Answer: A clock - Riddle: What can be broken without being touched?
Answer: A promise - Riddle: What has stripes and goes up and down?
Answer: A zebra in an elevator - Riddle: What fruit can you never cheer up?
Answer: A blueberry - Riddle: What has a trunk but isn’t a car or an elephant?
Answer: A tree - Riddle: What runs but has no feet?
Answer: A river - Riddle: What gets shorter as it grows?
Answer: A pencil - Riddle: What has branches but no leaves?
Answer: A bank - Riddle: What can you serve but never eat?
Answer: A tennis ball - Riddle: What goes up when the rain comes down?
Answer: An umbrella - Riddle: What is always in front of you but canât be seen?
Answer: The future - Riddle: What has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river
Hard Riddles for Teenagers
- Riddle: I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but not go outside. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard - Riddle: What has cities but no people, forests but no trees, and seas but no water?
Answer: A map - Riddle: I turn once; what is out will not get in. I turn again; what is in will not get out. What am I?
Answer: A key - Riddle: You see me once in June, twice in November, but not in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter E - Riddle: What canât talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo - Riddle: What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book - Riddle: What begins with an E but only has one letter?
Answer: An envelope - Riddle: What flies without wings?
Answer: Time - Riddle: What has a heart but no organs?
Answer: A deck of cards - Riddle: What disappears as soon as you say its name?
Answer: Silence - Riddle: What has 88 keys but cannot play music?
Answer: A calculator - Riddle: What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone - Riddle: What room do ghosts avoid?
Answer: The living room - Riddle: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree - Riddle: What comes before work but after play?
Answer: The letter W
Outdoor Riddles for Teenagers
- Riddle: What has bark but isnât a dog?
Answer: A tree - Riddle: What has roots and can be tall but doesnât move?
Answer: A tree - Riddle: What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?
Answer: An icicle - Riddle: What goes up a hill but never comes down?
Answer: Your age - Riddle: What flies without wings and cries without eyes?
Answer: A cloud - Riddle: What grows when it eats but dies when it drinks?
Answer: Fire - Riddle: What has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river - Riddle: What can run but canât walk?
Answer: Water - Riddle: What has leaves but isnât a book?
Answer: A plant/tree - Riddle: What can be cracked and played outdoors?
Answer: A joke - Riddle: What has branches but no fruit?
Answer: A bank - Riddle: What is light as a feather but impossible to hold for long?
Answer: Your breath - Riddle: What roars but has no mouth?
Answer: Thunder - Riddle: What can fall from the sky but isnât rain?
Answer: Snow - Riddle: What shines brighter after itâs broken?
Answer: Dawn
Math Riddles for Teenagers
- Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven - Riddle: What weighs nothing but can be seen?
Answer: Your shadow - Riddle: If twoâs company and threeâs a crowd, what is four and five?
Answer: Nine - Riddle: What three numbers give the same result when added or multiplied?
Answer: 1, 2, and 3 - Riddle: What number is always tired?
Answer: 8 (it looks like itâs lying down) - Riddle: What number disappears when you add something to it?
Answer: Zero - Riddle: I am a number. If you add me to myself and divide by 2, nothing changes. What am I?
Answer: Any number - Riddle: What two numbers make ten when multiplied and five when added?
Answer: 2 and 3 â trick question! None do both. - Riddle: How many sides does a circle have?
Answer: Two â inside and outside - Riddle: What goes up by going down?
Answer: A seesaw - Riddle: What number stays the same, no matter how many times you multiply it?
Answer: Zero - Riddle: What is the next number? 1, 4, 9, 16, 25âŚ
Answer: 36 - Riddle: What number looks the same upside down?
Answer: 8 - Riddle: What number is spelled in alphabetical order?
Answer: Forty - Riddle: What number is spelled in reverse alphabetical order?
Answer: One
Mystery Riddles for Teenagers
- Riddle: A man was murdered on Sunday. His wife said she was sleeping, the cook said she was cooking, and the gardener said he was planting seeds. Who did it?
Answer: The cook â you donât cook on Sunday morning breakfast - Riddle: A girl goes 30 days without sleep. How?
Answer: She sleeps at night - Riddle: A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner heâs bankrupt. Why?
Answer: Heâs playing Monopoly - Riddle: A woman buys a parrot that immediately says, âWho did you murder?â Why?
Answer: It came from a detectiveâs house - Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps - Riddle: A man is found dead with no marks and surrounded by water. What happened?
Answer: He slipped on ice that melted - Riddle: What crime can be committed by accident?
Answer: Murdering time - Riddle: What gets bigger the more people take away from it?
Answer: A hole - Riddle: What key canât open a lock?
Answer: A monkey - Riddle: What always tells the truth even when it lies still?
Answer: A mirror - Riddle: What disappears in daylight and returns at night?
Answer: Shadows - Riddle: What breaks once you name it?
Answer: Silence - Riddle: A man describes his sisters as âtwo sisters, but I have many.â How?
Answer: He has sisters in a sorority - Riddle: A detective enters a room with water on the floor and broken glass. What happened?
Answer: A fishbowl broke - Riddle: What gets stolen but still stays with you?
Answer: Your identity
Conclusion
These riddles for teenagers bring the perfect blend of challenge, humor, mystery, and logic â guaranteed to keep teens engaged, thinking, and laughing.
If you’re using them in the classroom, during parties, or for bonding moments, this collection has a riddle for every mood and moment.
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