Test Your Mental Mettle With These Fab Riddles

1. Everybody has me but I’m impossible to lose. What am I?

Shadow
Money
Hair
Skin

2. What tree do we all carry in our hands?

Cedar
Oak
Eucalyptus
Palm

3. The person who made it doesn’t want it, the person who paid for it doesn’t need it, and the person who needs it doesn’t know it. What is it?

A cake
A car
A meal
A coffin

4. I can’t be seen, but I can be heard. I won’t answer until spoken to. What am I?

A dream
Echo
Children
A voice

5. What gets thrown out when it’s needed, but stored away when it’s not?

A message in a bottle
Garbage
Anchor
The ship's captain

6. What has branches, but no bark?

A dog pound
A library
A car
A forest

7. I start with M and end with X and have an infinite number of letters. What am I?

Mix
Minx
Mailbox
Marx

8. In a house, what room do ghosts avoid?

The living room
The study
The kitchen
The bathroom

9. You can see me, but I weigh nothing. If you put me in a bucket of water, I’ll make it lighter. What am I?

A mop
Sand
A hole
Water

10. What has 13 hearts, but no other organ?

A soccer team
A science lab
A deck of cards
An operating theatre

11. I often run, but I don’t have legs. I don’t need you, but you need me. What am I?

Athlete
Water
A movie
Ladder

12. What is it that nobody wants, but nobody wants to lose, either?

Love
Car keys
Lawsuit
None of these

13. What has 42 eyes and 12 faces?

An alien
A hockey team
Your mother-in-law
A pair of dice

14. I have a head, but I don’t have a body. I have leaves, but no branches. What am I?

Book
Oak Tree
Bonsai
Lettuce

15. I start off dry but emerge wet. I go in light but emerge heavy. What am I?

Rice
Powder
Swimmer
Tea Bag