70 Confusing Riddles with Answers (Updated Collection)

I fly without wings, I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness flies. 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?

I can fill a room, but I take up no space. You can snap me, but I am not a twig. What am I?

I am invisible, but you cannot live without me. I’m around you all the time, yet you rarely think of me. What am I?

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

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

I can travel around the world while staying in the same corner. What am I?

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

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

I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?

I am not alive, but I grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

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

I pass before the sun, yet I make no shadow. What am I?

I have a head, a tail, but no body. What am I?

I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?

I am not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have eyes, but once I did. What am I?

I run but never walk. I have a bed but never sleep. I have a mouth but never speak. What am I?

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

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

I have no life, but I can die. What am I?

I can be long or short; I can be grown or bought; I can be painted or left bare. What am I?

I am not a living thing, yet I grow. I do not have eyes, yet I once did. What am I?

I never was, am always to be, no one ever saw me, nor ever will. What am I?

I have seas with no water, coasts with no sand, towns without people, and mountains with no land. What am I?

I am lighter than air, but a hundred people cannot lift me. What am I?

I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have a heart, but I can die. What am I?

I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. What am I?

I am a word of letters three; add two, and fewer there will be. What am I?

I am always in front of you but cannot be seen. What am I?

I can be written in letters but never spoken, I can be broken but never repaired. What am I?

I have a neck but no head, two arms but no hands. What am I?

I am seen in the water if seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow but not in the rain. What am I?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

I can fly without wings, I can cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness flies. What am I?

I have keys but no locks, I have space but no room, You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?

I exist only when there’s light, but direct light kills me. What am I?

I have a bed, but I never sleep. I have a mouth, but I never speak. What am I?

I am always coming but never arrive. What am I?

I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they unlock your favorite tunes. What am I?

I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. 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?

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

I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?

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

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

I have a heart that never beats. I have a home but never sleep. I can take a man’s house and build another’s, and I love to play games with you. What am I?

I can be long or short; I can be grown or bought; I can be painted or left bare. What am I?

I am not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

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

I’m a fruit, but take away my first letter, and I become something to drink. What am I?

I can be a place or something you do to hair. What am I?

I’m something you measure, but if you add an “s” to my end, I become something you might do with a piece of fruit. What am I?

I am a word with five letters. Remove the first letter, and I am a place of rest. Remove the last letter, and I am a form of energy. What am I?

Add one letter to me, and I change from a boy to a man. What am I?

Change my first letter, and I’m a greeting. Change my last letter, and I’m a part of your head. What am I?

I can be a metal or a form of money, but remove one letter, and I become a sound. What am I?

I am a type of building, but if you rearrange my letters, I become a form of transportation. What am I?

I can be a fish, but if you remove my last letter, I become something you do to food. What am I?

Add an “s” to my front, and I become a type of pasta. What am I?

Change one letter in me, and I go from cold to hot. What am I?

I am a word that becomes shorter when you add two letters to me. What am I?

Remove one letter from me, and I become something you use to drive nails. What am I?

I am a type of fabric, but if you change my first letter, I become something you eat. What am I?

I am a word with a vowel sound at the start, but change my last letter, and I become something with wheels. What am I?

I am a place to sleep, but add a letter, and I become something to eat. What am I?

Take away my first letter, and I remain unchanged. Take away my last letter, and I still remain the same. What am I?

I am a word that contains a number, but when you add another number, I disappear. What am I?

Remove one letter, and I become something that is always on your face. What am I?

I am a word that sounds like a letter, but add another letter, and I become a piece of wood. What am I?