A good riddle can stump high school students while making them laugh. Trying to solve these problems and find the answers stimulates creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. It’s also fun! Want to share some riddles with the class? Here is a list of riddles that high school students can use to bring some life into the classroom.
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Classic riddles for high school students
1. Which month has 28 days?
All months have 28 days!
2. What should be destroyed before use?
an egg.
3. The tree is my home, but I never go inside. When I fall from the tree, I die. What am I?
A leaf.
4. I have hands, but I can’t hold your hand. I have a face but I can’t smile at you. What am I?
a clock.
5. I don’t have a door, but I have a key. I don’t have a room, but I have space. You can enter, but you can’t leave. What am I?
A keyboard.
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6. If you dropped me on the ground, I would survive. But if you throw me into the water, I will die. What am I?
Paper.
7. What has a top and a bottom?
your legs.
8. You can hear my voice, but you can’t see or touch me. What am I?
a voice.
9. What does it mean to read it in black and white?
A newspaper.
10. How can a person go eight days without sleeping?
He sleeps at night.
11. You live in a one-story house made entirely of redwood. What color are the stairs?
There are no stairs – this is a one-story house.
12. What do you find at the end of a line?
The letter “e”.
13. Name three consecutive days of the week that are not.
Yesterday, today, tomorrow.
14. There were two fathers and two sons in a car. How many people are in the car?
Three people – grandfather, father and son.
15. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you will die. what is it?
there is nothing.
16. Which five-letter word sounds the same when written in all caps, right side up or upside down?
Swimming information management system.
17.What has a thumb and fingers but is not alive?
A glove.
18. What thing can hold water even though it is riddled with holes?
A sponge.
19. A man shaves all day long, but he keeps a beard. how?
He is a barber.
20.What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin.
21. What becomes wetter when it dries out?
A towel.
22.What has a neck but no head?
One bottle.
23. What cannot be withheld until given?
A promise.
24. What only rises but never falls?
your age.
25. When I was young, I was very tall. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten shorter. What am I?
A candle.
26. What has a mouth but cannot eat, can run but has no legs?
a river.
27.What has branches but no leaves or fruit?
a bank.
28. What has 13 hearts but no brain?
A pack of playing cards.
29. What can speak without a mouth, or reproduce without a body?
An echo.
30.What has no beginning, end or middle?
A circle.
31.What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
A hole.
32. What would you put on the table, cut up, but never eat?
A pack of playing cards.
33. What breaks it when you say its name?
silence.
34. In which month do people get the least sleep?
February – has the fewest days.
35. The person who buys me cannot use me, and the person who uses me cannot buy me or see me. What am I?
A coffin.
36. You can hear my voice, but you can’t see me. I won’t speak until you speak. What am I?
An echo.
37. I am hard to find, hard to leave, and impossible to forget. What am I?
a friend.
38. I have seas without water, mountains without land, and towns without people. What am I?
A map.
39. What can be caught but not thrown?
Got a cold.
40. When you have me, you want to share me. But if you share me, you no longer have me. What am I?
A secret.
41. What travels all over the world but only stays in one place?
A stamp.
42.What has one eye but cannot see?
A needle.
43. Everyone has me, but no one can lose me. What am I?
A shadow.
44. There was a plane crash and everyone died. Who survived?
couple.
45. What invention allows you to see through walls?
a window.
46. They were not called when they came out at night, nor were they lost or stolen during the day. What are these?
Star.
47. What has four legs but can’t walk?
a table.
48.What rises when it rains?
An umbrella.
49. I am your mother’s brother’s brother-in-law. who I am?
your father.
50. What has a tongue but never talks, or has no legs but sometimes walks?
A shoe.
51. Born in an instant, I tell all the stories. I may be lost, but I will never die. What am I?
A memory.
52. With shining fangs, my bloodless bite will hold most of the white stuff together. What am I?
stapler.
53. A plane crashes on the U.S.-Canada border. Where did they bury the survivors?
There is no escape – the survivors are still alive.
54. What can you hold with your right hand but not with your left hand?
your left hand.
55. What is always in front of you but you can’t see it?
future.
56. What thing can’t bite you even though it has many teeth?
A comb.
57. The same mother gave birth to two boys at the same time, but they were not twins. How is this possible?
They are two triplets.
58.What is purple and smells a lot like green paint?
Purple paint.
59. Veronica’s birthday is February 3rd, but her birthday is in the summer. How is this possible?
She lives in the Southern Hemisphere.
60. The more things you encounter, the less you can see. what is it?
dark.
61. Get rich by wine, die by water. What am I?
fire.
Food and Drink Riddles for High School Students
62. I am layered and if you peeled off my skin, I would make you cry. What am I?
an onion.
63. You throw away the outside, cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. what is it?
Corn on the cob.
64. My first letter was written in chocolate, not ham. My second letter was in cakes and jam, my third letter was in tea, but not coffee. What am I?
a cat.
65. You sleep at home alone. Your friend rings the doorbell. They came to have breakfast. You have cornflakes, bread, jam, a carton of milk and a bottle of juice. What would you open first?
your eyes.
66. How to throw a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without it cracking?
Concrete floors are difficult to crack.
67. I am made of water, but when you put water on me I will die. What am I?
ice.
68. When should you walk on a red light or stop on a green light?
When eating watermelon.
69. I am a bird, I am a fruit, I am a person. What am I?
A kiwi.
70. I am a fruit with seeds outside. What am I?
A strawberry.
71. I am a cookie that you might like to eat, I have brown arms and eyes, don’t forget my feet. What am I?
A gingerbread man.
Math and Science Riddles for High School Students
72. If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What’s the number?
zero.
73. An apple is 40 cents, a banana is 60 cents, and a grapefruit is 80 cents. How much does a pear cost?
40 cents. The price of each fruit is calculated by multiplying the number of vowels by 20 cents.
74. Find a number less than 100 whose value increases by one-fifth when its digits are reversed.
45 (1/5*45 = 9, 9+45 = 54)
75. Which is heavier, a pound of iron bars or a pound of feathers?
They weigh the same.
76. An electric train travels from east to west, and the wind blows from north to south. In which direction does the smoke drift?
None – Electric trains produce no smoke.
77. It’s lighter than a feather, but you can’t hold it for more than two minutes. what is it?
your breath.
78. I can fill a room without taking up any space. What am I?
Light.
79. I lift easily but have a hard time throwing. What am I?
A feather.
80. I am smooth as silk and can be hard or soft. I fell but couldn’t get up. What am I?
rain.
81. If you passed the person in second place in a race, where would you be?
second.
82. I am heavy forward, but not heavy backward. What am I?
ton.
83. I can be hot, I can be cold, I can run, I can be still, I can be hard, I can be soft. What am I?
water.
84. Feed it and it will live. Give it water and it will die. what is it?
fire.
85. Born in the sea, as white as snow, it disappears without a trace when it falls into the water. What am I?
Salt.
86. What can you eat to eat a lot of iron without getting sick?
rust.
87. I know a word that contains six letters. Remove 1 letter and 12 remain. what is it?
Dozens.
animal riddles
88. A woman built a house with four walls facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?
White. It’s a polar bear because if all the walls face south, then this must be the North Pole.
89. I have a head like a cat and feet like a cat, but I am not a cat. What am I?
A kitten.
90. A farmer was walking to his field and he saw three frogs sitting on the shoulders of two rabbits. Three parrots and four mice came running toward him. How many legs go to the fields?
A pair – a farmer’s.
91. How to spell the 13-letter “cow”?
CEE O Double you.
92. What jumps when you walk and sits when you stand?
A kangaroo.
93. I sleep during the day and fly at night, but I have no feathers to help me fly. What am I?
A bat.
94. I am an animal named after the animal I eat. What am I?
Anteater.
95. My wings are used as flippers so I can swim in the water. Sometimes when I’m on land, I slide on my stomach in the snow. What am I?
A penguin.
96. The strangest creature you’ve ever seen: two eyes in the front and more in the back. What am I?
A peacock.
High school students school and learning riddles
97. How many books can an empty backpack hold?
one. After that it is no longer empty.
98. What is the longest word in the dictionary?
Smile, because there’s a mile between each “s.”
99. Where is the divorce before marriage?
in the dictionary.
100. What starts with P, ends with X, and has hundreds of letters in between?
A mailbox.
101. What is to be found at the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, and the beginning of every end?
The letter “e”.
102.What vehicle is a palindrome?
Racing.
103. There is only one misspelled word in the dictionary. what is it?
Wrong.
104.What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
A teapot.
105. What becomes clearer the more you use it?
your brain.
106. Which English word has three consecutive double letters?
Accounting.
107. What becomes shorter when two letters are added?
The word “short”.
108. What is something you can find in a minute or an hour but not in a day or a month?
The letter “u”.
109. What is the only English word with “ii” in it?
ski.
110. What is the only English word containing “uu”?
vacuum.
111. Kate’s mother has four daughters: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and _____. What is the name of the fourth daughter?
Kate.
Holiday and Seasonal Riddles
112. I am a cookie that you might like to eat, I have brown arms and eyes, don’t forget my feet. What am I?
A gingerbread man.
113. I have many doors opened every day. There is a little surprise inside each one. What am I?
Advent calendar.
114. Before I am seen, I am covered and torn for use. What am I?
A wrapped gift.
115. I arrived at midnight without the sound of footsteps, and my first thing was to change every calendar. What am I?
New Year.
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