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20 word riddles (with answers) for your events

Looking for fun word puzzles for your birthday party or team-building event? These 20 word riddles are perfect for any gathering where you want people to connect. Clever, playful, and family-friendly, they’ll challenge players’ minds while keeping a good ambiance among your participants.

01. What must be broken before you can use it?

An egg

02. What can sleep upside down and hit balls?

A bat

03. What has one eye but cannot see?

A needle

04. What is worse than a full bottle?

A bottle that is half full (awful)

05. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?

Your right elbow

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

A keyboard

07. What has a neck but no head, and two arms but no hands?

A T-shirt

08. What do you call a bear with no teeth?

A gummy bear

09. I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

A candle

10. I start with the letter P and end with E, and I contain thousands of letters. What am I?

A post office

11. Which word is always spelled incorrectly?

“Incorrectly” (it’s literally spelled i-n-c-o-r-r-e-c-t-l-y)

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

Footsteps

13. Feed me and I grow, give me water and I die. What am I?

Fire

14. What has a face and two hands but no legs or feet?

A clock

15. What is full of holes but still holds water?

A sponge

16. I have cities with no people, mountains with no rocks, and rivers with no water. What am I?

A map

17. The more you take away, the bigger I become. What am I?

A hole

18. The more there is of me, the less you see. What am I?

Darkness

19. What can fly, swim, and walk all at the same time?

A duck

20. What has many pages of words but cannot speak or write?

A book

Some other riddles for your events

Word riddles are not the only type of puzzles you’ll find in my articles. I’ve also written other kinds of puzzles that are perfect for any event. Here’s a list:

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