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?
02. What can sleep upside down and hit balls?
03. What has one eye but cannot see?
04. What is worse than a full bottle?
05. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
06. I have keys but open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but can’t go outside. What am I?
07. What has a neck but no head, and two arms but no hands?
08. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
09. I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
10. I start with the letter P and end with E, and I contain thousands of letters. What am I?
11. Which word is always spelled incorrectly?
12. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
13. Feed me and I grow, give me water and I die. What am I?
14. What has a face and two hands but no legs or feet?
15. What is full of holes but still holds water?
16. I have cities with no people, mountains with no rocks, and rivers with no water. What am I?
17. The more you take away, the bigger I become. What am I?
18. The more there is of me, the less you see. What am I?
19. What can fly, swim, and walk all at the same time?
20. What has many pages of words but cannot speak or write?
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:
- 20 famous lateral thinking riddles and their answer
- 15 Challenging Logic Puzzles and Their Answers
- 22 best Visual Riddles to challenge your brain
- 28 Find-the-Intruder Puzzles for Events, Team-building, and Family
- 20 math riddles (with answers) to challenge your minds
- 30 funny riddles (with answers) to make your audience laugh
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