Short Riddles

Short riddles with answers are most often just one or two sentences long. But don’t be fooled, these short riddles could be very tricky as well.

Until I Am Measured, I Am Not Known

Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me when I have flown. What am I?

Riddle Answer

Take One out and Scratch My Head

Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?

Riddle Answer

Many Have Heard Me

Many have heard me but nobody has seen me and I will not speak back until spoken to. What am I?

Riddle Answer

Fasten to Walk and Unfasten to Stop

I fasten it and it walks. I unfasten it and it stops. What is it?

Riddle Answer

100 Using 4 Sevens

Can you take 4 7’s and arrange them with any math symbols needed to make the total be 100?

Riddle Answer