The Riddle of the Day riddles are hand-selected by the staff at Riddles.com and featured for your enjoyment.  We only select the best riddles and brain teasers so you don't have to waste time sorting through thousands of classic riddles.

Riddle: A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I?
Answer: The daughter.
Comment
Riddle: Why was the chicken forbidden from sending e-mails?
Answer: Because he kept using fowl language.
Comment
Riddle: This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. What am I?
Riddle: What letters of the alphabet come too late for supper?
Answer: Those that come after T.
Comment

Green Glass Door

ROD: 03-07-2025

Riddle: Coffee can go in, but tea cannot. Riddles can go in, but questions cannot. Quizzes can go in, but surveys cannot. Spoons can go in, but forks cannot. Green can go in, but red cannot. Glass can go in, but plastic cannot. Doors can go in, but windows cannot. Why can some go through the green glass door and others can not?
Answer: Green Glass Door all have double letters.  Therefore, only the words with double letters can pass through the Green Glass Door!
Comment
Riddle: What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
Comment
Riddle: What starts with a T, ends with a T and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
Comment
Riddle: What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
Answer: A yardstick.
Comment

Far Off Color

ROD: 03-03-2025

Riddle: What is red and blue, and purple and green, No one can reach it, not even a Queen?
Answer: A Rainbow.
Comment

Struck By Light

ROD: 03-02-2025

Riddle: I hit the tall miss the small. In a flash I am gone. What am I?
Answer: Lightning.
Comment