45 Travel Riddles - Riddles about Travel
Funny Travel Riddles from the original Riddles website. These are the best Travel Riddles, jokes, and brain teasers for kids and adults. Entertain your classmates or share with your family.
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1. Which part of a road do Ghost's love to travel the most?
Answer: The Dead End.
2. What travels around the world but stays in one spot?
Answer: A stamp.
3. Why do skeletons go on vacations alone?
Answer: Because they have no-body to go with.
4. Which word is the odd one out: Seventy, Brawl, Clover, Proper, Carrot, Swing, Change, Travel, Sacred, Stone?
Answer: Carrot. When the first and last letters are removed from the other words, they still spell another word.
5. Where do TVs go on vacation?
Answer: To remote places.
6. On Christmas Eve, when Santa leaves his workshop at the North Pole, what direction does he travel?
Answer: South. If you're on the North Pole the only direction you can go is south.
7. I'm found in the sea and on land but I can't walk or swim. I travel by foot but I'm toeless. No matter where I go I'm never far from home. What am I?
Answer: A snail.
8. Where do wolves stay on vacation?
Answer: At a howliday inn.
9. There is a bus full of people travelling to San Francisco and no one gets off the bus throughout the journey. But when it gets to the other side there is not a single person left. How is this possible?
Answer: They are all married.
10. I soar without wings, I see without eyes. I've traveled the universe to and fro. I've conquered the world, yet I've never been anywhere but home. Who am I?
Answer: I'm your imagination.
11. I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing. What am I?
Answer: The letter T.
12. Trains travel from one town to another town all day, always on the same track, always going nonstop and at the same speed. The noon train took 80 minutes to complete the trip, but the 4 PM train took an hour and 20 minutes. Why?
Answer: 80 minutes is the same as an hour and 20 minutes.
13. What is always traveling, has life, has sense but doesn't live?
Answer: The Earth!
14. I am found in the sea and on land, but I do not walk or swim. I travel by foot, but I am toeless. No matter where I go, I'm never far from home. What am I?
Answer: A snail.
15. What fruit always travels in groups of two?
Answer: Pears.
16. Why did the tire need a vacation?
Answer: It couldn't take the pressure anymore?
17. What has a face, but no head; hands, but no feet; yet travels everywhere and is usually running?
Answer: A watch.
18. I am treated with great care until I reach my end by being torn in half. I'm a traveler. I bring both good and bad news. What am I?
Answer: An Envelope.
19. Where do crayons go on vacation?
Answer: Color-ado.
20. Where do fish go for vacation?
Answer: Fin-land.
21. How do rabbits travel?
Answer: By hare-plane.
22. What is the easiest way to throw a ball, have it stop, and completely reverse direction after traveling a short distance?
Answer: Toss it straight up in the air.
23. What tire goes on vacation?
Answer: A retire!
24. A trail, a union, together tied. Come across me and you will find, you cannot change the course I'm on, without me you can't travel on. What am I?
Answer: Railroad Tracks.
25. Where do zombies go on vacation?
Answer: The Dead Sea.
26. What is a vampires favorite boat to travel on?
Answer: A blood vessel.
27. You try to gain more of me with every coin. You travel every distance to obtain me. You try every illusion to believe you have me. What am I?
Answer: Freedom.
28. I hold a thousand voices, yet not one sound I make. I open doors to worlds though I never roam or break. In lines I travel paths, but never take a step— When you seek new places, I am the map you’ve kept. What am I?
Answer: A Book.
29. A light aloft alone in shadow, I light the way for paths you follow. What am I?
Answer: "Lampost" - Reasoning: Often, a street lampost will be a source of light above paths that are often travelled at night, hence it the reference to this lonely light guiding you on paths through the darkness.
30. A plane travels from Sydney to Beijing, leaving on Thursday 1:00pm, taking exactly 24hrs to travel. The plane lands at 10:00am. What happened with the plane?
Answer: Nothing. Beijing is 3hrs behind Sydney.
31. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp!
32. I hold countless voices that never speak, countless journeys that never move, and ask for quiet to share them all. What am I?
Answer: Library. "I hold countless voices that never speak": This refers to the vast number of books in a library. Each book contains the "voice" (ideas, stories, knowledge) of its author, but the physical book itself is silent. "countless journeys that never move": Books describe "journeys" (adventures, travelogues, fictional quests), but the books remain stationary on the shelves. The reader takes the journey through their imagination. "and ask for quiet to share them all": Libraries traditionally require a quiet atmosphere so that patrons can read, study, and focus on the material within the books without distraction.
33. Where do pencils go for vacation?
Answer: Pencil-vania XD.
34. While Sam was traveling, he saw a lake, a tree, and a city. What did he see?
Answer: Electricity.
35. A traveler starts a journey. For the first week he goes east. The second he goes in all directions. The third he flies up into the sky. In the fourth he comes back down. Who is the traveler?
Answer: An iceberg. It travels East as an iceberg, free flowing water when melted, flies up to sky when evaporated, falls back down as rain.
36. What do you call a leprechaun's vacation home?
Answer: A Lepre-condo.
37. Why isn't the moon a good vacation destintion?
Answer: It lacks atmosphere.
38. 1. Where do fish go on vacation? 2. Where do songbirds go on vacation? 3. Where do zombies go on vacation? 4. Where do Thanksgiving Birds go on vacation? 5. Where do geometry teachers go on vacation? 6. Where do locksmiths go on vacation?
Answer: 1. Finland 2. The Canary Islands 3. The Dead Sea 4. Turkey 5. Cuba 6. The Florida Keys
39. A 300 ft. train is traveling 300 ft. per minute must travel through a 300 ft. long tunnel. How long will it take the train to travel through the tunnel?
Answer: Two minutes. It takes the front of the train one minute and the rest of the train will take two minutes to clear the tunnel.
40. I stand in the corner of a building and I never move but my children travel everywhere. What am I?
Answer: A mailbox!
41. Peter celebrated his birthday on one day, and two days later his older twin brother, Paul, celebrated his birthday. How could this be?
Answer: When the mother of the twins went into labor, she was travelling by boat. The older twin, Paul, was born first, barely on March 1st. The boat then crossed a time zone, and the younger twin was born on February the 28th. In a leap year the younger twin celebrates his birthday two days before his older brother.
42. There were 5 men traveling down a road and it started to rain and 4 men sped up, the 5th did not, but they all arrived at the same place at the same time but all of them were wet besides the 5th. How?
Answer: He was dead and in a coffin.
43. A traveler came to the river side, with a donkey bearing an obelisk. But he did not venture to ford the tide, for he had too good an *. What is the missing word?
Answer: Asterisk = "Ass to Risk".
44. A man goes to work at the same time each day and travels part of his journey facing forwards and the remainder facing backwards. When he returns at the end of his working day, he only faces forwards. How can this be?
Answer: He works in the engine room of a liner! To get to work, he walks along the decks from his cabin facing forwards, and down the ladders between decks facing backwards. However, when he finishes, he only needs to face forwards to climb the ladders again and walk along the deck back to his cabin.
45. A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another?
Answer: 110 miles. (73037)
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