Funny Riddles with Answers
Nacho cheese, a cow at the moovies and a pen full of pigs, with the punch line one tap away.
- Time
- 10–30 min
- Players
- One or more people
- Best for
- Dinner tables, game nights and long drives
- Deck
- 100 riddles in 5 categories
How to use these funny riddles
- Pick a category from the menu under the card, or keep “All categories”.
- Read the riddle on the top card aloud and let everyone guess the punch line.
- Tap “Show answer”, then “Next riddle”, or swipe the card away, for another. Riddles do not repeat until you have seen the whole category.
- Tap the heart to save a riddle on this device, or tap “Make a 10-riddle list” to copy riddles with their answers.
When to play funny riddles
A funny riddle is over in seconds: one question, a few wild guesses and a punch line that gets a laugh or a groan. That makes it easy to slip into any gap in the evening, from the wait for dinner to the last few minutes on the couch.
Waiting for the food
Read a few Food puns while the pizza is in the oven. Someone always guesses “nacho cheese” before the card is finished.
A game night warm-up
Five Animal puns take a couple of minutes and get the whole room talking before the board or the cards come out.
A long drive
The passenger reads Groan-worthy wordplay aloud. These puns work by sound, so they need no screen, just a car full of people willing to groan.
Ways to play with funny riddles
Best wrong answer wins
One player reads a riddle, and everyone else calls out a guess before the answer is shown. If nobody gets it, the reader picks the funniest wrong guess, and that person reads the next card. A good wrong answer often beats the real pun.
Groan or laugh
Take turns reading one riddle each, answer included. After every punch line, the rest of the group either groans or laughs on a count of three. The reader keeps a tally of each, and the one who collects the loudest groan of the night gets to pick the next category.
Pun relay at the table
Pass the phone around the table during dessert. Each person reads one card from Food puns or Animal puns to the person on their left, who gets one guess before the reveal. Then the phone moves on, so everyone both asks and answers.
Tips for telling funny riddles
- Give the room a few seconds of silence before you tap “Show answer”. A pun lands harder when people have tried and missed.
- Say the punch line out loud slowly, like “open-toad sandals” or “a sham rock”. Many of these work by sound, so the answer needs to be heard.
- Start with Food puns or Animal puns, which most people get right away, and save Groan-worthy wordplay for when the group is warmed up.
All 100 funny riddles by category
The complete list, grouped by category. The cards above draw from the same list, so you can read ahead here and play there.
Food puns
Fruit, cheese, pasta and potatoes with a punch line, like the noodle that was only pretending.
- Why did the banana put on sunscreen?Answer: so it wouldn’t peel
- What do you call cheese that isn’t yours?Answer: nacho cheese
- What do you call a sad strawberry?Answer: a blueberry
- Why did the orange stop halfway up the hill?Answer: it ran out of juice
- What do you call a pepper on a cold winter day?Answer: chilly
- What do you call a potato wearing glasses?Answer: a spec-tater
- Why don’t eggs ever tell each other jokes?Answer: they’d crack each other up
- What do you call a noodle that’s only pretending?Answer: an impasta
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- How do you fix a pizza that’s fallen apart?Answer: with tomato paste
- What is a pretzel’s favorite dance move?Answer: the twist
- Why did the morning coffee taste like dirt?Answer: it was freshly ground
- Why did the melon jump into the lake?Answer: to become a watermelon
- How do you make a lemon drop?Answer: just let go of it
- Why was the cucumber so worried?Answer: it was in a pickle
- What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?Answer: a carrot
- Why do mushrooms get invited to every party?Answer: they’re such fun guys
- Why are grapes never lonely?Answer: they hang out in bunches
- Which vegetable do drummers like best?Answer: beets
- What did the bread do all weekend?Answer: it loafed around
- Why does lettuce always win the race?Answer: it’s a head
Animal puns
Cows at the movies, frogs in sandals and a dog that pulls rabbits out of hats.
- What do you call a bear with no teeth?Answer: a gummy bear
- What do you call a fish with no eyes?Answer: a fsh
- Where do cows go on a Saturday night?Answer: to the moovies
- What do you call a bull taking a nap?Answer: a bulldozer
- Why do bees have such sticky hair?Answer: they use honeycombs
- What do you call an alligator wearing a vest?Answer: an investigator
- What is a cat’s favorite color?Answer: purr-ple
- What kind of shoes do frogs wear in summer?Answer: open-toad sandals
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- What do you call a dog that does magic tricks?Answer: a labracadabrador
- Which snake is the best at math?Answer: an adder
- What do you call a big pile of kittens?Answer: a meowntain
- What do you get if you cross a sheep with a kangaroo?Answer: a woolly jumper
- Why won’t oysters share their pearls?Answer: they’re shellfish
- What do you call a fly without wings?Answer: a walk
- Why do seagulls fly over the sea and not the bay?Answer: then they’d be bagels
- What does a spider build once it gets online?Answer: a website
- What do you call a dinosaur with a huge vocabulary?Answer: a thesaurus
- What do you call a fish in a bow tie?Answer: sofishticated
- What do you call the horse that lives next door?Answer: your neigh-bor
- What did the duck say when it bought lip balm?Answer: “put it on my bill”
Silly what am I?
Things describe themselves with a twist: a jam you can’t spread, a pen that never writes.
- I’m a jam you can’t spread on toast, and nobody likes sitting in me. What am I?Answer: a traffic jam
- I’m a bug that never crawls, yet I make your computer act strange. What am I?Answer: a software bug
- I’m a pen that can’t write a word, but pigs love living in me. What am I?Answer: a pigpen
- I’m a pool nobody swims in, and you play me with a cue. What am I?Answer: pool, the game
- I’m a nail that has never met a hammer. What am I?Answer: a fingernail
- I’m a cap nobody can wear, and I sit on a mountaintop all winter. What am I?Answer: a snowcap
- I’m a bank that never holds a penny, and fish swim right past me. What am I?Answer: a riverbank
- I’m a match that never makes a flame, but crowds still cheer for me. What am I?Answer: a tennis match
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- I’m a drum nobody can play, and I live just inside your ear. What am I?Answer: an eardrum
- I’m a ring nobody wears, and I show up around the bathtub. What am I?Answer: a bathtub ring
- I’m a sole that never swims. You walk on me all day. What am I?Answer: the sole of a shoe
- I’m a mouse that never squeaks and never goes near cheese. What am I?Answer: a computer mouse
- I have a heel but no foot. I’m first out of the bread bag. What am I?Answer: the end of the loaf
- I’m a block that never gets stacked, yet writers get stuck behind me. What am I?Answer: writer’s block
- I’m a fork you can’t eat with. Drivers must pick a side. What am I?Answer: a fork in the road
- I’m a pitcher who has never thrown a single ball. What am I?Answer: a water pitcher
- I’m a trunk with no elephant and no tree, and I carry groceries home. What am I?Answer: a car trunk
- I’m a bat that never flies, and I spend my summers at the ballpark. What am I?Answer: a baseball bat
- I’m a spring with no water in me, and I make the bed bouncy. What am I?Answer: a mattress spring
- I’m a bow nobody ties, and I make a violin sing. What am I?Answer: a violin bow
Puns about everyday things
Bicycles, stairs, brooms, blankets and the moon, each one in on the joke.
- Why did the bicycle fall over?Answer: it was two-tired
- Why did the scarecrow win an award?Answer: outstanding in its field
- What did one wall say to the other wall?Answer: “meet you at the corner”
- Why did the golfer pack an extra pair of pants?Answer: for a hole in one
- What did the ocean say to the beach?Answer: nothing, it just waved
- Why can’t you trust the stairs?Answer: they’re always up to something
- Why did someone keep their money in the freezer?Answer: they wanted cold, hard cash
- What do you call a belt made of watches?Answer: a waist of time
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- Why are elevator jokes so good?Answer: they work on many levels
- What do you call a boomerang that won’t come back?Answer: a stick
- What did the paper say to the pencil?Answer: “write on!”
- Why was the broom late for work?Answer: it overswept
- What did the tree say when spring finally arrived?Answer: “what a re-leaf!”
- How does the moon cut its hair?Answer: eclipse it
- How do you plan a party in outer space?Answer: you planet
- What did the stamp say to the envelope?Answer: “stick with me”
- What do you call a can opener that doesn’t work?Answer: a can’t opener
- Why are basketball players such messy eaters?Answer: they’re always dribbling
- What did the blanket say to the bed?Answer: “I’ve got you covered”
- Why is it always so cool inside a stadium?Answer: it’s full of fans
Groan-worthy wordplay
Letters, sound-alikes and words read backward, like the cheese that is made in reverse.
- What kind of cheese is made backward?Answer: edam
- What’s the best thing about the flag of Switzerland?Answer: it’s a big plus
- Why did he finally start to like his beard?Answer: it grew on him
- Why did the invisible man turn down the job?Answer: couldn’t see himself doing it
- How do you make the number one disappear?Answer: add a G, it’s gone
- What do you call someone with a rubber toe?Answer: Roberto
- Why is the letter A like a flower?Answer: a B comes after it
- Why is the letter E so lazy?Answer: it’s always in bed
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- Why can’t a nose be twelve inches long?Answer: it would be a foot
- What do you call a factory that makes okay products?Answer: a satisfactory
- What did the pirate say on his eightieth birthday?Answer: “aye, matey”
- Why couldn’t she stop reading the book about anti-gravity?Answer: impossible to put down
- Why did the clock get asked to leave the library?Answer: it tocked too much
- What did the hat say to the scarf?Answer: “I’ll go on ahead”
- What’s the best way to watch a fly-fishing contest?Answer: live stream
- Why shouldn’t you write with a broken pencil?Answer: it’s pointless
- What do you call a fake stone in Ireland?Answer: a sham rock
- What did the left eye say to the right eye?Answer: “between us, something smells”
- What do you call a bee that can’t make up its mind?Answer: a maybe
- Why did the football coach go to the bank?Answer: to get his quarterback
Frequently asked questions
How many funny riddles are there?
There are 100 funny riddles, 20 in each of five categories: food puns, animal puns, silly what am I riddles, puns about everyday things and groan-worthy wordplay. Every riddle comes with its punch line, shown on the card when you tap “Show answer” and printed under it in the list on this page.
What makes a riddle funny?
Usually a pun or a twist the listener doesn’t see coming. A word means two things, like a match that never makes a flame, or a sound hides another word, like the dog that becomes a labracadabrador. The groan when the answer lands is part of the fun.
Are these riddles good for work or a family gathering?
Yes. They are about cheese, cows, stairs, brooms and letters of the alphabet, with no joke at anyone’s expense. A few Food puns make an easy warm-up at a team lunch, and Silly what am I? suits a mixed table of relatives.
Do you have riddles that make people think harder?
Yes. Riddles with answers has classic riddles about everyday objects, nature and words, and hard riddles saves the toughest ones for a group that wants a real challenge. For more laughs without a right answer, try funny would you rather questions.