40 Riddles for Teens

1. I fix your mistakes, but I shrink a little every time I do it. What am I?

2. I'm a tall metal box in the school hallway, and my combination is the one thing you forget after summer break. What am I?

3. I eat pencils all day but I'm never full, and I always give them back with a point. What am I?

4. I have a tail and I live on your desk, but the cat isn't interested in me. What am I?

5. I am a standardized picture character typed into digital text, like a smiley or thumbs-up. What am I?

6. I blink on the screen all day, waiting patiently for you to type something. What am I?

7. I replace a word automatically while you type, even when my guess is wrong. What am I?

8. I make the most important words glow on the page, but I can't read any of them. What am I?

9. I'm a little circle that spins and spins while your video refuses to play. What am I?

10. I buzz, ding and pop up on your screen whenever someone wants your attention. What am I?

11. I have four wheels and a deck, but no engine and no playing cards. What am I?

12. I am usually round, arrive in a square box, and wear tomato sauce and melted cheese. My slices are triangles. What am I?

13. I spin your food around in circles and beep when it's ready, sometimes still cold in the middle. What am I?

14. You feed me coins, I give you a snack, and sometimes I keep both. What am I?

15. The harder you land on me, the higher I send you back into the air. What am I?

16. I put tinted lenses over both your eyes to reduce glare, and some say I make you look cooler. What am I?

17. You can chew me for an hour, but you're never supposed to swallow me. What am I?

18. I have a net but I've never caught a fish, and I live on a backboard. What am I?

19. I go down, I come right back up, and I spend my whole life on a string. What am I?

20. I'm a bed with no legs, and I hang between two trees. What am I?

21. I have twelve inches, but I've never been king of anything. What am I?

22. Which word starts with IS, ends with AND, and has LA in the middle?

23. What road vehicle can start with gas in its tank and has a three-letter name?

24. What did the zero say to the eight?

25. What is an owl's favorite school subject?

26. What kind of tree is the best at math?

27. Why do math books always look so sad?

28. I'm a direction, I'm soft fluffy feathers, and I'm how you feel on a gloomy day. What word am I?

29. If a friend texts you L8R, what word are they spelling?

30. What do you call a boomerang that never comes back?

31. Which three different positive whole numbers give the same answer whether you add them or multiply them?

32. What number comes next: 2, 4, 8, 16, ...?

33. You walk into a dark cabin with a candle, a lamp and a fireplace, but you only have one match. What do you light first?

34. A rider arrives in town on Friday, stays three days and leaves on Friday. How is that possible?

35. In still air on level ground, how can you throw a ball so gravity brings it back without bouncing off anything?

36. When Maya was 6, her brother was half her age. Maya is 14 now. How old is her brother?

37. You walk one kilometer south, one kilometer east and one kilometer north, and end up exactly where you started. You see a bear. What color is it?

38. If you write down every number from 1 to 100, how many times do you write the digit 9?

39. Two current US coins add up to 30 cents, and one of them is not a nickel. What are the two coins?

40. A house has only a ground floor and no upper floor. Everything is yellow. What color are the stairs leading to its upper floor?