Party Icebreakers
20 riddles — 20 riddles perfect for breaking the ice at parties and gatherings.
Riddle #1
You are awoken at 3 A.M. by a knock on your door. Your parents call you to let you know that they are there for breakfast. You are confused but quickly think of what food you have. You have bread, jam, butter, and eggs. What do you open first?
Easy · logic
Riddle #2
I can be the book one can never finish reading. What am I?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #3
What has a neck but no head?
Easy
Riddle #4
The Pope has it but he does not use it.
Your father has it but your mother uses it.
Nuns do not need it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one,
Michael J. Fox's is quite small.
What is it?
Easy
Riddle #5
Mary's father has 4 children; three are named Nana, Nene, and Nini. So what is the 4th child's name?
Easy
Riddle #6
I'm tall when I'm young, I'm short when I'm old. What am I?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #7
What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
Easy
Riddle #8
You saw me where I never was and where I could not be. And yet within that very place, my face you often see. What am I?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #9
I have a head but no body, a heart but no blood. Just leaves and no branches, I grow without wood. What am I?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #10
At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen.
What is it?
Easy
Riddle #11
There was a plane crash every single person died. Who survived?
Easy · logic
Riddle #12
If you blow past your destination, you'll have to throw your car into this.
Easy
Riddle #13
A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half an hour. How long will the pills last?
Easy · logic
Riddle #14
I run all around the pasture/field
But never move.
What am I?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #15
If you know me then I am nothing, but if you don't, then I am something
What am I?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #16
If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?
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Easy · funny
Riddle #17
Precious stones in a pack of cards
Easy
Riddle #18
What happens only in the middle of each month, in all of the seasons, except summer and happens only in the night, never in the day?
Easy
Riddle #19
Marble walls as white as milk, lined with skin as soft as silk, in a fountain crystal clear, a golden apple will appear, there is no key to this stronghold, yet thieves break in and steal the gold. What is it?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #20
Where everyone wants to run home and stealing is encouraged.
Easy
Answers
1. The door for your parents.
2. Autobiography
3. A bottle
4. Last name
5. Mary
6. Candle / Pencil
7. A Road
8. A reflection
9. Lettuce
10. Dreams and Stars
11. Married couples
12. Reverse
13. One hour. If you take the first pill at 1:00, the second at 1:30, and the third at 2:00, the pills have run out and only an hour has passed.
14. A fence
15. A riddle
16. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big one.
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17. Diamonds
18. The letter 'n'.
19. An egg
20. Baseball