Unlocking Curiosity: Riddles for Mindful Engagement

8.What can fill a room but doesn’t take up space?

9.Where are the lakes always empty, the mountains always flat and the rivers always still?

10.A man looks at a painting and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting?

Answers:

1. Your name
2. Compass
3. A cold
4. A teapot
5. A deck of cards
6. Trouble
7. An onion
8. Light
9. A map
10. His son

List 2:

1. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
2. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
3. Lighter than a feather, there’s nothing in it, but the strongest man can’t hold it for more than a few minutes.
4. What has legs but cannot walk?
5. If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
6. Where would you take a sick boat?
7. What question can you never answer yes to?
8. If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but smile at me, and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
9. I can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard? What am I?
10. What kind of band never plays music?
11. Bob’s mother has three children. Their names are Huey, Dewey, and … ?
12. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
13. What is powerful still so delicate that it breaks when you say its name?
14. I can be cracked. And I can be made. I can be told. And I can be played. What am I?
15. What is made of water, but if you put it into water it vanishes?
16. What has to be broken before you can use it?
17. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

Answers:

1. A piano
2. The future
3. Breath
4. A chair
5. Nine!
6. To the dock
7. Are you asleep yet?
8. A mirror
9. A barber
10. A rubber band
11. Bob
12. Lunch and dinner.
13. Silence
14. A joke
15. An ice cube.
16. An egg!
17. A clock!