50+ "What Can" Riddles - Riddles that ask the Question "What Can?"
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1. Riddle: What can point in every direction but can't reach the destination...
What can point in every direction but can't reach the destination by itself?
Answer: Your finger or a compass.
2. Riddle: Heads Up
What can you catch but never throw?
Answer: A cold.
3. Riddle: Tricky Hands
What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
Answer: Your left hand!
4. Riddle: What can run but never walks Riddle
What can run, but never walk; has a mouth, but never talk; has a head, but never weeps; has a bed, but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.
5. Riddle: No Movement
What can go up and come down without moving?
Answer: The temperature.
6. Riddle: What holds water with holes
What can hold water even though it has holes?
Answer: A Sponge.
7. Riddle: What can be swallowed riddle
What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
Answer: Pride.
8. Riddle: Touching
What can be touched but can't be seen?
Answer: Someone's heart
9. Riddle: It Never Leaves You
What can be stolen, mistaken, or altered, yet never leave you your entire life?
Answer: Your identity.
10. Riddle: No Space Necessary
What can fill a room but take up no space?
Answer: Light.
11. Riddle: Picked by Not Chosen
What can be picked but not chosen?
Answer: A nose.
12. Riddle: Center of Gravity
What can you find in the center of gravity?
Answer: The letter V
13. Riddle: The Middle of March and April
What can be seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
Answer: The letter R.
14. Riddle: Riddle me this?
What can be lost, but not returned?
Answer: Life.
15. Riddle: Break without Holding
What can you break without holding it?
Answer: A promise.
16. Riddle: What can't be put into a saucepan?
What can't be put into a saucepan?
Answer: It’s lid.
17. Riddle: Never Out of Style
Fashions change but what can a person wear that is never out of style?
Answer: A smile.
18. Riddle: What Is More Precious Than a Ruby
What's more precious than ruby, more lasting than gold, what can never be traded stolen, or sold, What comes with great effort, takes time but then once yours will serve you again and again?
Answer: Knowledge.
19. Riddle: Runner But Not Walk
What can run but can't walk?
Answer: A refrigerator
20. Riddle: Fill a Room
What can fill a room and a bowl but not change shape?
Answer: Air.
21. Riddle: Can't Be Burned or Drowned
What can't be burned in fire, nor drowned in water?
Answer: Ice.
22. Riddle: Make a Barrel Lighter
What can you put in a barrel, that will make the barrel lighter?
Answer: A Hole.
23. Riddle: Use This Once and Then It's Gone
What can be used only once and after it's used it will be gone?
Answer: A bomb!
24. Riddle: Saved But Not Made, Taken But Not Giver
What can be saved but not made, can be taken but not given, can be short or long, and can be happy or sad?
Answer: Life.
25. Riddle: Walk On Me
What can climb mountains, cross streams, and handle hundreds of feet each day, yet never move? What is it?
Answer: A trail!
26. Riddle: Chew But Not Eat
What can chew, but can't eat?
Answer: A train.
27. Riddle: A Prisoner Stuck in a Room
A prisoner was stuck in a metal room with a metal door that was locked. There were no windows and nothing in the room but a piano. What can he do to escape?
Answer: Play the piano till he finds the right key.
28. Riddle: Wound Up But Never Annoyed
What can be forever wound up but never annoyed?
Answer: A jack in the box.
29. Riddle: What can you break without hitting or dropping it?
What can you break without hitting or dropping it?
Answer: A promise.
30. Riddle: Put In a Cup But Never Removed
What can be put in a cup, but never be taken out?
Answer: A crack.
31. Riddle: Held Without Hands
What can be held without hands but has to be let go?
Answer: A grudge.
32. Riddle: What Can Bring Back The Dead
What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant yet lasts a lifetime?
Answer: Memories.
33. Riddle: Throw But Never Catch
What can you throw but never catch and throw it again?
Answer: A tantrum!
34. Riddle: Cut Like A Knife
What can cut like a knife, sting like a bee, bite like a lion? Carry truth and lies but never move or speak. What are we?
Answer: Words.
35. Riddle: Forward or back?
What can go forward but never back?
Answer: Time.
36. Riddle: Bring Tears To Your Eyes
What can bring tears to your eyes, make you move faster, make you move slower, and knock you over?
Answer: The wind.
37. Riddle: Hear But Not See Or Touch
What can you hear, but not see or touch, even though you control it?
Answer: Your voice.
38. Riddle: Burn The Eyes and Sting The Mouth
What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?
Answer: Salt.
39. Riddle: Under Water, Under Fire, On Fire and Taking Water
What can be underwater, under fire, on fire, and taking water all at the same time?
Answer: Submarine. Underwater means in water. Under fire means getting shot at. On fire means burning. Taking water means water is flooding into or through something.
40. Riddle: Forgive and Forget
What can be given and can be accepted, is worth a great deal but costs nothing, yet has no monetary value?
Answer: An apology.
41. Riddle: What can be seen, but cannot be touched, and when put in a barrel, will make the barrel lighter?
What can be seen, but cannot be touched, and when put in a barrel, will make the barrel lighter?
Answer: A beam of light!
42. Riddle: Know your states
What can you find in Texas but not in the states of Ohio, Utah, or Iowa?
Answer: The vowel “e”.
43. Riddle: Opposition of permanence
I'm two for one, I speckle and I sparkle, I give and I take, and I come in many forms. Who or what can I be?
Answer: A present.
44. Riddle: Equals
If every second equals a minute every minute equals an hour every hour equals a day every day equals a month and every month equals a year. What can equal one year?
Answer: one second because one second equals everything to equal one year.
45. Riddle: Act of kindness
What can be done but not undone?
Answer: A rude word to someone.
46. Riddle: Hiker
What can someone do that a fish has?
Answer: Scale.
47. Riddle: Umbra y luz
What can emit an umbra on the earth, and provide phosphorescence for all its creatures, all while altering the visual surface of itself within phases?
Answer: The moon.
48. Riddle: What can only move by jumping?
What can only move by jumping?
Answer: The Knight chess piece.
49. Riddle: Prospect of the world
What can grasp the world's edges with great precision, yet always perceive the imagery as vague conceptions?
Answer: Peripheral vision.
50. Riddle: Oddity
What can double in number, but is still singular?
Answer: The letter U. It becomes "UU" or "W".
51. Riddle: The Prisoner
A prisoner is told, "If you tell a lie we will hang you; if you tell the truth we will shoot you." What can he say to save himself?
Answer: You will hang me.
52. Riddle: One Way Out
What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?
Answer: An umbrella.
53. Riddle: Catch me if you can
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
Answer: A Remark.
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