Top 50+ Fun And Challenging October Riddles For Kids & Adults

Top 10 Spooktacular October Riddles for Halloween Fun

What kind of music do mummies listen to?
Answer: Wrap music.
Why did the ghost go to the party?
Answer: Because he heard it was going to be a “boo”-last!
What room does a ghost not need?
Answer: A living room.
What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
Answer: A sand-witch.
Why don’t skeletons fight each other?
Answer: They don’t have the guts.
What is a vampire’s favorite fruit?
Answer: A necktarine.
Why was the broom late?
Answer: It swept in!
Where does Count Dracula usually eat?
Answer: At the foo-dinner table.
What do you get when you cross a vampire and a snowman?
Answer: Frostbite.
Why did the ghost break up with his girlfriend?
Answer: He couldn’t handle the boo-sting!

I have a face but no eyes, hands but no arms. What am I?
Answer: A clock.
I’m found in October, but I’m not a month. I can be scattered but am often found together. What am I?
Answer: Leaves.
I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A joke.
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I may never escape. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
Answer: An echo.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter ‘m’.
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano.
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.

What do you call a witch’s garage?
Answer: A broom closet!
What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot!
What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: Corn.
Why did the vampire need mouthwash?
Answer: He had bat breath!
Why didn’t the skeleton go to the dance?
Answer: Because he had no body to dance with.
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
What runs around the yard without moving?
Answer: A fence.
Why did the zombie go to school?
Answer: He wanted to improve his “dead”ication!
What do you call a friendly ghost?
Answer: A boo buddy!
What did the scarecrow win an award for?
Answer: Being outstanding in his field!

What has keys but can’t open locks and can make beautiful music?
Answer: A piano.
I fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness flies. What am I?
Answer: A cloud.
What can you keep after giving it to someone?
Answer: Your word.
What’s full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge.
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope.
I am light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for 5 minutes. What am I?
Answer: Breath.
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
Answer: A map.
I am taken from a mine, and once my job is done, I am placed in a wooden case. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.

What type of tree fits in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree!
What do you get when you drop a pumpkin?
Answer: Squash.
What can you make that no one can see?
Answer: A shadow.
What is the tallest building in October?
Answer: The library, because it has the most stories!
What’s big, orange, and makes a lot of noise in October?
Answer: A pumpkin bomb!
What do ghosts wear when their eyesight gets bad?
Answer: Spook-tacles!
What do owls say when they have a problem?
Answer: “Who, who can help me?”
Why did the leaves go to school?
Answer: To get a little “leaf-ducation”!
What do spiders do on their computers?
Answer: Web browsing!
What is it that you can see through but is not a window?
Answer: A spider’s web!

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