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Top 10 Fun Volunteer Riddles for Team Building Activities
- What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer: A clock.
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A joke.
- What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke.
- I’m full of holes, but I can hold water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge.
- What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
- What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
- 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.
- I am light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Breath.
- I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
Answer: An echo.
Clever Volunteer Riddles to Challenge Your Friends
- What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano.
- What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel.
- What has many teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb.
- I can travel around the world while staying in a corner. What am I?
Answer: A stamp.
- What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence.
- The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.
- What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age.
- I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone, and cities with no buildings. What am I?
Answer: A map.
- What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table.
- What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
Engaging Volunteer Riddles for Community Events
- What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
- What has words, but never speaks?
Answer: A book.
- I can be long or short; I can be grown or bought; I can be painted or left bare. What am I?
Answer: A nail.
- I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
Answer: A river.
- What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
Answer: Your left hand.
- What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny.
- I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
- What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
- What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.
- What is at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The letter ‘W’.
Educational Volunteer Riddles to Inspire Learning
- I fly without wings, I cry without eyes. What am I?
Answer: A cloud.
- I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
- What can be broken, but is never held?
Answer: A promise.
- What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
- I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank.
- What begins with an E, ends with an E, but only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope.
- What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
- I can be long, I can be short; I can be grown or bought. What am I?
Answer: I’m a hair.
- What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter ‘M’.
- What begins with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?
Answer: The post office.
Family-Friendly Volunteer Riddles for All Ages
- What has wheels and flies, but is not an airplane?
Answer: A garbage truck.
- What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot.
- What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A potato.
- Why did the kid bring a ladder to school?
Answer: Because he wanted to go to high school!
- What is kind of cool but can also bring a storm?
Answer: A fan.
- If a rooster lays an egg on the top of a barn, which way does it roll?
Answer: Roosters don’t lay eggs!
- Why are ghosts bad liars?
Answer: Because you can see right through them!
- What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.
- What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard.
- Why don’t skeletons fight each other?
Answer: They don’t have the guts!