Ridiculous Riddles

What has to be broken before you can use it?

• egg

• apple

• book

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

• children

• candles

• elavatores

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

• air

• future

• present

What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?

• egg

• tissue

• promise

What goes up but never comes down?

• age

• escalators

• sun

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

• a beard

• a barber

• a man

What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?

• man

• piano

• door

What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?

• a mattress

• a whiteboard

• a black board

I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?

• muscle

• feather

• breath

If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?

• a secret

• a promise

• a dog