TriviaNo. 5866 · The 2026 edition
85 Halloween Riddles (With Answers)
Get ready to spook your friends with 85 hauntingly clever Halloween riddles that will test your wits and tickle your funny bone.
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This collection features 85 Halloween-themed riddles, perfect for parties, trick-or-treaters, or just scaring up some fun. Each riddle is designed to challenge and entertain, covering topics from ghosts and ghouls to pumpkins and witches.
About this
A Reader's Digest roundup of 85 Halloween riddles organized into themed sections, including a general/best set, easy riddles, and riddle groups about witches, vampires and monsters, closing with a batch of longer story-style riddles. Each riddle is paired with its answer, and the page is framed as family-friendly fun for jokes, texts and social media captions rather than true scares.
The list
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01
I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty. What am I?
A skull. (Best Halloween riddles)
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02
I have no feet to dance, I have no eyes to see, I have no life to live or die, but yet I do all three. What am I?
Fire.
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03
Who makes it, has no need for it. Whoever buys it won't use it. Who uses it, won't care. What am I?
A casket.
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04
I protect, I stand tall my purpose is to strike fear in all. What am I?
A scarecrow.
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05
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
Nothing.
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06
I'm tall when I'm young, I'm short when I'm old, and once a year, I make heavy pumpkins light. What am I?
A candle.
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07
I always leave a trace, so you can see where I've been. I have some extra legs, and I make people scream. What am I?
A spider.
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08
What makes skeletons strong and black cats purr with delight?
Milk.
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09
What is dead, cold, hard and surrounds a cemetery?
A fence.
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10
Who is old, has a white beard and performs magic but is forgotten on Halloween?
Santa Claus.
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11
What can be sour, sweet, hard or soft all at once?
Candy.
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12
One day a year, I am decorated in style and am the center of attention even when you make me into a pie. What am I?
A pumpkin.
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13
Where do you find Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson?
In the graveyard.
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14
I have hundreds of ears, but I can't hear a thing. What am I?
A cornfield.
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15
How do you spell candy in two letters?
C and Y.
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16
I have a head and no body. My smile lights up the night. What am I?
A jack-o'-lantern.
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17
Why are there fences around cemeteries?
Because people are dying to get in.
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18
A house of yore, a house by the street, a house of gore, riddled with elm trees. What am I?
The House on Elm Street.
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19
I am scary, and when you have more of me, you will see only less. What am I?
Darkness.
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20
We have no flesh, no feathers, no scales, no bones. We do have fingers and thumbs of our own. What are we?
Gloves.
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21
Look in my face, I am somebody. Look in my back, I am nobody. What am I?
A mirror.
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22
Why can't a man living in California be buried in Canada?
You don't bury the living.
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23
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
A deck of cards.
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24
When is it bad luck to see a black cat?
When you're a mouse. (Easy Halloween riddles)
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25
A man was shot in the heart. Nobody tries to save him and it doesn't kill him. What happened?
He was already dead.
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26
The more you take, the more of me there are. What am I?
Footsteps.
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27
You can hear me, feel me and know that I'm there. But you'll never ever ever find me. What am I?
The wind.
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28
Each morning, I appear to lie at your feet. All day I will follow no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish in the midday sun.
A shadow.
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29
Read me or write me, I'm good for a fright. I can be spooky, but I'm best told at night. What am I?
A scary story.
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30
This is a common little bug That many people fear This fear has a special name It's arachnophobia What am I?
A spider.
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31
You can get your jack-o'-lantern here, or you can use it to fix a hole in your pumpkin. What is it?
A pumpkin patch.
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32
This place has hardly any lights, but a lot of creaking floors. There are all kinds of strange noises and some random slamming doors. What is it?
A haunted house.
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33
What's the problem with twin witches?
You never know which witch is which. (Witches)
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34
Often used by witches to cast their spell a slimy creature am I, and ugly as well. What am I?
A toad.
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35
What is red, juicy and delicious but could be poisonous that is offered by the wrong witch?
Snow White's apple.
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I'm thought to bring bad luck, I blend in the night and I'm known to mingle with witches. What am I?
A black cat.
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