Water Riddles

Here you find our popular collection of water riddles and other interesting and fun water puzzles and brain teasers of all kinds. To solve the puzzles, you have to let your imagination run wild and see beyond logic to find the correct answer!

Give me food, and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What am I?
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Fire
Category: What I AmTopics: Fire, Food, Water

I am the biggest alphabet, as I contain the most water in the world. Who am I?
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Alphabet 'C'
Category: Letter Riddles, Who Am ITopics: Water

If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
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Wet
Category: Riddles for KidsTopics: Color, Water

If you were swimming in the ocean and a big alligator attacked you, what should you do?
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Nothing. There are no alligators in the ocean.
Category: Sporting RiddlesTopics: Alligator, Water

Large as a mountain, small as a pea,
Endlessly swimming in a waterless sea.
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Asteroids
Category: Classical riddlesTopics: Mountains, Water

Red through and through, it has no mouth. But it eats many things; it fears water but not wind.
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Fire
Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Color, Fear, Water

Small boats, 5 guests in each; sail on land but never on water; Busy during the daytime, anchored at night. What I Am?
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Shoes
Category: Miscellaneous Riddles, What I AmTopics: Clothing, Water

Wash it and it isn't clean. Don't wash it and then it's clean. What I Am?
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Water
Category: Miscellaneous Riddles, What I AmTopics: Water

What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
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A River
Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Water

What do you get if you pour boiling hot water down a rabbit hole?
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Hot cross bunnies.
Category: Animal RiddlesTopics: Rabbit, Water

What has five eyes, but cannot see?
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The Mississippi River.
Category: Classical riddlesTopics: Eyes, Water

What has holes all around, but can still hold water?
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A Sponge
Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Hole, Water

What is neither water nor land, and is always soaking wet?
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Wetlands
Category: Science RiddlesTopics: Land, Water

What is the healthiest kind of water?
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Well water.
Category: Medical RiddlesTopics: Water

What’s full of holes but still holds water?
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A sponge
Category: Easy RiddlesTopics: Water

Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
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The C
Category: Letter RiddlesTopics: Water

You are right next to a river and have a 5 gallon container and a 3 gallon container. You need to measure out 1 gallon of water. How do you do it?
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Fill up the 3 gallon container first. Pour it into the five gallon container. Fill up the 3 gallon container again, and fill up the rest of the 5 gallon container, and you should have 1 gallon left over in the 3 gallon container.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Water

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