Looking for paheliyan in English? These are 35 popular English riddles (paheliyan) with answers – and every answer also has its Hindi meaning, so kids and students can enjoy them and learn English at the same time.
अंग्रेज़ी में पहेलियाँ ढूँढ रहे हैं? यहाँ हैं 35 आसान English paheliyan, हर उत्तर के साथ हिंदी अर्थ भी – बच्चों और छात्रों के लिए English सीखने का मज़ेदार तरीक़ा।
Contents
- Easy Paheliyan in English
- Tricky Paheliyan in English
- Word Paheliyan (English Wordplay)
- More Paheliyan and Riddles
- Frequently Asked Questions
Easy Paheliyan in English
1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
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Egg (हिंदी: अंडा)
2. What has hands but cannot clap?
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Clock (हिंदी: घड़ी)
3. What has a neck but no head?
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Bottle (हिंदी: बोतल)
4. What gets wetter the more it dries?
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Towel (हिंदी: तौलिया)
5. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
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Piano (हिंदी: पियानो)
6. What can you catch but never throw?
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A cold (हिंदी: ज़ुकाम (सर्दी))
7. What has one eye but can’t see?
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Needle (हिंदी: सुई)
8. What goes up but never comes down?
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Your age (हिंदी: उम्र)
9. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
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Table (हिंदी: मेज़)
10. What is full of holes but still holds water?
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Sponge (हिंदी: स्पंज)
11. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
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Candle (हिंदी: मोमबत्ती)
12. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
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Glove (हिंदी: दस्ताना)
13. What has teeth but cannot bite?
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Comb (हिंदी: कंघी)
14. What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
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Your name (हिंदी: आपका नाम)
15. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
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A stamp (हिंदी: डाक टिकट)
Tricky Paheliyan in English
16. What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
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A map (हिंदी: नक्शा)
17. What comes down but never goes up?
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Rain (हिंदी: बारिश)
18. What has a head and a tail but no body?
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A coin (हिंदी: सिक्का)
19. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
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Light (हिंदी: रोशनी)
20. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
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The future (हिंदी: भविष्य)
21. What flies without wings?
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Time (हिंदी: समय (Time flies!))
22. What do you throw out when you want to use it, and take in when you don’t?
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An anchor (हिंदी: लंगर (जहाज़ का))
23. What starts with T, ends with T and has T in it?
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A teapot (हिंदी: चायदानी (Tea-pot – अंदर ‘tea’ है))
24. What is black and white and read all over?
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A newspaper (हिंदी: अख़बार (‘read’ और ‘red’ एक जैसे सुनाई देते हैं))
25. What can you hear but not touch or see?
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Your voice / sound (हिंदी: आवाज़)
26. Which month has 28 days?
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All of them (हिंदी: सभी महीने – हर महीने में कम से कम 28 दिन होते हैं)
27. Poor people have it, rich people need it, and if you eat it you die. What is it?
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Nothing (हिंदी: कुछ नहीं)
Word Paheliyan (English Wordplay)
These English paheliyan play with letters and spellings – great for improving English vocabulary.
28. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
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A deck of cards (हिंदी: ताश की गड्डी)
29. What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
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A hole (हिंदी: गड्ढा)
30. Mary’s father has five daughters: Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughter’s name?
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Mary (हिंदी: मैरी (Mary) – सवाल में ही नाम है)
31. What is the end of everything?
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The letter G (हिंदी: अक्षर ‘G’ – everything का आख़िरी अक्षर)
32. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
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The letter M (हिंदी: अक्षर ‘M’)
33. Where does today come before yesterday?
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In a dictionary (हिंदी: शब्दकोश (dictionary) में – ‘today’ अक्षरों के क्रम में पहले आता है)
34. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
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An echo (हिंदी: गूँज)
35. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
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Short (हिंदी: ‘Short’ – दो अक्षर जोड़ो तो ‘shorter’)
More Paheliyan and Riddles
- हिंदी पहेलियाँ उत्तर सहित – Hindi paheliyan
- मज़ेदार पहेलियाँ – funny Hindi paheliyan
- दिमाग़ी पहेलियाँ – tricky Hindi paheliyan
- 1000+ Easy Riddles with Answers – English
- What Am I Riddles – English
Frequently Asked Questions
What are paheliyan in English called?
Paheliyan are called “riddles” in English. A single paheli is a “riddle”.
What is an easy paheli in English for kids?
“What has hands but cannot clap?” – a clock (घड़ी). Short riddles about everyday objects are best for children.
How do English paheliyan help students?
They teach new words, double meanings and spellings in a fun way, and the Hindi meaning helps children understand every answer.