# What kind of room has no doors or windows?

Source: https://silverapuzzles.com/riddles/what-kind-of-room-has-no-doors-or-windows

A pun riddle that walks you through a house and then out into the woods. The “room” in question is not a room at all.

**Answer:** A mushroom.

The word mushroom ends in “room”, but it is a fungus.

Hint: It grows in the woods.

## How to think about it

1. Every room in a building has at least a doorway, so the riddle must be using “room” inside another word.
2. Think of words that end in “room”: bathroom, ballroom, mushroom.
3. Only one of those is not a space in a building.
4. A mushroom grows in the woods and has neither doors nor windows.

## Why “a mushroom” is the answer

The word “mushroom” ends in “room”, so a mushroom is a “kind of room” in the punning sense, and as a fungus it obviously has no doors or windows. The riddle works by splitting a word where it was never meant to be split. “Headroom” and “legroom” also lack doors, but they are not things you can point at.

## Common wrong answers

- **A closet.** A closet has a door.
- **A prison cell.** Cells have doors, even if they are locked.