Riddles are a product of oral culture that has roots dating back to mythological thought and are thought to have emerged out of taboo and respect. They serve various functions, such as testing and entertaining each other, as well as transferring knowledge and experience between generations. Riddles reflect the oral culture environment and rural social life where they originate and are reproduced. Riddles are generally expressed in a short, concise, straightforward, and easily understandable language. These linguistic features facilitate the memorization and comprehension of riddles. The analysis of sentence types in riddles allows for important insights into the syntactic features of collective consciousness. In this study, sentence types were identified with their subcategories, and 2776 elements in 952 Uzbek riddles were analyzed through document analysis, and the results were described. As a result, it was determined that “single sentences” were much more common than "sentence groups", and “simple sentences” were more common than "inverted sentences" based on the position of the predicate. In addition, "positive sentences" and "normal sentences" were much more common than "negative sentences" and "interrogative sentences" based on meaning. Lastly, there were similar numbers of "noun sentences" and "verb sentences" in Uzbek riddles. One important reason for these differences is that riddles usually target children. In studies on sentence types, the contextual factors within and outside the text can be taken into account, and different text types in Turkic languages can be examined. A comparative and holistic linguistic approach can be brought to the subject.