Top Rated Riddles of All Time
I can be smooth as silk when you touch me
Yet hard as rock when you hit me
I can be crystal clear
Or dark as pitch
I can be still and silent
Or I can rumble and roar.
What am I ?
What does man love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
And all men carry to their graves?
I'm simple for a few people
But hard for them to hear
I live inside of secrets
I bring people's worst fears
What am I?
You're both in and outside of me;
You guide me but don't ride me;
I can make a statement with a tongue but no mouth.
What am I?
I appear to be real but I'm not, I'm perfectly accurate but deceiving, I have no feelings or emotions, but the individual I'm mimicking does.
What am I?
Two sisters are we, one is dark and one is fair
In twin towers dwelling we're quite the pair
One from land and one from sea
Tell us truly, who are we?
What you're looking for ... I'll hide it from you.
However if you ask, I'll lead you right through.
You're tempted to cross me, an act I won't prevent.
If chosen too soon, may come with regret.
If I'm not there you're mad, you ask for me to be.
This time for a change, I'll be right behind me.
Take away my first letter and I remain the same.
Take away my last letter and I remain unchanged.
Remove all my letters and I’m still me.
What am I?
My sides are firmly laced about,
Yet nothing is within;
You'll think my head is strange indeed,
Being nothing else but skin.
We travel much, yet prisoners are, and close confined to boot. Yet with any horse, we will keep the pace, and will always go on foot. What are they?
I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them.
I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold.
They are the smallest you could imagine.
Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I?
I have joy in bringing two together, but darning my existence!
My life hangs by a thread, filled with ups, downs and resistance!
I can bring tears to your eyes;
resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time.
I form in an instant but I last a lifetime. What am I?