535 easy riddles with progressive hints and detailed explanations
What has a bottom at the top?
An iron horse with a flaxen tail. The longer the horse runs, the shorter his tail becomes. What is it?
When I live I cry, if you don't kill me I'll die. What am I?
At noon and at midnight, the long and short hands of a clock are together. Between noon and midnight, how many times does the long...
How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Lucy had it first, Ethel had it last, Mary Lungel had it twice until she married Peter Stern and never had it again. What was it?
There is one in every corner and two in every room. What am I?
All roses are flowers. Some flowers fade quickly. Therefore some roses fade quickly. True of False?
I have six faces but not even one body connected, 21 eyes in total but cannot see. What am I?
I am always there, some distance away, somewhere between land or sea and sky I lay, you may move toward me, yet distant I'll stay....
I am constantly overlooked by everybody but everybody has me. What am I?
Samuel said, "I wish yesterday was tomorrow so that today would be Friday." What day did Samuel say this on?
What is often returned but never borrowed?
I am the son of your grandmother and grandfather but not your uncle. Who am I?
Which ring is square?
What can you share and still have all for yourself?
You have two dogs. How can you give one away, yet keep both?
I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I've been used by almost everybody....
A harp has four of something, whilst a guitar has six of them. What are we talking about?
I am up when you are not. I am cold when you are hot. What am I?
Which letter comes next in the series: S, M, H, D, W, M?
What is the first thing you see in an emergency that is also something you only see twice in a lifetime?
I drape the hills in white. I do not swallow, but I sure do bite. What am I?
What do you throw away that keeps returning?