286 hard riddles with progressive hints and detailed explanations
What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?
It's true I bring serenity, And hang around the stars But yet I live in misery; You'll find me behind bars With thieves and villai...
What question can you never honestly answer yes to?
Reaching stiffly for the sky, I bare my fingers when it's cold In warmth I wear an emerald glove And in between I dress in gold
This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothi...
Three brothers share a family sport: A non-stop marathon The oldest one is fat and short And trudges slowly on The middle brother'...
Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I?
I never was, am always to be, No one ever saw me, nor ever will And yet I am the confidence of all To live and breathe on this ter...
The land was white the seed was black it'll take a good scholar to riddle me that. What is it?
My tines are long. My tines are short. My tines end ere My first report. What am I?
It is in the rock, but not in the stone; It is in the marrow, but not in the bone; It is in the bolster, but not in the bed; It is...
Little trotty hetty coat in a long petticoat and a red nose the longer she stands the shorter she grows. What is it?
The state of holding a person in your person.
We are such little tiny creatures; all of us have different features. One of us in glass is set; One of us you'll find in jet. Ano...
Curtail me thrice, I am a youth; Behead me once, a snake; Complete, I'm often used, in truth, When certain steps you'd take. What...
I am black of eye and bright of hair And my feet are firmly in the ground. I love the sun upon my face And I follow it around. Whe...
I am, in truth, a yellow fork From tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dropped The awful cutlery cry. Of mansions never quite...
Many many years ago when I was twenty three, I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daugh...
My first letter is in the spell, but not the book My second letter is in the fright and also the shook My third letter is in the c...
I am the part of the bird that is not in the sky, who can drown in the ocean and yet remain dry. A last vestige of man that refuse...
How can the number four be half of five?
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
What is that which goes with a car, comes with a car, is of no use to a car, and yet the car cannot go without it?
This old one runs forever, but never moves at all. He has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call. What is it?