286 hard riddles with progressive hints and detailed explanations
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen; First of all figures, the first of all letters, Take up...
There is one word that stands the test of time and holds fast to the center of everything. Though everyone will try at least once...
Three brothers share a family sport: A non-stop marathon The oldest one is fat and short And trudges slowly on The middle brother'...
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...
When you went into the woods you got me. You hated me yet you wanted to find me. You went home with me cause you couldn't find me...
What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?
What question can you never honestly answer yes to?
I am, in truth, a yellow fork From tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dropped The awful cutlery cry. Of mansions never quite...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Little trotty hetty coat in a long petticoat and a red nose the longer she stands the shorter she grows. What is it?
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...
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...
The state of holding a person in your person.
The land was white the seed was black it'll take a good scholar to riddle me that. What is it?
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...
My tines are long. My tines are short. My tines end ere My first report. What am I?
How can the number four be half of five?
You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?
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?
Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth. What is it?