Medium Difficulty Riddles
Medium difficulty riddles sit in the sweet spot: challenging enough to make you think, but not so hard that you give up. These require a bit more lateral thinking, wordplay awareness, or logical deduction than easy riddles. They are ideal for group problem-solving sessions, date nights, or whenever you want a satisfying mental challenge.
188 medium riddles
What lies in bed, and stands in bed, first white then red. The plumber it gets, the better the old woman likes it?
Oh how I love my dancing feet! They stay together - oh so neat. And when I want to walk a line, They all stay together and do double time. I count them up, ten...
Each of these ends in a kettle full of precious metal and the double variety is quite awesome.
Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot. All is cool where it is not.
You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving. What is it?
I am in the sky but also in the ground. When you study me, no matter how long, I will always end with an f. I may be in your yard but not in your house. What am...
Though liquid in nature, don't push me too far for then I will break, and the damage may scar. What am I?
Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?
What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?
Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin. Light enough to caress the sky. Hard enough to crack rocks. What am I?
I cover what's real; hide what is true, but sometimes bring out the courage in you. What am I?
Squeeze me and I cry tears as red as flesh, but my heart is made of stone. What am I?
A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed.
All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard.
The man who makes it doesn't use it; the man who buys it doesn't need it; the man who uses it doesn't know it. What is it?
A three-letter word I'm sure you know, I can be on a boat or a sleigh in the snow, I'm pals with the rain and honor a king, But my favorite use is attached to a...
Fill my bucket, spill my bucket, Over a plane of snow. Black the track as I look back, My footsteps talk but make no sound. What am I?
I will be nice, if you see pics thrice. I bear fruit of trees, sometimes in 3's. I am but an arm's length in front of you. What am I?
I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I build bridges out of silver, Make crowns out of gold, But everyone is afraid of me Even the young and...
I build up castles. I tear down mountains. I make some men blind, I help others to see. What am I?
A man builds a house with all 4 sides facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?
Soft and fragile is my skin, I get my growth in mud I'm dangerous as much as pretty, for if not careful, I draw blood.
What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?
Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen.