49 riddles with hints and detailed explanations
You buy it to eat, but you don't eat it. What is it?
Why is it so easy to weigh fish?
When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?
I come out of the earth, I am sold in the market. He who buys me cuts my tail, takes off my suit of silk, and weeps beside me when...
What makes a loud noise when changing its jacket, becomes larger but weighs less?
A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies within. What is it?
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
Pearl white chest without key or lid. Inside of which golden treasure is hid. What am I?
There is a green house. Inside the green house there is a White house. Inside the White house there is a red house. Inside the red...
You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving. What is it?
I go in hard. I come out soft. You blow me hard. What am I?
What lies in bed, and stands in bed, first white then red. The plumber it gets, the better the old woman likes it?
What is the saddest fruit?
What has to be broken before you can eat it?
I go into the water black and come out red. What am I?
You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
Flour of England, fruit of Spain, Met together in a shower of rain; Put in a bag tied round with a string, If you'll tell me this...
What's orange and sounds like a parrot?
You can tumble in it, Roll in it, Burn it, Animals eat it, Used to cover floors, Still used beyond stall doors. Freshens whatever...
There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
A blue house has blue bricks; a yellow house has a yellow bricks. What is a green house made of?
People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I?
I have seven letters and am something you eat. My only anagram can help your pain. If you remove my first 2 letters I wear things...
Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?