49 riddles with hints and detailed explanations
You will know that I am coming From the jingle of my bell, But exactly who I am is not an easy thing to tell. Children, they ador...
I am three words, Two of them appear the same, Two are pronounced the same. One is the third person use of "capable" or "permit"....
A thousand colored folds stretch toward the sky, Atop a tender strand, Rising from the land, 'Til killed by maiden's hand, Perhaps...
Jack is a farmer and owns some chickens. One day, he took a basket of fresh eggs to the market to sell. The first person bought h...
I look flat, but I am deep, Hidden realms I shelter. Lives I take, but food I offer. At times I am beautiful. I can be calm, angry...
A man went on a trip with a fox, a goose and a sack of corn. He came upon a stream which he had to cross and found a tiny boat to...
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...
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...
Sometimes I am loved, Usually by the young. Other times I am dreaded, Mostly by the old ones. I am hard to remember, Also hard to...
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 a...
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 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 saw an unusual book: The foreword comes after the epilogue; The end is in the first half of the book; The index comes before the...
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...
Slayer of regrets, old and new, sought by many, found by few.
I can bring tears to your eyes; resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an instant but I last a lifetime....
I have joy in bringing two together, but darning my existence! My life hangs by a thread, filled with ups, downs and resistance!
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 doub...
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...
Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns and never falls.
I know a word; six letters it contains. And yet if you take one away, twelve is what remains.
I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.
Travel a mile and I will change, travel a million and I will end as I started, What am I?
I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or squar...