70 riddles with hints and detailed explanations
What has thousands of ears but can't hear anything?
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills And empty holes it fills...
You ride on me every day but barely notice, I'm hot and cold at the very same time, I'm the densest of my clan, And my first th...
I move without wings, between silken strings, I leave as you find, my substance behind. What am I?
I can be quick and then I'm deadly, I am a rock, shell and bone medley. If I was made into a man, I'd make people dream, I gath...
I run all around the pasture/field But never move. What am I?
White bird, featherless, flyin' out o' paradise, flyin' over sea and land, dyin' in my hand. What is it?
I am invisible, yet everywhere. Yet I am everywhere, I am not active in some places. Sometimes, you can feel me. I can be so stron...
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...
Guides travelers, never moves, Always turning, never looks, Always shining, never burns, Looks on blue fields with each of its tur...
I am the outstretched fingers that seize and hold the wind. Wisdom flows from me in other hands. Upon me are sweet dreams dreamt....
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...
First you see me in the grass dressed in yellow gay; next I am in dainty white, then I fly away. What am I?
I am lighter than air but a million men cannot lift me up, What am I?
Thousands lay up gold within this house, But no man made it. Spears past counting guard this house, But no man wards it.
Looks like water, but it's heat. Sits on sand, lays on concrete. People have been known, To follow it everywhere. But it gets them...
Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble
I have an eye but cannot see. I'm faster than any man alive and have no limbs. What am I?
You can tumble in it, Roll in it, Burn it, Animals eat it, Used to cover floors, Still used beyond stall doors. Freshens whatever...
Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, Grown in the darkness, a lady's delight.
I love to dance and twist and prance, I shake my tail, as away I sail, wingless I fly into the sky. What am I?