346 riddles with hints and detailed explanations
What is the only word in the English language that has 6 letters, all in alphabetical order?
Guides travelers, never moves, Always turning, never looks, Always shining, never burns, Looks on blue fields with each of its tur...
I am the beginning of everything, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place. What am I?
Sometimes I am liked, Sometimes I am hated. Usually I am old, Usually I am dated.
You do not want me but If you get me you do not want to lose me
Known for their natural tuxedos and marching.
I sit on a bridge. Some people will look through me while others wonder what I hide. What am I?
What falls, but never breaks? What Breaks, but never falls?
The land was white the seed was black it'll take a good scholar to riddle me that. What is it?
I can be smooth as silk when you touch me Yet hard as rock when you hit me I can be crystal clear Or dark as pitch I can be still...
I am the outstretched fingers that seize and hold the wind. Wisdom flows from me in other hands. Upon me are sweet dreams dreamt....
What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
Runs over fields and woods all day Under the bed at night sits not alone, With long tongue hanging out, A-waiting for a bone." Wha...
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...
Little trotty hetty coat in a long petticoat and a red nose the longer she stands the shorter she grows. What is it?
My tines are long. My tines are short. My tines end ere My first report. What am I?
Hands she has but does not hold, teeth she has but does not bite, feet she has but they are cold, eyes she has but without sight....
What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?
You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?
I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth. What is it?
Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?
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...