346 riddles with hints and detailed explanations
There are several different kinds but the one you pick doesn't do its job. What is it?
What can you share and still have all for yourself?
What goes around and in the house, but never touches the house?
A strange attraction compels me to hold your things most dear, yet I know it not, and feel no warmth in my holding. My brothers an...
What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I?
Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot. All is cool where it is not.
In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast of iron. It can only attack when pulled back. What is it?
This old one runs forever, but never moves at all. He has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call. What is it?
Look at me. I can bring a smile to your face, a tear to your eye, or even a thought to your mind. But, I can't be seen. What am I?
Though liquid in nature, don't push me too far for then I will break, and the damage may scar. What am I?
You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving. What is it?
Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change.
I have two arms, but fingers none. I have two feet, but cannot run. I carry well, but I have found I carry best with my feet off t...
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?
What is it that no man ever yet did see, which never was, but always is to be?
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
First you see me in the grass dressed in yellow gay; next I am in dainty white, then I fly away. What am I?
Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?
What I am visible to you, you cannot see me, but when I am invisible, you long to see me. I am plenty with someone patient, but al...
I go in hard. I come out soft. You blow me hard. What am I?
What has a mouth but can't chew?