346 riddles with hints and detailed explanations
Find an English word that uses all of the following letters: PNLLEEEESSSSS
What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?
Glittering points that downward thrust, Sparkling spears that never rust.
What does man love more than life Fear more than death or mortal strife What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented m...
Each morning I appear to lie at your feet, All day I will follow no matter how fast you run, Yet I nearly perish in the midday sun...
Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen.
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick Fat, I am slow Wind is my foe.
All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard.
I build up castles. I tear down mountains. I make some men blind, I help others to see. What am I?
I am seen in the water if seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, a jays feather,and lapis lazuli.
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...
I am, in truth, a yellow fork From tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dropped The awful cutlery cry. Of mansions never quite...
There is something blue flying through the air, something red is falling of the roof, and at the same moment the phone rings... Wh...
Pearl white chest without key or lid. Inside of which golden treasure is hid. What am I?
At night they come without being fetched, And by day they are lost without being stolen. What is it?
Sounds like he works on public transportation but he really works in a restaurant.
This company makes billions of dollars selling Windows.
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 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...
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 dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I build bridges out of silver, Make crowns out of gold, But everyone is a...
I love to move around, But usually not on the ground. I'm quite strung out when way up high. I like to sail, but I need to stay dr...
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...