324 riddles with progressive hints and detailed explanations
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 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...
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...
Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?
An open ended barrel, I am shaped like a hive. I am filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive! 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....
I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I?
What lies in bed, and stands in bed, first white then red. The plumber it gets, the better the old woman likes it?
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 go in hard. I come out soft. You blow me hard. What am I?
What is it that no man ever yet did see, which never was, but always is to be?
I cover what's real; hide what is true, but sometimes bring out the courage in you. What am I?
Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin. Light enough to caress the sky. Hard enough to crack rocks. What am I?
What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?
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...
Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?
You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving. What is it?
Though liquid in nature, don't push me too far for then I will break, and the damage may scar. What am I?
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...
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?
Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot. All is cool where it is not.