Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?

What can be touched but can't be seen?

A hundred feet in the air, but it's back is on the ground. What is it?

What instrument can be heard but not seen?

Morgan's father has three sons : Snap, Crackle and who?

We are a pair, We can dart here and there, Though we always stay in one place. We can smile or shed tears, Show our pleasure o...

If you see me, I see you. If you move, then I'll move too. When you touch me, I touch you. I do everything you do except for one t...

I'm so fast you can't see me, though everyone else can see straight through me. I don't stop until the day you die. What am I?

You will know that I am coming From the jingle of my bell, But exactly who I am is not an easy thing to tell. Children, they ador...

Question: I can't go left, I can't go right. I am forever stuck in a building over three stories high. What am I?

I come out of the earth, I am sold in the market. He who buys me cuts my tail, takes off my suit of silk, and weeps beside me when...

I lead the way into the unknown, and bring strength where there is fear. I am the creator of invention, and the maker of all adven...

What table has not a leg to stand on?

Mr Brown was killed on Sunday afternoon. The wife said she was reading a book. The butler said He was taking a shower. The chef sa...

I am used to bat with, yet I never get hit. I am near a ball, yet it is never thrown. What I am?

I am the water of life, but seeing too much of me is never good. I am what binds families together, but I can be defied. What am I...

I am served at a table, In gatherings of two or four Served small, white and round. You'll love some, And that's part of the fu...

When you have me not, you want me. But when you have me, you do not know. What am I?

There was a building with 100 floors. A short man lived on the very top floor, the 100th floor. On sunny days, he would ride the e...

I like to twirl my body but keep my head up high. After I go in, everything becomes tight. What am I?

I walk with you almost every day, yet you never notice me. You step on me, but you never say sorry. 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...

You can hear me and feel me but you can't see me or smell me, yet everyone has a taste in me. I can be created, but after that onl...

Decapitate me and all becomes equal. Then truncate me and I become second. Cut me front and back and I become two less than I star...