Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

If what goes up must come down, what comes down that must go up?

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

The Pope has it but he does not use it. Your father has it but your mother uses it. Nuns do not need it. Arnold Schwarzenegger ha...

White bird, featherless, flyin' out o' paradise, flyin' over sea and land, dyin' in my hand. What is it?

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...

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?

If you eat me, you will die. If you drink me, you will die. I am greater then God, worst then the Devil. What am I?

1-2-3-4-5-6 I am a 6 letter word. Letters 6-5-2 spell out a drink. Letters 4-5-2-3 spell out a fruit. Letters 1-2-6 spell out a p...

Here on earth it is true, yesterday is always before today; but there is a place where yesterday always follows today.

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...

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 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...

Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts, often bites but seldom bit, to use me well you must have wit. What am I...

I am a seed with three letters in my name. Take away the last two and I still sound the same. What am I?

A sphere has three, a circle has two, and a point has zero what?

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...

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

A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long...

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...

What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

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

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?