Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

I have five little workers, busy all day. They help you grab and hold things your way. What am I?

What can pierce one's ears without a hole?

Which weighs more, a ton of concrete or a ton of feathers?

I walk on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs at noon, and 3 legs at night. What am I?

What has a head and a tail but no body?

What can eat a lot of iron without getting sick?

What can be measured, but has no length, width, or height?

No legs have I to dance, no lungs have I to breathe, no life have I to live or die, and yet I do all three. What am I?

What has a Heart but no other organs?

These are a part of your body. Sometimes they're large, sometimes they're little. They're white and they can be broken, and in som...

What two periodic elements, when combined, heal?

A detective breaks into a crime scene. The victim is slumped dead on a chair with a bullet hole in his head. A gun lies on the flo...

I protect your brain, hard and white. Without me, it wouldn't be alright. What am I?

I touch your face, I am in your words, I am a lack of space, and beloved by birds. What am I?

What grows only upwards and can never come down?

What period of time weighs the least?

A man died and went to heaven where there were millions of people. Everyone was naked and looked as they did at age 21. He saw a c...

I am excellent to taste, but horrible to smell. What am I?

Your body has two of these, but they cannot give a kiss. You use them to help you walk, and twelve inches make up this. What are t...

I am a unit of chemical elements, but I can never be trusted. What am I?

What can go up and come down without moving?

What has feet and legs and nothing else?

Fire is often maintained above me, and if you remove my first letter, you will find the home shared by everyone you have ever know...