Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

What 5 letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?

I am free yet priceless, you can't own me but you can use me, you can't keep me but you can spend me. Once you lost me you can nev...

The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States of America had the same parents, but were not brothers. How can this be possible...

I am a five letter word and I am a fruit. Take the first letter out and I am a crime, take out the first and second letter and I a...

I like to roam but I'll always stay home, I leave a silver track, If you carried what I could carry with the way I moved , You'd b...

A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears." A young man bought the parro...

My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often invited to play. Yet wherever I go I must take my bow or else I have nothing...

You can't see me, but I can see you; To be more specific, I see through. What am I?

What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?

A man who lived on the top floor of a twenty story building had to go up and down daily for work, and of course, for food and the...

Why didn't the monster eat the crazy person?

If you drop me, I'm sure to crack. Give me a smile, and I'll always smile back. What am I?

What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?

Marble walls as white as milk, lined with skin as soft as silk, in a fountain crystal clear, a golden apple will appear, there is...

I fly when I am born, lie when I'm alive, and run when I am dead What am I?

What demands an answer, but asks no question?

How can you leave a room with two legs and return with six legs

Lynn likes grapes but not potatoes. She likes squash but not lettuce, and she likes peas but not onions. Following the same rule,...

What did Adam say the day before Christmas?

I repeat only the last word you say. The more I repeat, the softer I got. I cannot be seen but can be heard. What am I?

You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I?

I'm as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I'll approach like a breeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have...

I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses....

A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my...