Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

You heard me before, yet you hear me again, Then I die, untill you call me again.

Until I am measured I am not known, Yet how you miss me when I have flown.

I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be!

I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I touch, Will soon turn red

James ordered a fishing rod, priced at $3.56. Unfortunately, James is an Eskimo who lives in a very remote part of Greenland and t...

Every dawn begins with me At dusk I'll be the first you see And daybreak couldn't come without What midday centers all about Daise...

Three brothers share a family sport: A non-stop marathon The oldest one is fat and short And trudges slowly on The middle brother'...

I am a word of meanings three. Three ways of spelling me there be. The first is an odor, a smell if you will. The second some mone...

I live in water If you cut my head I'm at your door, If you cut my tail I'm fruit, If you cut both I'm with you What am I?

You saw me where I never was and where I could not be. And yet within that very place, my face you often see. What am I?

Kings and queens may cling to power and the jester's got his call, But, as you may all discover, the common one outranks them all.

It's red, blue, purple and green, no one can reach it, not even the queen. What is it?

Soft and fragile is my skin, I get my growth in mud I'm dangerous as much as pretty, for if not careful, I draw blood.

I drift forever with the current down these long canals they've made, Tame, yet wild, I run elusive Multitasking to your aid. Befo...

Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I?

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen; First of all figures, the first of all letters, Take up...

There is a low railroad bridge in your town. One day you see a large truck stopped just before the underpass. When you ask what ha...

What does man love more than life Fear more than death or mortal strife What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented m...

Glittering points that downward thrust, Sparkling spears that never rust.

Reaching stiffly for the sky, I bare my fingers when it's cold In warmth I wear an emerald glove And in between I dress in gold

My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick Fat, I am slow Wind is my foe.

All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard.

I have four legs but no tail. Usually I am heard only at night. What am I?

You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?