Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, rui...

Alive without breath, As cold as death, Clad in mail never clinking, Never thirsty, ever drinking

Inside me the adventurous find Quests and treasures of every kind. Trolls, goblins, orcs, and more, await Within my closed walls f...

What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready....

Jenna wrote all the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper. How many times did she write the digit 3?

Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years. How many F's are in the previous...

To unravel me You need a simple key, No key that was made By locksmith's hand, But a key that only I Will understand.

The world's tallest skyscraper took seven years to build. Each year the workmen were able to double its height. How many years did...

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. Are these sentences true or false?

A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the...

I have one, you have one. If you remove the first letter, a bit remains. If you remove the second, bit still remains. After much t...

A flight from New York, carrying people from America, Canada and France was heading towards Glasgow Airport. Suddenly as the plane...

Carol is traveling by ship from south of the equator to the north. She has a nice little second class cabin which has a bathroom,...

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows?

A man wants to enter an exclusive club, but he doesn't know the password. Another man walks to the door and the doorman says 12, t...

Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still.

Die without me, Never thank me. Walk right through me, never feel me. Always watching, never speaking. Always lurking, never seen.

Stealthy as a shadow in the dead of night, Cunning but affectionate if given a bite. Never owned but often loved. At my sport cons...

Two bodies have I, though both joined in one. The more still I stand, the quicker I run. What am I?

As beautiful as the setting sun, As delicate as the morning dew; An angel's dusting from the stars that can turn the Earth into A...

You are standing in front of a room with one light bulb inside of it. You cannot see if it is on or off. Outside the room there ar...

I have a hundred legs, but cannot stand, a long neck but no head; I ease the maid's life. What am I?

What word doesn't belong in this group? that, hat, what, mat, cat, sat, pat, or chat.