Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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?

If you break me I do not stop working, If you touch me I may be snared, If you lose me Nothing will matter.

With the numbers 123456789, make them add up to 100. They must stay in the same order. You can use addition, subtraction, multipli...

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?

There is one word that stands the test of time and holds fast to the center of everything. Though everyone will try at least once...

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

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

I build up castles. I tear down mountains. I make some men blind, I help others to see. What am I?

A man builds a house with all 4 sides facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?

An old man wanted to leave all of his money to one of his three sons, but he didn't know which one he should give it to. He gave e...

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothi...

What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?

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.

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

I am seen in the water if seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, a jays feather,and lapis lazuli.

Fill my bucket, spill my bucket, Over a plane of snow. Black the track as I look back, My footsteps talk but make no sound. What a...

There is something blue flying through the air, something red is falling of the roof, and at the same moment the phone rings... Wh...

I will be nice, if you see pics thrice. I bear fruit of trees, sometimes in 3's. I am but an arm's length in front of you. What am...

I am black of eye and bright of hair And my feet are firmly in the ground. I love the sun upon my face And I follow it around. Whe...

Many many years ago when I was twenty three, I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daugh...

I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I build bridges out of silver, Make crowns out of gold, But everyone is a...

I am the part of the bird that is not in the sky, who can drown in the ocean and yet remain dry. A last vestige of man that refuse...