Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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

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

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?

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

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...

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?

What has a neck and no head, two arms but no hands?

What question can you never honestly answer yes to?

You have to travel far before you turn it over. What is it?

When you went into the woods you got me. You hated me yet you wanted to find me. You went home with me cause you couldn't find me...

I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?

I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always...

A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies within. What is it?

On a fine sunny day a ship was in the harbor. All of a sudden the ship began to sink. There was no storm and nothing wrong with th...

I am, in truth, a yellow fork From tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dropped The awful cutlery cry. Of mansions never quite...

Sam walked for thirty minutes in the pouring rain without getting a single hair on his head wet. He didn't have a hat or an umbrel...

Each of these ends in a kettle full of precious metal and the double variety is quite awesome.

What falls, but never breaks? What Breaks, but never falls?

Little trotty hetty coat in a long petticoat and a red nose the longer she stands the shorter she grows. What is it?

Guides travelers, never moves, Always turning, never looks, Always shining, never burns, Looks on blue fields with each of its tur...

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