Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

It is in the rock, but not in the stone; It is in the marrow, but not in the bone; It is in the bolster, but not in the bed; It is...

My tines are long. My tines are short. My tines end ere My first report. What am I?

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...

The land was white the seed was black it'll take a good scholar to riddle me that. What is it?

I can be smooth as silk when you touch me Yet hard as rock when you hit me I can be crystal clear Or dark as pitch I can be still...

I am the outstretched fingers that seize and hold the wind. Wisdom flows from me in other hands. Upon me are sweet dreams dreamt....

What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?

The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?

Runs over fields and woods all day Under the bed at night sits not alone, With long tongue hanging out, A-waiting for a bone." Wha...

I love to move around, But usually not on the ground. I'm quite strung out when way up high. I like to sail, but I need to stay dr...

I saw an unusual book: The foreword comes after the epilogue; The end is in the first half of the book; The index comes before the...

We are such little tiny creatures; all of us have different features. One of us in glass is set; One of us you'll find in jet. Ano...

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...

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

A man is on the run from the police, after stealing large gold bars. He has 3 gold bars in his arms - each weighing 10kg each. The...

My first letter is in the spell, but not the book My second letter is in the fright and also the shook My third letter is in the c...

Dead on the field lie ten soldiers in white, Felled by three eyes, black as night. What happened?

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...

How can the number four be half of five?

I cover what's real; hide what is true, but sometimes bring out the courage in you. What am I?

What I am visible to you, you cannot see me, but when I am invisible, you long to see me. I am plenty with someone patient, but al...

You can do this with your friends. You can do this with your nose. But don't do it with your friend's nose!

A twiggy home.

Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?