Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?

Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth. What is it?

What is it that no man ever yet did see, which never was, but always is to be?

Inside a burning house, this thing is best to make. And best to make it quickly, before the fire's too much to take!

When they are caught, they are thrown away. When they escape, you itch all day. What are they?

You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?

What has no beginning, end, or middle?

Special abilities and brightly colored underwear are all you need to be one of these.

Some try to hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, we always will meet, try as you might, to guess my name, I promise you'll...

This guy crossed a road and everyone wants an explanation.

David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and ?

What has a mouth but can't chew?

Violet, indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are the colors you have seen after the storm has fled. What am I?

What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?

Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change.

What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

What lies in bed, and stands in bed, first white then red. The plumber it gets, the better the old woman likes it?

Very helpful if you intend to go gently down a stream.

Before Mt. Everest was discovered as the highest mountain in the world, which mountain was the highest?

Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot. All is cool where it is not.

What is that which goes with a car, comes with a car, is of no use to a car, and yet the car cannot go without it?

I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I?

I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?

In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast of iron. It can only attack when pulled back. What is it?