Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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

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

This guy crossed a road and everyone wants an explanation.

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

I go in hard. I come out soft. You blow me hard. What am I?

An open ended barrel, I am shaped like a hive. I am filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive! What am I?

What has a mouth but can't chew?

When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as far from Wednesday as today was from Wednesday when the day before yest...

If you were standing directly on the south pole facing north, which direction would you travel if you took one step backward?

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

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

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?

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

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?

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?

Where everyone wants to run home and stealing is encouraged.

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

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

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

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

What has no beginning, end, or middle?