Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin. Light enough to caress the sky. Hard enough to crack rocks. What am I?

You are in a room with 3 monkeys. One monkey has a banana, one has a stick, and one has nothing. Who is the smartest primate?

What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?

This guy crossed a road and everyone wants an explanation.

I have two arms, but fingers none. I have two feet, but cannot run. I carry well, but I have found I carry best with my feet off t...

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

First you see me in the grass dressed in yellow gay; next I am in dainty white, then I fly away. What am I?

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

You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving. What is it?

If you blow past your destination, you'll have to throw your car into this.

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

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

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

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...

Though liquid in nature, don't push me too far for then I will break, and the damage may scar. What am I?

Where everyone wants to run home and stealing is encouraged.

I am in the sky but also in the ground. When you study me, no matter how long, I will always end with an f. I may be in your yard...

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...

What is big and yellow and comes in the morning, to brighten mom's day?

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

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 kind of fish chases a mouse?

Teddy bears are never hungry because they are always what?

I am lighter than air but a million men cannot lift me up, What am I?