Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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

Where everyone wants to run home and stealing is encouraged.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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 has a mouth but can't chew?

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

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?

This guy crossed a road and everyone wants an explanation.

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

Hands she has but does not hold, teeth she has but does not bite, feet she has but they are cold, eyes she has but without sight....

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

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

What has no beginning, end, or middle?

It takes two people to do this

What calls for help, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?

What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it?