Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

Thousands lay up gold within this house, But no man made it. Spears past counting guard this house, But no man wards it.

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

I know a word; six letters it contains. And yet if you take one away, twelve is what remains.

I cannot be other than what I am, Until the man who made me dies, Power and glory will fall to me finally, Only when he last close...

What always goes to bed with its shoes on?

There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

It can be cracked, It can be made, It can be told, it can be played. What is it?

Travel a mile and I will change, travel a million and I will end as I started, What am I?

Tool of thief, toy of queen. Always used to be unseen. Sign of joy, sign of sorrow. Giving all likeness borrowed.

One strand dangles. Two strands twist. Three or more can fashion this.

What is the end to which we all like to come?

I love to dance and twist and prance, I shake my tail, as away I sail, wingless I fly into the sky. What am I?

A child playing on the beach had 6-1/6 sand piles in one place and 3-1/3 in another. If he put them together, how many sand piles...

You can tumble in it, Roll in it, Burn it, Animals eat it, Used to cover floors, Still used beyond stall doors. Freshens whatever...

My sides are firmly laced about, Yet nothing is within; You'll think my head is strange indeed, Being nothing else but skin.

A couple sharing five a piece, Stretching, spreading, loudly meet, We are known to often calm, And yet were better known to harm,...

What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?

Samuel was out for a walk and it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked...

Three or four, I can stab through or rule the seas. You know my cousins. What am I?

Tear one off and scratch my head, what once was red is black instead!

You will always find me in the past. I can be created in the present, But the future can never taint me. What am I?

Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, Grown in the darkness, a lady's delight.

What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?

What can be swallowed but swallow you also?