Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

What English word has three consecutive double letters?

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

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

At the sound of me, men may dream Or stamp their feet At the sound of me, women may laugh Or sometimes weep.

Precious stones in a pack of cards

He has one and a person has two, a citizen has three and a human being has four, a personality has five and an inhabitant of ear...

If a green man lives in a green house, a purple man lives in a purple house, a blue man lives in a blue house, a yellow man liv...

What kind of cup doesn't hold water?

What has an eye but cannot see?

A blue house has blue bricks; a yellow house has a yellow bricks. What is a green house made of?

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

When is 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same thing?

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

Which letter of the alphabet can you add four letters to without changing its pronunciation?

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

We travel much, yet prisoners are, and close confined to boot. Yet with any horse, we will keep the pace, and will always go on fo...

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

What is it that no one wants, but no one wants to lose?

I have no wings but I fly, I have no teeth but I bite. What am I?

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

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...

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

I am a strong as ten men Yet ten men cannot stand me up. What am I?

I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. They are the smal...