Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

A person picks up cigarette butts from the ground and can make a cigarette with 4 butts. If he finds 16 cigarette butts, how many...

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

Precious stones in a pack of cards

People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I?

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

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

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...

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

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...

What kind of cup doesn't hold water?

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or squar...

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

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?

What has an eye but cannot see?

If I say, "Everything I tell you is a lie", am I telling you the truth or a lie?

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

Take away my first letter and I remain the same. Take away my last letter and I remain unchanged. Remove all my letters and I'm...

I have an eye but cannot see. I'm faster than any man alive and have no limbs. What am I?

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

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

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

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...

I have seven letters and am something you eat. My only anagram can help your pain. If you remove my first 2 letters I wear things...

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