Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

What has an eye but cannot see?

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

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

Journey without it and you will never prevail, but if you have too much of it you will surely fail.

What always goes to bed with its shoes on?

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...

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?

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

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

What type of dress can never be worn?

What can be swallowed but swallow you also?

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

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

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

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

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

You can hold me in your hand and yet I can fill the entire room. What am I?

Everyone has me but nobody can lose me. What am I?

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...

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

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

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