Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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

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?

I have no wings but I fly, I have no teeth but I bite. 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...

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...

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

What kind of cup doesn't hold water?

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...

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

I'm where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. 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 love to dance and twist and prance, I shake my tail, as away I sail, wingless I fly into the sky. What am I?

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

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...

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...

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

Precious stones in a pack of cards

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...

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

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

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?