Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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

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

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

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

I'm where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?

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

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 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...

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

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

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?

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

What type of dress can never be worn?

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

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

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

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?

What can be swallowed but swallow you also?

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 always goes to bed with its shoes on?