Riddles with Answers, Hints & Explanations

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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?

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...

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?

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

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...

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

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

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

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?

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

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...

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...