Section: «Riddles with Answers»
A riddle is a short description of an object or phenomenon, often in poetic form, containing an intricate task in the idea of an explicit (direct) or implied (hidden) question. The content of riddles reflects a person's life. The world around him: living and inanimate nature, phenomena of reality, objects of labor and everyday life, and more.
Riddle: How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?Answer: Once, because after you subtract 5 from 25 it becomes 20.
Riddle: Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, even a river can't fill it up. What is it?Answer: A kitchen strainer.
Riddle: He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?Answer: A preacher.
Riddle: A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?Answer: A potato.
Riddle: What's the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?Answer: To cover cows.
Riddle: What has no beginning, no end, and nothing in the middle?Answer: A doughnut (also a donut) or an ellipse like a circle and oval.
Riddle: What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?Answer: A chalkboard.
Riddle: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?Answer: A river.
Riddle: My thunder comes before the lightning; My lightning comes before the clouds; My rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?Answer: A..
Riddle: I have hands that wave at you, though I never say goodbye. It's cool for you to be with me, especially when I say, "HI." What am I?Answer: An..
Riddle: What does man love more than life? Fear more than death or mortal strife? What do the poor have, what the rich require, And what contented..
Riddle: Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?Answer: Counterfeit money.
Riddle: All about, but cannot be seen, can be captured, cannot be held, no throat, but can be heard. What is it?Answer: The wind.
Riddle: From the beginning of eternity To the end of time and space From the beginning of every end And the end of every place. What am I?Answer: The..
Riddle: Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and..
Riddle: I never was, am always to be, No one ever saw me, nor ever will, And yet I am the confidence of all to live and breathe on this terrestrial..
Riddle: I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?Answer: A hole.
Riddle: I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?Answer: I am the birds shadow.
Riddle: You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?Answer: An onion.
Riddle: A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?Answer: Suicide.
Riddle: What can you throw but not catch?Answer: A cold.
Riddle: How many letters are in the alphabet?Answer: There are 11 letters in "THE ALPHABET." Did you say 26?
Riddle: Which word can be placed between the two following words to make two new ones: TABLE _ _ _ _ HOUSE?Answer: WARE.
Riddle: What word doesn't belong in this group? That, hat, what, mat, cat, sat, pat, or chat?Answer: What. It's pronounced differently; all of the..
Riddle: Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?Answer: The North Pole.