Riddles

Assorted riddles

  1. Question markRiddle of the Sphinx. I walk on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What am I?
  2. A girl was born in the summer, but now has her birthday in the winter.  How can this be?
  3. How many months have 28 days?
  4. Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever thinking, all in mail, never clinking.
  5. I occur once in every minute, twice in every moment, and yet not once in a hundred thousand years.
  6. I am full of holes, yet I can hold water. What am I?
  7. I often murmur, but never weep. 
    Lie in bed but never sleep.
    My mouth is larger than my head, in spite of the fact I'm seldom feed.
    I have no feet, yet swiftly run; shimmering, saying dancing in the sun.
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  9. I never ask questions, but am often answered. What am I?
  10. I'll give you my first letter, my second letter and my third letter.  In fact I'll give you all my letters, yet I'll always be the same.  What am I?
  11. I'm as round as the moon, people crush me, drink my blood and throw my skin away. What am I?
  12. It can't be seen, can't be felt, can't be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills and empty holes it fills.  It comes first and follows after, ends life and kills laughter.
  13. This thing all things devour: birds, beasts, trees, and flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel: grinds hard stones to meal; slays kings, ruins towns, and beats high mountains down.
  14. What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
  15. Voiceless it cries, wingless it flutters toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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  17. You saw me where I never was and where I can't be; and yet within that very place, my face you often see.
  18. You walk into a room with a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. Which do you light first?
  19. What starts with T has T in it and ends in T?
  20. A boy is rushed to a hospital emergency room. The doctor sees the boy and says, “I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son.” But the doctor is not the boy’s father. How could this be?
  21. What is brown with a head and tail, but no legs?
  22. A word with three double letters in a row.
  23. Forward I’m heavy, but backwards I’m not. What am I?
  24. I get wetter when I dry. What am I?

Assorted riddle answers:

  1. man
  2. See moved north or south of the equator.
  3. All
  4. fish
  5. m
  6. sponge
  7. river, stream, creek
  8. doorbell
  9. letter carrier, postman,
  10. grape, orange, ...
  11. space
  12. time
  13. your name
  14. wind
  15. reflection
  16. the match
  17. teapot
  18. the doctor is the boy's mother
  19. penny
  20. bookkeeper
  21. ton
  22. towel

 

Elephant riddles

  1. Why don't elephants ride bicycles?
  2. Why do elephants wear green sneakers?
  3. How do you stop an elephant from charging.
  4. How do you know if an elephant was in the refrigerator?
  5. Why do elephants wear eye glasses?
  6. How do elephants get into an oak tree?
  7. Why do elephants have white tusks.
  8. What is gray and white and red all over?
  9. What do elephants have that no other animal has?
  10. Why do elephants have trunks?
  11. Why are elephants gray?
  12. Why do elephants have flat feet?
  13. Why do elephants paint their toenails red?
  14. How do you get a green elephant?
  15. If a group of elephants make a heard, what is seven and eight?

 

Elephant riddle answers:

  1. They don't have thumbs to ring the bell.
  2. To hide in the grass, forest ...
  3. Take away their credit, debit cards, e card, ...
  4. Look for footprints.
  5. To see the mice.
  6. Hide on an acorn and wait for a squirrel to carry him up.
  7. They use teeth whitening strips.
  8. An embarrassed elephant.
  9. Baby elephants
  10. To hide from mice.
  11. To tell them apart from red birds.
  12. From jumping out of trees.
  13. To hide in cherry trees.
  14. By mating a blue elephant with a yellow elephant.
  15. Fifteen.

Halloween riddles

  1. Why are ghosts so bad at lying?
  2. Why did the skeleton refuse to cross the road?
  3. What are ghosts favorite baked goods?
  4. Why don't mummies have any friends?
  5. Why don’t ghosts like the rain?
  6. What cool beverages do spirits, goblins, and ghosts drink on halloween?
  7. What is a mummies' favorite type of music?
  8. What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
  9. What did the skeleton say to the vampire?
  10. Halloween for the win.

Halloween riddles answers:

  1. Why are ghosts so bad at lying?
    Because you can see right through them
  2. Why did the skeleton refuse to cross the road?
    He didn't have the guts.
  3. What are ghosts favorite baked goods?
    Boo berry pie
  4. Why don't mummies have any friends?
    They are too wrapped up in themselves.
  5. Why don’t ghosts like the rain?
    It dampens their spirits.
  6. What cool beverages do spirits, goblins, and ghosts drink on halloween?
    Ghoul-aid.
  7. What is a mummies' favorite type of music?
    Rap
  8. What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
    A sandwich.
  9. What did the skeleton say to the vampire?
    You suck.
  10. Halloween for the win.
    Stay Spooky my friends.

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