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It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have
it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkNothing. Nothing is greater than God, nothing is more evil than the
devil, the poor have nothing, the rich need nothing and if you eat nothing
you'll die
It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three
legs in the evening. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkMan (or woman). Crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an
adult and uses two legs and a cane when they're old.
I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space.
I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkThe letter e. End, timE, spacE, Every placE
What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks,
has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
Show the answer » LinkA river.
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 breath on this
terrestrial ball. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkTomorrow or the future.
At night they come without being fetched. By day they are
lost without being stolen. What are they?
Show the answer » LinkThe stars.
There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a
white house. Inside the white house there was a red house.
Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkA watermelon.
What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in
decades, years or days?
Show the answer » LinkThe letter 'n'.
Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them.
There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?
The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened
carefully, I have already told you what it is.
Show the answer » LinkIt states, "There are only three words in the English language.
What is the third word?" The third word of that phrase is of course
"language." Don't get angry at me, I didn't make it up :)
The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it and the person who uses it doesn't know they are. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkA coffin
The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkDarkness
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Show the answer » LinkA penny.
What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Show the answer » LinkBookkeeper. An alternate, tricky, answer could be Woollen (where W is a "double u")
What's black when you get it, red when you use it, and white
when you're all through with it?
Show the answer » LinkCharcoal.
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the
outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
Show the answer » LinkAn ear of corn.
I am always hungry,
I must always be fed,
The finger I touch,
Will soon turn red
Show the answer » LinkFire
Ripped from my mother's womb,
Beaten and burned,
I become a blood thirsty killer.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkIron ore
I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be
Show the answer » LinkFew
I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get
up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns.
Show the answer » LinkStove, fire, smoke
I have four legs but no tail. Usually I am heard only at night.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA frog. The frog is an amphibian in the order Anura (meaning "tail-less") and usually makes noises at night during its mating season.
Half-way up the hill, I see thee at last, lying beneath me with thy sounds and sights -- A city in the twilight, dim and vast, with smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights.
Show the answer » LinkThe past. (Longfellow)
When young, I am sweet in the sun.
When middle-aged, I make you gay.
When old, I am valued more than ever.
Show the answer » LinkWine
All about, but cannot be seen,
Can be captured, cannot be held,
No throat, but can be heard.
Show the answer » LinkThe wind
If you break me
I do not stop working,
If you touch me
I may be snared,
If you lose me
Nothing will matter.
Show the answer » LinkYour heart
Until I am measured
I am not known,
Yet how you miss me
When I have flown.
Show the answer » LinkTime
I drive men mad
For love of me,
Easily beaten,
Never free.
Show the answer » LinkGold
When set loose
I fly away,
Never so cursed
As when I go astray.
Show the answer » LinkA fart
Lighter than what
I am made of,
More of me is hidden
Than is seen.
Show the answer » LinkIceberg
Each morning I appear
To lie at your feet,
All day I will follow
No matter how fast you run,
Yet I nearly perish
In the midday sun.
Show the answer » LinkShadow
My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
Show the answer » LinkA candle
I am seen in the water
If seen in the sky,
I am in the rainbow,
A jay's feather,
And lapis lazuli.
Show the answer » LinkBlue
Glittering points
That downward thrust,
Sparkling spears
That never rust.
Show the answer » LinkIcicle
You heard me before,
Yet you hear me again,
Then I die,
'Till you call me again.
Show the answer » LinkAn echo
Three lives have I.
Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
Light enough to caress the sky,
Hard enough to crack rocks.
Show the answer » LinkWater
At the sound of me, men may dream
Or stamp their feet
At the sound of me, women may laugh
Or sometimes weep
Show the answer » LinkMusic
What does man love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
And all men carry to their graves?
Show the answer » LinkNothing
I build up castles.
I tear down mountains.
I make some men blind,
I help others to see.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkSand
Two in a corner,
1 in a room,
0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkThe letter r.
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.
Show the answer » LinkDAVID (Roman numerals)
It cannot be seen, it weighs nothing, but when put into a barrel, it makes it lighter. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkA hole
How far will a blind dog walk into a forest?
Show the answer » LinkHalfway. After he
gets halfway, he's walking out of the forest.
What happens when you throw a yellow rock into a purple stream?
Show the answer » LinkIt makes a splash.
What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?
Show the answer » LinkA teapot
As I went over London Bridge
I met my sister Jenny
I broke her neck and drank her blood
And left her standing empty
Show the answer » LinkA bottle of gin
Whoever makes it, tells it not.
Whoever takes it, knows it not.
Whoever knows it, wants it not
Show the answer » LinkCounterfeit money
I am, in truth, a yellow fork
From tables in the sky
By inadvertent fingers dropped
The awful cutlery.
Of mansions never quite disclosed
And never quite concealed
The apparatus of the dark
To ignorance revealed.
-- Emily Dickenson
Show the answer » LinkLightning
You saw me where I never was and where I could not be. And yet
within that very place, my face you often see. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA reflection
I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champagne bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
Show the answer » LinkThe answer to this admittedly lame riddle is, "No." The reason is
that the question at the very end asks if you can guess the riddle
and there is nothing that satisfies the requirements above.
Say my name and I disappear. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkSilence
What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?
Show the answer » LinkWholesome
A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies
within. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkAn egg
Forward I'm heavy, but backwards I'm not. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkTon
Why doesn't a mountain covered with snow catch cold?
Show the answer » LinkBecause it has a snowcap :)
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 square.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA fingernail
One by one we fall from heaven
down into the depths of past
And our world is ever upturned
so that yet some time we'll last
Show the answer » LinkSands in an hourglass
I drift forever with the current
down these long canals they've made
Tame, yet wild, I run elusive
Multitasking to your aid.
Before I came, the world was darker
Colder, sometimes, rougher, true
But though I might make living easy,
I'm good at killing people too.
Show the answer » LinkElectricity (or lightning)
Reaching stiffly for the sky,
I bare my fingers when it's cold
In warmth I wear an emerald glove
And in between I dress in gold
Show the answer » LinkA deciduous tree
Kings and queens may cling to power
and the jester's got his call
But, as you may all discover,
the common one outranks them all
Show the answer » LinkAn ace (in a deck of cards)
Every dawn begins with me
At dusk I'll be the first you see
And daybreak couldn't come without
What midday centers all about
Daises grow from me, I'm told
And when I come, I end all cold
But in the sun I won't be found
Yet still, each day I'll be around
Show the answer » LinkThe letter d.
Kings and lords and christians raised them
Since they stand for higher powers
Yet few of them would stand, I'm certain,
if women ruled this world of ours
Show the answer » LinkA tower.
Soft and fragile is my skin
I get my growth in mud
I'm dangerous as much as pretty
For if not careful, I draw blood.
Show the answer » LinkA thorn
Three brothers share a family sport:
A non-stop marathon
The oldest one is fat and short
And trudges slowly on
The middle brother's tall and slim
And keeps a steady pace
The youngest runs just like the wind,
A-speeding through the race
"He's young in years, we let him run,"
The other brothers say
"'Cause though he's surely number one,
He's second, in a way."
Show the answer » LinkThe hands on a clock (hour, minute, second).
It's true I bring serenity,
And hang around the stars
But yet I live in misery;
You'll find me behind bars
With thieves and villains I consort
In prison I'll be found
But I would never go to court,
Unless there's more than one
Show the answer » LinkThe letter s
I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock
your soul. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA piano.
There once was a strange man who loved wordplay, he had a very
important and successful business that would take insect shipments from
all across the world and distribute them to zoos across the US.
What was the name of his company?
Show the answer » LinkImportANT
There is one word that stands the test of time and holds fast to
the center of everything. Though everyone will try at least once in
their life to move around this word, but in fact, unknowingly, they use
it every moment of the day. Young or old, awake or in sleep, human or
animal, this word stands fast. It belongs to everyone, to all living
things, but no one can master it. The word is?
Show the answer » LinkGravity
My days are in the summer
When you'll eat me when I'm hot
In fact I'll even eat myself
Where battles tough are fought
But when you find me in a fight
'Twill be high in the sky
And if you catch me napping
I suggest you let me lie
When you're bad come to my house
From Ma get thoughts profound
Am I big or am I small?
Some say I'm just a pound.
Show the answer » LinkDog. Dog days, hot dog, dog pound, dog fight.
My first is twice in apple but not once in tart. My second is in
liver but not in heart. My third is in giant and also in ghost.
Whole I'm best when I am roast. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA pig.
What gets wetter as it dries?
Show the answer » LinkA towel
This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out
what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was
wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual
though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do
it without coaching. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you.
So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck -
don't blow your cool!
Show the answer » LinkThe most common letter in the English language, the letter e, is not
found in the entire paragraph.
When you went into the woods you got me.
You hated me yet you wanted to find me.
You went home with me cause you couldn't find me
What was it?
Show the answer » LinkA splinter
An iron horse with a flaxen tail.
The faster the horse runs,
the shorter his tail becomes.
What is it?
Show the answer » LinkA needle and thread.
You have to travel far before you turn it over. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkAn odometer
A mile from end to end, yet as close to as a friend.
A precious commodity, freely given. Seen on the dead and on the living.
Found on the rich, poor, short and tall, but shared among children most
of all. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkA smile.
I'm full of holes, yet I'm full of water. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA sponge
Four of us are in your field
But our differences keep us at yield
First, a one that is no fool
Though he resembles a gardener's tool
Next, one difficult to split in two
And a girl once had one as big as her shoe
Then, to the mind, one's a lovely bonder
And truancy makes it grow fonder
Last, a stem connecting dots of three
Knowing all this, what are we?
Show the answer » LinkThe four suits in a deck of standard playing cards
The Spade is a gardener's tool.
The Diamond is the hardest gem to break. "Little Girl and Queen" is a
Mother Goose rhyme, in which the Queen gave the girl a large diamond
for picking the Queen some roses.
The Heart bonds with the mind to form love. Absence makes the
heart grow fonder.
The Club, or Clover, is three dots connected around a stem.
I am a word of meanings three.
Three ways of spelling me there be.
The first is an odour, a smell if you will.
The second some money, but not in a bill.
The third is past tense, a method of passing things on or around.
Can you tell me now, what these words are, that have the same sound?
Show the answer » LinkScent, cent, sent
It's red, blue, purple and green, no one can reach it, not even
the queen. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkA rainbow.
What question can you never honestly answer yes to?
Show the answer » LinkAre you asleep? (or dead)
What has a neck and no head, two arms but no hands?
Show the answer » LinkA shirt (or sweater, jacket etc)
I live in water
If you cut my head I'm at your door,
If you cut my tail I'm fruit,
If you cut both I'm with you
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA pearl. They're found underwater. Removing the head (p)
leaves Earl, a guy who could be at your door. Removing the tail (l)
leaves pear, a fruit and if you cut both off you're left
with ear, which is with you because it's attached to your head.
Feed me and I live, give me drink and I die. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkFire.
What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?
Show the answer » LinkDeath or decay
A man went to the hardware store to buy items for his house.
1 would cost $.25
12 would cost $.50
122 would cost $.75
When he left the store he had spent $.75, what did he buy?
Show the answer » LinkHouse numbers
What makes a loud noise when changing its jacket, becomes larger but weighs less?
Show the answer » LinkPopcorn
The more you take, the more you leave behind.
Show the answer » LinkFootsteps
I am a word of 5 letters and people eat me. If you remove the first letter I become a form of energy. Remove the first two and I'm needed to live. Scramble the last 3 and you can drink me. What am I?
Show the answer » Linkwheat
heat
eat
tea
Before any changes I'm a garlic or spice. My first is altered and I'm a hand-warming device. My second is changed and I'm trees in full bloom. The next letter change makes a deathly old tomb. Change the fourth to make a fruit of the vine. Change the last for a chart plotted with lines.
What was I? What did I become? What did I turn out to be?
Show the answer » Linkclove
glove
grove
grave
grape
graph
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him under water for
five minutes. Finally, she hangs him. Five minutes later they enjoy
a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
Show the answer » LinkShe took a photo of him and developed it in the dark room.
Remove six letters from this sequence to reveal a familiar English
word. BSAINXLEATNTEARS
Show the answer » LinkBANANA (Removed SIX LETTERS)
Alive without breath,
As cold as death,
Clad in mail never clinking,
Never thirsty, ever drinking
Show the answer » LinkA fish
I can always go up, never down,
I can always turn left, never right,
I am always hot when I'm cold
Show the answer » LinkA ski lift
A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days and
leaves on Friday. How did he do it?
Show the answer » LinkThe horse's name is Friday
What has roots that nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
Yet it never grows?
Show the answer » LinkA mountain (from Tolkien)
This thing all things devours,
Birds, beasts, trees, and flowers.
Gnaws iron bites steel,
Grinds hard stones to meal,
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down
Show the answer » LinkTime
It cannot be seen, it cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
Lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
Comes first follows after,
Ends life kills laughter.
Show the answer » LinkDarkness
An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
'That eye is like this eye'
Said the first eye,
But in a low, not high place.
Show the answer » LinkThe sun shining on daisies
I'm lighter than air but a million men can't lift me. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA bubble
A man is born in 1946 and dies in 1947, yet he was 86 years old. How is that possible?
Show the answer » LinkHe was born in room #1946 of the hospital when he was born, and died in room #1947 86 years later.
I go in hard.
I come out soft.
You blow me hard.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkGum
Two words is my answer. In order to keep me, you have to give me. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkYour word
If you drop me I'm sure to crack but give me a smile and I'll always smile back
Show the answer » LinkA mirror
What does this represent?
Standing
World
Show the answer » LinkStanding on top of the world
What does this represent?
Wear
Black
Show the answer » LinkBlack underwear
Old Mother Twitchet had one eye
and a long tail that she let fly.
And every time she went through a gap,
she left some tail in the trap
Show the answer » LinkA needle and thread
Little Miss Eticote
In her white petticoat
And her red nose
The longer she stands
The shorter she grows
Show the answer » LinkA candle
Only one color, but not one size,
stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies;
present in sun, but not in rain;
doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
Show the answer » LinkA shadow
What force and strength cannot get through,
I, with a gentle touch, can do.
And many in the street would stand,
were I not a friend at hand.
Show the answer » LinkA key
Round like an apple, deep like a cup,
yet all the king's horses cannot pull it up.
Show the answer » LinkA well
Thirty white horses on a red hill,
first champ, then stamp, and then stand still
Show the answer » LinkYour teeth
Black we are and much admired,
men seek us if they are tired,
We tire the horse, comfort man,
guess this riddle if you can.
Show the answer » LinkCoal
Weight in my belly;
trees on my back;
nails in my ribs;
feet I do lack.
Show the answer » LinkA ship
What holds two people together but touches only one?
Show the answer » LinkA wedding ring (at least it used to)
What lives in the corner but travels the world?
Show the answer » LinkA postage stamp
I'm white, I'm round, but not always around. Sometimes you see me, sometimes you don't. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkThe moon
There are two meanings to me. With one I may need to be broken, with the other I hold on. My favorite characteristic is my charming dimple. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA tie
Toss me out of the window,
You'll find a grieving wife,
Pull me back but through the door, and
Watch someone give life!
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkThe letter 'n' (widow, donor)
What has a head, one arm, one leg and a round bottom?
Show the answer » LinkA handicapped parking sign
I have an end but no beginning, a home but no family, a space without room. I never speak but there is no word I cannot make. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA keyboard
I go in dry and come out wet,
The longer I'm in, the stronger I get.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA tea bag
In the day I stand tall in a white petticoat. By evening I'm in my short black dress. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkThe wick of a candle
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 closes his eyes
Show the answer » LinkA prince
Two in a whole and four in a pair
And six in a trio you see
And eight's a quartet but what you must get
Is the name that fits just one of me?
Show the answer » LinkA half
One am I, among six others:
Largest, smallest,
Cold, dark
and two brothers.
Who am I?
(Purportedly from Lewis Carroll)
Show the answer » LinkEurope (The Seven continents)
What asks no questions but receives lots of answers?
Show the answer » LinkA phone or doorbell
In the night a mountain in the morning a meadow. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA bed
What goes up but never comes down?
Show the answer » LinkYour age
Three little letters
A paradox to some.
The worse that it is
The better it becomes.
Show the answer » LinkPun
I am in a house with no doors. There are people inside but no reply. Who am I?
Show the answer » LinkA fish
I hide but my head is outside. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA nail
What three letter English word has an odd start, an even finish and an infinitely long middle?
Show the answer » LinkThe word vex. "v" is Roman numeral 5, which is odd. "x" is Roman numeral 10, which is even. "e" is the base of the natural logarithm and is irrational (e = 2.718281828...). Its mantissa (the part to the right of the decimal point) is infinitely long.
When a bird flies over the ocean a part of the body touches the water but doesn't get wet. What part is it?
Show the answer » LinkThe shadow
I appear in the morning but am always there.
You can never see me though I am everywhere.
By night I am gone, though I sometimes never was.
Nothing can defeat me but I am easily gone.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkSunlight
In the marble walls as white as wilk,
Lined with skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal clear,
A golden apple does appear.
No doors are there to this stronghold
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
Show the answer » LinkAn egg or egg yolk (this is a variation of a riddle found earlier on this page - Box without hinges...)
I am here, I am there
I am burned into the mind of none
I walk on fire and live on ice
My words are meaningless for I talk not
I hate everyone yet fear no one
I have lived for centuries
Yet I have never existed
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkNothingness
I don't exist unless you cut me, but if you stab me I won't bleed. I hate no one yet am abhorred by all. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA fart
The first is a person who lives in disguise who deals in secrets and tells nothing but lies.
Then think of a letter that's last to mend the middle of middle and end of end.
Now think of a sound which is often heard in search of every unknown word.
Put it together and answer me this, which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
Show the answer » Link1. spy
2. d
3. er
Creature: Spider
I live in a busy place in the city,
I'll let you stay with me for awhile,
If you don't feed me, I can get you into trouble.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA parking meter
The first 2 letters of this English word refer to a male, the first three refer to a female, the first 4 to a great man and the whole word is a great woman. What is the word?
Show the answer » LinkHeroine (he, her, hero)
What word is the same written forward, backward and upside down?
Show the answer » Linknoon
What instrument can make any sound and be heard but not touched or seen?
Show the answer » LinkYour voice
What surrounds the world, yet dwells within a thimble?
Show the answer » LinkSpace
I am whole but incomplete. I have no eyes, yet I see. You can see, and see right through me. My largest part is one fourth of what I once was. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA skeleton
I am big and mighty, and scared of sharp objects.
I feed everyone and watch people go by.
I have my feet stuck and hate talking with my big mouth.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA tree
I wear a red robe,
With staff in hand,
And a stone in my throat.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA cherry
The dwarves and Snow White sit down for a bite.
How fast can you guess what she serves her guests next?
Show the answer » LinkSeven Seconds
I have a mouth on my head and eat everything. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA backpack
Gets rid of bad ones,
Short and tall,
Tightens when used
One size fits all.
Show the answer » LinkA noose
What comes in different sizes, different colors and different shapes?
Show the answer » LinkA jigsaw puzzle piece
My first is twice in apple but not once in tart.
My second is in liver but not in heart.
My third is in giant and also in ghost.
Whole I'm best, when I am roast.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkYou are a pig.
I met an old man on London bridge,
As the sun set on the ridge,
He tipped his hat and drew his name,
And cheated at the guessing game.
What was the man's name?
Show the answer » LinkAndrew
yyyy U R, yyyy U B, I C U R y y 4 ?
What word belongs in place of the question mark?
Show the answer » LinkMe.
Wise you are, wise you be, I see you are too wise for me.
I live above a star but never burn. I have 11 neighbors but they never turn. My initials are p, q, r and sometimes s. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkNumber 7 on a phone keypad
Tear one off and scratch my head. What once was red is black instead. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA match.
She awakes, I touch her and she spreads her legs apart. We are both nevous but I continue. Finally the white liquid comes. What happened?
Show the answer » LinkMilking a cow
Tall in the morning, short at noon, gone at night but I'll be back soon. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA shadow
What four letters frighten a thief?
Show the answer » LinkOICU (Oh, I see you)
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment but not once in a thousand years?
Show the answer » LinkThe letter m.
How is the letter T like an island?
Show the answer » LinkIt's in the middle of waTer.
If you have it, you want to share it.
If you share it, you don't have it.
What is it?
Show the answer » LinkA secret
Where can you find a 3 foot ruler?
Show the answer » LinkAt a yard sale
What falls but never breaks and breaks but never falls?
Show the answer » LinkNight and day.
What do you throw out to use and take in when you're done?
Show the answer » LinkAn anchor.
Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkThe wind.
This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
Show the answer » LinkTime
A word I know, six letters it contains, subtract just one and twelve remains.
Show the answer » LinkDozens, dozen
What ties one to another and is closest to the heart?
Show the answer » LinkA wedding ring.
People need me but they always give me away. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkMoney
I crawl on the earth and rise on a pillar. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA shadow.
What kind of pet always stays on the floor?
Show the answer » LinkA carpet
What type of house weighs the least?
Show the answer » LinkA lighthouse
I'm found on a hand and also a tree,
You'll find me on Sunday, occasionally,
Records, pictures, islands and brew,
From August to Wolfgang and Sago for you.
What am I?
Show the answer » Link
I have palms but not on hands,
I offer foods from distant lands,
When at my peak you'll see me smoke,
I'm famous for my friendly folk,
My flowers grow and yet they lay,
There's fire where a man will play,
I'm sure you know we're family,
You're welcome to come stay with me.
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkHawaii
The answer to each clue is a single, 100-point word, or a word whose letters add up to 100, with a = 1, b = 2.
I wrote this word value calculator so you can easily check your guesses.
i. Peanut butter tastes like this.
ii. The hat a Dad wears.
iii. To fire a chef,
iv. A smart timepiece.
v. Figured it out again.
vi. Where a kid can sleep.
vii. The magical fruit leaves you doing this.
viii. Betrayed for this much silver.
ix. A baked good that is height challenged.
x. A sticky way to neaten your hair.
Show the answer » Linki. nutty
ii. fatherhood
iii. cookout
iv. clockwise
v. resolved
vi. boycott
vii. tooting
viii. thirty
ix. shortcake
x. honeycomb
Snake coiled round and round,
Snake deep below the ground,
Snake that's never had a head,
Snake that binds but not with dread.
Show the answer » LinkA rope
What do you not want to have and not want to lose?
Show the answer » LinkA lawsuit
I belong to you, but am used more by others. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkYour name.
What do horses, sleep and dreams have in common?
Show the answer » LinkNightmares
Which tree is the most difficult to get along with?
Show the answer » LinkA crabtree
Stars awash in a sheen of light
It calls out loud in vile delight.
Listeners endure in fright.
Vicious brute that reigns at night,
Evil whelped of heinous bite,
Renewed by wax, it regains might.
A leading way to slay the beast,
Get the hidden weapon thus released.
What is this describing?
Hint: The first letter of each line has a clue
Show the answer » LinkA werewolf (vulnerable to silver bullets)
Halo of water, tongue of wood
Skin of stone, long I've stood.
My fingers short reach to the sky
Inside my heart men live and die.
Show the answer » LinkA castle.
This house holds rooms, one score and six,
That shelter a vast mob.
It lets lions lie down with the lambs,
Yet makes both shun the slob.
None now will nestle with nicks and nates,
While reams room near the rear.
Though you and I have separate rooms
Both our bottles brim with beer.
The king and queen can never mate
(Though hands and hearts hobnob)
Because their rooms are separate
If this jail does its job.
What house is this that rules thus
Forcing faith to fend with fear?
The answer to this riddle lies
With dead and dying here.
Show the answer » LinkA dictionary.
Boys use it, girls like it, parents hate it. What is this 5-letter word?
Show the answer » LinkPhone
I am in the sky but also in the ground. When you study me, no matter how long, I will always end with an f. I may be in your yard but not in your house. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA leaf.
I spit like bacon, am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone but lack good legs,
I peel like an onion but still remain whole,
I'm long like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole
What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA snake
The more you take from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA hole
I sit in a corner and travel around the world. What am I?
Show the answer » LinkA stamp
What are these three related items? When I am placed somewhere I will never stand up. Whatever you give me I will eat. When I go I never return.
Show the answer » LinkA stove, fire, smoke.
What flower becomes the name of any country by removing the first letter, becomes the name of a city when the last letter is removed and becomes the name of a bird if both first and last letters are removed?
Show the answer » LinkI'm still looking for the answer to this. Here are a few guesses that have been submitted:
Tulip - ulip = unit linked insurance plan, tuli = a city in india, uli = ?
Ivy - VY = ?, IV = Isla Vista, V = drawing of a bird
Email me if you know the answer.
What work can one never finish?
Show the answer » LinkAn autobiography
Everyone needs this, it's great with an 'r' on the end but you're sad when the first letter goes away. What is it?
Show the answer » LinkLove, lover, over
Man walks over, man walks under,
In times of war he burns asunder.
What is it?
Show the answer » LinkA bridge
What's the only room from which no one can enter or leave?
Show the answer » LinkMushroom
I'm not the sort that's eaten, I'm not the sort you bake,
Don't put me in an oven, I don't taste that great,
But when applied correctly, around me you will find,
Problems are so simple when my digits come to mind.
Show the answer » LinkPi (3.141592653)
