This is a collection of riddles for you to figure out. If you want the
answer to any of them, just use the link associated with each riddle.
If you have any more riddles to add, please send me the riddle (without the
answer so I can try to figure it out first). See if you can stump me. Some
of the answers are fairly brief. If you want a more detailed explanation,
email me.
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?
Nothing. 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?
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?
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?
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.
It 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 one who makes it, sells it. The one who buys it, never uses
it. The one that uses it never knows that he's using it. What is it?
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.
A 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.
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?
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.
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.
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 champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?
The 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.
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.
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
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
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."
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
There once was a strange man who loved wordplay, he had a very
important and sucessful business that would take insect shipments from
all across the world and distribute them to zoos across the US.
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?
I received this riddle by e-mail and have yet to figure it out.
Breath, time, life and the present are possible answers.
E-mail me with your guess.
Update: The best answer I've received so far is Gravity. I think that
may be it. (Thanks Joel).
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.
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?
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!
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?
The 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?
A 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?
