Riddles:
I have collected these off the web, I hope you enjoy them! All the riddles questions are at the top of the page, to see the answers go to the bottom of the page. See how many you can get right without looking...
1. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour?
2. When is a door not a door?
3. What is black and white and red all over?
4. Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.
5. Twelve white ponies standing on a hill, always moving, yet standing still.
6. What five letter English word does not change its pronunciation when four of letters are taken away?
7. Take one out and scratch my head. I am now black but once was red.
8. I'm in rock, but not in stone
I'm in marrow, but not in bone
I'm in a bolster, not in a bed
I'm not living, I'm not dead.
9. Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside.
10. What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
11. What gets wetter the more it dries?
12. The man who invented it doesn't want it.
The man who bought it doesn't need it.
The man who needs it doesn't know it.
13. What's the beginning of eternity,
The end of time and space,
The beginnig of every end,
The end of every place?
14. Forward I am heavy, backward I am not.
15. A word I know,
Six letters it contains.
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.
16. The more you take the more you leave behind.
17. What can run but never walks,
Has a mouth but never talks,
Has a head but never weeps,
Has a bed but never sleeps?
18. Use me well and I am everybody, scratch my back and I am nobody.
19. You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I'm dead.
20. No sooner spoken then broken. What is it?
21. The part of the bird that's not in the sky, who can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry.
22. Only two backbones, a thousand ribs.
23. Pronounced one letter and written with three,
Two letters there are and only two in me.
I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and grey.
I'm read from both ends and the same either way.
24. I'll lap at your feet if you give me the chance, though I won't fetch or stay, I surely will dance.
25. My host thinks I'm an irritation, a bother, a pain.
But he can't evict me, so I stay, remain.
Then one day I'm taken and ranked amoung my peers,
Can you guess what I am? Then you might call me dear.
26. Double my number, I'm less then a score,
Half of my number is less than four.
Add one to my double when bakers are near,
Days of the week are still greater, I fear.
27. My tympani play a rhythmic song,
With hammer and anvil I play along.
Down my canal no ship sets course,
And I have a stirrup that fits no horse.
Riddles answers by number:
1. the letter m
2. when it is ajar
3. a newspaper
4. fire
5. teeth
6. queue
7. a match
8. the letter r
9. corn
10. a stamp
11. a towel
12. a coffin
13. the letter e
14. ton
15. dozens
16. footsteps
17. river
18. mirror
19. onion
20. silence
21. shadow
22. railroad track
23. eye
24. fire
25. pearl
26. the number 6
27. ear
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