Riddles
1. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with
wind. What am I?
2. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
3. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
4. I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go
outside. What am I?
5. I run all around the backyard, yet I never move. What am I?
6. I’m not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but
water kills me. What am I?
7. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go darkness follows me. What am
I?
8. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What word am I?
9. People buy me to eat, but never eat me. What am I?
10.The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The person who
uses it never knows they’re using it. What is it?
11.I’m taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and
yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
12.I’m always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am
I?
Answers
1. An echo.
2. Footsteps.
3. Breath.
4. A keyboard.
5. A fence.
6. Fire.
7. A cloud (or smoke); darkness follows rain clouds — (classic answer: cloud).
8. Ton / Not (the word “ton” forward is heavy; backward it spells “not”).
9. A plate (or a plate for display) — common classic: a plate.
10.A coffin.
11.Pencil lead (graphite).
12.Fire.