Riddles
Group 2
Riddles
It is a question or statement
intentionally phrased so as to require
ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or
meaning which typically presented in a
game.
It is a puzzle or joke in which you ask a
question that seems to be nonsense but
which has a clever or amusing answer.
Examples
Riddle #1
There’s a one-story house in which
everything is yellow. Yellow walls,
yellow doors, yellow furniture. What
color are the stairs?
Answer: There aren’t any—it’s a
one-story house.
Riddle #2
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short
when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
Riddle #3
I do not harm to anyone unless they hurt
me first, then I soon make them cry. What
am I?
Answer: Onion
Riddle #4
The man calls his dog, who immediately
crosses the river without getting wet and
without using a bridge or a boat. How
did the dog do it?
Answer: The river was frozen
Riddle #5
What 8 letter word can have a letter
taken away and it still makes a word.
Take another letter away and it still
makes a word. Keep on doing that until
you have one letter left. What is the
word?
Answer: The word is starting! starting,
staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I
Riddle #6
I am an odd number. Take away a letter
and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven
Riddle #7
I have cities but no houses, forests but no
trees, water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: I'm a Map
Riddle #8
Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink
and I die.”
Answer: Fire
Riddle #9
I have keys, but no locks and space, and
no rooms. You can enter, but you can’t go
outside. What am I?
Answer: A Keyboard
Riddle #10
You see a boat filled with people, yet
there isn't a single person on board. How
is that possible?
Answer: All the people on the boat are
married
Riddle #11
"What can run but never walks, has a
mouth but never talks, has a head but
never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps."
Answer: River
Riddle #12
If you’ve got me, you want to share me;
if you share me, you haven’t kept me.
What am I?
Answer: A Secret
Riddle #13
People buy me to eat, but never eat me.
What am I?
Answer: A Plate
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