Classic riddles are enigmas, whether short or long, that stood the test of time to become staples in funny interactions between different generations. These are likely familiar to many grandparents and parents, but it’s time to pass them on to the younger generations and there is nothing wrong with reviving one’s memory or to ensure that the legacy goes on. Do you still remember the answer to all of them?
Classic Riddles
How many months have 28 days?
Answer: All 12 of them.
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: A river.
What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
While on my way to St. Ives, I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
Answer: Just one, me.
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: Cold
Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble. What are they?
Answer: Fallen leaves
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age.
By Moon or by Sun, I shall be found. Yet I am undone, if there's no light around.
Answer: Shadow
A beggar's brother died, but the man who died had no brother. How could this be?
Answer: The beggar was a woman
The moon is my father. The sea is my mother. I have a million brothers. I die when I reach land.
Answer: Wave
A leathery snake, with a stinging bite. I'll stay coiled up, unless I must fight.
Answer: Whip
There is a house. Once enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?
Answer: A school.
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.
It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What is it?
Answer: Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as a man and uses two legs and a cane when he's old.
Riddles are word games as old as language itself and some have entered the collective imagination of people from all over the world to the point they become classics. Every culture has a myth or a story that involves a magical being protecting a passage and willing to step aside only for those who solve en enigma, for example. And who hasn’t heard about the Sphynx’s riddle (“It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening. What is it?”). Brush up on your knowledge of these classic riddles with answers or discover new ones to add to your repertoire to add timeless sense to it.
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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