Classic Riddles

Riddle: I am always hard when dry but smooth and soft when wet. What am I?

Answer: Sponge.

Rating: 80%

Riddle: Un niñito blanco Cabecita roja; Si le rascan grita, Y después se enoja.

Answer: El fósforo

Rating: 67%

Riddle: Unos larguitos, Dos más bajitos; Uno chiquito y flaquito Y otro gordito, gordito.

Answer: Los dedos

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A leathery snake, with a stinging bite. I'll stay coiled up, unless I must fight.

Answer: Whip

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I am two words with thousands of letters in me. What am I?

Answer: I am a " post office " because thousands of letters are found in the post office.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: ¿Qué será, qué será, Que tantas vueltas da?

Answer: El mundo

Rating: 67%

Riddle: If an electric train is going south, what direction is the smoke going?

Answer: There is no smoke – it’s an electric train.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What can be broken but is never held?

Answer: A promise

Rating: 75%

Riddle: Tengo lecho Y no me acuesto; Tengo un curso Y no soy maestro.

Answer: El río

Rating: 67%

Riddle: Tengo lomo y no soy caballo, Tengo hojas pero no soy árbol, Tengo tapa y no soy mesa.

Answer: El libro

Rating: 100%

Riddle: There is a house. Once enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?

Answer: A school.

Rating: 60%

Riddle: In idioms, I’m known to cross the road. What’s my motive, can you decode?

Answer: Chicken

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: By Moon or by Sun, I shall be found. Yet I am undone, if there's no light around.

Answer: Shadow

Rating: 67%

Riddle: No se siembra, nace: Y se riega para segarse.

Answer: La barba

Rating: 100%

Riddle: No tiene pies y corre No tiene dedos y lleva anillos

Answer: La cortina

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Cargadas van, Cargadas vienen, Y en el camino No se detienen.

Answer: Las hormigas

Rating: 67%

Riddle: Doce señoritas en un corredor: Todas tienen medias, Pero zapatos, no

Answer: Las horas

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Dos arquitas de cristal, Que se abren y se cierran Sin rechinar.

Answer: Los ojos

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Envuelto en su cobertor. Haga frío o haga calor.

Answer: El cordero

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Hablo y no pienso, Lloro y no siento, Río sin razón Y miento sin intención.

Answer: El loro

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Se alegran los del campo Si me ven llorar, Y se ponen tristes Los de la ciudad.

Answer: La lluvia

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

Answer: A clock.

Rating: 80%

Riddle: Tiene dientes y no come, Tiene barbas y no es hombre. ¿A qué no aciertas su nombre?

Answer: El ajo

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away?

Answer: A hole.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What gets wetter the more it dries?

Answer: A towel.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Vuela sin alas, Silba sin boca, Y no se ve ni se toca.

Answer: El viento

Rating: 100%

Riddle: ¿Qué podrá ser: Una cara y dos manos En la pared?

Answer: El reloj

Rating: 67%

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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