Classic Riddles

Riddle: Siempre quietas, siempre inquietas; Dormidas de día, de noche despiertas.

Answer: Las estrellas

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Soy un palito Muy derechito; Sobre la frente Llevo un mosquito.

Answer: La letra "i"

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Tengo cabeza redonda Sin nariz, ojos, ni frente, Y mi cuerpo se compone Tan sólo de blancos dientes.

Answer: El ajo

Rating: 67%

Riddle: 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.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: When I am filled, I can point the way. When I am empty, nothing moves me. I have two skins. One without and one within.

Answer: Gloves

Rating: 100%

Riddle: You are trapped in a dimly lit dungeon deep below the city of Berlin. There are two doors in the dungeon. You know that one door leads to freedom, and a holiday in the Canary Islands, while the other leads to death. There are two armed giants, each guarding one of the doors. You know that the giants' names are Ivan and Mike. You do not know which is which. You also know that one of them always tells the truth, while the other always tells lies. Yet again, you do not know which is which. You are allowed to ask one of the giants one question. What question should you ask?

Answer: You should ask one guard which door would the other guard pick as safe and choose the opposite door. The truthful guard will tell you that the other (the liar) will pick door X (wrong one). The liar will lie and tell you that the truthful guard would pick door X (wrong one).

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Two mothers and two daughters went fishing one day. They were there there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One mother said: "That is enough for all of us, we will have one each." How can this be possible?

Answer: There was the mother, her daughter, and her daughter's daughter. This equals 2 mothers and 2 daughters.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What can you catch but not throw?

Answer: Cold

Rating: 100%

Riddle: You live in a one-story house made “entirely of redwood“. What color would the stairs be?

Answer: What stairs? You live in a one-story house.