Short Riddles

Riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away from it?

Answer: Hole

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is it that is deaf, dumb and blind and always tells the truth?

Answer: A Mirror

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is more useful when it is broken?

Answer: An egg

Rating: 84%

Riddle: What is often returned, but never borrowed/

Answer: Thanks

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I'm as big as an elephant, but lighter than a feather. What am I?

Answer: The Wind

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?

Answer: A candle.

Rating: 75%

Riddle: What can touch someone once and last them a life time?

Answer: Love

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What can you catch but not throw?

Answer: Cold

Rating: 100%

Riddle: If you are a velophile, what is it that you love?

Answer: Bicycle

Rating: 100%

Riddle: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?

Answer: Wet

Rating: 60%

Riddle: What can be heard and caught but never seen?

Answer: Remark

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?

Answer: Pride

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What can eat a lot of iron without getting sick?

Answer: Rust

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?

Answer: An umbrella

Rating: 100%

Riddle: In the NBA, how many men are on the basketball court for each team?

Answer: Five....I'll bet you guessed 10

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: El ajo

Rating: 100%

Riddle: One word in this sentence is misspelled. What word is it?

Answer: It isn't spelled wrong, the one word in this sentence misspelled is “misspelled.“

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?

Answer: Work

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What kind of rocks does Frankenstein have in his collection?

Answer: Tombstones

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Mientras que estoy preso, existo: Si me ponen en libertad, muero.

Answer: El secreto

Rating: 67%

Riddle: Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.

Answer: Railroad

Rating: 100%

Riddle: People walk on me day and night. I never sleep...... Who am I?

Answer: A sidewalk

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Scythe of darkness, Shadow’s light. Guiding eye of thirteenth sight.

Answer: Moon

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: Up on high I wave away but not a word can I say.

Answer: Flag

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb!

Answer: Water

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Soy alto cuando soy joven y corto cuando soy viejo, ¿qué soy?

Answer: Una vela

Rating: 50%

Riddle: What do you throw out to use and take in when you're done?

Answer: Anchor

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?

Answer: Deck

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What's as big as you are yet doesn't weigh an ounce?

Answer: Your shadow

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?

Answer: The North Pole

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Sobre una piel bien tensada, dos bailarines saltaban

Answer: El tambor

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Una persona le dice a otra: Tu eres mi hijo, pero yo no soy tu padre

Answer: Era su madre.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What building has the most stories?

Answer: Library

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What flies forever, Rests never?

Answer: Wind

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I am an animal named after the animal that I eat. What am I?

Answer: An anteater.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Soy un anciano arrugadito que si me hechan al agua me pongo gordito

Answer: El garbanzo

Rating: 67%

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

Answer: La letra "i"

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Two words, my answer is only two words. To keep me, you must give me.

Answer: “Your word“

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Un platito de avellanas que de día se recogen y de noche se desparraman.

Answer: Las estrellas

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Una caja pequeñita, blanquita como la cal, todo la saben abrir, nadie la sabe cerrar

Answer: El huevo

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Una en la Tierra, una en la Luna, pero en el cielo no encontrarás ninguna.

Answer: La letra "A"

Rating: 67%

Riddle: I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken.

Answer: News

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I can honk without using a horn. What am I?

Answer: A goose.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind.

Answer: Nose

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Hold the tail, while I fish for you.

Answer: Net

Rating: 100%

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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