Short Riddles

Riddle: A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one and twelve remains

Answer: The word Dozens

Rating: 75%

Riddle: Ayer estuve, hoy estuve, pero mañana no estaré. ¿Quién soy?

Answer: La letra Y

Rating: 67%

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: Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.

Answer: Railroad

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Captain is to Private as Master is to

Answer: Slave

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Las hormigas

Rating: 67%

Riddle: Cartas van, cartas vienen, y en el aire se detienen.

Answer: Las nubes

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?

Answer: A chalkboard

Rating: 67%

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

Answer: Las horas

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Does the law allow a man to marry his widow's sister?

Answer: Of course not. If he has a widow then he's dead. And dead people can't get married

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Es la reina de los mares, su dentadura es muy buena, y por no ir nunca vacía, siempre dicen que va llena.

Answer: Ballena

Rating: 67%

Riddle: How many animals did Moses take on the arc with him?

Answer: None. Noah went on the arc, not Moses.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Forward I’m heavy, but backward I’m not. What am I?

Answer: Ton

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Goes over all the hills and hollows. Bites hard, but never swallows.

Answer: Frost

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Hard to catch, easy to hold. Can't be seen, unless it's cold.

Answer: Breath

Rating: 100%

Riddle: How do surfers greet each other?

Answer: They wave.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Palo alto y muy delgado con lucida cabellera que el viento mece en la playa mientras juega con la arena

Answer: La palmera

Rating: 100%

Riddle: How many letters are in the alphabet?

Answer: There are 11 letters in “THE ALPHABET.”Did you say 26?

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?

Answer: Pillow

Rating: 50%

Riddle: ¿Que es lo que con solo nombrarlo se rompe

Answer: El silencio.

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Bicycle

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Water

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Todas me llaman mitad, Y en verdad no sé por qué Un nombre tan singular Me dan, aunque entera esté.

Answer: Las medias

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I crawl on the earth. And rise on a pillar.

Answer: Shadow

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

Answer: Wet

Rating: 60%

Riddle: Siempre mirando al sol y no soy un caracol. Giro y giro sin fin y no soy un bailarín.

Answer: El girasol

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Si me miras del derecho, me verás como animal, mas si tú al revés me miras, yo seré un vegetal.

Answer: El arroz

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Twigs and spheres and poles and plates. Join and bind to reason make.

Answer: Skeleton

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I have four legs but no tail. Usually I am heard only at night.

Answer: Frog

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Una vela

Rating: 50%

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

Answer: El garbanzo

Rating: 67%

Riddle: What goes into the water black and comes out red?

Answer: A lobster

Rating: 75%

Riddle: What goes into the water red and comes out black?

Answer: A red-hot poker

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What goes through a door but never goes in. And never comes out?

Answer: Keyhole

Rating: 75%

Riddle: The more of it there is, the less you see.

Answer: Darkness

Rating: 100%

Riddle: The more you take, the more you give up. What am I?

Answer: Footsteps.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind.

Answer: Steps

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

Answer: Penny

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What has a neck and no head, two arms but no hands?

Answer: Shirt

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What has a single eye but cannot see?

Answer: Needle

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What has no beginning, end, or middle?

Answer: A doughnut

Rating: 100%

Riddle: what is a triangle with 2 sides?

Answer: no such thing

Rating: 50%

Riddle: What is it that has four legs, one head, and a foot?

Answer: Bed

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Deck

Rating: 100%

Riddle: What is round on the ends and high in the middle?

Answer: oHIo

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

Answer: Era su madre.

Rating: 100%

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

Answer: Remark

Rating: 100%

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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