Riddle: The cost of making only the maker knows, Valueless if bought, but sometimes traded. A poor man may give one as easily as a king. When one is broken pain and deceit are assured. What is it?
Answer: Promise.
Riddle: Who always goes to bed with his shoes on?
Answer: A horse.
Riddle: If a man carried my burden he would break his back. I am not rich, but leave silver in my track. What am I?
Answer: I am a snail.
Riddle: Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all. What am I?
Answer: Shears, or scissors.
Riddle: What can you put in a barrel, that will make the barrel lighter?
Answer: A Hole.
Riddle: What can't be burned in fire, nor drowned in water?
Answer: Ice.
Riddle: I can be any color you can imagine. You see me in everyday life. I have been around for many, many years, look around, you can probably see some of me right now.
What am I?
Answer: Paint.
Riddle: I'm tempting, so it's said, I have a shiny coat of red, And my flesh is white beneath. I smell so sweet, Taste good to eat, And help to guard your teeth.
What am I?
Answer: I am an apple!
Riddle: I'm named after nothing, though I'm awfully clamorous. And when I'm not working, your house is less glamorous.
What am I?
Answer: A vacuum cleaner.
Riddle: What eleven-letter English word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly!
Riddle: At the sound of me, men may dream, Or stamp their feet. At the sound of me, women may laugh, Or sometimes weep. What am I?
Answer: I am Music!
Riddle: What is often returned but never borrowed?
Answer: Thanks.
Riddle: I am only useful when I am full, yet I am always full of holes. What am I?
Answer: I am a Sponge.
Riddle: What always was, yet can never be?
Answer: Yesterday.
Riddle: What is it that you ought to keep after you have given it to someone else?
Answer: A promise, of course.
Riddle: I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken.
What am I?
Answer: News.
Riddle: One day, a thirty-story building was on fire. A man jumped out a window and nothing happened to him. Nothing was under him. How is this possible?
Answer: He was on the first floor.
Riddle: Two mothers and two daughters go shopping. They have $21, which they split equally between them. How can this be possible?
Answer: There are three people. There was the Grandmother, her daughter, and the daughter's daughter. Therefore: they each get $7.
Riddle: Rock and roll, rock and roll.
What rocks but does not roll?
Answer: A Rocking chair
Riddle: I make you weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe, I keep you fine. I make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold, I visit the weak, but seldom the bold. What am I?
Answer: Your fears.
