Riddle: There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors?
Answer: The person slept on a waterbed. His killer used the scissors to cut the bed open and drown him.
Riddle: We are five little objects of an everyday sort. You will find us all in a tennis court. What are we?
Answer: Vowels.
Riddle: My first is appropriate, my second 'tis nine to one if you guess it. My whole elevates the sole above the earth. What am I?
Answer: Pat-ten.
Classic Riddles
Riddle: Why is a conundrum like a monkey?
Answer: Because it is far fetched and full of nonsense.
Riddle: Why is the letter F like an incendiary?
Answer: Because it makes ire fire.
Classic Riddles
Riddle: What goes in the water red, and comes out black?
Answer: Iron.
Riddle: I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns. What are the three things?
Answer: Stove, fire, and smoke.
Classic Riddles
Riddle: Ripped from my mother's womb, Beaten and burned, I become a blood-thirsty slayer. What am I?
Answer: Iron ore.
Riddle: My head and tail both equal are, My middle slender as a bee. Whether I stand on head or heel Is quite the same to you or me. But if my head should be cut off, The matter's true, though passing strange Directly I to nothing change. What Am I?
Answer: The figure eight.
Riddle: Why is a man in debt like a misty morning?
Answer: Because he is surrounded with dues (dews).
Riddle: A harvest sown and reaped on the same day In an unplowed field, Which increases without growing, Remains whole though it is eaten Within and without, Is useless and yet The staple of nations. What is it?
Answer: War.
Riddle: Why are beautiful women like bread?
Answer: Because they are often toasted.
Riddle: A man but an animal, a horn with two hands. What am I?
Answer: A Minotaur.
Riddle: What is that which has many leaves, but no stem?
Answer: A book.
Riddle: A box without hinges, key or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid. What am I?
Answer: An egg.
Riddle: Why is a small horse like a young musk-melon?
Answer: Because it makes a man go.
Riddle: What do we all do when we first get into bed?
Answer: Make an impression.
Riddle: Why is an old man like a window?
Answer: Because he is full of pains (panes).
Riddle: Why ought a fisherman to be very wealthy?
Answer: Because his is all net profit.
Riddle: There's a land where there are mummies and daddies but no babies. Books but no libraries. Mirrors but no reflections. Kittens but no cats. Cattle but no cows. Lollipops but no candy and trees but no forests. It's the land of what?
Answer: The land of double letters.