Riddle: In a stable there are men and horses. In all, there are 22 heads and 72 feet. How many men and how many horses are in the stable?
Answer: 14 horses and 8 men. 14x4 plus 8x2 = 72 feet.
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 am I?
Answer: A Promise.
Riddle: This thing devours all things. All man, all beasts, all flowers and trees. Even the fiery sun, and the shadowy moon, will one day be devoured by this thing. Stone it grinds, metal it bites. And it shall make wood rot. Is it powerful? Well it is rather not, but it kills powerful things a lot. Its immortal yet it is not some type of god. What is it?
Answer: Time.
Classic Riddles
Riddle: Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
Answer: Fire!
Riddle: If there is a Yellow house on Bluebird Lane, a Green house on Orange Street, a Pink house on Kitten Road, a Black house on Whitehorse Pike and a Purple house on Firebird hill, where is the White house?
Answer: Washington, D.C.
Classic Riddles
Riddle: A man builds a house with all 4 sides facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?
Answer: White, the house is built directly on the North Pole.
Riddle: I'm so fast you can't see me, Though everyone sees straight through me, I don't stop until the day you die. What am I?
Answer: A blink of an eye.
Classic Riddles
Riddle: My thunder comes before the lightning; My lightning comes before the clouds; My rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?
Answer: A volcano.
Riddle: If you break me I do not stop working, If you touch me I may be snared, If you lose me nothing will matter. What am I?
Answer: Your heart.
Riddle: What bird can be heard at mealtimes?
Answer: A swallow.
Riddle: What can't be put into a sauce pan?
Answer: It’s lid.
Riddle: You are on an island in the middle of a lake. The lake is in a remote part of the country and there has never been a bridge connecting the island to the mainland. Every day a tractor and wagon gives hay rides around the island. Puzzled as to how the tractor had gotten onto the island, you ask around and find out that the tractor was not transported to the island by boat or by air. Nor was it built on the island. Explain how the tractor got there?
Answer: It was driven over in winter, when the lake was frozen.
Riddle: I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing. What am I?
Answer: The letter T.
Riddle: Almost everyone sees me without noticing me, For what is beyond is what he or she seeks. What am I?
Answer: A window.
Riddle: A pipe, a carrot, and a couple sticks are lying together in a field. Why?
Answer: They're what is left of a melted snowman.
Riddle: You're both in and outside of me; You guide me but don't ride me; I can make a statement with a tongue but no mouth. What am I?
Answer: Shoes.
Riddle: If two peacocks lay two eggs in two days how many eggs does one peacock lay in four days?
Answer: Peacocks don't lay eggs.
Riddle: Imagine you are in a room, with no doors windows, or anything. How do you get out?
Answer: Stop imagining.
Riddle: You heard me before, Yet you hear me again, Then I die, 'Till you call me again. What am I?
Answer: I am an echo.
Riddle: What never gets any wetter, no matter how much it rains?
Answer: The sea.