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Riddle Me This
The Answers
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You can keep it only after giving it away to someone else. What is it?
Your word
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What walks all day on its head?
A nail in a horseshoe
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What gets wet when drying?
A towel
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What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter M
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What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, but all the water in the ocean can't fill it up?
A sieve
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Five men went to church. It started to rain. Four men ran for cover, but got wet
on the way. The one man who stayed behind stayed dry. How?
The dry man was a body in a coffin. The other four were pall bearers.
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The more you of them you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps
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He who has it doesn't tell about it. He who takes it doesn't know about
it. He who knows what it is doesn't want it. What is it?
Counterfeit money
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Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son. Who is he?
My son
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It lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, and is born in
air. What is it?
An echo
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I fasten it and it walks. I loosen it and it stops. What is it?
A sandal
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What goes around and around the wood but never goes into the wood?
The bark of a tree
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What goes into the water black and comes out red?
A lobster
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What goes into the water red and comes out black?
A red-hot poker
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I have a little house in which I live all alone. My house has no doors or windows, and
if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?
A chicken in an egg
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There are four brothers in this world, all born together. The first runs
and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks
and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good.
Water, fire, earth, wind
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A cloud is my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter
is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm
the torment of man.
Rain
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Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws.
Linen cloth, quills, or paper, I am greedy and devour them all. Who am I?
A pair of scissors
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What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage,
and yet the carriage cannot go without it?
Noise
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It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. What is it?
A cabbage
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It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old.
What is it?
The moon
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It's one hundred years old, but its head is only one night old. What is it?
Snow on a tree stump
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As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight
nor crooked. What kind of wood was it?
Sawdust
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What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your name
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What goes up the chimney when down, but can't go down the chimney when up?
An umbrella
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What is is that you will break every time you name it?
Silence
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What fastens two people yet touches only one?
A wedding ring
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The more you take away, the larger it becomes? What is it?
A hole
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I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness
without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger.
You may find me in the sun, but I am never seen out of darkness.
The letter -S-
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What is put on a table and cut, but is never eaten?
A pack of cards
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Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see
each other?
Eyes
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What holds water yet is full of holes?
A sponge
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I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never
released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
Pencil lead
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What goes around the house and in the house but never touches the house?
Sunshine
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Though it is not an ox, it has horns; though it is not an ass, it has a pack-saddle;
and wherever it goes it leaves silver behind. What is it?
A snail
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When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is,
then it is nothing.
A riddle
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