Riddle: Who always goes to bed with his shoes on?
Answer: A horse.
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: 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.
Classic Riddles
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: 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.
Classic Riddles
Riddle: What can't be burned in fire, nor drowned in water?
Answer: Ice.
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!
Classic Riddles
Riddle: What eleven-letter English word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly!
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: 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: 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 is often returned but never borrowed?
Answer: Thanks.
Riddle: I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken. What am I?
Answer: News.
Riddle: Without a bridle, or a saddle, across a thing I ride a-straddle. And those I ride, by help of me, though almost blind, are made to see. What am I?
Answer: Eye glasses.
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: What is it that you ought to keep after you have given it to someone else?
Answer: A promise, of course.
Riddle: What always was, yet can never be?
Answer: Yesterday.
Riddle: Which word in the English language becomes shorter when it is lengthened?
Answer: Short.
Riddle: Rock and roll, rock and roll. What rocks but does not roll?
Answer: A Rocking chair
Riddle: Tear off one and scratch its head, what was red is now black instead. What is It?
Answer: A Matchstick!