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"What is it?" Riddles to Solve
Is it here? Is it there? Maybe it is everywhere? Solve this riddle and you will find you have exercised your mind. These riddles can be hard or easy. Find the answer by putting together the clues. What it is may not be what it isn't. "Who is it?" Riddles
Riddle:
The more you take, the more you leave behind. "What am I?"
Answer: You take footsteps and leave footprints.
Riddle:
What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Answer: The word is "starting". Remove the middle "T" and you have "staring", Remove the "A" and you get "string", remove the "R" then you have "sting", remove the "T" and you get "sing". Remove the "G", and you get "sin", remove the "S" and you're left with "in", and finally, remove the "N" and you're left with "I".
Riddle:
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A Penny.
Riddle:
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
Riddle:
What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
Riddle:
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
Riddle:
What has 88 keys, but can't even open a single door?
Answer: A piano.
Riddle:
What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? "What is it?"
Answer: A die (dice).
Riddle:
What is more useful when it is broken?
Answer: An egg.
Riddle:
Re-arrange the letters, O O U S W T D N E J R, to spell just one word. What is it?
Answer: 'Just one word'.
Riddle:
What runs around the whole yard without moving?
Answer: A fence.
Riddle:
You have me today,
Tomorrow you'll have more;
As your time passes,
I'm not easy to store;
I don't take up space,
But I'm only in one place;
I am what you saw,
But not what you see.
What am I?
Answer: Memories.
Riddle:
Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What is it?
Answer: It's a shadow!
Riddle:
What can point in every direction but can't reach the destination by itself?
Answer: Your finger or a compass.
Riddle:
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
Riddle:
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal.
Riddle:
They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they?
Answer: Gloves.
Riddle:
A man rode out of town on Sunday, he stayed a whole night at a hotel and rode back to town the next day on Sunday. How is this possible?
Answer: His Horse was called Sunday!
Riddle:
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
Answer: Mount Everest.
Riddle:
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
Answer: Nothing.
