36 Death Riddles - Riddles about Death
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1. Some try to hide, some try to cheat; but time will show, we always will meet. What am I?
Answer: I am death.
2. I cause death yet make your day. I am your friend, but your enemy. I am the beginning and end. What am I?
Answer: Time.
3. I have a beginning, but no end and I end all things that begin. What am I?
Answer: Death.
4. The fuel for life, Important parts of the day, Even if it is a long time away. Long lasting use, Long lasting fuse, Until my explosive death day. What am I?
Answer: The sun.
5. What do liars do after death?
Answer: Lie still.
6. I am not a person nor an animal. I was born from the death of something large and hot. I am capable of consuming anything and everything. I am very dark and exists in a place where there is no gravity. What am I?
Answer: A black hole.
7. A nightmare for some. For others, a savior I come. My hand's cold and bleak. It's the warm hearts they seek. What am I?
Answer: Death.
8. What welcomes you with open arms, but many people try to avoid it?
Answer: Death.
9. Alive without breath, As cold as death, Never thirsty, Ever drinking, Clad in mail, Never clinking, Drowns on dry land, Thinks an island Is a mountain, Thinks a fountain Is a puff of air. What am I?
Answer: A fish.
10. I am the kind of game that people play. But I used to be a death sentence back in the day. What kind of game am I?
Answer: Hangman!
11. What grows but never gets taller, shrinks but never gets smaller, hurts the minds of men, doesn't live, but doesn't have a deathbed?
Answer: SOUND. Sound grows and shrinks but, realistically, doesn't do either. Can hurt ears and the brain at certain frequencies. Doesn't live and isn't dead.
12. The king of the jungle, rare as gold, black as night, in light not there and night not seen. Goes in water, goes on trees, goes in caves, goes on the ground. Claws of knives, teeth of swords, roar of death but silent as a mouse. What is it?
Answer: A black panther (black jaguar)
13. I work very hard and never stop. When I stop, life is death. Who am I?
Answer: Your Heart. It has to work hard to pump blood to all parts of your body!
14. In shattered peace I find release. In death, I do delight. Where blood is spilled upon the ground, And men begin to fight. What am I?
Answer: War.
15. Despised I am by knave and liar. After me, the wise inquire, I rise above all death and fire. What am I?
Answer: The Truth.
16. I have no mind or a soul. I've been eternally attached since man's dawn. My kind disappear on and off, to everyone I accompany them to their death, and buried with them, then I hide away when the casket shuts. What am I?
Answer: A shadow.
17. To some I am kind, to others I am cold, but once I'm done with you, you'll never be bothered again. What am I?
Answer: Death.
18. In the olden days, you are a clever thief charged with treason against the king and sentenced to death. But the king decided to be a little lenient and let you choose your own way to die. What way should you choose?
Answer: Choose to die of old age.
19. I bring death with a mighty blow. I can ruin nations with a mighty hole. Many people may die. Many people will cry. A battle is won at least. In the end I can bring peace. What am I?
Answer: War.
20. It is said among my people that some things are improved by death. Tell me, what stinks while living, but in death, smells good?
Answer: A Pig.
21. People who want to get rid of me forever, there are dreamers, there are ignorant people; people who are happy to greet me, there are indifferent people, there are crazy people; most people fear me, but I will come eventually. What am I?
Answer: Death.
22. When I move, I tip the scales. I am the source of many tales. Around your foot, a sign of wealth. Around a stick, a sign of health. Around your chest, your final breath. On your neck, say hi to death. What am I?
Answer: A snake. Snake scales. Snake Tail and snakes are usually the antagonists. Snakeskin is very expensive. Snakes on a stick are almost always seen in hospitals. Constrictors squeeze the life out of you. A poisonous snakebite on your neck would kill you extremely fast.
23. A woman was born in 1975 and died in 1975. She was 22 years old at the time of her death. How?
Answer: She was born in hospital room #1975.
24. In this place, people lie, people cry, and people ask why. In this place, people sleep, people weep, and people's solitude, they keep. What is it?
Answer: "Graveyard" or "Cemetery" - Reasoning: Both "people lie" and "people sleep" are indications of many people using this place to lie down, or to sleep, which in itself is an odd thought. Crying and weeping indicate that this is a sad place, and the continued use of "people" allows this to mean not just those who are lying down or sleeping, but those who come to visit them there, (i.e. mourners). People come to ask the person grave why they did what they did that resulted in their death, as a form of mourning, or to ask their chosen God or Gods why they took that person to their grave. And peoples solitude refers to people sleeping on their own, or the mourners usually coming the mourn privately.
25. This poor man refused to eat, and was extremely sad ever since, cause of death? Think: Starvation, or depression... he felt nothing inside. So what was the cause of death?
Answer: Emptiness.
26. I'm alive, but without breath; I'm as cold in life as in death; I'm never thirsty, though I always drink. What am I?
Answer: A fish.
27. I can make you feel like king, But the price is quite the thing. When I am low, One might find oneself on death row. What am I?
Answer: Self-esteem.
28. As destructive as life, As healing as death; An institutioner of strife, Just as prone to bless. It is all that is good, Yet with an evil trend; As it was the beginning of things, It can also be the end. What is it?
Answer: It is fire!
29. I am the future, all eventual decay; In death and destruction, I lay. Your habits of order to prevent my disorder, Only hasten my final hooray. What am I?
Answer: Entropy.
30. Why is the letter F like death?
Answer: Because without it life is a lie, or it makes life a lie.
31. What begins all that ends, but ends all that begins?
Answer: Death.
32. I have your ohs and your wishes, Your life force and your death gasp. You can visit me, or we can get stuck together; Either way, you'll arrive pale and leave quenched. What am I?
Answer: A well. “Your ohs”: The interjection “oh, well” uses “well” as a conversational filler. “Your wishes”: A “wishing well” is where people toss coins and make wishes. “Your life force”: Wells hold water, essential for life; drinking from a well sustains you. “Your death gasp”: “Farewell” (said at life’s end) contains “well,” and grief often “wells up” as tears. “You can visit me”: A literal water well is a place you go to draw water. “We can get stuck together”: “As well” means “together/also,” and “well… well” is a phrase people repeat when stuck or hesitating. “Arrive pale and leave quenched”: A pun on “pail/pale”—you come with a pail to the well and leave with thirst quenched and the pail filled; or you come looking drained (“pale”) and leave revived by water. All clues point to “well” through its literal meaning (water source) and its many idiomatic uses.
33. King Tut died 120 years after King Eros was born. Their combined age when they died was 100 years. King Eros died in the year 40 B.C. In what year was King Tut born?
Answer: King Tut was born in 20 B.C. There were 120 years between the birth of King Eros and the death of King Tut, but since their ages amounted to only 100 years, there must have been 20 years when neither existed. This would be a period between the death of King Eros, 40 B.C., and the birth of King Tut, 20 B.C.
34. A room with no windows or doors, walks in the night, grows in a day, is found where there is death and decay. What is it?
Answer: Mushrooms.
35. I am the fountain from which no one can drink. For many I am considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I am sought for, But my continued death brings wealth for all to want more. What am I?
Answer: Oil.
36. What begins and never ends?
Answer: Death.
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