RIDDLES 29

Q. Three lives have I.
Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
Light enough to caress the sky,
Hard enough to crack rocks.

A. WATER


Q. At the sound of me, men may dream
Or stamp their feet
At the sound of me, women may laugh
Or sometimes weep

A.MUSIC

RIDDLES 28

Q. I am seen in the water
If seen in the sky,
I am in the rainbow,
A jay's feather,
And lapis lazuli.

A. BLUE


Q. Glittering points
That downward thrust,
Sparkling spears
That never rust.

A. Icicle


Q. You heard me before,
Yet you hear me again,
Then I die,
'Till you call me again.

A. An echo

RIDDLES 27

Q. I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be.

A. FEW


Q. I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns.

A.  Stove, fire, smoke


Q. I have four legs but no tail. Usually I am heard only at night. What am I ?

A.  A frog. The frog is an amphibian in the order Anura (meaning "tail-less") and usually makes noises at night during its mating season.

RIDDLES 26

Q.What's black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you're all through with it ?

A.Charcoal.


Q.You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat ?

A.An ear of corn.

RIDDLES 25

Q.What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

A.  A PENNY


Q.What English word has three consecutive double letters?

A.Bookkeeper. An alternate, tricky, answer could be Woollen (where W is a "double u")

RIDDLES 24

Q.The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it and the person who uses it doesn't know they are. What is it?

A. A coffin


Q.The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?

A. Darkness

RIDDLES 23

Q. What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days ?

A.The letter 'n'.


Q. Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

A.It states, "There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?" The third word of that phrase is of course "language." Don't get angry at me, I didn't make it up :)

RIDDLES 22

Q.At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

A.The Star


Q.There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?

A. A watermelon.

RIDDLES 21

Q.It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What is it?

A.Man (or woman). Crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult and uses two legs and a cane when they're old.


Q.I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?

A.The letter e. End, timE, spacE, Every placE

RIDDLES 20

Q.If you break me
I do not stop working,
If you touch me
I may be snared,
If you lose me
Nothing will matter.

A.YOUR HEART


Q.All about, but cannot be seen,
Can be captured, cannot be held,
No throat, but can be heard.

A.THE WIND