I bet you can’t find the answers to these riddles!! If you need help with unknown words try the google translate or the free dictionary online or use your own dictionary book at home. Good Luck! Write your answers – in english please! – in the comments below.
1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
2. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
3. What month of the year has 28 days?
4. What is full of holes but still holds water?
5. What question can you never answer yes to?
6. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
7. There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
8. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
9. What goes up but never comes down?
10. A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
11. What gets wet while drying?
12. What can you keep after giving to someone?
13. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
14. You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
15. You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
16. A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
17. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
18. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
19. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
20. David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle and what’s the name of the third son?
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If you thought the first 20 riddles (1-20) were easy, I double bet you can’t find the following (20-40) though:
21. I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
22. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
23. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
24. What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
25. What gets bigger when more is taken away?
26. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
27. I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
28. Where does today come before yesterday?
29. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
30. If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?
31. What can’t be put in a saucepan?
32. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
33. If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
34. It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
35. What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
36. What has one eye, but can’t see?
37. What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?
38. What has hands, but can’t clap?
39. What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
40. What has one head, one foot and four legs?
1. egg,2. candle,3. all the months,4. sponge,5. Are you asleep,6. future,8. a promise,9. your age,10. because he is bald,11. a towel,12. your word,13. a barber,14. all the people are married,15. a match,16. because he was born on February 29,17. a bank,18. an echo,19. darkness,20. David
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Excellent!
21 shadow 22 the keychain 23 the knife 24 25the branches of the tree 26 the snow 27 skein 28 29 window 30 the love 31 the lid of the pot 32 the curtain 33 in the first place 34 your home that you rent 35 the electric cooker 36 the needle 37 the pine 38 the hands are wet 39 disability 40 the pelican while sleeping
Well done Pantelis! The correct answers and your score will appear very soon.
5/20!! Well done Pantelis! The correct answers are: 21 your shadow, 22 piano, 23 your right elbow, 24 a chalkboard, 25 a hole, 26 your breath, 27 yarn, 28 dictionary, 29 window, 30 secret, 31 lid, 32 staircase, 33 second place, 34 your name, 35 potato, 36 needle, 37 Christmas tree, 38 clock, 39 table, 40 bed.
1.egg 2. candle 3. February 4.sponge 5.who is your favourite team 6. your shadow 7.there are not stairs 8.egg 9.trees and plants 10. because he is bold 11.ice 12.the good deed you did 13. 14.because all peoples are in the boat 15. a candle 16. made his four year birthday 17.pine 18. 19.the darkness 20.noise
7/20!! Well done my dear! The correct answers are: 1. egg 2. candle 3. all 4. sponge 5.Are you asleep yet? 6. the future 7. there aren’t any stairs 8. a promise 9. age 10. he was bald 11. towel 12. your word 13. a barber 14. all were married 15. the match 16. he was born on Feb 29 17. a bank 18. echo 19. darkness 20. David
21.the shadow
22.married people’s keys
23.The wrong things
24.
25.The nothing
26.The light
27.spots
28.in the pressent
29.windows,doors
30.secret
31.the lid
32.your age
33.in the first place(or second)
34.your feelings, your mind
35.a lot of animals that are blind
36.A bling cyclopes
37.rose, hedgehog
38.a dead man
39.A dead man
40.something that has five legs
Practice makes perfect Paraskevi!! Your score and the correct answers will appear soon.
5/20! It’s hard to find the answers so don’t be disapponted my dear!! The correct answers are: 21 your shadow, 22 piano, 23 your right elbow, 24 a chalkboard, 25 a hole, 26 your breath, 27 yarn, 28 dictionary, 29 window, 30 secret, 31 lid, 32 staircase, 33 second place, 34 your name, 35 potato, 36 needle, 37 Christmas tree, 38 clock, 39 table, 40 bed.
I double bet you can’t find these ridddles though—>
21. I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
22. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
23. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
24. What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
25. What gets bigger when more is taken away?
26. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
27. I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
28. Where does today come before yesterday?
29. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
30. If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?
31. What can’t be put in a saucepan?
32. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
33. If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
34. It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
35. What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
36. What has one eye, but can’t see?
37. What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?
38. What has hands, but can’t clap?
39. What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
40. What has one head, one foot and four legs?
The correct answers are:
1. egg 2. candle 3. all 4. sponge 5.Are you asleep yet? 6. the future 7. there aren’t any stairs 8. a promise 9. age 10. he was bald 11. towel 12. your word 13. a barber 14. all were married 15. the match 16. he was born on Feb 29 17. a bank 18. echo 19. darkness 20. David
Well done boys and girls!! Just waiting for more students to give their answers before I give the correct ones and your score.
1.egg
2.pencil,people,candle
3.all months have 28 days
4.sponge
5.if I am dead
6.the future
7.it hasn’t got stairs
8.a promise
9.age
10.he is bald
11.a bath towel
12.your word
13.a barber
14. they were married
15. match
16.he was born on February
17.bank
18.echo
19.dark
20.David
Thanasis Sideris Korais
19 out 20!!! Excellent Thanos!!!
I have another: YOUR mother has 4 children. They are called North, South, East and what’s the name of the 4th child?
MY mother has 3 children.
10.he was bold
5 out 20!! You need some riddle practice George!!
1.egg
3.all
4.sponge
9.people?
10.name
20.david
1. the egg
2. a human
3. all months have 28 +** days!
4. α spongε
5.
6. future
7. there aren’t stairs. it’s one-story house.
8.
9. the smoke
10. because he is bald
11. the towel
12. the promise
13.
14.everybody is married
15.the light of the room
16. it is possible because he was born on February 29th, so he is celebrating his birthday every 4 years, but he has lived 25X4 = 100 years
17.
18.
19.the darkness
20. its David
12 out of 20!! Well done Eva!! Keep going you clever girl!
I solved the riddles with a little help from my parents and Google translate. I hope it doesn’t matter…
Of course not. All help is welcome.
1. egg
2.
3.February
4.faucet
5.
6.future
7.there are no stairs
8.break a promise or break a bond
9.age
10.he’s bold
11.
12.A promise
13.
14. Because they all married ????
15. A match
16. Because he has birthday every 4 years on 29th of February
17.
18. echo
19. fog
20. David
13 out of 20!! Well done Debbie!! (can’t wait to see the video from our last performance by the way..)
Write your answers in a comment. For example:
1. car 2. orange 3. window 4. etc
1.Recycled glass
2.a human
3.February
4.???
5.How are you?
6.air
7.yellow
8.A person’s heart
9.a soul,balloon
10.because he was under a tree or a building
11.Our mouth
12.an exchange, his/her appreciation because you gave it to him/her.
13.???
14.they are ghosts
15.the candle
16.he smoked too much
17.woods
18.a parrot
19.dark
20.Break
(I saw 4 and 13 because I didn’t found them. But I didn’t wrote them because I wanted to show the ones I found.)
1 out of 20!! You definitely need some more riddle practice Paraskevi mou. So here it is:
21. I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
22. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
23. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
24. What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
25. What gets bigger when more is taken away?
26. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
27. I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
28. Where does today come before yesterday?
29. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
30. If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?
31. What can’t be put in a saucepan?
32. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
33. If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
34. It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
35. What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
36. What has one eye, but can’t see?
37. What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?
38. What has hands, but can’t clap?
39. What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
40. What has one head, one foot and four legs?