Section: «Riddles with Answers»
A riddle is a short description of an object or phenomenon, often in poetic form, containing an intricate task in the idea of an explicit (direct) or implied (hidden) question. The content of riddles reflects a person's life. The world around him: living and inanimate nature, phenomena of reality, objects of labor and everyday life, and more.
Riddle: What’s worth more after it’s broken?Answer: An egg
Riddle: Which word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?Answer: Short
Riddle: What two words, added together, contain the most letters?Answer: Post office
Riddle: If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?Answer: A promise
Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?Answer: A sponge
Riddle: A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?Answer: He was bald.
Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, I’m short when I’m old. What am I?Answer: Candle / Pencil
Riddle: How much dirt is in a hole that measures 2 feet by 3 feet by 4 feet?Answer: None
Riddle: How do you make the number one disappear by adding to it?Answer: Add the letter ‘G’ and it becomes Gone
Riddle: I’m as hard as a rock, but I melt immediately in hot water. What am I?Answer: An ice cube
Riddle: What is next in this sequence? JFMAMJJASONAnswer: The letter D. The sequence contains the first letter of each month.
Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?Answer: The future
Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?Answer: A sponge
Riddle: What has a neck but no head?Answer: A bottle
Riddle: What begins with T ends with T and has T in it?Answer: A teapot
Riddle: Thousands lay up gold within this house, but no man-made it. Spears past counting guard this house, but no man wards it.Answer: Beehive
Riddle: There’s only one word in the dictionary that’s spelled wrong. What is it?Answer: Wrong
Riddle: What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?Answer: Trouble
Riddle: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?Answer: Fire
Riddle: You cannot keep me until you have given me. What am I?Answer: Your word