{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-riddles-harder",
 "id": "fun-riddles-harder",
 "title": "Trickier Riddles",
 "category": "trivia-fun",
 "subject": "Riddles",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Riddles that need a little more thinking.",
 "tags": [
  "riddles",
  "puzzles",
  "word play"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Riddle",
 "backLabel": "Answer",
 "cards": [
  [
   "I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body but come alive with wind. What am I?",
   "An echo"
  ],
  [
   "The more of me there is, the less you see. What am I?",
   "Darkness"
  ],
  [
   "I can be cracked, made, told and played. What am I?",
   "A joke"
  ],
  [
   "I have cities but no houses, mountains but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?",
   "A map"
  ],
  [
   "What has to be broken before you can use it?",
   "An egg"
  ],
  [
   "I am not alive, but I grow. I do not have lungs, but I need air. What am I?",
   "Fire"
  ],
  [
   "What belongs to you but is used more by others?",
   "Your name"
  ],
  [
   "What can you hear but not touch or see?",
   "A sound"
  ],
  [
   "What word becomes shorter when you add two letters?",
   "Short"
  ],
  [
   "Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?",
   "The word 'ton'"
  ],
  [
   "What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?",
   "A penny"
  ],
  [
   "I have branches but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?",
   "A bank"
  ],
  [
   "What building has the most stories but no one lives in it?",
   "A library"
  ],
  [
   "What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?",
   "Silence"
  ],
  [
   "I get wet while drying. What am I?",
   "A towel"
  ],
  [
   "What can run but cannot walk, has a mouth but cannot talk?",
   "A river"
  ],
  [
   "What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?",
   "A coat of paint"
  ],
  [
   "I'm light as a feather yet the strongest person can't hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?",
   "Breath"
  ],
  [
   "What has 88 keys but cannot open a single door?",
   "A piano"
  ],
  [
   "What has a golden head and a golden tail but no body?",
   "A gold coin"
  ],
  [
   "What do you fill with empty hands?",
   "Gloves"
  ],
  [
   "What word contains 26 letters but has only three syllables?",
   "Alphabet"
  ],
  [
   "What starts with a P, ends with an X, and has a million letters?",
   "A postbox"
  ],
  [
   "What has roots that nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, and yet never grows?",
   "A mountain"
  ],
  [
   "What is seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?",
   "The letter R"
  ],
  [
   "What English word has three consecutive double letters?",
   "Bookkeeper"
  ],
  [
   "What can you add to a bucket of water to make it lighter?",
   "A hole"
  ],
  [
   "What gets sharper the more you use it?",
   "Your brain"
  ],
  [
   "What has no beginning, end or middle?",
   "A circle"
  ],
  [
   "What kind of cup can't hold water?",
   "A cupcake"
  ],
  [
   "Where does today come before yesterday?",
   "In the dictionary"
  ],
  [
   "What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place?",
   "The letter E"
  ],
  [
   "Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?",
   "The C (sea)"
  ],
  [
   "What is always coming but never arrives?",
   "Tomorrow"
  ],
  [
   "What goes up but never comes down, and is measured in years?",
   "Your age"
  ],
  [
   "I shave every day but my beard stays the same. Who am I?",
   "A barber"
  ],
  [
   "What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?",
   "A promise"
  ],
  [
   "What type of ship has two mates but no captain?",
   "A relationship"
  ],
  [
   "What begins with 'e', ends with 'e', and contains one letter?",
   "An envelope"
  ],
  [
   "Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?",
   "Incorrectly"
  ],
  [
   "What do you call a word that reads the same backward?",
   "A palindrome"
  ],
  [
   "What has a thumb and four fingers but isn't alive?",
   "A glove"
  ],
  [
   "What loses its head every morning and gets it back every night?",
   "A pillow"
  ],
  [
   "What goes through a door but never goes in or out?",
   "A keyhole"
  ],
  [
   "What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?",
   "A clock"
  ]
 ]
}