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Trickier Riddles
Riddles that need a little more thinking.
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- I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body but come alive with wind. What am I?RiddleAn echo
- The more of me there is, the less you see. What am I?RiddleDarkness
- I can be cracked, made, told and played. What am I?RiddleA joke
- I have cities but no houses, mountains but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?RiddleA map
- What has to be broken before you can use it?RiddleAn egg
- I am not alive, but I grow. I do not have lungs, but I need air. What am I?RiddleFire
- What belongs to you but is used more by others?RiddleYour name
- What can you hear but not touch or see?RiddleA sound
- What word becomes shorter when you add two letters?RiddleShort
- Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?RiddleThe word 'ton'
- What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?RiddleA penny
- I have branches but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?RiddleA bank
- What building has the most stories but no one lives in it?RiddleA library
- What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?RiddleSilence
- I get wet while drying. What am I?RiddleA towel
- What can run but cannot walk, has a mouth but cannot talk?RiddleA river
- What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?RiddleA 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?RiddleBreath
- What has 88 keys but cannot open a single door?RiddleA piano
- What has a golden head and a golden tail but no body?RiddleA gold coin
- What do you fill with empty hands?RiddleGloves
- What word contains 26 letters but has only three syllables?RiddleAlphabet
- What starts with a P, ends with an X, and has a million letters?RiddleA postbox
- What has roots that nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, and yet never grows?RiddleA mountain
- What is seen in the middle of March and April that cannot be seen at the beginning or end of either month?RiddleThe letter R
- What English word has three consecutive double letters?RiddleBookkeeper
- What can you add to a bucket of water to make it lighter?RiddleA hole
- What gets sharper the more you use it?RiddleYour brain
- What has no beginning, end or middle?RiddleA circle
- What kind of cup can't hold water?RiddleA cupcake
- Where does today come before yesterday?RiddleIn 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?RiddleThe letter E
- Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?RiddleThe C (sea)
- What is always coming but never arrives?RiddleTomorrow
- What goes up but never comes down, and is measured in years?RiddleYour age
- I shave every day but my beard stays the same. Who am I?RiddleA barber
- What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?RiddleA promise
- What type of ship has two mates but no captain?RiddleA relationship
- What begins with 'e', ends with 'e', and contains one letter?RiddleAn envelope
- Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?RiddleIncorrectly
- What do you call a word that reads the same backward?RiddleA palindrome
- What has a thumb and four fingers but isn't alive?RiddleA glove
- What loses its head every morning and gets it back every night?RiddleA pillow
- What goes through a door but never goes in or out?RiddleA keyhole
- What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?RiddleA clock
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