Riddles & Brain Teasers

Our collection of riddles will challenge your intelligence. We have collected riddles in different categories like funny, amazing, brain teasers and much more. So give your brain a little exercise today.

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Pronounced as one letter,
But look and you’ll see,
That really I’m written with three.
I’m read from both ends,
The same either way.
What am I?
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Each morning I appear
To lie at your feet,
All day I will follow
No matter how fast you run,
Yet I nearly perish
In the midday sun.
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I can be created by humans,
But they cannot control me.
I suck on wood, paper and flesh alike.
I can be more of a hindrance than help at times.
To my creators, I seem to be everywhere at once.
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I’m not an airplane, but I can fly through the sky.
I’m not a river, but I’m full of water.
What am I?
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Until I am measured,
I am not known.
Yet how you miss me,
When I have flown.
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When you stop and look, you can always see me. If you try to touch you cannot feel me. I cannot move, but as you near me, I will move away from you. What am I?
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You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
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I am the ruler of shovels,
I have a double.
I am as thin as a knife,
I have a wife.
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My author’s uncertain yet my title’s the same,
I contain random text yet order’s my aim.
Read me one day and see my pages are totally bare.
Try again another day and the words will be there.
I’m not a book of magic although it may sound,
I can predict the future, and inside, your life can be found.
Move my eye, I become involved in lactic extraction.
But that’s just a clue , a minor distraction.
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A little pool with two layers of wall around it.
One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I?
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I can sizzle like bacon,
I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole,
I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole,
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My thunder rolls beneath me, my lightning flares above. I dust the crust, and when I bust, all I touch will I shove.What am I?See the solution

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My first is in fish but not in snail,
My second is in rabbit but not in tail.
My third is in up but not in down,
My fourth is in tiara but not in crown.
My fifth is in tree you plainly see,
My whole a food for you and me.
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I have four legs but never walk
I may be covered in flowers but have no soil
I hold food three times a day but never eat a meal.
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I look flat, but I am deep,
Hidden realms I shelter.
Lives I take, but food I offer.
At times I am beautiful.
I can be calm, angry and turbulent.
I have no heart, but offer pleasure as well as death.
No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have.
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Many different types of my last seven letters can be found in newspapers, magazines, & journals. Physicists have built devices to get me moving very fast.
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I was born in the 18th century, yet still live on today. Appearing on TV when I have something to say. Called everything from “honest” to a dirty rotten “crook”, I used to wear a wig, but have had several looks. I’ve always had a party, but never disturb the neighbors. I’ve been shot at many times – major stories for the papers. What am I?
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I fly in the air,
But I am not always there.
I cannot be touched,
But I can be felt or held.
Think very hard,
But if you live near the equator,
You may have a tough time seeing me.
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Dark with white markings,
And smooth like a rock.
Where learning occurs,
I help convey thought.
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I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I’m not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I’m never thrown. What am I?
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