Riddles

Test your intelligence with 1400 riddles and answers, including easy, short and funny riddles for kids and some of the really best and hard riddles for adults. Not forgetting math and logic riddles for the left-brained people.

Black Child

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?

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Parachute Jumping

5 men go skydiving but when they jump out of the plane, only 4 of them have a parachute. How do they all survive?

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Throw It Off

Throw it off the highest building and I’ll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I?

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Went into the Woods

I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn’t find it. What is it?

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Part of the Bird

I’m the part of the bird that’s not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?

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