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.

I Never Was, Am Always to Be

I never was, am always to be. No one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all, to live and breathe on this terrestrial ball. What am I?

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Break Me, Touch Me, Lose Me

If you break me, I do not stop working. If you touch me, I may be snared. If you lose me, nothing will matter. What am I?

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Have Legs but Walk Not

I have legs but walk not, a strong back but work not, two good arms but reach not, a seat but sit and tarry not. What am I?

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When I Live I Cry

When I live I cry, if you don’t kill me I’ll die. What am I?

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The Four Dollar Book

A woman walked up to a man behind a counter and handed him a book. He looked at it and said, “That will be four dollars.” She paid the man and then walked out without the book. He saw her leave without it but did not call her back. How come?

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