Short Riddles

Short riddles with answers are most often just one or two sentences long. But don’t be fooled, these short riddles could be very tricky as well.

Up and Down

What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

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What is unusual about the following words: revive, banana, grammar, voodoo, assess, potato, dresser, uneven?

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A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?

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They belong to me, they belong to you, they can make you feel happy or make you feel blue, they never end until the day you do?

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A hundred arms, a thousand fingers, but it has no eyes to see where it lingers. What is it?

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