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.

Unusual Words

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

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I am used to bat with, yet I never get a hit. I am near a ball, yet I am never thrown. What am I?

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In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast of iron. It can only attack when pulled back. What is it?

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