Will R. Raine - Riddle Me This - The Ultimate Collection Of Riddles & Brain Teasers

Riddle Me This

The Ultimate Collection Of Riddles & Brain Teasers

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Thinking outside the box is a sought after skill in todays fast paced and creative environment. This collection of over 500 riddles and brainteasers will have you racking your brain for hours and hours on end. Lateral thinking is a must to solve these riddles! Do you think youre clever enough to solve them? Better yet, challenge your friends and family to see who has the most creative thinking cap.

The riddles are separated into 20 question lots with the answers to the brainteasers situated at the end of the 20 questions. This is done to ensure that you actually think about the riddle before seeing the answer! A true challenge!

Thanks again for downloading this book, I hope you enjoy it and have lots of fun trying to solve these riddles with your family and friends!

One strand dangles. Two strands twist.Three or more can fashion this.A home of wood in a wooded place, but built not by hand. High above the earthen ground, it holds its pale blue gems. What is it?Three or four,I can stab through or rule the seas.You know my cousins.What am I?What can be swallowed, but can swallow you?Guided, I am scraping along, leaving behind my snow-white dust against that which I am scraping, for when I am scraping, I must.What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?What gets easier to pick up the larger it gets?You can tumble in it,Roll in it, Burn it,Animals eat it,Used to cover floors,Still used beyond stall doors.Freshens whatever it is placed on,Absorbs whatever is poured into it.What is it?What's red and bad for your teeth?What kind of cup doesn't hold water?Two bodies with ribs, exposed.Tear one off and scratch my head, what once was red is black instead!Precious stones in a pack of cards.When young, I am sweet in the sun.When middle-aged, I make you gay.When old, I am valued more than ever.What's the red stuff between elephants toes?Take away my first letter and I remain the same. Take away my last letter and I remain unchanged. Remove all my letters and Im still me. What am I?He has one and a person has two, a citizen has three and a human being has four, a personality has five and an inhabitant of earth has six. What am I?I follow the orders of only two.I respect the work of only two.I am in constant battles with many,Though one surpassed them all.With forces joined,We created hell,Until our mutual enemy fell.Who am I?What is it that leaps and runs and yet, has no feet?I love to dance and twist and prance, I shake my tail, as away I sail, wingless I fly into the sky. What am I? Answers: 1) Braids. 2) A nest. 3) Fork. 4) Pride. 5) Chalk. 6) A stone. 7) A woman. 8) Hay. 9) A brick. 10) Cupcake. 11) Ladder. 12) A match. 13) Diamonds. 14) Wine. 15) Slow pygmies. 16) A mailman. 17) Syllables. 18) Peeves. 19) A ball. 20) A kite.
Travel a mile and I will change, travel a million and I will end as I started, What am I?At the sound of me, men may dreamOr stamp their feetAt the sound of me, women may laughOr sometimes weep.Large as a mountain, small as a pea,Endlessly swimming in a waterless sea.What is the end to which we all like to come?There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?A child playing on the beach had 6-1/6 sand piles in one place and 3-1/3 in another. If he put them together, how many sand piles would he have?A serpent swam in a silver urn,A golden bird did in its mouth abide,The serpent drank the water, this in turn,Killed the serpent. Then the gold bird died.When is 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same thing?In ye fire thou hear me scream! Creaking and whining yet I am dead before thoust layeth me upon ye hearth.What starts with a P, ends with an E and has a million letters in it?I have no wings but I fly, I have no teeth but I bite. What am I?I know a thousand faces, and count the tailed heads, feasting bright upon the eyes, of many who have died. Wielding well a mighty power, who hath but humble stature. Masses fall upon their knees, to scarce behold my only side. What am I?A blue house has blue bricks; a yellow house has a yellow bricks. What is a green house made of?What do we all put off until tomorrow?What type of dress can never be worn?What has one eye but cannot see?My father have a grey horse in him yard, ride him nowhere but on him tail.I'm round at the ends and high in the middle. What am I?If I have it, I dont share it. If I share it, I dont have it. What is it?More precious than gold, but cannot be bought,Can never be sold, only earned if its sought,If it is broken it can still be mended,At birth it cant start nor by death is it ended. Answers: 21) An odometer. 22) Music. 23) Asteroids. 24) Dividend. 25) Meat. 26) One big pile. 27) An oil lamp. 28) Military time. 29) Log. 30) Post-Office. 31) A bullet. 32) A coin. 33) Glass. 34) Our clothes. 35) Address. 36) A needle. 37) Pipe 38) Ohio. 39) A Secret. 40) Friendship.
I don't have eyes, but once I did see.Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.I am a strong as ten menYet ten men cannot stand me up.What am I?I'm where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?You will always find me in the past.I can be created in the present,But the future can never taint me.What am I?What is so delicate that even mentioning it breaks it?Im a bearer of darkness.Im feared and often hated.Im a symbol of the unwanted,An omen that leaves you jaded.Some people can predict my coming,But then youll forever seeThings lurking around cornersAre you sure that it was me?What is it that no man wants, but no man wants to lose?A couple sharing five a piece,Stretching, spreading, loudly meet,We are known to often calm,And yet were better known to harm,To help and build, our team of ten,Connects us to the minds of men.What are we?Although I'm not an insect, some people found me very difficult to exterminate. They called me something like 'insane priest.' The first half of my name means the same as 'scrape,' & my last three letters are a metal. Who am I?What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?It can be cracked, It can be made,It can be told, it can be played.What is it?I only have one entrance, but you can come out with three exits. What am I?A sugarcane without joints, whose leaves reach heaven.If a green man lives in a green house, a purple man lives in a purple house, a blue man lives in a blue house, a yellow man lives in a yellow house, a black man lives in a black house. Who lives in a White house?I am something that floats. But after a period of time I fall.I have a thing, which I twine and twine and it is covered.A man in prison has a visitor. Afterward a guard asks the inmate who the visitor was to him. The inmate replies: brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son. Who was the visitor to the inmate?My sides are firmly laced about,Yet nothing is within;You'll think my head is strange indeed,Being nothing else but skin.Tool of thief, toy of queen.Always used to be unseen.Sign of joy, sign of sorrow.Giving all likeness borrowed.
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