Riddles 1.0
What has to be broken before you can use it?
an egg
I'm tall when I'm you and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?
a candle
What month of the year has 28 days?
all of them
What is full of holes but still holds water?
a sponge
What question can you never answer yes to?
Are you asleep yet?
What is always in front of you but can't be seen?
the future
A man who was outside in the rain with an umbrella or had didn't get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
He was bald.
what gets wet while drying?
a towel
What does up and down but doesn't move?
a staircase
What has hands but can't clap?
a clock
What goes up but never comes down?
your age
I have branches but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
a bank
What invention lets you look tight through a wall?
a window
What can't be put in a saucepan?
Its lid
What has legs but doesn't walk?
a table
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
a promise
What can't talk but will reply when spoken to?
an echo
What has many keys but can't open a single lock?
a piano
If you've got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven't kept me. What am I?
a secret
It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
Your name
There's a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
there aren't any - it's a one-story house
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
darkness
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can't touch me or catch me. What am I?
Your shadow
What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
your right elbow
where does today come before yesterday?
In the dictionary