Riddles (Page 1)

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48 If a man carried my burden,

He would break his back.

I am not rich,

But leave silver in my track. Show Answer A snail



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1 You eat something you neither plant nor plow.

It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies. Show Answer Salt, Ice

2 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. Show Answer An oil lamp

3 My tines are long

My tines are short

My tines end ere

My first report Show Answer Lightning, or lightning bolt.

4 Turn us on our backs

And open up our stomachs

You will be the wisest of men

Though at start a lummox Show Answer A book

5 The hungry dog howls

For crust of bread

His cry goes unheard

It's far overhead Show Answer Moon (the dog is howling at the moon).

6 Bury deep,

Pile on stones,

My mind will always

Dig up them bones Show Answer Memories

7 A cloth poorly dyed

And an early morning sky

How are they the same? Show Answer Their color changes easily

8 It occurs once in every minute

Twice in every moment

And yet never in one hundred thousand years. Show Answer Letter 'M'

9 Never ahead, ever behind,

Yet flying swiftly past;

For a child I last forever,

For adults I'm gone too fast. Show Answer Childhood

10 Two horses, swiftest travelling,

Harnessed in a pair, and

Gazing ever in places

Distant from them. Show Answer Your eyes - Or the sun & the moon

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To be gold is to be good;

To be stone is to be nothing;

To be glass is to be fragile;

To be cold is to be cruel.

Unmetaphored, what am I? Show Answer A heart

12 Round she is, yet flat as a board

Altar of the Lupine Lords.

Jewel on black velvet, pearl in the sea

Unchanged but e'er changing, eternally. Show Answer Moon

13 Twice four and twenty blackbirds

sitting in the rain

I shot and killed a quarter of them

How many do remain? Show Answer

Answer 1: 2x(4+20)=48, if 1/4 of 48 are shot (12) ... these 12 will remain (dead) and the rest will fly away.

Answer 2: Upon shooting any of the birds, the rest will all fly away. So the answer could be "none."

Answer 3: 2x(4+20)=48, if 1/4 of 48 are shot (12) ... there will be 36 birds left (48-12=36). This riddle can be viewed from several different ways, and COULD have different answers, depending on how the question is viewed...2x(4+20)=48, if 1/4 of 48 are shot (12) ... these 12 will remain (dead) and the rest will fly away.Upon shooting any of the birds, the rest will all fly away. So the answer could be "none."2x(4+20)=48, if 1/4 of 48 are shot (12) ... there will be 36 birds left (48-12=36).

14 First will be last

Last will be first

And all in between will also be cursed

Open the door and the thing will be there

So be carefull and beware! Show Answer Death cometh upon all mankind.

15 It has a golden head

It has a golden tail

but it has no body. Show Answer Gold coin

16 A leathery snake,

With a stinging bite,

I'll stay coiled up,

Unless I must fight. Show Answer A whip

17 There is not wind enough to twirl

That one red leaf, nearest of its clan,

Which dances as often as dance it can. Show Answer Fire

18 At night they come without being fetched,

And by day they are lost without being stolen Show Answer Stars

19 I am, in truth, a yellow fork

From tables in the sky

By inadventant fingers dropped

The awful cutlery.

Of mansions never quite disclosed

And never quite concealed,

The apparatus of the dark

To ignorance revealed. Show Answer Emily Dickinson) Lightning, (

20 Many-maned scud-thumper,

Maker of worn wood,

Shrub-ruster,

Sky-mocker,

Rave!

Portly pusher,

Wind-slave. Show Answer Ocean

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