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6/1/2025

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Riddles Set 1

4/1/2025

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Riddle: Which part of a tree is the loudest? Answer: The bark. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

Riddle: What has a neck but no head? Answer: A bottle. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

Riddle: What color is grass when it is covered with snow? Answer: Green. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

Riddle: What tastes better than it smells? Answer: A tongue. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

Riddle: What coat goes on best when wet? Answer: A coat of paint. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

Riddle: What single-digit number has no value? Answer: Zero. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

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Riddles

3/29/2025

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Picture of a colorful abstract background, and the words, Humor And Inspiration And Learning About Riddles Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont - Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.

Do you enjoy riddles? Well, then, you have come to the right place. We think you will have a lot of fun pondering these mini-mysteries.
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Riddle: What goes up and down without moving?
Answer: Stairs.

Riddle: What do you get if you cross a chili pepper, a shovel, and a terrier?
Answer: A hot-diggity-dog!
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Riddle: What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
Answer: A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush.

Riddle: What do you get if you cross a cat and a parrot?
Answer: A carrot.
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Riddle: I follow you everywhere you go. Who am I?
Answer: I am your shadow.

Riddle: What can you hold without touching?
Answer: A conversation.
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Riddle: What is brown and sticky?
Answer: A stick.

Riddle: A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave the woman seven apples. Why?
Answer: An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Riddle: What do cars, trees, and elephants all have in common?
Answer: They all have trunks.

Riddles are of two types.
- Enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical languages, and which require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution.
- Conundrums, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or in the answer.
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Riddle: What can you hold without touching?
Answer: Your breath.

Riddle:
I am a word of letters three;
Add two more letters,
And even fewer there will be.
What is the word that I would be?
Answer: I am the word few, becoming ‘fewer’ with two more letters.
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Riddle: Why are lost items always in the last place you look?
Answer: Because when you find them, you stop looking.

Riddle: Who has married many women but was never married?
Answer: A priest.
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Riddle: What is the difference between a cat and a comma?
Answer: One has claws at the end of its paws, and one is a pause at the end of a clause.

Riddle: What do you get if you cross a porcupine with a sheep?
Answer: An animal that knits its own sweaters.
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Riddle: What does the following tell you about Calvin?
○ Appreciated
○ Calvin
○ Weight
Answer: Calvin is ‘underappreciated’ and ‘overweight.’

Riddle: What is so fragile that it can be broken just by the sound of someone speaking?
Answer: Silence.

Riddle: If it takes two men to dig a hole in one day, how long would it take for one man to dig half of a hole?
Answer: There is no such thing as a half a hole.
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Riddle: What happened in the middle of the twentieth century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?
Answer: The year 1961. It reads the same upside down. This will not happen again until the year 6009.

Riddle: What buzzes, is black and yellow, and moves along the bottom of the sea? Answer: A bee in a submarine. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.

Riddle: Everything is yellow on the inside of a one-story house. The walls are yellow. The doors are yellow. Even the furniture is yellow. The house has yellow beds and yellow couches. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There are no stairs, because it is a one-story house.
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Riddle: I have eyes but cannot see. I have feet but cannot walk. What am I?
Answer: I am a riddle.

Riddle: What is the longest word in the English language?
Answer: ‘Smiles,’ because there is a mile between the first letter and the last letter.
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Riddle: What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?
Answer: Chicago.

Riddle: What has two arms, two wings, two tails, three heads, three bodies, and eight legs?
Answer: A man on a horse holding a chicken.
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Riddle: Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is building a rowboat. Who is building a rowboat?
Answer: Your father.

Riddle: What has a man’s name, is as small as a mouse, and wears a red vest?
Answer: A robin.
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Riddle: What has more feet in winter than in summer?
Answer: A pond that freezes over and becomes a skating rink.

Riddle: What purrs like a cat and meows like a cat, but is not a cat?
Answer: A kitten.
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Riddle: What belongs to you but is used more often by others?
Answer: Your name.

Riddle: Which is faster, heat or cold?
Answer: Heat, because people can catch a cold.

Riddle: What asks no question but demands an answer?
Answer: A telephone.
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Riddle:
Proprietors of an ice cream shop want to host a giveaway day to boost business. To avoid large crowds, however, they do not want to advertise the free ice cream cone day broadly. Instead, they post three clues as to the date.
1. The giveaway will be in the first week of a month without an ‘a’ in it.
2. It will be on a day of the week that has a ‘u’ in it.
3. The month has no ‘e’ but the day of the week has an ‘e.’
Can you figure out when to go for a free cone?
Answer:
The first Tuesday in July is free ice cream day.

Riddle: I have a face and two hands; what am I?
Answer: A clock.
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Riddle: What word has five letters but sounds like it only has one?
Answer: Queue.

Riddle: What five-letter word becomes shorter when two letters are added to it?
Answer: Short.
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Riddle: What can you not keep until you have given it?
Answer: Your word.

Riddle: Joe was asked how many ducks he had seen. He answered, “As they ran along a path, I saw one duck in front of two ducks, a duck behind two ducks, and a duck between two ducks.” How many ducks did Joe see?
Answer: Joe saw three ducks, running along a path in single file.
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Riddle: What can you take away the whole from and still have some left?
Answer: The wholesome.

Riddle: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: Forward I am ‘ton,’ backwards I am ‘not.’

Riddle: What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?
Answer: “What time is it?”
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Riddle: David’s father has three sons; two of them are John and William; what is the name of David’s father’s third son?
Answer: David.

Riddle: What kind of vehicle is most suitable for an actor?
Answer: A stagecoach.
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Riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.

Riddle: What can swallow you if you do not swallow it first?
Answer: Pride.
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Riddle: Two legs sat upon four legs eating one leg. In came four legs - and out went four legs with one leg. Close behind was two legs, without one leg, shaking four legs at four legs.
Answer: A person sat on a chair eating a chicken leg. In comes a dog - and out it went with the chicken leg. Close behind was the person, without the chicken leg, shaking the chair at the dog.

Riddle: I run around but never race, my hands are always on my face, I cannot count very many numbers, you hit me and I let you slumber - what am I?
Answer: I am an alarm clock.
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Riddle: How can you arrange for two people to stand on the same piece of newspaper and yet be unable to touch each other without stepping off the newspaper?
Answer: Slide the newspaper half way under a closed door and ask the two people to stand on the part of the newspaper on their side of the door.

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Riddle: What part of you disappears when you stand up?
Answer: Your lap.
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Riddle: Name three things that have eyes but that cannot see.
Answer: Sewing needles, storms, and potatoes.

Riddle: What flies without wings?
Answer: Time.
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Riddle: What has no fingers, but many rings?
Answer: A tree.

Riddle: What do a mole and an eagle have in common?
Answer: They both live underground, apart from the eagle.
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Riddle: I work only after I have been fired. Who am I?
Answer: I am a rocket.

Riddle: Why did Beethoven not finish the “Unfinished Symphony”?
Answer: Because the Unfinished Symphony was started by Schubert, not Beethoven.
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Riddle: What room is never entered?
Answer: A mushroom.

Riddle: What do people earn, save, borrow, and invest?
Answer: Money.
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Riddle: What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle.

Riddle: What never was and never will be?
Answer: A mouse’s nest in a cat’s ear.
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Riddle: What stays hot even if you put it in the refrigerator?
Answer: Pepper.

Riddle: What is the first thing you know?
Answer: “The first thing you know, Old Jed’s a millionaire. The kin folks said, ‘Jed, move away from there!’”
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Riddle: What is the biggest room in the world?
Answer: Room for improvement.

Polly: What is the difference between ‘ignorance’ and ‘apathy?’
Esther: ‘I do not know,’ and ‘I do not care’!
Polly: You answered correctly!
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Riddle: What did the eye say to the ear?
Answer: Do you hear what I see, hear what I see, hear what I see?

Riddle: What do you find in the middle of nowhere?
Answer: The letter ‘h.’
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Riddle: A man built a house with all four sides facing south. A bear walked past the house. What color is the bear?
Answer: The bear is a white polar bear, and the house is at the North Pole.

Riddle: What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble.
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Riddle this: Four legs sat on four legs waiting for four legs to come out of its hole.
Answer: A cat sat on a chair waiting for a mouse to come out of its hole.

“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No - calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” -Abraham Lincoln
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Riddle: What is white when it is dirty and black when it is clean?
Answer: A chalkboard (blackboard).

Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind - what is it?
Answer: Footsteps.
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Math Problem: $21 in one-dollar bills is split evenly among two fathers and two sons. How is this possible?
Answer: There are only three people: a grandfather, a father, and the father’s son, who each receive $7.

Riddle: What is the difference between an onion and an oboe?
Answer: Nobody cries when you chop up an oboe.

Riddle: If a north-facing rooster was sitting at the point of the roof of a building on the Earth’s equator at exactly 12:00 noon, and laid an egg, which side of the roof would the egg roll down?
Answer: Roosters do not lay eggs, silly goose - hens lay eggs!
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Riddle: Brian’s mom has four children. The first was a boy named Jerry. The second was a girl named Susan. The third was a boy called Robert, and the fourth was another boy. What was his name?
Answer: Brian.

Riddle: If leather makes good shoes, what do banana skins make?
Answer: Good slippers!
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Riddle: What is better than the best thing and worse than the worst thing?
Answer: Nothing.

Riddle: What has four legs and feathers?
Answer: A featherbed.
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Riddle: What has to be broken before it can be used?
Answer: An egg.

Riddle: What has four legs but no feet?
Answer: A table.

Riddle: What is the difference between a dressmaker and a farmer?
Answer: A dressmaker sews what she gathers, and a farmer gathers what he sows.
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Riddle: What has no beginning or end or middle, and touches every continent?
Answer: The ocean.

Riddle: How can you tell when an elephant has been in your refrigerator?
Answer: By the footprints in the butter.
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Riddle: What has six legs, four eyes, and five ears?
Answer: A man sitting on a horse eating an ear of corn.

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Riddles Set 2

3/27/2025

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Riddle: What can go through water without getting wet? Answer: Sunlight. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

Riddle: When do 2 and 2 make more than 4? Answer: When they make 22. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

Riddle: What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary? Answer: Wrong. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

Riddle: What band does not make music? Answer: A rubber band. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

Riddle: What word becomes shorter when two letters are added to it? Answer: Short. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

Riddle: What room has no windows? Answer: A mushroom. Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net

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Rhyming Riddles

3/25/2025

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Picture of question marks in various colors, and the words, Humor And Inspiration And Learning About Rhyming Riddles Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont - Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.

Riddle:
You’ll see me when the Sun is high and also late at night,
I’m in the songs of holidays, when the snow is white,
Kings and Queens and royalty, are all found in me,
I’m the largest of them all, with just one you see,
Step by step with pounding feet, I’m tribes of angry men,
I’m above your hands right now, for help or to go again,
You’ll use me in the kitchen, or add a little more,
I’ll be in the years to come, and the days of yore.
What am I?
Answer:
I am the number twelve.
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Riddle: What is hot and yellow, and rhymes with fun?
Answer: The Sun.

Riddle:
Sometimes curly,
Sometimes flat,
I’m over your head
And under your hat -
What am I?
Answer:
I am your hair.

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Said the Little Dog to the Tree

“Now, why,” remarked the little dog,
     In speaking to the tree,
“Could one say that the heart of you
     Is like the tail of me?”

The tree gave the conundrum up.
     The pup, with wisdom stark,
Explained the matter, saying,
     “It is farthest from the bark.”

By Author Unknown
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Riddle:
Each morning I appear,
To lie at your feet,
All day I follow,
No matter how fast you run,
Yet I nearly perish
In the midday sun.
What am I?
Answer:
I am your shadow.

Riddle: What is a plaything for a girl or a boy?
Answer: A toy.

Riddle:
Never resting, never still.
Moving silently from hill to hill.
I do not walk, run, or trot.
All is cool where I am not.
What am I?
Answer:
I am sunlight.

Riddle:
Can you decipher the following?
Yy u r, yy u b
I c u r yy 4 me!
Answer:
Too wise you are, too wise you be,
I see you are too wise for me!

A somewhat easier version of the rhyming riddle shown just above is shown just below. Simply say each number and letter aloud.

2 Y’s U R.
2 Y’s U B.
I C U R.
2 Y’s 4 me!
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Riddle:
A buzzing little hummer,
I am busy all the summer.
With no time to play,
And no time to shirk,
I fly flower to flower,
Gathering nectar
And pollen is my daily work.
What am I?
Answer:
I am a bee.

Riddle: What is sweet to eat and rhymes with dandy?
Answer: Candy.

Riddle:
There’s not a kingdom on the Earth,
But I have traveled over and over,
And though I know not whence my birth,
Yet when I come, you know my roar.
I through the town do take my flight,
And through the fields and meadows green,
And whether it be day or night,
I neither am nor can be seen.
Who am I?
I am the wind.

Riddle:
Twelve pairs hanging high,
     Twelve knights riding by,
Each knight took a pear,
     And yet left a dozen there.
Let us consider this mystery,
     How could this ever be?
Answer:
We are twelve pairs of pears.

Riddle: What goes in an envelope and rhymes with better?
Answer: A letter.
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Riddle:
Until I am measured
I am not known,
Yet how you miss me
When I have flown.
What am I?
Answer:
I am time.
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Riddle:
I am seen in the water
If seen in the sky,
I am in the rainbow,
A jay’s feather,
And lapis lazuli.
What am I?
Answer:
I am the color blue.

Riddle: What did your grandfather use to buy a gumball when he was a boy that rhymes with Jenny?
Answer: A penny.
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Riddle:
Lovely and round
I shine with pale light,
Grown in the darkness,
A lady’s delight.
What am I?
Answer:
I am a pearl.

Riddle:
I am only useful
When I am full.
Yet, I am always
Full of holes.
What am I?
Answer:
I am a sieve.

Riddle:
I am the beginning of the end,
And the end of time and space.
I am essential to creation,
And I surround everyplace.
What am I?
Answer:
I am the letter ‘e.’

Riddle:
Glittering points
That downward thrust,
Sparking spears
That never rust.
What am I?
Answer:
I am an icicle.

Riddle: What is something you dig where the sea meets the land?
Answer: Sand.

Riddle:
I live in the oceans, the rivers, and seas;
When I’m cold I float -
When I’m hot, I’m free.
What am I?
Answer:
I am water.

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Riddle: What helps us count and rhymes with seven?
Answer: The number eleven.

Riddle:
I hear a lot
And I say a lot
Few ever look for me
And even fewer ever hear me
I hide in plain sight
Whether it’s day or night
To help is all I want
But most like to bend me
And as if they had a wand
Never again shall anyone find me
They do this to control
Without realizing the high price of a soul
But when I’m least expected
They’d rather be protected
For there shall be no place to hide
What am I?
Answer:
I am the truth.

Riddle: What helps us breath and rhymes with rose?
Answer: Nose.

Riddle:
Some say that two and two
Will always make four,
Yet, how can these numbers
Make four and eighteen more?
Answer:
When written as 22.

Riddle:
There was a girl in our town,
Silk an’ satin was her gown,
Silk an’ satin, gold an’ velvet,
Guess her name, three times I’ve telled it.
What is it?
Answer:
Ann is her name.

Riddle:
I sing when I’m struck
Or whenever they shake me.
By mold and cast,
The craftsmen make me.
What am I?
Answer:
I am a bell.

Riddle: What do people commonly have two of that rhymes with peg?
Answer: Leg.
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Riddle:
An object that is tiny,
Yet in me the power does lie,
To change my height and color,
To grow green up to a blue sky,
What am I?
Solution:
I am a seed.

Riddle:
Little Nanny Etticoat,
In a white petticoat,
And a red nose;
The longer she stands,
The shorter she grows.
What is she?
Answer:
She is a candle.

Riddle:
Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye,
And a long tail which she let fly;
And every time she went over a gap,
She left a bit of her tail in a trap.
What is she?
Answer:
She is a needle and thread.

Riddle:
A word I know
That six letters contains,
Subtract the last
And only twelve remains.
What is it?
Answer:
The word is dozens.

Riddle:
I like trees,
And I loathe bees.
I sleep all day,
And I’m misty and gray.
I have mossy hair,
but I can still be a scare -
What am I?
Answer:
I am a bat.

Riddle:
The poor have two;
The rich have none.
If you guess this,
Then you have one.
What am I?
Answer:
I am the letter ‘o.’
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Riddle:
I go up a hill,
And I go down a hill,
Yet always I stand still.
What am I?
Answer:
I am a road.

Riddle:
As I was going to Saint Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kittens -
Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to Saint Ives?
Answer:
Only I was going to Saint Ives.

Riddle:
Great deeds with little strength I do,
I close the open, open the closed, for you.
I keep the master’s house, the master keeps me, too.
What am I?
Answer:
I am a key.

Riddle:
As soft as silk,
as white as milk,
As bitter as gall,
a strong wall,
And a green coat
covers me all.
What am I?
Answer:
I am a walnut.

Riddle:
I am a word of letters three;
Add two,
And even fewer there will be.
Who am I?
Answer:
I am the word few, becoming ‘fewer’ with two letters added.
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Riddle:
In marble walls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal clear,
A golden apple doth appear,
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
What am I?
Answer:
I am an egg.

Riddle:
Not found on an elephant,
Nor do I store clothes,
But I am a trunk,
That upward goes.
What am I?
I am a tree trunk.

Riddle:
I am in the church,
But not in the steeple.
I am in the parson,
But not in the people.
What am I?
Answer:
I am the letter ‘r.’

Riddle:
Thirty-two white horses
On a red hill.
First we chomp,
Then we stomp,
Then we stand still -
What are we?
Answer: We are teeth.
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Riddle:
I run all day and I never walk,
I have a big mouth, but never talk.
What am I?
Answer:
I am a river.

Riddle:
Smaller and smaller do I grow,
As each time into the water I go.
What am I?
Answer:
I am a bar or cake of soap.

Riddle:
Up, up, up,
Higher than a house,
Higher than a tree.
Twinkling bright,
Oh! whatever can I be?
Answer:
I am a star.
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Riddle:
I look sorry, very sorry,
When you are feeling sad.
I look happy, very happy,
Whenever you are glad.
Reflecting how you feel,
Just what am I?
Answer:
I am a mirror.

Riddle:
The more there is of me,
The less you can see.
The riddle for you is this:
What ever could I be?
Answer:
I am darkness.

Riddle:
I come in different styles,
I can walk with you for miles,
I come in a pair,
I’m something that you wear,
With heels I am glam -
Can you guess what I am?
Answer:
I am shoes.
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Riddle:
In the warm months I wear green,
Both in the day and at night;
As it cools I shed yellow,
But during winter I wear white.
What am I?
Answer:
I am a tree.

Riddle:
You heard me before,
Yet you hear me again,
Then I fade,
Until you call me again
What am I?
Answer:
I am an echo.

Riddle:
A brightly-colored winged-thing,
I flit and flutter all about;
Two antennae, two eyes,
And six legs have I.
What am I?
Answer:
I am a butterfly.
-David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

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