100 Examples of Riddles (and their solutions)

Riddles

The riddles They are a form of riddle expressed in a statement. The enigma is based on describing something (for example, listing characteristics) but leaving aside the central characteristic that would make it recognizable.

They are popular games for children but also among adults. They are part of all kinds of stories, from mythological (as in the Greek story of Oedipus) to television or film mystery or police fictions (as in Indiana Jones).

In Spanish, the rhyme and word games. In the latter, the answer is contained in the riddle itself (see example 7). Some authors distinguish them from riddles by having a verse form. However, in the colloquial speech the term riddle is used even if the riddle is not stated in verse. In the cases in which they are enunciated in verse, they can have different metrics, although eight-syllable verses are frequent.

The riddles are part of the tradition oral, that is, they are transmitted from generation to generation and remain in the memory of the communities even if they have not been written.

Examples of Riddles

1. What is found once in a minute, twice in a moment but none in a hundred years?

1. I knit with skill,
   saucepan viciously.
   A misspelled term is found in the dictionary. Which?

1. Round, round, bottomless barrel. What is it?

1. Who, up there,
   in the branches mora
   and there he hides, greedy,
   everything you steal?

1. What is it that blows without a mouth and flies without wings?
   It's not bed
   nor is it a lion
   and disappears
   in any corner.

1. Small as a mouse,
   protect the house like a lion.

1. I don't get wet in the sea,
   in the embers I do not burn,
   I do not fall in the air
   and you have me in your arms.

1. The night has an eye
   an eye of fine silver,
   and you will be very lazy,
   very lazy if you don't guess.

1. An old woman with a tooth
   that calls all the people.

1. Arms with arms,
   Belly to belly
   Scratching in the middle
   The dance is done.

1. It goes through the water and does not get wet,
   goes through fire and does not burn.

1. Five very close brothers
   That cannot be looked at.
   When they fight, even if you want to,
   You cannot separate them.

1. What is it that disappears when it is named?

1. And it is,
   And it is,
   And you don't even guess in a month.

1. Very small
   Very small
   He puts an end to the writing.

1. Those who do it, do it whistling.
   Those who buy it, buy it crying.
   Who uses it, does not know that he uses it.

1. Cape on cape,
   cloak of cold cloth,
   the one who cries for me
   It's tearing me apart

1. I was raised green,
   blond they cut me off,
   they ground me hard,
   white they kneaded me.

1. What is it that the bigger it is, the less it is seen.
   I exist when they keep me,
   I die when they take me out.

1. What is the animal that always reaches the end?

1. With my red face
   with my black eye
   and my green dress
   glad to the whole field.

1. It has yolks and it is not an egg,
   it has a cup and it is not a hat,
   it has leaves and is not a book.

1. In the hands of women
   is always in,
   sometimes stretched out,
   sometimes collected.

1. It is a port and not a sea,
   he is rich, without capital.

1. Go up and fill and come down empty
   If you don't hurry, the soup gets cold.

1. Two diligent sisters
   Who walk to the beat,
   With the beak ahead
   And the eyes from behind.

1. Who is my mother's son who is not my brother?

1. I have a hundred friends,
   all in one table.
   If i don't touch them
   they don't talk to me.

1. It has a moon and it is not a planet
   It has a frame and is not a door.

1. I have a big umbrella
   And they look for me for tasty
   But pay attention, be careful
   That I can be poisonous.

1. Green on the outside
   Red inside
   Dancers in the center.

1. If we leave it, it passes.
   If we sell it, it is weighed.
   If you make wine you step on it.
   If we let her, she will perch.

1. Bitch they tell him
   Although always the other way around.
   The Japanese eat it
   Very rich dish is.

1. A black and white dove
   Fly without wings
   Speak without language

1. I have needles and I don't know how to sew.
   I have numbers and I can't read.

1. The last of all I am,
   but in left-handed and shoe first I go.

1. I have the body of a mother,
   My head is metal
   My true hobby
   It is hitting and hitting.

1. I carry my house on my back
   Behind me I leave a path.
   I am slow of movements
   The gardener doesn't like me.

1. White was my birth
   red my childhood,
   and now that I'm going to be old
   I am blacker than the fish.

1. They all step on me
   but I do not step on anyone.
   They all ask for me
   but I don't ask anyone.

1. They can be short,
   they can be long.
   Never in children,
   yes in boys.

1. Tall as a pine
   weighs less than a cumin.

1. Twelve knights
   born of the sun.
   Everyone dies before
   thirty-two.

1. He goes out for a walk at night
   It has lights and it is not a car.

1. Inside coal
   Outside wood.
   I'm not a student
   But I go to school.

1. Since the day i was born
   I run and run without ceasing.
   I run during the day
   I run at night
   Until reaching the sea.

1. Thirty white horses
   Down a red hill.

1. A tiny box,
   White as lime.
   Everyone knows how to open it
   Nobody knows how to close it.

1. We are twelve brothers
   and I am the smallest.
   Every four years
   my tail grows.

1. They live close to the sky
   There, there very high
   And when they cry
   They water the fields.

1. You feel me when I'm around
   You hear me but you don't see me
   And even if you are an athlete
   You can't catch up with me when you run.

1. Fruit is, city too.
   Great kingdom was
   And now it is a beautiful city.

1. Bellow to bellow
   Before the storms
   We have all heard them.

1. My aunt cuca has a bad streak.
   Who will this girl be?

1. Rubber shoes
   Cristal eyes
   With a hose
   You will feed it.
   Inside the garage
   You usually save it.

1. I'm not a firefighter but I have a hose
   And I feed the cars on the road.

1. They arrive very early in the morning
   And they leave much later
   They come back every week
   And four times a month.

1. From an egg comes out
   To send messages ok.

1. We have two good legs but we don't know how to walk.
   A man without us will never go out on the street.

1. I am small and squishy.
   My house is on the mound.

1. Tall and thin
   Shiny head
   Light up at night
   To walkers.

1. I was and I am not
   I am not and I was
   Tomorrow i will be
   And they always talk about me.

1. Can't see it
   Nor live without it.

1. Rodeo collars and collars
   Both of them and of them.

1. Green like the field
   Field is not.
   He talks like the man
   Man is not.

1. I am pretty in front
   Something ugly from behind.
   I transform every moment
   Because I imitate others.

1. Singing on the shore
   I live in the water
   I am not fish
   Nor am I a cicada

1. They always corner me
   Without remembering me
   But soon they want me
   When they have to go up.

1. Citizen very look
   Modern chameleon
   Up in your tree
   You change color.

1. What has not been
   and it has to be
   and that whenever
   will it cease to be?

1. From earth I go to heaven
   And from heaven I have to return
   I am the soul of the fields
   That makes them bloom.

1. The foot covered instantly
   Just like a glove.

1. I have chains without being a prisoner
   If you push me I come and go
   In the gardens and parks
   Many children I entertain.

1. he has cat eyes and is not a cat.
   Cat ears and it's not a cat.
   Cat's feet and it's not a cat.
   Cat's tail and it's not a cat.
   Meow and it's not a cat.

1. My father has four children: María, Raquel, Manuel ...
   And who is the fourth?

1. I come from singing parents
   Although I am not a singer
   I bring white habits
   And yellow the heart.

1. A combat that is engaged
   Very slow or fast
   Neither of us speak
   The pieces are more than ten.

1. We are sixty twins
   Around our mother.
   We have sixty little children
   And they are all the same.

1. Has been at sea for years
   And he still can't swim.

1. I'm hanging ahead
   And I make the man elegant.

1. I make up four suits
   printed on card stock.
   I have kings and horses
   You sure can guess me.

1. Who is the one who drinks by the feet?

1. Ave I have by name
   Flat is my condition.
   The one who doesn't get my name right
   it's because they don't pay attention.

1. They all say they love me
   To make good plays
   And instead when they have me
   They always kick me.

1. Twelve young ladies
   In a viewpoint
   They all have socks
   And no shoes.

1. the sky and the earth
   they are going to get together,
   the wave and the cloud
   they are going to get tangled up;
   wherever you go
   you will always see it,
   no matter how much you walk
   you will never arrive.

1. With two bent legs
   And two large windows
   They take away the sun or they give vision
   Depending on your crystals

1. Twenty eight knights
   Smooth black backs.
   Ahead, all holes.
   To dominate they hurry.

1. It is not a lion but it has a claw,
   It is not a duck but it has a leg.

1. Live constantly on your feet +
   With arms out
   Gets naked in the fall
   And dresses in spring.

1. How does it begin?
   And fly knows
   Not a plane
   Not even a bird.

1. When i was barely born,
   my life ends to the point,
   although I am not the first
   I follow him around the world.

1. Loins and head I have
   Although I'm not dressed
   I have very long skirts.

1. I have five rooms,
   in each one a tenant,
   in winter when it's cold
   they are all warm.

1. It's a nice game:
   You leave and I stay.
   Tale, tale, tale
   And then I go and find you.

1. With big shoes
   And the very painted face
   I am the one who makes you laugh
   To all the kiddies.

1. When you age a year, you turn us off and they applaud

1. Murcia gives me half a name
   A letter you have to change
   But when you get to the lake
   My name you can finish.

1. If you add one plus one
   obviously it gives two,
   and if it gives two I discover you
   twice the solution
   of this parlor game.

1. You don't see the sun
   you don't see the moon,
   and if she came down from heaven
   you don't see anything.

1. My being begins at a point
   for a point it has to end,
   the one that my name hits
   it will only say half.

1. The more and more you fill it
   Less weighs and rises more.

1. What a thing it always hits your face but you never see it.

1. Round and footless
   Green in the bush
   black in the square
   And inside the stove
   Coloradito at home.

1. She is the queen of the seas
   His teeth are very good
   And for never going empty
   They always say that it is full.

1. Eleven players
   Same color
   Ten go through the field
   Behind a ball.

1. I am not a subway station
   Nor am I a train station
   But I am a station
   Where a thousand flowers are seen.

1. Santa with flower name
   And despite this portrait
   They mistake me for a shoe.

1. On the table is put,
   On the table is part
   And among all it is distributed
   But you never eat.

1. He wears a white vest
   And also in black tailcoat.
   It is a bird that does not fly
   But he can swim.

1. White as milk
   Black as coal it is
   He speaks even though he has no mouth
   And he walks even though he has no feet.

1. Come to the country at night
   if you want to meet me
   I am a lord with big eyes
   serious face and great knowledge.

1. On an iron road
   you will have many surprises.
   I go up and down sharply
   at high speed.

1. Spinning all his life,
   His whole life spinning
   And she didn't learn to be faster
   Take a turn and it takes a day
   Take another turn and it takes a year.

1. Two very equal little brothers
   In reaching old people
   They open their eyes.

1. We are many little brothers
   That we live in the same house
   If they scratch our heads
   We instantly die.

1. I tell you and you don't know
   I repeat it to you
   I tell you three times already
   And you don't know how to say it.

Riddle solutions

1. The letter m
2. The spider
3. The word "wrong."
4. A ring.
5. The squirrel
6. Wind
7. The chameleon
8. The lock
9. The letter "A.
10. Moon
11. The bell
12. Guitar
13. The shadow
14. The fingers.
15. The silence.
16. The thread.
17. Point.
18. The coffin.
19. The onion
20. The wheat.
21. Darkness.
22. A secret.
23. The dolphin.
24. The poppy.
25. The tree
26. The fan.
27. Puerto Rico
28. The spoon.
29. Scissors
30. Me.
31. The piano.
32. Mirror
33. The mushroom (fungus)
34. Watermelon.
35. The grape.
36. Rice.
37. The letter
38. The watch.
39. The letter z.
40. The hammer.
41. The snail
42. The black berry.
43. The way.
44. Whiskers.
45. Smoke.
46. Months.
47. The Firefly.
48. The pencil.
49. The river.
50. Teeth.
51. The egg.
52. February
53. Clouds
54. Wind
55. Damascus
56. The Lightning.
57. Cockroach.
58. Car.
59. Service station.
60. Weekends.
61. The carrier pigeon.
62. The pants.
63. The snail
64. The lamppost
65. Yesterday.
66. The air
67. The scarf
68. The parrot.
69. Mirror
70. The Frog
71. Stairs
72. The traffic light
73. Tomorrow
74. Water
75. The sock.
76. The swing
77. The cat.
78. Me.
79. The egg.
80. The chess.
81. The minutes.
82. The sand.
83. Tie.
84. The deck.
85. The tree
86. Hazelnut
87. The ball
88. The hours
89. The horizon.
90. Eyeglasses
91. Domino.
92. The tick
93. The tree
94. The kite.
95. The second
96. The mountain
97. Glove
98. Hide and seek.
99. The clown.
100. The candles.
101. The bat.
102. The dice
103. The fog
104. Average.
105. The balloon.
106. Wind.
107. Charcoal
108. The whale
109. Football
110. Spring
111. The sandal.
112. The deck
113. The Penguin.
114. The letter
115. The owl
116. Roller coaster
117. The earth
118. The shoes
119. Matches (matches)
120. The letter T