Riddles

by Julia Hopkins

Riddle 1) Enter one hole and leave three, once you succeed I'm on thee. What am I?


Riddle 2) When one does not know what it is, then it is something. When one knows what it is, then it is nothing.


Riddle 3) I point without fingers, I strike without arms, I run without legs. What am I?


Riddle 4) Of a king I am blue and of a peasant I am red. Of a frog I am cold and of a dog I am hot. What am I?


Riddle 5) What English word has three consecutive double letters?


Riddle 6) What goes around the house and in the house but never touches the house?


Riddle 7) Pregnant every time you see her but she never gives birth


Riddle 8) What is put on a table and cut but never eaten?


Riddle 9) What is brown and sticky?


Riddle 10) I build up castles, I tear down mountains. I make some men blind, I help others to see. What am I?






Solutions Below

1) a shirt, 2) a riddle, 3) a clock, 4) blood, 5) bookkeeper, 6) the sun, 7) the moon, 8) a deck of cards, 9) a stick, 10) sand