New Riddles With Answers - page 26 of 53
My shallow hills are the faces of kings. My horizon is always near. My music sends men to the grave. My absence sends men to work. What am I?
Coins are stamped with kings' faces in shallow relief, jingle like "music" tied to greed and death, and their scarcity forces people to labor.
It is a short song, It has a lot of names, and rhymes a lot. Hint: It is food. What is the pea's favorite song?
The nonsense rhyme "Greens Pea's potatoes tomatoes" mimics a nursery-rhyme style song built entirely from vegetable names.
What music do cows like to dance to?
"Cow-lypso" is a pun blending "cow" with the music genre "calypso."
If you were by a door, where would music originate?
"Handel" (a door handle) sounds like the composer Handel, a source of classical music.
A rock group with four members, Each of whom are dead; But people still come to see us, Though an album was never released. What am I?
"Rock group" is a pun on the literal rock carvings of four deceased U.S. presidents at Mount Rushmore.
I can soothe you, or drive you nuts. I can be quiet, but also blare in your ears. What does this? Figure that out, and you have found out the riddle.
Music can range from calming and soft to loud and irritating depending on volume and genre.
Why did the man hold a shoe to his ear?
"Sole" (the bottom of a shoe) sounds like "soul," a music genre, creating the pun.
What musical instruement would you use to catch a fish?
"Castanets" sounds like "cast a net," the action used to catch fish.
What is a device that you always have access to, that do not require recharging, and can record all of the useful information you have learned?
The brain naturally stores memories and knowledge without ever needing an external power source.
Play my music, if you dare. Turn my crank, although I'm square. Stand back, or get a scare, when you see my surprising glare. What am I?
A Jack-in-the-Box plays music as its crank turns and startles with a sudden pop-up surprise.
My call, I pray, at dawn of day, Shall rest you from your slumber, With job all done, my song all sung, I'll sit on seat of lumber. What am I?
A rooster's crow wakes people at dawn, and afterward it perches, or "sits," on a wooden fence or roost.
You can hear me and feel me but you can't see me or smell me, yet everyone has a taste in me. I can be created, but after that only remembered. What am I?
Music can be heard and felt emotionally, has personal "taste" preferences, and once composed only exists afterward as a recording or memory.
I cannot be felt, seen or touched; Yet I can be found in everybody; My existence is always in debate; Yet I have my own style of music. What Am I?
"Soul" is both the intangible essence believed to exist in every person and the name of a distinct music genre.
What kind if music is played inside the vehicle?
"Car-tunes" is a pun on "cartoons" combined with music played in a car.
What 3 common songs have the same meleody?
"Baa Baa Black Sheep," "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," and the Alphabet Song all share the exact same melody.
My scale is something that does not weigh in grams, ounces, or pounds. However, I may be heavy or light. What am I?
A musical scale isn't a weighing instrument, yet music can still be described as "heavy" or "light" in tone or mood.
At the sound of me, men may dream, Or stamp their feet. At the sound of me, women may laugh, Or sometimes weep. What am I?
Music evokes a wide range of emotional reactions, from dreaming to dancing to crying, in any listener.
What kind of a band, never plays music?
"Band" refers both to a musical group and a rubber loop, which obviously can't play anything.
I am a fruit. If you take away the first letter of my name I become a crime. Take away the first two letters of my name I become an animal. Take away the first and last letter of my name and I become a form of music. What am I?
"Grape" minus G is "rape" (a crime), minus "Gr" is "ape" (an animal), and minus first and last letters is "rap" (music).
When is music like vegetables?
"Beats" sounds like "beets," the vegetable, linking a musical measure to a garden crop.
A trail, a union, together tied. Come across me and you will find, you cannot change the course I'm on, without me you can't travel on. What am I?
Railroad tracks form a fixed, joined path that a train must follow and cannot travel without.
What tire goes on vacation?
Pun on 'retire', sounding like 're-tire', a tire taking a break.
What is the easiest way to throw a ball, have it stop, and completely reverse direction after traveling a short distance?
Gravity naturally stops and reverses a ball thrown straight up, sending it back down along the same path.
Where do crayons go on vacation?
Pun blending 'color' with the U.S. state 'Colorado'.
I am treated with great care until I reach my end by being torn in half. I'm a traveler. I bring both good and bad news. What am I?
An envelope travels through the mail carrying news, and is torn open once it reaches its destination.
What has a face, but no head; hands, but no feet; yet travels everywhere and is usually running?
A watch has a 'face' and 'hands' (the dial and pointers) and keeps 'running' to track time, but has no real head or feet.
Why did the tire need a vacation?
Pun on 'pressure', meaning both air pressure in a tire and stress.
What fruit always travels in groups of two?
Pun on 'pears' sounding like 'pairs', which means groups of two.
I am found in the sea and on land, but I do not walk or swim. I travel by foot, but I am toeless. No matter where I go, I'm never far from home. What am I?
A snail moves on a single muscular 'foot' with no toes, and always carries its shell home with it.
Trains travel from one town to another town all day, always on the same track, always going nonstop and at the same speed. The noon train took 80 minutes to complete the trip, but the 4 PM train took an hour and 20 minutes. Why?
A trick of units: 80 minutes and 'an hour and 20 minutes' are the exact same length of time.
I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing. What am I?
Wordplay: removing the letter T from 'there' leaves 'here', and adding it back to 'here' makes 'there'.
There is a bus full of people travelling to San Francisco and no one gets off the bus throughout the journey. But when it gets to the other side there is not a single person left. How is this possible?
Wordplay: 'single' means unmarried, so if everyone is married, there is no 'single' person left on the bus.
I'm found in the sea and on land but I can't walk or swim. I travel by foot but I'm toeless. No matter where I go I'm never far from home. What am I?
A snail moves on a single muscular 'foot' with no toes, and always carries its shell home with it.
Where do TVs go on vacation?
Pun on 'remote', both a TV remote control and a faraway destination.
Which word is the odd one out: Seventy, Brawl, Clover, Proper, Carrot, Swing, Change, Travel, Sacred, Stone?
Removing the first and last letters from every word except 'Carrot' leaves a valid smaller word (e.g., Seventy -> Event); Carrot leaves 'arro', which is not a word.
Which part of a road do Ghost's love to travel the most?
Pun on 'Dead End', a road term that also evokes ghosts being dead.
My first is often at the front door. My second is found in the cereal family. My third is what most people want. My whole is one of the United States. What am I?
The riddle builds the word from a doormat, the grain rye, and money, spelling out "matrimony," itself a kind of "united state."
Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it wants it not. What is it?
Counterfeiters never admit what they've made, spenders often don't realize it's fake, and anyone who recognizes it as counterfeit certainly doesn't want it.
What is the difference between a dollar and a half and thirty five-cents?
"Thirty five-cents" (thirty coins each worth five cents) equals $1.50, the same as "a dollar and a half," unlike "thirty-five cents" which is only $0.35.
How can you give someone $63 using six bills, without using any one dollar bills?
One $50, one $5, and four $2 bills sum to $63 across exactly six bills without any $1 bills.
I have three USA coins. They are not a quarter, dime or penny and they add up to 60 cents. What are the coins?
A 50-cent piece plus two nickels totals 60 cents while avoiding quarters, dimes, and pennies entirely.
Joe has ten coins totaling $1.19. From these coins, he cannot make exact change for a dollar, half-dollar, quarter, dime, or nickel. What are the coins?
This combination totals exactly $1.19 in exactly ten coins, yet lacks the right denominations to make exact change for a dollar, half-dollar, quarter, dime, or nickel individually.
You and four other people robbed a bank for 200,000,000 dollars you evenly split the money for every person you get 25% of the money how much do you get.
The riddle's own math states each of the 4 named shares is 25%, and four 25% shares add up to the full 100%, an intentional trick in the wording.
Why are mortgages like burglars?
A mortgage is legally "secured" against your home, playing on the same word a burglar might use to "seek" your valuables.
Tara has $29.00 dollars. She bought 4 coloring books that cost $3.00 each, 4 boxes of Crayola crayons that cost $2.00 each. She spends the rest of her money on markers. How much money did she spend on markers?
4 coloring books cost $12 and 4 crayon boxes cost $8, totaling $20, leaving $9 of her $29 for markers.
I am needed to survive, but when am here there is evil and good, when am gone others come in, you don't seek me you die. What I am?
Money is essential for survival, can enable both good and evil, and its absence invites hardship or worse.
If you were to put a coin into an empty bottle and then insert a cork into the neck, how could you remove the coin without taking out the cork or breaking the bottle?
Pushing the cork inward instead of pulling it out leaves the opening clear enough to shake the coin free.
If you take me four steps forward from the ball you will see something making a noise. but if you take me four more steps you will need to pay money. Who am i?
Shifting the vowel in "ball" alphabetically turns it into "bell," then "bill," a word tied to paying money.
What do a- Jealous teenage girl, A dollar bill, And a bed of grass have in common?
Envy is described as being "green," and a dollar bill and grass are both literally green.
A robber came into my store and stole $100 from the register without my knowledge. A few minutes later, the same guy came back with the $100 he stole and purchased $70 worth of items and I gave him $30 in change. How much money did I lose?
The $100 was stolen outright; the later purchase just moved the same stolen bill around the register and gave away $70 in goods plus $30 change, netting a $100 loss overall.
Two coins equal 30 cents and one isn't a nickel. What are the two coins?
Only one coin is excluded from being a nickel, so the other coin can still be a nickel, giving 25ยข+5ยข=30ยข.
I have four digits, I own a lot of cash money money, I'm kept a secret, but used on the daily. What am I?
A four-digit PIN is a secret code used daily to access cash from an account or card.
You have two coins, and their total value is 11ยข. One of the coins is not a penny. What are the two coins?
Only one coin is excluded from being a penny, leaving the other coin free to be a penny, and 10ยข+1ยข equals 11ยข.
Which is better, an old ten dollar bill or a new one?
"New one" is read as "a new $1 bill," which is worth far less than an old $10 bill.
You try to gain more of me with every coin. You travel every distance to obtain me. You try every illusion to believe you have me. What am I?
The riddle describes something people chase endlessly with money and effort, and sometimes only believe they have through illusion: freedom.
A bottle costs a dollar more than a cork. Together they cost 110 cents. How much does the bottle cost and how much does the cork cost?
If the cork is x, the bottle is x+100; together 2x+100=110, so x=5 cents and the bottle is 105 cents.
What has fifty heads and fifty tails?
Each of the fifty pennies contributes one heads side and one tails side, totaling fifty of each.
I start off red, then I am halved, and turn blue. I am then halved once again, and turn pink. What am I?
The riddle traces Australian banknote colors as their denomination halves: $20 red, $10 blue, $5 pink.
I have four characteristics, durability, divisibility, transportability, and non-counterfeitability. What am I?
These four properties, durability, divisibility, portability, and being hard to fake, are the textbook qualities that make good currency.
What has a head and tail that will never meet?
A coin's heads and tails sides are opposite faces of the same flat disc, so they can never physically touch.
I'm hard as a rock, and as light as a feather. I'm passed on to one another. Poor people need me, and rich people have me. What am I?
Money can feel as solid as a coin or as light as a bill, and it's constantly exchanged between people of every income level.
What is equal to time, more likely to corrupt, possessed by the rich, needed by the poor, and if taken away, leads to a loss of status?
"Time is money" and money famously "corrupts," is unevenly distributed, and losing it affects social status.
I am green all over, yet I know no bounds. If you turn me around a face you will see, being without me produces envy. What am I?
A dollar bill is green, has a portrait on one side, and not having money often breeds envy of those who do.
What has one hundred heads, and no legs?
One hundred pennies equal a dollar, and each penny has a "head" side but no legs.
What is the easiest way to double your money?
A mirror reflects an image, visually "doubling" the money without actually increasing its value.
People need me, but they always give me away. What am I?
People rely on money to live, yet constantly spend or give it away in transactions.
What do you get when you toss a copper penny and a quarter into the blue sea?
Throwing coins into the sea simply means you now have less money than before, a literal rather than clever answer.
What did the British man lose when he spent his money working out at the gym?
"Pounds" is a double pun: British currency is in pounds, and losing weight at the gym is measured in pounds too.
What did the dollar say to the four quarters?
"Changed" puns on receiving change (coins) and the phrase for someone acting different.
Why don't cows have money?
"Milks them dry" plays on draining a cow of milk and draining someone of money.
Is an old hundred-dollar bill better than a new one?
"Old" is read as "a hundred minus one dollar," leaving ninety-nine dollars, which is more than a plain "new" (one) dollar bill.
If you have two coins which total 35 cents and one of the coins is not a dime, what are the two coins?
The wording only rules out one of the coins being a dime; the other coin can still be a dime, so a quarter and a dime work.
I have a head and a tail but no body... What am I?
A coin has a "heads" side and a "tails" side but no body in between, unlike a real animal.
A man goes to work at the same time each day and travels part of his journey facing forwards and the remainder facing backwards. When he returns at the end of his working day, he only faces forwards. How can this be?
Picture climbing down ladders backward for safety versus walking normally on a flat deck.
There were 5 men traveling down a road and it started to rain and 4 men sped up, the 5th did not, but they all arrived at the same place at the same time but all of them were wet besides the 5th. How?
The fifth man wasn't walking at all; he was being carried, sheltered from the rain.
Peter celebrated his birthday on one day, and two days later his older twin brother, Paul, celebrated his birthday. How could this be?
Think about how crossing a time zone or a leap year date could reorder birth dates for twins.
How many times does the long hand of the clock pass the short hand between midnight one day and midnight the following day? As both hands are together at the starting time of midnight this does not count as a pass.
The hands overlap roughly every 65 minutes rather than exactly every hour, giving fewer than 24 passes.
When is the best time to have lunch?
Meals typically follow a set order throughout the day, and lunch always comes after breakfast.
I have two coins, one is marked George I and one is marked George IV. One is genuine but one is a forgery. Which is the forgery?
Numbering a king "the First" only makes sense retroactively once a second ruler of that name exists, so no coin from his own reign would call him "George I."
Two hours ago it was as long after one o'clock in the afternoon as it was before one o'clock in the morning. What time is it now?
Find the midpoint time that's equally spaced from 1am and 1pm, then add two hours.
I am not your boss but I guide your decisions, I am not your trainer, but I dictate your pace, I am not a Judge but I measure your success. Who Am I?
This riddle is open-ended, pointing to an inner force that shapes choices without formal authority.
I change color from time to time. Wear me, and I'll tell you your ____. What am I?
This jewelry changes color based on body temperature to reflect your mood.
A frog fell into a 12-foot-deep well. He could jump 3 feet, but every time he jumped 3 feet, he fell back 2 feet. How many times did he have to jump to get out of the well?
Each jump nets only 1 foot of progress, except the final jump which clears the well.
Man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
10 cents plus 15 cents makes a quarter, hinting at 'a quarter to two'.
How can you measure nine minutes with have two hourglasses, one four minute and one seven minute?
Track the moments each timer runs out and flip the appropriate one to build up to nine minutes.
Now matter what, I come to you round, Floating up, floating down, A single pop, I'm on the ground, Then comes your unpleasant frown. What am I?
This fragile round object floats through the air before bursting.
Two people meet inside of a zoo and with some time a child was born. The child of two people had no clue, but the two people who meet they already knew. The child was the person who acted like glue. Who are the two people that met at the zoo?
The child bonds two people together who weren't related to begin with, hinting at adoption.
If a hen and a half lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will half a dozen hens lay in half a dozen days?
Scaling the rate proportionally for hens and days shows six hens laying one egg per day and a half each, totaling 24 eggs over six days.
If the only frying pan in the house is large enough to cook two pancakes at a time and pancakes take one minute to brown one side, how can you make three pancakes in three minutes?
Carefully swap which pancakes are in the pan each minute so none sits idle.
What time is it when the clock strikes 13?
A clock cannot correctly strike 13, so something must be broken.
A Smuggler with a bicycle carried to sack of sand with him every day. However every time he was checked at the border, the officer's let him through. Wait, what did the Smuggler smuggle?
The obvious item, the sand, is a decoy from what's actually valuable: the bicycle.
I kill people when you need me to, I am not accepted and illegal, I need to be refilled from time to time and i can harm my owner. What am I?
This weapon needs ammunition reloaded periodically and is dangerous even to the person carrying it.
What measures out time, Until in time all is smashed to it? A: Sand
Think of an hourglass, where falling sand marks the passing minutes.
Two jets take off at the same time, There is only one runway but there where no crashes and it was at the same airport. A Plane takes more than 1min to take off. How can this happen?
'The same time' doesn't have to mean the same day.
There lived a man in a house and everytime he went to bed he turned on the light. One night, the man forgot to turn on the light. The next day he read the paper and killed himself. Why?
The 'light' he turns on nightly is a lighthouse beacon, not a bedroom lamp.
A timorous heart at no time succeeds in acquiring the beautiful damsel. What is the proverb?
This old saying means that a person too afraid to act will never win someone's heart.
Why can't you keep a clock in jail?
This is a pun on 'time running out', both meaning a countdown and an escape.
One day, Kathy was walking in the park when she stumbled upon two suspicious men. One of them was dressed like a werewolf, while the other one was not. Which of the two men was the real werewolf?
Werewolves only take their monstrous form under a full moon, so a costume gives away a fake.
I'm a day when truth takes a twist, and laughter is hard to resist. What am I?
This holiday is known for pranks and jokes on the first day of April.
My fruitfulness is sweet and full of taste; but now that my time has come, you should hurry or else you'll be late. What am I?
This word is both a sweet fruit and a scheduled point in time.