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The signature stroll of ducks and penguins.
Ducks and penguins are known for their distinctive side-to-side waddling walk.
Surname of the pilot of the Millennium Falcon.
Han Solo is the famous pilot of the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars.
White bird, featherless, flying out of paradise. Flying over sea and land. Dying in my hand.
Snowflakes are poetically described as white, featherless 'birds' falling from the sky, and they melt ('die') the moment they land in your warm hand.
Other terms for this handy device include doohicky, doo-dad, and whatchyamacallit.
'Gadget' is the general word for a handy device whose exact name you might forget, like 'doohickey' or 'whatchamacallit.'
What has a head, can't think, but drives?
A hammer has a solid metal 'head' with no mind of its own, but it's used to drive nails into place.
They are the group who manages the winged engines of war.
The air force is the military branch responsible for operating warplanes, the 'winged engines of war.'
I have legs but walk not, a strong back but work not. Two good arms but reach not. A seat but sit and tarry not.
A chair has legs, a back, arms, and a seat, but as furniture it never actually walks, works, reaches, or sits itself.
The one fashion accessory farmers and hipsters can agree upon.
Suspenders are worn by both traditional farmers and modern hipsters as a shared fashion and functional choice.
Brings the sky a lot closer.
A telescope magnifies distant stars and planets, making the sky appear much closer than it really is.
A vessel have I, that is round as pear, moist in the middle, surrounded with hair; and often it happens that water flows there.
The eyeball is round and moist, ringed by lashes and brows, and tears (water) often flow from it.
Soft and fragile is my skin. I get my growth in dirt. I'm dangerous as much as pretty. For if not careful, I draw blood.
A rose's petals are delicate and grow from soil, but its beauty comes with sharp thorns that can prick and draw blood.
I live above a star who never burns. I have 11 neighbors but they never turn. My initial are p, q, r, and sometimes s. What am I?
On a phone keypad, the 7 sits above the star (*) key, shares the pad with 11 other unmoving buttons, and its letters are P, Q, R, S.
There are millions of me. I am very small but when moving fast I am deadly.
Individual grains of sand are tiny and harmless, but wind-driven sand moving fast enough, as in a sandstorm, can be dangerous.
It covers you, you lose it every day and you'd die without it.
Skin cells constantly shed and regenerate every day, and skin itself is essential for survival.
Something you do with guests at a fancy party hoping to get a leg-up in your career.
'Schmoozing' means chatting in a friendly, ingratiating way with people, often to gain a professional advantage.
What has one foot but no body?
A ruler is often exactly one 'foot' long (12 inches), but obviously has no physical body.
What holds names and memories which are not its own?
A gravestone is inscribed with the name and memory of the deceased person, information that belongs to someone else, not the stone itself.
I run through hills. I veer around mountains. I leap over rivers. And crawl through the forests. Step out your door to find me.
Roads wind through hilly and mountainous terrain, cross rivers via bridges, and cut through forests, right outside your front door.
One pace to the North. Two paces to the East. Two paces to the South. Two paces to the West. One pace to the North.
Tracing those directions and distances out closes a path that forms a square shape.
A tangly game and a destructive weather phenomenon.
'Twister' is both the name of the game where players tangle their limbs on a mat and a common term for a tornado.
I am a three letter word. Add two more letters and you'll have fewer. What word am I?
'Few' has three letters; adding 'er' makes 'fewer,' which means a smaller amount.
I fly through the air on small feathered wings, seeking out life and destroying all things.
An arrow has feathered fletching that stabilizes its flight, and it's shot to strike and kill living targets.
What looks back but cannot see?
A reflection appears to gaze back at you, but it's just light bouncing off a surface -- it has no actual sight.
What becomes too young the longer it exists?
A portrait captures a person at one fixed age forever; the longer it exists, the further behind -- 'younger' -- it falls compared to how old the real person becomes. This is a loosely worded riddle that relies on a somewhat poetic reading.
A small hill with seven holes.
The human head is like a small hill with seven natural openings: two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, and a mouth.
I come in winter. I cannot see, hear, or feel. I can't eat, but you can eat parts of me.
A snowman is built in winter and has no real senses, but children often give it a carrot nose or candy features that can be eaten.
What comes in many different sizes but is always only 1 foot long?
This plays on 'foot' meaning both a unit of length and a human foot -- a shoe always fits exactly one foot, no matter its size.
Sometimes I am loud. And viewed with distaste. Poke out my "eye", then I'm on the front of your face.
'Noise' can be loud and unpleasant; remove the letter 'i' (its 'eye') and the remaining letters spell 'nose,' which sits on the front of your face.
So cold, damp and dark this place. To stay you would refrain, yet those who occupy this place do never complain.
A grave is cold, dark, and unwelcoming to the living, yet its permanent occupants -- the dead -- never object to staying.
What has 2 banks but no money?
A river has a bank on either side of it, but 'bank' here just means the land along the water's edge, not a place with money.
Ladies used to party with this kitchen device.
Tupperware parties were a popular mid-20th-century social gathering where hosts demonstrated and sold plastic kitchen storage containers.
It flies when it's on and floats coming off.
A feather helps a bird fly while attached, but once it comes loose it gently floats down to the ground.
The plant that is responsible for spreading a lot of gossip.
The idiom 'heard it through the grapevine' refers to information passed informally from person to person, like gossip.
A prehistoric reptile that lives today and the inspiration for the name of a popular sports drink.
Gatorade was named after the University of Florida Gators; an alligator (gator) is a reptile whose lineage dates back to prehistoric times and is still alive today.
Whipping one of these out in the wrong setting is said to be terrible luck.
Opening an umbrella indoors is a well-known superstition believed to bring bad luck.
What is born long, dies short, and spends its life leaving a trail?
A pencil starts out long, gradually gets shorter with use, and leaves a trail of graphite marks wherever it writes.
You can swallow me, but I can also swallow you.
You swallow water when you drink it, but a large body of water, like the sea, can just as easily "swallow" (drown) a person.
I will go within you, and destroy you. Only because you wanted me too. What am I?
Drugs are willingly taken by the user, yet they can ultimately cause serious harm or destruction to the body from within.
A section of the calendar dedicated to mother nature.
Earth Day is the annual observance dedicated to environmental awareness and appreciation of nature.
In birth I spring forth, in life I unfold. In death I wilt and die, but rebirth restores all.
A leaf sprouts in spring, opens up through the growing season, withers and falls in autumn/winter, then returns again each new spring.
If you look you cannot see me. If you see me you cannot see anything else. I can make anything you want happen, but later everything goes back to normal. What am I?
You can't spot imagination by looking around, but once you're lost in it nothing else registers -- and it can conjure anything, until reality returns.
Rotten trees and Jack-O-Lanterns have this characteristic in common.
A decaying tree trunk and a carved pumpkin both end up hollowed out on the inside.
What is part of you and all around you but if it entangles you, it will kill you?
The human body is made mostly of water, water surrounds us in rivers and oceans, yet becoming tangled and trapped underwater can drown a person.
I am something many people don't enjoy having as a friend, including you. But I am called upon anything someone is injured.
No one wants pain as a companion, yet it's exactly what shows up the instant someone gets hurt.
Men in skirts blow into these.
Scottish bagpipers traditionally wear kilts (skirts) while blowing air into their bagpipes.
When you are a child you are forced to take them. When you are an adult you want to take them.
Kids are made to take naps against their will, while tired adults often wish they still had time to nap.
It increases and decreases yet no one see it. It is not a fire and yet it can be quenched.
Thirst is an invisible feeling that grows or fades, and like a fire, it can be "quenched" -- in this case, by drinking water.
What can you always count on?
Fingers are literally what people use to count, making them something you can always 'count on.'
I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am not a gossip but I do get involved with everyone's dirty business.
A vacuum cleaner has a wide 'mouth' (its nozzle), runs loudly, and gets involved in cleaning up everyone's dirt.
You get one if you miss one at golf.
Every swing in golf, hit or miss, counts as a stroke -- so missing the ball still adds a stroke to your score.
Brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father is my father's son. Who is the man?
Since the speaker has no siblings, 'my father's son' can only be the speaker himself, which means the man's father is the speaker -- so the man is the speaker's son.
They put the heat in pop tarts
A toaster is the appliance used to heat up a Pop-Tart before eating it.
In we go, out we go. All around and in a row. Always, always steady flow. When we'll stop, you'll never know. In we go, out we go.
Tides rise (in) and fall (out) in a steady, endless rhythm around the coastline, and no one can say exactly when that cycle will ever stop.
Serves as a go between in business.
A middleman is the intermediary who connects buyers and sellers or two other parties in a business deal.
I never was but am always to be, and everyone looks forward to me.
The future never technically exists in the present moment; it's always something still to come, which people anticipate.
A little house full of meat, no door to go in and eat.
A nut's hard shell fully encloses its edible "meat" (the kernel inside) with no opening to get in.
They live only in stories, taller than three storeys.
Giants exist only in fictional tales and are described as towering taller than a three-story building -- a pun on "stories."
It can cause deflation of tires when dropped from the rear of spy cars.
Spy movies often show tire-deflating spike strips deployed from the back of a getaway car to stop pursuers.
As I went over London Bridge I met my sister Jenny; I broke her neck and drank her blood and left her standing empty.
"Sister Jenny" is old slang for a bottle of gin: breaking her neck opens the bottle, drinking her blood is drinking the gin, and leaving her standing empty leaves the empty bottle behind.
If you were to take two apples from three apples, how many would you have?
It's a trick question about wording: if you take two apples away with you, then you have two apples, regardless of how many are left behind.
Hold these between your knees if you want to set a Cuban beat.
Bongo drums are traditionally held between the knees while played, and are a staple of Cuban and Latin percussion.
I'm the source of all emotion, but I'm caged in a white prison.
The heart is often said to be the seat of emotion, enclosed and protected within the white cage of the ribs.
Many things can create one, it can be of any shape or size, it is created for various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time.
All sorts of things -- digging, drilling, wear, decay -- can create a hole, and it can grow or shrink over time in any shape.
I am neither a guest nor a trespasser in this place. I belong that belongs to me. Where is it?
In your own home you are neither a guest nor an intruder -- it is simply the place that belongs to you.
I belong to everyone. Sometimes make you happy, sometimes make you sad. I will never end until the day you do. What am I?
Everyone has thoughts, which can bring happiness or sadness and only stop when a person's life ends.
Its title means book.
The word "Bible" comes from the Greek "biblia," meaning "books" or "book."
I am someone you don't know. Who am I?
By definition, a stranger is simply a person you don't know.
The higher I climb, the hotter I engage. I cannot escape from my crystal cage.
As in the earlier thermometer riddle in this set, this describes mercury inside a glass ("crystal") tube, rising higher as the temperature increases -- the two riddles share almost identical wording and the same answer.
Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear. All day we are bitterly pressed. Yet this I will say, we are full all the day, and empty when go to rest.
Two boots ("brothers") bear the weight of your body all day, remaining "full" of your feet until you take them off and empty them at night.
People chop this off for a good cause.
People donate their cut hair to organizations that make wigs for those who've lost theirs, such as cancer patients.
I ride, I ride; no tracks are left. I chop and chop; there are no chips left. He rides and rides; turns around: there is no road left.
A boat glides through water leaving no tracks, cuts through waves without leaving chips, and turns around at sea where there is no road at all.
It's held in the hand when going out.
You grip the doorknob in your hand right as you're leaving ("going out") through the door.
You seek it out, when your hunger is ripe. It sits on four legs, and smokes a pipe.
A stove stands on four legs and vents smoke through a pipe, and it's exactly where you head when you're hungry to cook a meal.
The athletically challenged spend a good deal of time on this seat made of pine.
Less athletic players spend a lot of time "riding the bench" (often made of pine wood) instead of playing in the game.
I can be found in water but never wet. What am I?
A reflection appears on the surface of water, but as just an image of light, it never actually gets wet.
What has six faces and twenty-one eyes?
A single die has six flat faces, and the total number of pips ("eyes") on all its faces (1+2+3+4+5+6) adds up to twenty-one.
My first keeps time, my second spends time, my whole tells time.
This is a charade riddle: "watch" keeps time, "man" spends his time on duty, and together "watchman" is someone who patrols keeping track through the night.
If I say "everything I tell you is a lie", am I telling you the truth or a lie?
This is the classic liar's paradox; the riddle's given resolution treats the statement itself as a lie, though logically the sentence is self-contradictory.
There is not wind enough to twirl that one red leaf, nearest of its clan, which dances as often as dance it can.
This passage more naturally describes a single trembling autumn leaf; the source lists "sun" as the intended answer, though the connection between a lone red leaf and the sun is a genuine stretch worth flagging.
A dark-colored creature serenaded by Lennon and McCartney.
The Beatles' song "Blackbird," written by Lennon and McCartney, gives this dark-feathered bird its serenade.
What grows bigger the more you contract it?
Every time you "contract" (take on) more debt, the total amount you owe grows larger, despite "contract" usually implying shrinking.
My neighbor makes mistakes. I get rid of them. Who am I?
Sitting next to the pencil that writes the mistakes, the eraser (often on the pencil's end) is what rubs those errors away.
The French word for 'fun size' in women's clothing.
"Petite" is French for small, and it's used in women's clothing sizing much like "fun size" describes small snacks.
What do you call a greedy grumpy holiday hater?
"Scrooge," from Dickens's A Christmas Carol, has become a byword for a stingy, grumpy person who hates the holidays.
This thing can bat but never hit. It is next to a ball that is never thrown. It is good luck when found and it falls when it is lost.
Eyelashes can "bat," sit right beside the eyeball, are considered lucky to find, and fall out when "lost."
I have legs but never walk, I may have flowers but no soil, I hold food but never eat.
A table has legs that never move, may hold a vase of flowers with no soil of its own, and holds plates of food without ever eating any.
Where jewelry pierces your head.
Earrings are jewelry that pierce through the earlobe, a part of the head.
The ball drops when the clock hits this.
The famous Times Square ball drop happens right at midnight, marking the start of the New Year.
Used to keep prisoners silent and to make temporary repairs on cars.
Duct tape is famously used to gag or bind people in movies, and its strength also makes it a go-to for quick, temporary car repairs.
Sends paper without using the post office.
A fax machine transmits a copy of a paper document over phone lines, delivering it without ever going through the postal service.
My first is a title of honor; my second is myself; my third is your and I; my whole is a beautiful fixed star, seen in the winter.
"Sir" (a title of honor) plus "I" (myself) plus "us" (you and I) spells SIRIUS, the brightest star in the winter sky.
What never asks questions but receives a lot of answers?
A ringing telephone doesn't ask anything itself, yet the person answering gives it a stream of spoken 'answers.'
It happens when something has been cut with H2O.
Adding water (H2O) to a liquid to reduce its strength is the definition of diluting it.
Only two backbones and thousands of ribs.
A railroad's two parallel rails act like 'backbones,' while the many wooden crossties resemble ribs.
It has 8 arms and lots of ink but can't write a word.
An octopus has eight arms and squirts ink for defense, but obviously can't use that ink to actually write anything.
A building filled with books you can't buy.
A library is filled with books available to borrow and read, but not to purchase.
Dorothy had a severe disagreement with a woman of this magical persuasion.
In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy clashes fiercely with the Wicked Witch of the West.
Mouth up it gets filled, mouth down it gets empty.
Turning a bottle's mouth upward lets it be filled with liquid, while turning it mouth-down empties it out.
My head bobs lazily in the sun. You think I'm cute. For my face is yellow, my hair is white, and my body is green.
A daisy has a yellow center ('face'), white petals ('hair'), and a green stem ('body'), and its head sways gently in sunlight.
Could be described as the cranium's version of snow.
Dandruff appears as small white flakes on the scalp, resembling snow falling from the 'cranium.'