![]() In the form of fork or sheet, I hit the ground. Yet he is also there to ease the pain, When you are lost in grief and sorrow. Today he is there to trip you up, And he will torture you tomorrow. Its importance is unquestioned, Though it is used more by others. Passed from father to son, And shared between brothers. But what is broken, by naming it? Answer: Silence. Men seize it from its home, tear apart its flesh, drink the sweet blood, then cast its skin aside. It is a journey whose path depends, on an other's vision of where it ends. Yet for all its power, It can't harm a club. It can pierce the best armor, And make swords crumble with a rub. Answer: Answer: Blade.īrought to the table. But one thing that cannot be forced, is a return to the place of its birth. Answer: Oxygen/Breathable Air.Īn untiring servant it is, carrying loads across muddy earth. You never see it, but it's almost always there, and most people quickly notice when it's absent. Though I'm tender, I'm not to be eaten, Nor - though, mint fresh - your breath to sweeten. What must you first give to me in order to keep it? Answer: Your word. What is so fragile, even speaking its name will break it? Answer: Silence. Men desire me in public, but fear me in private. Two bodies in one, the longer I stand, the faster I run. Towns without houses, forests without trees, mountains without boulders and waterless seas. ![]() The ice melts in the slower drinker's tea. How is this possible? Answer: The poison is in the ice not the tea. I am what men love more than life, fear more than death or mortal strife, what dead men have and rich require. I flee the light but without the sun, Your view of me would be gone. I follow and lead as you pass, dress yourself in black my darkness lasts. I can fly like a bird not in the sky, which can always swim and can always dry. They champ, they stamp, and then stand still. Answer: A Piano.įorty white horses on a red hill. I’m made out of five letters, And I’m made out of seven letters I have keys but I don’t have locks, I’m concerned with time, but not with clocks. when he was a child he crawled on all four, when he was older, he walked on two legs and when he was old aged, he used a cane. What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening? Answer: A Man. Who am I? HINTS: I start out wonderful, but then begin worse. When you come to the end of all you know, I am there. What is something that dawns on you even when it shouldn't? Answer: The obvious. The foolish man wastes me, The average man spends me, And wise man invests me, Yet all men succumb to me. What is it that you keep when you need it not, but throw out when you do need it? Answer: An anchor. Can you spell that without any 'R's? Answer: T-H-A-T. River bridge crossing, look out for the guards. How did it happen? Answer: Each is someone's name. Each took a pear and left eleven hanging there. Twelve men walking by, twelve pears hanging high. What do banana, grammar and assess all have in common? Answer: if you take the first letter and put it on the end of the word, reading it backwards they spell the same word. How many were going to St Ives? Answer: 1. What am I? Answer: Sand.Īs I was going to St Ives I met a man with 7 wives. I build castles, yet tear down mountains, make some men blind, and others see. Answer: Death by axe.Ī fitting cravat for a poorly chosen suit. No warning of Timber could have stopped the dropping petals. Answer: Fire.Ī curved stick and a straight twig means red sap and a snapped trunk. Answer: Bootsįeed me and I will live, give me a drink and I will die. Two friends stand and travel together, one nearly useless without the other. This fire is smothered best not by water or sand but by words. Answer: Fireīetter old than young the healthier it is, the smaller it will be. What is not alive but grows, does not breaths but needs air. What five long word become shorter when you add two letters? Answer: Short Many have heard me, yet nobody has seen me. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on? Answer: A coat of paint. What has two hands on its face but no arms? Answer: A clock Escorts you to other realms, without a magic portal. It wears a leather coat to keep its skins in working order. ![]() One hundred riddles (and their answers!) that will leave your players stumped. ![]()
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