Let’s unwind with some brain teasers, do you know some of them? In this case, we are going to talk about  r i d d l e s.  Do you have any idea about them? So, here we have information about it. 

“It is a type of question that describes something in a difficult and confusing way and has a clever or funny answer, often asked as a game”

Source: Cambridge University Press 2021

Now, let’s see some riddles, let’s try to guess them, however the answers will be at the end of this blog.

  1. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
  1. What gets wet while drying?
  1.  I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
  1. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
  1.  I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
  1. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
  1.  What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
  1. What gets bigger when more is taken away?
  1. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
  1. What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
  1.  What can you catch, but not throw?
  1. What has many teeth, but can’t bite?
  1. What has words, but never speaks?
  1. What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?
  1. What building has the most stories?

Did you guess one of them? No? Ok! Let’s see the answers! 

  1. A barber
  2. A towel
  3. A bank
  4. An echo
  5. Your shadow
  6. A piano
  7. A chalkboard
  8. A hole
  9. A window
  10. A table
  11. A cold
  12. A comb
  13. A book
  14. A glove
  15. The library

Tell us, what was your favorite riddle? Did you know some of them? If you know more let us know! 

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