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.
- I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
- What gets wet while drying?
- I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
- What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
- I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
- What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
- What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
- What gets bigger when more is taken away?
- What invention lets you look right through a wall?
- What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
- What can you catch, but not throw?
- What has many teeth, but can’t bite?
- What has words, but never speaks?
- What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?
- What building has the most stories?
Did you guess one of them? No? Ok! Let’s see the answers!
- A barber
- A towel
- A bank
- An echo
- Your shadow
- A piano
- A chalkboard
- A hole
- A window
- A table
- A cold
- A comb
- A book
- A glove
- The library
Tell us, what was your favorite riddle? Did you know some of them? If you know more let us know!