RIDDLES
Across
- 4. Take off my skin — I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
- 6. I have a neck, but no head. I have two arms, but no hands. What am I?
- 7. What has many teeth, but can’t bite?
- 9. It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?
- 10. I sometimes run, but I can’t walk. What am I?
- 12. If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is this?
- 13. What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?
- 14. What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
- 15. If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
- 16. People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
- 19. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
- 20. I love to dance and twist. I shake my tail as I sail away. When I fly wingless into the sky. What am I?
- 22. What gets wet while drying?
- 24. I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
Down
- 1. What comes down but never goes up?
- 2. I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?
- 3. What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
- 5. What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?
- 8. I’m orange, I wear a green hat and I sound like a parrot. What am I?
- 11. They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
- 13. I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
- 14. What is full of holes but still holds water?
- 16. I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
- 17. I cannot talk, but I always reply when spoken to. What am I?
- 18. What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night?
- 21. What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
- 22. What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
- 23. I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?
- 25. What is more useful when it is broken?