From ad5e0cbfb7a5d393de7094d053c4f174d3244b7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shay Patel Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:16:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add more riddles --- riddles.js | 565 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 565 insertions(+) diff --git a/riddles.js b/riddles.js index 2349c62..6ababa5 100644 --- a/riddles.js +++ b/riddles.js @@ -173,5 +173,570 @@ module.exports = [ question: "What has a ring but no finger?", answers: ["telephone", "a telephone", "phone", "a phone"], hint: "You pick me up and answer when someone calls." + }, + { + question: "I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?", + answers: ["bank", "a bank"], + hint: "You deposit and withdraw money here." + }, + { + question: "What can fill a room but takes up no space?", + answers: ["light", "sunlight"], + hint: "It comes from the sun and lets you see." + }, + { + question: "The more you feed me, the more I grow, but give me water and I will die. What am I?", + answers: ["fire", "a fire", "flame", "a flame"], + hint: "I produce heat and light and consume fuel." + }, + { + question: "What has a bottom at the top?", + answers: ["leg", "a leg", "legs"], + hint: "You have two of these below your hips." + }, + { + question: "I am not alive, but I grow. I do not have lungs, but I need air. I do not have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?", + answers: ["fire", "a fire", "flame"], + hint: "A bucket of water is my worst enemy." + }, + { + question: "What has four wheels and flies?", + answers: ["garbage truck", "a garbage truck", "rubbish truck"], + hint: "It comes by your house weekly to collect trash." + }, + { + question: "I go around all the places but always stay in the corner. What am I?", + answers: ["stamp", "a stamp", "postage stamp"], + hint: "You lick me and stick me on an envelope." + }, + { + question: "What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?", + answers: ["promise", "a promise", "silence"], + hint: "It is something you give your word about." + }, + { + question: "What is always coming but never arrives?", + answers: ["tomorrow", "the future"], + hint: "It is the day after today, forever." + }, + { + question: "What has an eye in the center but cannot see?", + answers: ["hurricane", "a hurricane", "tornado", "a tornado", "storm"], + hint: "It is a powerful spinning weather system." + }, + { + question: "I can be cracked, I can be made, I can be told, I can be played. What am I?", + answers: ["joke", "a joke"], + hint: "You tell one when you want to make someone laugh." + }, + { + question: "What gets bigger when you take more away from it?", + answers: ["hole", "a hole"], + hint: "Dig in the ground and you will make one." + }, + { + question: "What has two hands, a round face, always runs but stays in place?", + answers: ["clock", "a clock", "watch", "a watch"], + hint: "It hangs on the wall or sits on a shelf." + }, + { + question: "I have no wings, but I can fly. I have no eyes, but I can cry. What am I?", + answers: ["cloud", "a cloud"], + hint: "Look up in the sky and you will see me." + }, + { + question: "What can you keep after giving it to someone?", + answers: ["word", "your word", "promise", "knowledge"], + hint: "Think about something intangible you give in conversation." + }, + { + question: "What has a face but no eyes, nose, or mouth?", + answers: ["clock", "a clock", "watch", "a watch", "coin", "a coin"], + hint: "You check it to know what time it is." + }, + { + question: "I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?", + answers: ["fire", "a fire", "flame", "a flame"], + hint: "I am hot and dangerous to touch." + }, + { + question: "What goes up when rain comes down?", + answers: ["umbrella", "an umbrella"], + hint: "You carry me to stay dry in a storm." + }, + { + question: "What has a spine but no bones?", + answers: ["book", "a book"], + hint: "You read stories and information inside me." + }, + { + question: "What two things can you never eat for breakfast?", + answers: ["lunch and dinner", "lunch or dinner"], + hint: "Think about meals you eat later in the day." + }, + { + question: "What is cut on the table but is never eaten?", + answers: ["deck of cards", "a deck of cards", "cards"], + hint: "You shuffle and deal me in a card game." + }, + { + question: "What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?", + answers: ["kangaroo", "a kangaroo"], + hint: "This Australian animal carries its young in a pouch." + }, + { + question: "I am a word of letters three. Add two and fewer there will be. What am I?", + answers: ["few", "the word few"], + hint: "The answer is about a small number." + }, + { + question: "What can be seen in the middle of March and April but not at the beginning or end of either month?", + answers: ["r", "the letter r"], + hint: "Look very carefully at the letters in the month names." + }, + { + question: "What flies without wings?", + answers: ["time", "money"], + hint: "It passes whether you want it to or not." + }, + { + question: "What has one head, one foot, and four legs?", + answers: ["bed", "a bed"], + hint: "You sleep on this every night." + }, + { + question: "I have streets but no pavement, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?", + answers: ["map", "a map"], + hint: "You use me to find your way somewhere." + }, + { + question: "What is always in front of you but cannot be seen?", + answers: ["future", "the future", "air"], + hint: "It has not happened yet." + }, + { + question: "What runs around the whole yard without moving?", + answers: ["fence", "a fence"], + hint: "It borders and encloses outdoor spaces." + }, + { + question: "What can be touched but cannot be seen?", + answers: ["air", "wind", "heart", "feelings"], + hint: "You breathe it in with every breath." + }, + { + question: "What kind of band never plays music?", + answers: ["rubber band", "a rubber band"], + hint: "You stretch me around a stack of papers." + }, + { + question: "What has one clap but no hands?", + answers: ["thunder", "thunderclap"], + hint: "It booms loudly during a storm." + }, + { + question: "I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?", + answers: ["feather", "a feather"], + hint: "I float gently when you drop me." + }, + { + question: "What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you do not want to use it?", + answers: ["anchor", "an anchor"], + hint: "Ships drop me to stay in place." + }, + { + question: "What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?", + answers: ["post office", "the post office"], + hint: "You mail packages and letters from here." + }, + { + question: "What question can you never answer yes to?", + answers: ["are you asleep", "are you asleep yet", "are you dead"], + hint: "If you could answer it, the answer would contradict itself." + }, + { + question: "What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?", + answers: ["glove", "a glove"], + hint: "You wear me on your hand in cold weather." + }, + { + question: "What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?", + answers: ["blackboard", "a blackboard", "chalkboard", "a chalkboard"], + hint: "Teachers write lessons on me in classrooms." + }, + { + question: "I start with E and end with E, but I only have one letter. What am I?", + answers: ["envelope", "an envelope"], + hint: "You seal a letter inside me before mailing it." + }, + { + question: "What has ears but cannot hear?", + answers: ["corn", "cornfield", "a field of corn"], + hint: "It is a tall yellow crop grown on farms." + }, + { + question: "I shrink smaller every time I do my job. What am I?", + answers: ["pencil", "a pencil", "eraser", "an eraser", "soap", "bar of soap"], + hint: "You write with me and I get shorter." + }, + { + question: "What runs all day but has no legs?", + answers: ["water", "river", "faucet", "tap", "clock"], + hint: "It comes out of your tap when you turn it on." + }, + { + question: "I am as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest person cannot hold me for more than a few minutes. What am I?", + answers: ["breath", "your breath"], + hint: "You do it constantly without thinking about it." + }, + { + question: "What is orange and sounds like a parrot?", + answers: ["carrot", "a carrot"], + hint: "Bugs Bunny loves to munch on this vegetable." + }, + { + question: "What word contains all 26 letters?", + answers: ["alphabet", "the alphabet"], + hint: "It is a set of all the letters used in a language." + }, + { + question: "What has one horn and gives milk?", + answers: ["milk truck", "a milk truck", "dairy truck"], + hint: "It is a vehicle that delivers dairy products." + }, + { + question: "I can be long or short. I can be grown or bought. I can be painted or left bare. I can be round or square. What am I?", + answers: ["nail", "a nail", "fingernail", "toenail"], + hint: "They grow on the tips of your fingers and toes." + }, + { + question: "What has a head like a cat, feet like a cat, a tail like a cat, but is not a cat?", + answers: ["kitten", "a kitten"], + hint: "It is a baby cat." + }, + { + question: "What can you make but not see, feel but not touch?", + answers: ["noise", "sound", "music", "decision"], + hint: "Clap your hands and you create one." + }, + { + question: "What do you bury when it is alive and dig up when it is dead?", + answers: ["plant", "a plant", "seed", "a seed"], + hint: "It starts underground and grows upward." + }, + { + question: "I have a golden head and a golden tail, but no golden body. What am I?", + answers: ["coin", "a coin", "gold coin"], + hint: "You flip me to decide between two choices." + }, + { + question: "What room has no doors, no windows, no floors, and no roof?", + answers: ["mushroom", "a mushroom"], + hint: "It is a type of fungus you might put on pizza." + }, + { + question: "What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?", + answers: ["teapot", "a teapot", "teapot"], + hint: "You boil water and brew a warm drink in me." + }, + { + question: "I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?", + answers: ["e", "the letter e"], + hint: "I am a single letter of the alphabet." + }, + { + question: "What is seen in the middle of a river that is also in the middle of Paris?", + answers: ["r", "the letter r"], + hint: "Look at the letters in each of those words." + }, + { + question: "What is brown and sticky?", + answers: ["stick", "a stick"], + hint: "It falls from a tree and you might throw it for a dog." + }, + { + question: "What can you hold without ever touching it?", + answers: ["conversation", "a conversation", "breath", "your breath"], + hint: "Two people exchange it using their voices." + }, + { + question: "What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?", + answers: ["coat of paint", "a coat of paint", "paint"], + hint: "You apply it to a wall with a brush or roller." + }, + { + question: "What has four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?", + answers: ["human", "a human", "man", "a man", "person"], + hint: "Think about the stages of a human life." + }, + { + question: "I am lighter than air but a hundred people cannot lift me. What am I?", + answers: ["bubble", "a bubble"], + hint: "You blow me from soapy liquid." + }, + { + question: "What belongs to you but is used more by others?", + answers: ["name", "your name"], + hint: "Your parents gave it to you when you were born." + }, + { + question: "What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?", + answers: ["glove", "a glove", "mitten"], + hint: "You wear me on your hand to keep it warm." + }, + { + question: "What gets sharper the more you use it?", + answers: ["brain", "your brain", "mind", "pencil", "knife"], + hint: "It sits inside your skull and controls everything you do." + }, + { + question: "What can travel around the world in an instant but fits in a corner?", + answers: ["stamp", "a stamp"], + hint: "You put me on an envelope before posting it." + }, + { + question: "I am the only thing that always tells the truth. I show off everything that I see. I come in all shapes and sizes. What am I?", + answers: ["mirror", "a mirror"], + hint: "You look at your reflection in me every morning." + }, + { + question: "What is as old as the earth but is made new every month?", + answers: ["moon", "the moon"], + hint: "It orbits the Earth and changes shape in the night sky." + }, + { + question: "What is the end of everything?", + answers: ["g", "the letter g"], + hint: "Look at the last letter of the word everything." + }, + { + question: "What is black and white and red all over?", + answers: ["newspaper", "a newspaper"], + hint: "You read the daily news in me." + }, + { + question: "What goes up and down stairs without moving?", + answers: ["carpet", "a carpet", "rug", "a rug"], + hint: "It covers your floor and you walk on it." + }, + { + question: "What can be swallowed but can also swallow you?", + answers: ["pride", "water", "ocean", "fear"], + hint: "Too much of it can drown you." + }, + { + question: "What has a tongue but cannot taste?", + answers: ["shoe", "a shoe", "boot", "a boot"], + hint: "You wear me on your foot." + }, + { + question: "What is made of water but dies if water touches it?", + answers: ["snowflake", "a snowflake", "ice", "snow"], + hint: "It falls from the sky in winter and is made of frozen water." + }, + { + question: "What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never cries?", + answers: ["river", "a river"], + hint: "It flows from mountains toward the sea." + }, + { + question: "What is the longest word in the dictionary?", + answers: ["smiles", "smiles because there is a mile between the s's"], + hint: "Think creatively — there is a unit of distance hidden in it." + }, + { + question: "You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?", + answers: ["e", "the letter e"], + hint: "I am a single letter hiding in those month names." + }, + { + question: "What gets dressed and undressed twice a day?", + answers: ["bed", "a bed"], + hint: "You make it in the morning and unmake it at night." + }, + { + question: "I am always in your body but you never see me until I come out. What am I?", + answers: ["blood", "sweat", "tears", "breath"], + hint: "When you get a cut, I appear." + }, + { + question: "What has six faces but does not wear makeup, and twenty-one eyes but cannot see?", + answers: ["die", "a die", "dice"], + hint: "You roll me in board games to get a number." + }, + { + question: "What starts with a C, ends with a T, is cold, full of meat, and shaped like a cone?", + answers: ["corndog", "corn dog", "ice cream cone with meat"], + hint: "Actually, think of a pointed winter accessory." + }, + { + question: "What has many rings but no fingers?", + answers: ["tree", "a tree"], + hint: "Count my rings to know how old I am." + }, + { + question: "What can you catch but not throw?", + answers: ["cold", "a cold", "illness", "disease"], + hint: "You might get it from someone who is sick." + }, + { + question: "What do you find at the end of a rainbow?", + answers: ["w", "the letter w"], + hint: "Look at the last letter of the word rainbow." + }, + { + question: "What is harder to catch the faster you run?", + answers: ["breath", "your breath"], + hint: "After a sprint, you are out of it." + }, + { + question: "What has keys but cannot open locks, space but no room, and you can enter but you cannot go inside?", + answers: ["keyboard", "a keyboard", "computer keyboard"], + hint: "You type on me to write words on a screen." + }, + { + question: "What is orange, wears a green hat, and is very popular on Halloween?", + answers: ["pumpkin", "a pumpkin", "jack o lantern"], + hint: "People carve faces into me in October." + }, + { + question: "What do you call a snowman in summer?", + answers: ["puddle", "a puddle", "water"], + hint: "That is what happens when snow melts." + }, + { + question: "What grows up while it grows down?", + answers: ["goose", "a goose", "duck", "a duck"], + hint: "Actually, think of something with feathers added as it matures." + }, + { + question: "I am a fruit. Remove my first letter and I become a crime. What am I?", + answers: ["grape", "a grape"], + hint: "It is a small round fruit that grows in clusters." + }, + { + question: "What has a bottom at the top of a mountain?", + answers: ["footprint", "a footprint"], + hint: "Think about someone who climbed to the summit." + }, + { + question: "What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?", + answers: ["short", "the word short"], + hint: "Add -er to the end of this word." + }, + { + question: "What can fill a house but takes up no space?", + answers: ["light", "sunlight", "air"], + hint: "It floods every room when you open the curtains." + }, + { + question: "I wave but have no hands. What am I?", + answers: ["flag", "a flag"], + hint: "I represent a country and blow in the wind." + }, + { + question: "What is big and hairy on the outside and wet and juicy on the inside?", + answers: ["coconut", "a coconut"], + hint: "It is a tropical fruit with white flesh inside." + }, + { + question: "What do you see once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?", + answers: ["e", "the letter e"], + hint: "Examine the letters in each of those time words." + }, + { + question: "What is wet when drying?", + answers: ["towel", "a towel", "cloth"], + hint: "You pat yourself with this after a bath." + }, + { + question: "What can you add to a bucket full of water to make it lighter?", + answers: ["hole", "a hole"], + hint: "It would let all the water out." + }, + { + question: "What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, up up it goes, and yet never grows?", + answers: ["mountain", "a mountain"], + hint: "Snow caps its peak and climbers attempt to reach its summit." + }, + { + question: "What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?", + answers: ["shadow", "an elephant's shadow", "elephant's shadow"], + hint: "It follows you everywhere on a sunny day." + }, + { + question: "Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?", + answers: ["ton", "a ton"], + hint: "It is a unit of weight, and its reverse spells a word too." + }, + { + question: "What can be measured but has no length, width, or height?", + answers: ["temperature", "time", "speed"], + hint: "A thermometer measures it." + }, + { + question: "I look flat but I am deep. Hidden depths are inside of me. The longer you look, the more you will find. What am I?", + answers: ["eyes", "your eyes", "an eye"], + hint: "Look into them to see what someone is feeling." + }, + { + question: "What is yours but your friends use it more than you do?", + answers: ["name", "your name"], + hint: "They say it when they want to get your attention." + }, + { + question: "What can point in every direction but cannot reach the destination by itself?", + answers: ["finger", "a finger"], + hint: "You use it to indicate a direction or object." + }, + { + question: "What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?", + answers: ["same", "they weigh the same", "equal", "neither"], + hint: "Both are exactly one pound." + }, + { + question: "What has a lake with no water, mountains with no stone, and cities with no buildings?", + answers: ["map", "a map"], + hint: "It is a flat representation of the world." + }, + { + question: "What can you hold in your hand that is still around your head?", + answers: ["hat", "a hat"], + hint: "You wear it on your head to keep the sun or rain off." + }, + { + question: "I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?", + answers: ["chick", "a chick", "baby bird", "egg"], + hint: "I hatch from an egg." + }, + { + question: "What has no beginning, end, or middle?", + answers: ["doughnut", "a doughnut", "circle", "a circle", "ring", "a ring"], + hint: "It is a round baked good with a hole in the center." + }, + { + question: "What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?", + answers: ["palm", "a palm tree", "palm tree"], + hint: "It is also the flat inside part of your hand." + }, + { + question: "What can travel at the speed of light but still have a shadow?", + answers: ["light", "a beam of light"], + hint: "Something that moves at light speed and creates darkness when blocked." + }, + { + question: "I have an eye but cannot see, I am stronger than steel but fear the sun. What am I?", + answers: ["needle", "a needle", "sewing needle"], + hint: "You thread me and use me to sew fabric." + }, + { + question: "What stinks when living and smells good when dead?", + answers: ["pig", "a pig", "bacon"], + hint: "Think about something that becomes a delicious food after cooking." + }, + { + question: "What has three letters and starts with gas?", + answers: ["car", "automobile"], + hint: "It has an engine and four wheels." } ];