Classical riddles

Here you will find interesting and fun classical riddles, sayings and puzzles of all kinds. To solve the puzzles, you have to let your imagination run wild and see beyond logic to find the correct answer!

What has four legs in the morning,
two legs in the afternoon,
and three legs at night?

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A human being

Category: Classical riddlesTopics: Body

What is greater than God,
more evil than the devil,
the poor have it,
the rich need it,
and if you eat it, you'll die?

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Nothing

Category: Classical riddlesTopics: Devil, God, Rich

What was given to you, belongs to you exclusively and yet is used more by your friends than by yourself?

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Your name.

Category: Classical riddlesTopics: Friend

When is a yellow dog most likely to enter a house?

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When the door is open.

Category: Animal Riddles, Classical riddlesTopics: Building, Dog, Yellow

Which one of our Presidents had the largest shoes?

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The president with the largest feet.

Category: Classical riddlesTopics: Clothing, President

Why isn't your nose twelve inches long?

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Because it would then be a foot.

Category: Classical riddles, Math RiddlesTopics: Human body

With potent, flowery words speak I,
Of something common, vulgar, dry;
I weave webs of pedantic prose,
In effort to befuddle those,
Who think I wile time away,
In lofty things, above all day
The common kind that linger where
Monadic beings live and fare;
Practical I may not be,
But life, it seems, is full of me!

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A riddler, or riddle.

Category: Classical riddlesTopics: Life, Word