Famous Riddles

Here you will find interesting and fun famous 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!

Riddle from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what’s always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

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A spider.

Category: Famous RiddlesTopics: Harry Potter

Four hang, four sprang, two point the way, two to ward off dogs, one dangles after, always rather dirty. What am I?

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A cow

Category: Famous RiddlesTopics: Odin

Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet. (Judges 14:14)

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Bees that were making a honeycomb inside a lion’s carcass. Samson had killed the lion.

Category: Famous RiddlesTopics: Samson

Riddle from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

There are 30 white horses on a red hill: first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still. What are they?

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Teeth

Category: Famous RiddlesTopics: The Hobbit

There is a house. A person enters this house blind but exits it seeing. What is it?

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A school

Category: Famous RiddlesTopics: Sumer

There is a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?

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A school

Category: Famous RiddlesTopics: Sumer

Riddle from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

This is a thing that is devoured by all things; flowers, trees, beasts, birds; bites steel, gnaws iron; grinds hard stone to meal; beats mountain down, ruins town and slays king. What is it?

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Time

Category: Famous RiddlesTopics: The Hobbit

Riddle from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.

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The wind

Category: Famous RiddlesTopics: The Hobbit

by Sophocles

What walks on 4 legs when it is morning, on 2 legs at noon and on 3 legs in the evening?

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Human. As an infant, a man crawls on 4 legs; as an adult he walks on two legs and as an elderly citizen he walks with a cane hence the three legs.

Category: Famous RiddlesTopics: Oedipus Rex

What we caught, we threw away. We kept what we didn’t catch. What was it that we kept?

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Lice

Category: Famous RiddlesTopics: Greece