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Life Riddles

Here you find our popular collection of life riddles and other interesting and fun life puzzles and brain teasers of all kinds. To solve the puzzles, you have to let your imagination run wild and see beyond logic to find the correct answer!

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Close to the words of life stay I,
But I wither, wane, and grow dry.

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Category: Classical riddlesTopics: Flower, Life

Dipping, glinting, gliding by,
Rainbow-fretted, wrought of breath.
I live only while I fly –
Earth’s rough kiss my sudden death.

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Category: Poem RiddlesTopics: Death, Kiss, Life

Had at work day and night, it counts the numbers over and over. Although it counts all its life, it never gets past twelve.

Category: Miscellaneous RiddlesTopics: Life, Time

I am free for the taking through all of your life,
Though given but once at birth.
I am less than nothing in weight,
But will fell the strongest of you if held.

Category: Classical riddlesTopics: Life

I have no life, but I can die. What am I?

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Category: What I AmTopics: Death, Life

When I'm young I'm tall
When I'm old I'm short
When I'm alive I glow
Because of your breath I die

What am I?

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Category: Poem Riddles, What I AmTopics: Death, Life


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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Category: Classical riddlesTopics: Life, Word