Are you very verbal? Are you good at understanding the written word and playing with it? Then you'll love this category, filled with challenging word play riddles!
All language riddles that need word play to solve, including word play riddles, reading riddles and pun riddles.
I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them.
I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold.
They are the smallest you could imagine.
Sooner or later everybody needs my help,
yet many people are afraid to let me help them.
Who am I?
This was Gollum's final riddle from The Hobbit:
"This thing all things devours;
Bird, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slay king, ruins town,
and beats a mountain down."
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $10, but if I cannot, I will pay you $10." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $10. How did the man win the bet?
A wife decides to shoot her husband. She does so, then holds him underwater for more than 5 minutes. Finally she hangs him. 10 minutes later they both go out to lunch. How is this possible?