Riddles (d100)

1

As time moves, so it creates. The lessons learned, and the ways of fate. I am each one, and yet still more. All you've known, seen and done before. Tell me, what am I?

Memories, information, knowledge, etc

2

Round she is, yet flat as a board. Altar to the lupine lords. Jewel on black velvet, pearl in the sea. Unchanged, yet e'rchanging, eternally.

The moon

3

What's in a forest but does not grow, The Trees know it but it does not show. When asked about it they will let it go, It breathes life into those that know.

The air

4

You can see me in water, but I am never wet. What am I?

Your reflection

5

What is yours, may never be taken, is freely given, and yet others will use more than you?

Your name

6

What goes up a hill faster than it goes down a hill?

Fire

7

How far can you walk into the forest?

Halfway, after that, you're walking out

8

Burning brand of heathen's blood, icy chill when secrets flood. A patch of skin to eyes a pattern, shows parents, child and maybe slattern.

Birthmark

9

When you make a hole in me, I have fewer holes. What am I?

A net

10

The more you take, the more you leave behind.

Footsteps

11

What begins and has no end, and ends all things that begin?

Death

12

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! And so adventurer I cry, can you tell me what am I?

A riddler, riddles, etc

13

I cannot be measured until I am done, oh but how you will miss me once I am gone.

Time, Lifespan

14

I welcome the day with a show of light. I came here stealthily in the night. I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn, but by noon - alas, I am gone. Tell me, what am I?

The morning dew

15

Larger than mountains, brightening the sky, twinkling within the owls eye. Dimmer than candles, smaller than peas. Flickers, never caught, in the endless sea.

Stars

16

You will always find me in the past. I can be created in the present, But the future can never taint me. What am I?

Memories

17

The more I dry, the wetter I become

Towel

18

Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man's father is my father's son. How is that man related to me?

He is my son

19

The maker does not use it, the buyer does not need it, and the owner uses it without knowing. What am i?

A coffin

20

I have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet I have fingers and thumbs of my own. What am I?

Gloves, ghosts

21

You use a knife to cut up my head, but you weep beside me when I am dead." What am I?

An onion

22

As I set off on the trail, I'm followed by my long tail. I jump each gap, I bridge each gorge, What once was broken, I reforge. Then I return only to find I've left my tail far behind. Tell me, what am I?

A needle

23

A gift vibrant and pungent, depressing or joyous;
out in the wild see my fearsome friends dance. In stories it's said we're a breathtaking chorus; always stop and visit when given the chance.

A flower (rose)

24

I do not breathe, but I run and jump. I do not eat, but I swim and stretch. I do not drink, but I sleep and stand. I do not think, but I grow and play. I do not see, but you see me everyday.

A leg

25

What gets bigger, the more you take out of it?

A pit, a hole, etc

26

You use me to stop, you take me to eat, not only do I stop, I am a stop, and the result of the vandal's first stroke. Tell me, what am I?

A break/A brake

27

What starts with 'e,' ends with 'e,' and contains only one letter?

An envelope

28

Before my birth, master binds me, He'd never seen me, yet always he finds me. Always with him as he grows older, Each of his burdens I'm sworn to shoulder. I cannot escape my fate as a slave, Until my master lies dead in his grave.

A skeleton

29

In a vast feild of cultivated space, I am found there amongst my race. Decapitate me, if you've no objection, and you will find what brings me to perfection. Take one more cut, and you'll plainly see, what I was always destined to be. Tell me, what am I?

Wheat -> heat -> eat

30

The answer I give is yes, but what I mean is no. What was the question?

Do you mind?

31

I wish no harm on your person and I'll lighten your burden. Later when blades rend your flesh and your own steel is dull, will you curse my existence. Tell me, what am I?

A rust monster

32

Making mortal privation once firmly in place. An enduring summation etched in my face. Tell me, what am I?

A tombstone

33

I am a word, who's hardly there. Remove my start, and I'm a herbal flair. Tell me, what am I?

Sparsely

34

I appear common yet I am wondrous, I never change in weight but am worth more than my volume in gold. What am I?

bag of holding

35

What can the hand only sow what only the eye can harvest.

Writing, stories, art, etc

36

To keep me, I must be given. If I am not kept, I am broken

Your word or promise

37

I may be a nuisance but commit no crime, but I'll be a part of a murder in time.

a crow

38

The poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?

Nothing

39

Speak my name, and I am broken. Seldom heard, and never spoken.

Silence

40

Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns but never falls. What am I?

A lantern

41

When imbibed, the body's weak; When consumed, minds fall asleep; When devoured, madness grows; The strangest urges does it show; And yet you call me liquid luck; And still you take cup after cup." What am I?

Alcohol/wine/ale/etc

42

What is that which has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?

Man

43

There are two sisters: one gives birth to the other and she, in turn, gives birth to the first. Who are the two sisters?

Night and day

44

In marble walls as white as milk, Lined with a skin as soft as silk, Within a fountain crystal clear, A golden apple doth appear; No doors there are to this stronghold, Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

An egg

45

It turns the world, the globe's workhorse, hoarded with the greatest force. Made by hands of burning fire, truly, I am greed's desire. For I am that which merchants crave; I turn the noblest into knaves. Though born of flame, I am still cold, This rhyme of which you have been told.

Gold/money/coins

46

Whatever we caught, we threw away; whatever we did not catch, we carry.

Lice

47

Each morning I appear to lie at your feet, all day I will follow no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish in the midday sun. What am I?

A shadow

48

One thin, one bold, one sick, one cold. The earth we span, to prey upon man.

The Four Horsemen

49

Once I'm used, I am useless. Twice offered, soon rejected. In desperation, oft expressed, but the intended, unprotected. Tell me, what am I?

An alibi, an excuse

50

There are one hundred candles in a room in a line, and a hundred people walk through. The first person lights every candle. The second person extinguishes every second candle. The third person lights or extinguishes every third candle. The fourth, every forth, until all one hundred people have passed down the line. How many candles are lit? Is the __th candle lit?

Only square numbered candles will be lit. 1, 4, 9, 16, etc - therefore there will be 10 candles lit at the end.

51

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

A cow

52

If you had taken me in my youth, haply you would have drunk the blood shed from me; but now that time has finished making me old, eat me, wrinkled as I am, with no moisture in me, crushing my bones together with my flesh.

A raisin

53

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were little black babies.

A watermelon

54

We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet, T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within; If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.

Vowels

55

I have nothing inside me and everything is inside me, and I grant the use of my virtue to all without charge.

Mirror

56

I am the black child of a white father; a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air.

Smoke

57

When I live, I cry. If you don't kill me, I'll die.

A candle

58

I never was, and yet will always be. I am never seen, and yet always come. I carry nothing, yet hold much for some. Tell me, what am I?

Tomorrow

59

I grow as I eat, but die when I drink, what am I?

A fire

60

A slave I've been and shall remain. To a cruel mistress I'm tied with invisible chains. Yet I always put on the same brave face. She keeps me her prisoner, but leaves me some space. What am I?

The moon

61

what is not living, cannot die, But saying I'm invinicble would be a lie. My death comes through hunger, cold and suffocation and gives birth to new creation.

Fire, flames

62

In my arms I keep the dead, my presence keeps families fed. I am the base of mortal life. I am the scene of all their strife.

Earth, planet earth, the ground

63

Whoever makes me, tells it not. Whoever takes me, knows it not. Whoever knows me, wants me not. Tell me, what am I?

Counterfeit money, forgeries, etc

64

It cannot be seen, it cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, Lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. Comes first follows after, Ends life kills laughter

Darkness

65

Silent as a beast of prey, I come upon those that I slay. Driven back for half the year, in the other I bring fear

Winter, cold, frost

66

I am the beginning of the end, the end of every place. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of space and time. What am I?

The letter E

67

I always show one to six. I always show fifteen to twenty. I always show five. But I never show twenty one, unless I'm flying. What am I?

A d6

68

Always present, ever-sought. Always hunted, never caught. People wept for what I brought. But sometimes with me a crown is wrought.

The future/ knowledge of the Future

69

What's dead half the year, and lives the rest. What dances without music, and breathes without breath?

Trees, forest, flowers, etc

70

A clock, a tree, a road, a sea. Everything is part of me, claiming the contrary would be a lie. tell me please, what am I?

The planes

71

If I have a bee in my hand, then what is in my eye?

Beauty

72

A decent fellow when I've come from the earth, Only talented people can match my worth, The best friend of sceptics and scholars alike, I worsen each wound after every strike

Salt

73

I've measured it from side to side, 'Tis three feet long and two feet wide. It is of compass small, and bare To thirsty suns and parching air.

A well

74

This creature, part man and part tree, hates the termite as much as the flea. His tracks do not match, and his limbs may detach, but he's not a strange creature to see. What is he?

A man with a wooden leg

75

I have a tail, and I have a head, but i have no body. I am NOT a snake. What am I?

A coin

76

As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives; Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives?

One

77

I am hoarded by royalty, Kings rarely break me, peasants rarely find me, I am of covetous worth, yet can be shared by all

Truth

78

She is too loud so in my rage, I made for her a wooden cage. It can't contain her, that I see. But now she moves more quietly. What are we?

A river and a beaver

79

I am used by the loud as a warning and by the silent as skin.

Bark

80

Fill me, that I may tell you what is lost.

Ledger

81

Alive without breath, as cold as death, never thirsty, always drinking, all in mail, never clinking

Fish

82

Many have heard me, but no one has seen me, and I will not speak back until spoken to.

Echo

83

A box without hinges, key or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid

Egg

84

When you have it, you want to share it, when you share it, you lose it

Secret

85

I have no legs to walk, but my steps you still stalk, Over mountains and rivers I give the guidance you seek, though it is unspoken as I cannot speak. I have no mouth to say words, yet understand me you try, you stare until you reach your goal, then understand me you comply.

A map

86

Deep, deep, deeper I go, enter the darkness and you shall know, let the light fade, and my depths will bestow, what iv'e been hiding deep deep deep below.

Proceed in darkness with no lights

87

Ready to fight and ready to die, Bound to the earth, yet our mother could fly. A nation is built on her broken wings, Ruled by queens, but never by kings.

Ants

88

Two Bodies In One. The longer I stand, the quicker I run. What am I?

An hourglass

89

Forged and cut, yet blood is naught, take me, set me, open what you sought, what am I?

A key

90

When is a door not a door?

When it is ajar

91

What has four wheels and flies?

The town garbage wagon

92

This is as light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long.

One's breath

93

I pass before the sun, yet I make no shadow. What am I?

The wind

94

Tucked within a bone of feather, I'll help your words outlast forever. But as you push us as we stand, the more we move, the less I am.

Ink

95

How many letters are in the answer to this question?

Four

96

What herb cures all ailments?

Thyme

97

I am made of dust and water and rest upon the earth, in the image of you, my maker, though in gown of white at birth, awake in cold, no substance, soul, nor mind, formed by mortal hands and yet I am divine. Arms stretched wide without embrace I wait until my end, silent and unmoving 'til I'm buried or returned to ground again.

Snow angel

98

A venerable relative, whose hands do not hold and whose face cannot see, but can always tell you when you need to be.

A (grandfather) clock

99

What means everything to you, and yet nothing to me?

Your life

100

What word, built of six, becomes its opposite when it is reversed?

United (Untied is the reverse)