Read one of the riddles out loud. See if the other children can guess the answer.

1 What letter is a part of the head?

2 What letter is an insect? (What letter sounds a useful insect?)

3 What letter is neither I nor he?

4 What letter is an exclamation of surprise?

5 What letter is a large body of water? (What letter goes a11 round an island?)   

6 What letter is a drink?

7 What is in the middle of the night?

8 Which letter is like twelve or clock?

9 What letter is a question?

10 What par t of a clock is always old?

11 What letter is like an island?

12 What letter is like a false friend?

13 What word is like a quarrel? 

14 What is always behind time?

15 A round black basket

  With silver candles in it.

  Empty in the day time,

  Full in the evening.

16 Unequal in degree，alike in size.

17 What has an eye, but no head?

18 What has four legs but can’t run? What has two legs but can’t walk?

19 What has a head but can’t think? (What has a head, but no eye?)

20 What has a face but can’t eat?

21 I have arms but no hands. What am I?

22 I have a mouth, but no teeth. What am I?

23 I have teeth, but no mouth. What am I?

24 What table has no legs?

25 I have eyes, but I can’t see. What am I?

26 How can you change a lady into a boy?

27 I’m red and hairy.

I’m round and sweet.

I have a large stone in my middle.

I’m not a woman.

I’m not a man.

What am I?

28 You can’t catch his body.

You can’t see his shadow?

When strong, he shakes the house,

When weak, the window.

29 I have hands and a face, but I can’t touch or smile. What am I?

30 I have ears but I can’t hear. What am I?

31What question can you never answer “yes” to?

32 What has 18 legs and catches flies?

33 What begins with T, ends with T, and is full of T?

34 What comes twice in a moment，once in a minute and never in a hundred years?

35 What letter refers to yourself?

36 What goes up but never comes down?

37 What has teeth but never uses them for eating?

38 What never asks questions but gets a lot of answers?

39 What walks a11 the time but never leaves its place?

40 They go up and down, but they never move. What are they?

41 Your summer guest is here again；

   He brings the wind but not the rain.

   He flaps his wings but makes no flight,

   And never eats a single bite.

42 The outside is a shell.

   The inside is meat.

   It grows on a tree

   And is good to eat.

43 I'm grey and brown.

  I live up in a tree.

My ears are short.

My tail is long and curls up over my back,

I like nuts to eat.

Who am I?

44 Without a voice I speak to you. I am small and light.

   I express other’s thoughts. Sometimes I bring you happiness and sometimes sadness. What am I?

45 Two little boats without any sails

   With ten passengers on board.

   They do not go on the river or sea,

   But travel on dry land.

   In the day the boats pass to and fro.

   But at night they are both empty.

46 Two sisters, fair and bright.

   They always run, but never meet.

47 What has no head, no arms, no legs and still goes from place to place?

48 What stands in the middle of the world?

49 It has a mouth, but never speaks; it has bed but never sleeps in it. What is it?

50 What word contains seven letters?

The first two letters stand for a man.

The first three letters for a woman.

The first four for a great man.

And the whole for a great woman.

51 What falls on the water and never gets wet?

52 What tables do we often see in fields?

53 Use me well and I am everybody;

Scratch my back and I am nobody.

54 What hands never hold anything?

55 Take an insect, an exclamation, and an algebraical unknown and spell a chest.

56 Take an auxiliary verb, an article and a drink and spell an animal.

57 Take off my skin, I won’t cry. But you will! What am I?

58 What are we all doing at the same time?

59 It’s coming. It is always coming, but it never arrives. What is it?

60 In another three years Tom will be three times as old as he was three years ago. How old is Tom now?

61 I have six legs.

I have two wings.

I was once a caterpillar.

I’m not a bird.

But I can fly.

What am I?

62 The word is very strange. After you take off the whole away, it still has some left. What is the word?

63 I have a piece for your ear,

And a piece for your mouth.

You sometimes hear me ringing.

You can speak to your friend,

Although you’re alone.

What am I?

64 When you fill me up, I still look empty. What am I?

65 It doesn’t seem to be there when you look at it.

But you do feel it when you touch it.

It’s glossy like ice but it doesn’t’ melt.

It’s clear like water but it doesn’t flow.

66 Ten plus ten equals ten.

Take ten from ten, you have twenty.

When the weather’s cold there are ten.

When It’s warm there are twenty.

67 My tail is long.

My front legs are short.

My back legs are very much bigger.

I live in Australia,

Or in a zoo.

What am I?

68 Which is the longest word in English?

69 What is the most overworked word in English?

70 What are the most frequently used words in English?

What is the most used word in conversation?

And what is the commonest letter in English?

71 Which letter is the most useful to a deaf woman?

72 Which two words can be pronounced faster and quicker after adding syllables to them?

73 What gets wetter the more it dries?

74 You see him under the sun and under the moon and the lamplight.

He follows you wherever you go,

But never says a word.

75 It’s so weak

That a little wind can move it.

It’s so strong

That you can cut it with a knife and leave no trace.

76 What’s white when it’s dirty?

77 What goes up every time the rain comes down?

78 George and his sister heard the clock striking six. George looked at his watch while it did so, and said to his sister: “It took thirty seconds to strike six.” His sister asked: “Then how long would it take to strike twelve?” George replied: “Sixty seconds, of course!” George was wrong. What is the correct answer?

79 Two little brothers

Live near each other.

One lives on one side.

The other on the other side.

They hear what you say.

But they don’t see each other.

80 I am not an artist with pencil and pen, but I make portraits of women and men.

Of all the people that I ever see.

Come, tell me truly,

What can I be?

81 You have two little windows,

Which you open in the morning.

But you close them at night.

When a man looks into them,

He can see his own face.

82 There is a place, where Thursday comes before Wednesday.

Where is it?

83 My first is in “snow” but not in “ice”;

My second is in “rose” and also in “rice”;

My third is not in “pencil” but in “paper”;

My whole is a place where there is a lot of water.

84 what is it that occurs once in a second, once in a month, once in a century, yet not at all in a year or a week?

85 What is that which by losing an eye has nothing left but a nose?

86 What is that which you break by even naming it?

87 What is that which the more you take from the larger it grows?

88 What is that which, though black itself, enlightens the world?

89 What English word means a boy or a girl who goes to school and at the same time is the name of a part of a face?

90 What is the question that has millions of correct answers?

That’s to say, everyone givers a different answer, but everyone is correct.

91 What is put on the table, cut, but never eaten?

92 What tables can be seen in the fields?

93 What is that which is seen twice in “every day” and four times in “every week”, yet only once in a year?

94 What has to be taken before you get it?

95 I’m a play of two syllables, the first being present and the second past. They end with the east and the west. Who am I?

96 Thousands in one big family,

Are busy every day,

Making sweets for others,

And giving them away.

97 What five-letter word can lose four without changing its sound?

98 I’m a strange contradiction; I’m new, and I’m old. Though I never could read, yet lettered I’m found.

I’m always in black, and I’m always in white;

I’m grave and I’m gay, I am heavy and light---

In form, too, I differ, --- I’m thick and I’m thin,

I’ve no flesh and no bones, yet I’m covered with skin;

I’m English, I’m German, I’m French, and I’m Dutch.

Some love me too fondly, some slight me too much;

I often die soon, though I sometimes live ages.

99 There’s on language used in every country. People who use it are young and old, short and tall, thin and fat. It’s everybody’s second language. It’s easy to understand, though you can’t hear it. Do you know what it is?

100 What is the most difficult to defeat?