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| Riddles Date | Another Year of Riddles Actual Riddles | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| January 1 | Four wings I have, which swiftly mount on high, on sturdy pinions, yet I never fly; And though my body often moves around, upon the self-same spot I'm always found, and, like a mother, who breaks her infant's bread. I chew for man before he can be fed. | Windmill |
| January 2 | It flies when it's on and floats coming off. | Feather |
| January 3 | What is a foot long and slippery? | Slipper |
| January 4 | What has a head, but can't think. And has no limbs but can drive. | Hammer |
| January 5 | I'm a lion with a human head. Guess my Riddle or you'll be dead. | Sphinx |
| January 6 | A thing with a thundering breech. It weighing a thousand welly. I have heard it roar louder than Guy's wild boar. They say it hath death in its belly. | Cannon |
| January 7 | There is a body without a heart. That has a tongue and yet no head. Buried it was before it was made, and loud it speaks and yet is dead. | Bell |
| January 8 | Holding two swords and eight spears. Dressed in a cow-leather tunic. He peeks through a hole in the door. | Crab |
| January 9 | Little Nancy Etticote, in a white petticoat. With a red nose; the longer she stands, the shorter she grows. | Candle |
| January 10 | What needs to be taken from you Before you have it? | Picture |
| January 11 | Its tall is round and hollow, Seems to get chewed a bit, But you'll rarely see this thing Unless the other end is lit. | Pipe |
| January 12 | A red house is made of red bricks. A blue house is made of blue bricks. A yellow house is made of yellow bricks. What is a greenhouse made of? | Glass |
| January 13 | Searing 'cross the pitch-black skies, I scream in celebration, Yet moments later, my outburst through, I am naught but imagination. | Firework |
| January 14 | I am partially baked. I am not completely lit. I am a portion of the moon. I am lesser than full wit. I am a divider of the hour. I am not a total lie. I am a sibling through one parent. | Half |
| January 15 | What has a bottom right at the top? | Leg |
| January 16 | What won't break if you throw it off The highest building in the world, But will break if you place it In the ocean? | Tissue |
| January 17 | Who can shave ten times a day And still have a beard? | Barber |
| January 18 | Though seldom I flatter, I oft show respect To the prelate, the patriot, and the peer; But sometimes, alas! A sad proof of neglect, Or a mark of contempt, I appear. By the couch of the sick, I am frequently found, And I always attend on the dead; With patient affliction, I sit on the ground, But if talk'd of, I'm instantly fled. | Silence |
| January 19 | Though not a plant, has leaves. Though not a beast, has spine. Though many wouldn't need this thing, It's more valuable than wine. | Book |
| January 20 | I'm in a box, full of that which is most rare. But I'm not a flute, and I'm not some hair. Though soft be my bed, I'm as hard as a rock. While dull in the dark, I glisten once unlocked. | Jewel |
| January 21 | My first is to be seen Every day in the firmament; My second conquers Kings and queens; And my whole is what I would offer To a friend in distress. | Solace |
| January 22 | If you slash it, It heals at once. | Water |
| January 23 | To you, rude would I never be, Though I flag my tongue for all to see. | Dog |
| January 24 | The wave, over the wave, a weird thing I saw, Through-wrought, and wonderfully ornate: A wonder on the wave-water became bone. | Ice |
| January 25 | What has thirteen hearts But no body or soul? | Deck |
| January 26 | A prickly house a little host contains; The pointed weapons keep back from pains, So he, unarmed, safe in his fort remains. | Hedgehog |
| January 27 | A small hill with seven holes. | Head |
| January 28 | Six legs, two heads, Two hands, one long nose. Yet he uses only four legs Wherever he goes. | Horseman |
| January 29 | Plow and hoe, reap and sow, What soon does every farmer grow? | Weary |
| January 30 | What jumps when it walks And sits when it stands? | Kangaroo |
| January 31 | When we stand up it lies flat. When we lie back it stands up. | Foot |
| Febuary 1 | Take one royal word in the plural And make it singular By adding one letter. | Princes |
| Febuary 2 | I am a tale in children's minds. I keep their secrets and share them inside. I blur their thoughts into fantasies kept Like a canvas of art or a submarine depth. Though an illusion it occurs every night; I give them a fantasy; I give them a fright. Nor good or bad but always nigh? | Dream |
| Febuary 3 | I can be short and sometimes hot. When displayed, I rarely impress. | Temper |
| Febuary 4 | I have many letters, And though it's strange to say, I stay the same no matter How many I give away. | Mailman |
| Febuary 5 | The Load-bearer. The warrior. The Frightened One. The Brave. The Fleet-of-foot. The Iron-shod. The Faithful One. The Slave. | Horse |
| Febuary 6 | It has plenty of backbone But doesn't have a let. It peels like an orange But it comes from an egg. | Snake |
| Febuary 7 | What does a cat have That no other animal has? | Kittens |
| Febuary 8 | I have an eye But cannot see, You'll head inside When you see me. | Storm |
| Febuary 9 | It's been around For millions of years, But it's no more Than a month old. | Moon |
| Febuary 10 | When I live I cry, If you don't kill me I'll die. | Candle |
| Febuary 11 | It's held in the hand When going out. | Doorknob |
| Febuary 12 | What kind of dog chases anything red? | Bulldog |
| Febuary 13 | Seven brothers, Five work all day, The other two, Just play or pray. | Week |
| Febuary 14 | My head bobs lazily in the sun. You think I'm cute For my face is yellow my hair is white and my body is green. | Daisy |
| Febuary 15 | My back and belly is wood, And my ribs is lined with leather. I've a hole in my nose and one in my breast, And I'm mostly used in cold weather. | Bellows |
| Febuary 16 | I can trap many different things and colors, Ever changing, not boring. Look closely and you may find yourself Also caught in my trap. | Mirror |
| Febuary 17 | My first is ocean but not in sea, My second in milk but not in me. My third is in three but not in throw, My fourth in vow but not in crow. My fifth is in eight but not in night, My last is in wrong and also right. My whole is praise for thoughts or men; Or women, too, or tongue or pen. | Clever |
| Febuary 18 | I think you live beneath a roof That is upheld by me; I think you seldom walk abroad, But my fair form you see; I close you in on every side, you very dwelling pave, and probably I'll go with you At last into the grave. | Wood |
| Febuary 19 | Six letters do my name compound; Among the aged oft I'm found; The shepherd also, by the brook, Hears me when Leaning on his crook; But in the middle me divide, And take the half on either side, Each backward read, a liquor tell, Ev'ry gay toper knows it well. | Murmur |
| Febuary 20 | The side of cat with the most hair. | Outside |
| Febuary 21 | Crooked as a rainbow, And slick as a plate, Ten thousand horses Can't pull it straight. | River |
| Febuary 22 | Two legs I've got, Which never walk on ground; But when I go or run, One leg turns round. | Compass |
| Febuary 23 | What's higher than the king? | Crown |
| Febuary 24 | The more you look at it, The less you see. | Sun |
| Febuary 25 | What is the largest living ant on earth? | Elephant |
| Febuary 26 | I have legs but never walk, I may have flowers but no soil, I hold food but never eat. | Table |
| Febuary 27 | It increases and decreases Yet no one see it. It is not a fire And yet it can be quenched. | Thirst |
| Febuary 28 | Though I do not speak, I oft impart The secret wishes of the heart; I may deceive, may make amends, May create foes, and yet make friends. The harshest anger I can disarm, Such is the power of my charm. | Smile |
| Febuary 29 | What was was, before was was was? | Is |
| March 1 | A shimmering field that reaches far. Yet it has no tracks, And is crossed without paths. | Ocean |
| March 2 | What is the first thing A gardener plants in the garden? | Foot |
| March 3 | What bird is always unhappy? | Bluebird |
| March 4 | One pace to the North. Two paces to the East. Two paces to the South. Two paces to the West. One pace to the North. | Square |
| March 5 | I help to mature your spirits. When moistened I fulfill my purpose. Should I dry out, my task will fail And my quarry may be worthless. | Cork |
| March 6 | There is not wind enough to twirl That one red leaf, nearest of its clan, Which dances as often as dance it can. | Sun |
| March 7 | Has no feet, but travels far. Is literate, but not a scholar. Has no mouth, yet clearly speaks. | Letter |
| March 8 | My first is a heir; My second's a snare; My whole is the offspring of fancy; Which I sent, out of play, Upon Valentine's day, As a token of love, to my Nancy. | Sonnet |
| March 9 | What do we see every day, Kings see rarely, And God never sees? | Equal |
| March 10 | What is always coming Every day, But never arrives Until the next? | Tomorrow |
| March 11 | I'm strangely capricious, I'm sour or I'm sweet, To housewives am useful, To children a treat; Yet I freely confess I more mischief have done, Than anything else That is under the sun. | Apple |
| March 12 | We are few to the wise; We are abundant to the drunken; We can calm the beast And are precious to the child; We can devour the heart, Without piercing the skin. | Words |
| March 13 | What kind of cheese is made backwards? | Edam |
| March 14 | Squeeze it and it cries tears As red as its flesh, But its heart is made of stone. | Cherry |
| March 15 | Which building has the most stories? | Library |
| March 16 | What 's the difference Between one yard and two yards? | Fence |
| March 17 | They come to witness the night Without being called, A sailor's guide and a poet's tears. They are lost to the sight each day Without the hand of a thief. | Stars |
| March 18 | Black within and red without, With four corners round about. | Chimney |
| March 19 | What grows bigger The more you contract it? | Debt |
| March 20 | It's in the church, but not in the steeple; It's in the parson, but not in the people; It's in the oyster, but not in the shell; It's in the clapper, but not in the bell. | R |
| March 21 | Golden treasure I contain, Guarded by hundreds and thousands. Stored in a labyrinth where no man walks, Yet men come often to seize my gold. By smoke I am overcome and robbed, then left to build my treasure anew. | Beehive |
| March 22 | When it comes in, From sea to shore, Twenty paces you'll see, No less, no more. | Fog |
| March 23 | Has feathers but can't fly. Rests on legs but can't walk. | Mattress |
| March 24 | I am merry creature in pleasant time of year, As in but certain seasons, I sing that you can hear; And yet I'm made a by-word, A very perfect mock; Compared to foolish persons, And silliest of all folk. | Cuckoo |
| March 25 | Your cat does my first in your ear O were I admitted as near! In my second I've held by you, my fair, So long that I almost despair; But my prey, if at last I overtake, What a glorious third I shall make! | Purchase |
| March 26 | A bird done at every meal. | Swallow |
| March 27 | What has three feet But no arms or legs? | Yard |
| March 28 | Say, what is that which in its form unites All that is graceful, elegant, and true; By all admired, by all acknowledged great, And (as I trust) sincerely loved by you; Which ever on the virtuous attends, And of their peace will surest safeguard prove; The best support of noble, upright minds, The best foundation of connubial love? | Truth |
| March 29 | What goes with a train, And comes with a train, And the train doesn't need it, But can't go without it? | Noise |
| March 30 | You seek it out, When your hunger's ripe. It sits on four legs, And smokes a pipe. | Stove |
| March 31 | What fish came first? | Goldfish |
| April 1 | I scribble forms of the finest letter, And repel elements of the harshest weather. I am an arrow-aimer and a dust-breaker. | Feather |
| April 2 | This is a dead giveaway. | Will |
| April 3 | The warmer I am, The fresher I am. | Bread |
| April 4 | I know a word of letters three, Add two and fewer there will be. | Few |
| April 5 | People want it, And when they have it, They use it, By giving it. | Money |
| April 6 | My first keeps time, My second spends time, My whole tells time. | Watchman |
| April 7 | I can be quick and then I'm deadly, I am a rock, shell and bone medley. If I was made into a man, I'd make people dream, I gather in my millions By ocean, sea and stream. | Sand |
| April 8 | My first, though water, cures no thirst, My next alone has soul, And when he lives upon my first, He then is called my whole. | Seaman |
| April 9 | I am a good state, There can be no doubt of it; But those who are in, Entirely are out of it. | Sane |
| April 10 | What age most travelers have? | Baggage |
| April 11 | What is all over the house? | Roof |
| April 12 | What can go through glass without breaking it. | Light |
| April 13 | Its days are numbered. | Calendar |
| April 14 | If you were to throw a white stone into the Red Sea, What would it become? | Wet |
| April 15 | It doesn't live within a house, nor does it live without. Most will use it when they come in, and again when they go out. | Door |
| April 16 | A kind of weather that comes your way, but add a “D” and it will run away. | Drain |
| April 17 | I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing. | T |
| April 18 | There's one of me for everything, through only four are we. O'er and o'er we repeat, cycling endlessly. But Then, I am an act you'll do, when standing at the range. One word, and yet, I've meanings two. I hope it's not too strange. | Season |
| April 19 | Though easy to spot, when allowed to plume, It is hard to see, when held in a room. | Smoke |
| April 20 | Cold head and feet; Round as a ball; Always turning around itself. | Earth |
| April 21 | An iron horse with a flaxen tail. The faster the horse runs, the shorter his tail becomes. | Needle |
| April 22 | In the sun it likes to play; In the rain it goes away; Walk or run it always follows; In the mud it always wallows. | Shadow |
| April 23 | I have a little sister, they call her Peep, Peep; She wades the waters deep, deep, deep; She climbs the mountains high,high, high; Poor little creature she has but one eye. | Star |
| April 24 | I have no head, and a tail I lack, but oft have arms, and legs, and back; I inhabit the palace, the tavern, the cot, 'Tis a beggarly residence where I am not. If a monarch were present (I tell you no fable), I still should be placed at the head of the table. | Chair |
| April 25 | Be sure to shout for its answers are weak, but there is no language it cannot speak. | Echo |
| April 26 | In the evening I'm long, in the morning I'm small; When seen in a ballroom, I'm nothing at all. | Shadow |
| April 27 | What becomes too young the longer it exists? | Portrait |
| April 28 | What part of a fish weights most? | Scales |
| April 29 | What word is that, which, deprived of its first letter, leaves you sick. | Music |
| April 30 | I come out of the earth, I am sold in the market. He who buys me cuts my tail, takes off m suit of silk, and weeps beside me when I am dead. | Onion |
| May 1 | Though learning has fed me, I know not a letter; I live among the books, Yet am never the better. | Bookworm |
| May 2 | I ride, I ride; No tracks are left. I chop and chop; There are no chips left. He rides and rides; Turns around: There is no road left. | Boat |
| May 3 | My first is in spell, but not book. My second is in fright and also shook. My third is in cauldron, but never in pot. My fourth is in net and also in knot. My fifth is in bat, but never in vampire. My sixth is in coal, but not found in fire. My seventh is in moon, but not in night. | Phantom |
| May 4 | What hatches without food? | Hunger |
| May 5 | What is the word that even in plain sight remains hidden? | Hidden |
| May 6 | In birth I spring forth, in life I unfold. In death I wilt and die, but rebirth restores all. | Leaf |
| May 7 | Slowly creeping, I am weeping, changing shades, and growing. | Spring |
| May 8 | Though it is not an ox, it has horns; Though it is not a donkey, it has packed-saddle; And wherever it goes it leaves silver behind. | Snail |
| May 9 | What are you certain to find inside your pocket when you reach into it? | Hand |
| May 10 | I have a tail. I can fly. I'm covered in colorful feathers. I can whistle and I can talk. | Parrot |
| May 11 | In Paris but not in France, the thinnest of its siblings. | I |
| May 12 | What weeps without eyes or eyelids, her tears rejoicing sons and fathers; and when she laughs and no tears fall, her laughter saddens all hearts? | Cloud |
| May 13 | Passed from father to son and shared between brothers, its importance is unquestioned though it is used more by others. | Surname |
| May 14 | Within passion's fruit the will be found, and more of them in the pomegranate's crown. Rowed they are within an apple's core, yet other fruits have them more. And though the nectarine has but one, still, this is all just in fun. Playing hide and seek- a children's game. Finding out each player is just the same. | Seeds |
| May 15 | What is born long, dies short, and spends its life leaving a trail? | Pencil |
| May 16 | A bird that is: Nothing, Twice yourself, Fifty. | Owl |
| May 17 | I am nothing really at all, Yet I am easily found; Ignore me at your own peril, and you might end up crowned! | Cavity |
| May 18 | I start in little but I end in full, you'll find me in half and complete. | L |
| May 19 | What smells the most in the kitchen? | Nose |
| May 20 | Old Grandpa Diddle Daddle jumped in the mud puddle, green cap and yellow shoes. Guess all your loftiness and you can't guess these news. | Frog |
| May 21 | When I get closer my tail grows longer, but when I go away my tail leads the way. | Comet |
| May 22 | What is that which, though black itself, enlightens the world without burning? | Ink |
| May 23 | What is that which, while it lives, constantly changes its habit, that is buried before it is dead, and whose tomb is valued wherever it is found? | Silkworm |
| May 24 | My head and tail both equal are, my middle slender as a bee. Whether I stand on head or heel Is quite the same to you or me. But if my head should be cut off, the matter's true, though passing strange directly I to nothing change. | Eight |
| May 25 | My strength is powerful and great, 'Tis tru, altho' it seemeth strange, I carry many thousand weight, with which I many miles do range. Whene'er I reach my journey's end with all my speed I hasten home; and tho' I often man befriend, I sometimes also seal his doom. | Tide |
| May 26 | What gets harder to catch the faster you run? | Breath |
| May 27 | What turns from red to black as soon as it touches water. | Ember |
| May 28 | A path between high natural masses; remove the first letter to get a path between man-made masses. | Valley |
| May 29 | Thirty men and ladies two, gathered for a festive do; Dressed quite formal, black and white: soon movement turned to nasty fight. | Chess |
| May 30 | What is it that has a power socket on one end and a corkscrew on the other? | Pig |
| May 31 | Shared between two; Most often to woo; Sometimes hot and sometimes cold; The beginning of us all, young and old. | Kiss |
| June 1 | What odd number becomes even when beheaded? | Seven |
| June 2 | Curtail me thrice, I am a youth; behead me once, a snake; complete, I'm often used, in truth, when certain steps you'd take. | Ladder |
| June 3 | What goes round and round the wood but never goes in to the wood? | Bark |
| June 4 | What is the thing that stays the same size, but the more it's used the more it decreases? | Iron |
| June 5 | Too much for one, Enough for two, and nothing at all for three. | Secret |
| June 6 | As I was going through a field of wheat, I found something good to eat; It wasn't fish or flesh or bone; I kept it till it ran alone. | Egg |
| June 7 | I am small, but, when entire, of force to set a town on fire; Let but one letter disappear, I then can hold a herd of deer; Take one more off, and then you'll find I once contained all human kind. | Spark |
| June 8 | It has two bands but no money. | River |
| June 9 | It can make rain, but take away one leg and it'll give you pain. | R |
| June 10 | Man walks over, man walks under, in times of war he burns asunder. | Bridge |
| June 11 | What has a coat; Hugs you not in sympathy; Whose smile you'd rather not see; Whose stance is a terrible thing to see; Who is it that brave men run away from; Whose finders are clawed; Whose sleep lasts for months; And who's company we shunt? | Bear |
| June 12 | What has four legs during the day; and six or eight during the night? | Bed |
| June 13 | What's at the head of an elephant and at the tail of a squirrel? | EL |
| June 14 | Sitting down you have it, Standing up you don't. | Lap |
| June 15 | I've got a beautiful, beautiful hall all walled in red velvet, with all white armchairs made of bone, and in the middle a woman dances. | Mouth |
| June 16 | My voice rises above the din sometimes catching all unaware. I never ask questions yet get many answers. | Doorbell |
| June 17 | What creature starts yellow inside and white outside, then becomes its first five before becoming the whole? | Chicken |
| June 18 | I'm a slippery fish in a cloudy sea; Neither hook nor spear will capture me; With your hand you must hunt down this fish, to see that it ends up in the dish. | Soap |
| June 19 | When one does not know what it is, then it is something; But when one knows that it is, then it is nothing. | Riddle |
| June 20 | What has ears but can't hear? | Corn |
| June 21 | This sparkling globe can float on water. It is light as a feather, but ten giants can't pick it up. | Bubble |
| June 22 | I fly to any foreign parts, assisted by my spreading wings. My body holds an hundred hearts, Nay, I will tell you stranger things when I am not in haste I ride, and then I mend my pace anon. I issue fire from my side. You witty youths, this riddle con. | Ship |
| June 23 | My sides are firmly laced about, Yet nothing is within; you'll think my head is strange indeed, being nothing else but skin. | Drum |
| June 24 | As I went over London Bridge I met my sister Jenny; I broke her neck and drank her blood and left her standing empty. | Gin |
| June 25 | Perfect with a head, perfect without a head; Perfect with a tail, perfect without a tail; Perfect with either, neither, or both. | Wig |
| June 26 | What key is the hardest to turn? | Donkey |
| June 27 | A young man wants to have it, but when he has it he no longer wants it. Blade in hand he attacks it And does his best to remove it. Yet he knows that it is all in vain. | Beard |
| June 28 | By the way, what never moves, wears shoes, sandals and boots, but has no feet? | Sidewalk |
| June 29 | It can be repeated but rarely in the same way. It can't be changed but can be rewritten. It can be passed down, but should not be forgotten. | History |
| June 30 | What number has all letters in alphabetical order when spelled out? | Forty |
| July 1 | My body is quite thin, and has nothing within, neither have I head, face, or eye; yet a tail I have got full as long as- what not? And up, without wings, I can fly. | Kite |
| July 2 | In all the world, none can compare, to this tiny weaver, his deadly cloth so silky and fair. | Spider |
| July 3 | What bird can lift the heaviest weight? | Crane |
| July 4 | They are two brothers. However much they run, They do not reach each other. | Wheels |
| July 5 | What is orange and sounds like a parrot? | Carrot |
| July 6 | The older they are the less wrinkles they have. | Tires |
| July 7 | What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot? | Carpet |
| July 8 | The cost of making only the maker knows, valueless if bought, but sometimes traded. A poor man may give one as easily as king. When one is broken pain and deceit are assured. | Promise |
| July 9 | What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up? | Umbrella |
| July 10 | Four legs in front, two behind; Its steely armor scratched and dented by rocks and sticks; still it toils as it helps feed the hungry. | Plough |
| July 11 | Without what would everyone lose their head? | Neck |
| July 12 | Bury deep, pile on stones, yet I will dig up the bones. | Memory |
| July 13 | Mouth up it gets filled, mouth down it gets empty. | Bottle |
| July 14 | What is the end of everything? | G |
| July 15 | What goes into the water black and comes out red? | Lobster |
| July 16 | Silently I drink and dive in fluids dark as night. I beat the mighty warrior but never in fight. The black blood in my veins your thirst for knowledge slakes. My spittle is more venomous than that of poison snakes. | Pen |
| July 17 | A white field, and when it is plowed, its soil is black. | Paper |
| July 18 | Held firmly in the hands, like a sword it cuts deep. Bloodless strokes, all, then forward we leap. | Paddle |
| July 19 | What has one hand longer than the other, and goes on all day and night. | Clock |
| July 20 | It goes up the hill, and down the hill, and yet stands still. | Road |
| July 21 | Brown I am and much admired; many horses have I tried; tire a horse and worry a man; tell me this riddle if you can. | Saddle |
| July 22 | What do you call the mother-in-law of your sister's husband? | Mother |
| July 23 | What is long, pink and wet and is rude to pull out in front of people? | Tongue |
| July 24 | A young lady walked through the meadow and scattered her glass pearls. The Moon saw this, yet didn't tell her. The Sun woke up and gathered the pearls. | Dew |
| July 25 | Salty water everywhere but not sea in sight! | Tears |
| July 26 | I am a window, I am a lamp, I am clouded, I am shining, I am colored and set in white, I fill with water and overflow. I say much, but I have no words. | Eye |
| July 27 | What word In the English language is always spelled wrong? | Wrong |
| July 28 | Thirty white horses on a red hill, first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still. | Teeth |
| July 29 | I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground. Sometimes I leave, but I am always around. | Tree |
| July 30 | Where is the ocean deepest? | Bottom |
| July 31 | What goes inside boots and outside shoes? | Ankles |
| August 1 | It's always above the negatives Yet it's lower than the first prime no matter how you multiply it's the same every time. | Zero |
| August 2 | A precious gift, yet it has no end, no beginning, and nothing in the middle. | Ring |
| August 3 | My first is high, my second damp, my whole a tie, a writer's cramp. | Hyphen |
| August 4 | My first is a title of honor; My second is myself; My first is your and I; My whole is a beautiful fixed star, seen in the winter. | Sirius |
| August 5 | Make three fourths of a cross, then a circle complete; Let two semicircles a perpendicular meet; then add a triangle that stands on two feet, with two semicircles and a circle complete. | Tobacco |
| August 6 | What flares up and does a lot of good, and when it dies is just a piece of wood? | Match |
| August 7 | My first is an insect; m second is a border; my whole puts the face in a tuneful disorder. | Anthem |
| August 8 | At the end of my yard there is a vat, four-and-twenty ladies dancing in that; Some in green gowns, and some with blue hat: He is a wise man who can tell me that. | Flax |
| August 9 | A device for finding furniture in the dark. | Shin |
| August 10 | While I did live, I food did give, which many one did daily eat. Now being dead, you see they tread me under feet about the street. | Cow |
| August 11 | What can you always count on? | Fingers |
| August 12 | There she goes over the road, a young mare that is whinnying. A fiery spot on her forehead, with her hindquarters ablaze. | Thunder |
| August 13 | The land was white the seed was black It'll take a good scholar to riddle me that. | Book |
| August 14 | The strongest chains will not bind it. Ditch and rampart will not slow it down. A thousand soldiers cannot beat it, it can knock down trees with a single bush. | Wind |
| August 15 | They took me from my mother's side where I was bravely bred and when to age I did become they did cut off my head. They gave to me some diet drink that often made me mad but it made peace between two kings and made two lovers glad. | Quill |
| August 16 | In the fields a frightful thing. Watch it and you will find, it has a pitchfork in the front, and a broom back behind. | Bull |
| August 17 | Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble. | Leaves |
| August 18 | When people come for me to meet, they come to me with heavy feet. The one I hold, when I get my chance, will turn and spin, and start to dance. | Gallows |
| August 19 | I have legs but seldom walk; I backbite many but never talk; I seek places that can hide me because those that feed me cannot abide me. | Flea |
| August 20 | First I may be your servant's name; then your desires I may proclaim; And, when your mortal life is over hold all your wealth within my power. | Will |
| August 21 | A hold leading in a hold leading out I connect to a cavern that is slimy throughout. | Nose |
| August 22 | What can you spell with B, R and Y? | Brandy |
| August 23 | You can draw me, fire me or fill me in. | Gun |
| August 24 | A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. | Daughter |
| August 25 | Although a human shape I wear, Mother I never had; And though no sense nor life I share, in finest silks I'm clad. By every miss I'm valued much, beloved and highly prized; still my cruel fate is such by boys I am often despised. | Doll |
| August 26 | What flowers have two lips? | Tulips |
| August 27 | It can pierce the best armor and make swords crumble with a rub, yet for all its power It can't harm a wooden club. | Rust |
| August 28 | Though my beauty is becoming I can hurt you just the same; I come in many colors; I am what I am by any other name. | Rose |
| August 29 | The older this thing grows the more valued it becomes. It is always much better when its breathing is done. | Wine |
| August 30 | Before my birth I have a name, but soon as born I lose the same; and when I'm laid within the tomb, I do my father's name assume; I change my name three days together, yet live but on in any weather. | Today |
| August 31 | What is drawn by everyone without pen or pencil? | Breath |
| September 1 | I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never seen out of darkness. | S |
| September 2 | My first is nothing but a name; my second is more small; my whole is of so little fame it has no name at all. | Nameless |
| September 3 | Slain to be saved, with much ado and pain, scatter'd, dispersed and gather'd up again; wither'd though young, sweet though not perfumed, and carefully laid up to be consumed. | Hay |
| September 4 | In many hall ways you would stand, if not with this in hand. | Key |
| September 5 | When the horse strokes the cat the wood begins to sing. | Violin |
| September 6 | The answer to this riddle is unknown. | Unknown |
| September 7 | What stays the same size no matter how much they weight? | Scales |
| September 8 | They belong to me; they belong to you; they can make you feel happy or make you feel blue; they never end until the day you do. | Thoughts |
| September 9 | What is brown and sticky? | Stick |
| September 10 | The higher I climb the hotter I engage, I cannot escape my crystal cage. | Mercury |
| September 11 | I'm sometimes white, but most often I'm black. I take you there, but never bring you back. | Hearse |
| September 12 | There was a little heart inside a little white house, which was inside a little yellow house, which was inside a little brown house, which was inside a little green house. | Walnut |
| September 13 | Sometimes black, sometimes white, I have veins but no blood. | Marble |
| September 14 | I have a head and a tail, exactly the same size. | Coin |
| September 15 | If you're to idleness inclined, a lesson take from me; though small in body, yet you'll find I work with constant glee. And lest stern Winter's chilling snow should spread the verdure over; While Summer's sun in full glow, I then secure my store. | Ant |
| September 16 | What can you blow up and keep intact? | Balloon |
| September 17 | As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers an done thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone, or fowl. | Glove |
| September 18 | When I'm born I fly. When I'm alive I lay. When I'm dead I run. | Snow |
| September 19 | What divides by uniting and by dividing? | Scissors |
| September 20 | They can be long or short; they can be grown or bought; they can be painted or left bare; they can be round or square. | Nails |
| September 21 | Long Legs, crooked thighs, little head, and no eyes. | Tongs |
| September 22 | I am where the sky is orange, I am where the glass is red, I am the land of violet bananas and the home to blue oranges. | Negative |
| September 23 | Gown but not a priest; crown but not a king. | Rooster |
| September 24 | My tail is long, my coat is brown, I like the country, I like the town. I can live in a house or live in a shed, And I come out to play when you are in bed. | Mouse |
| September 25 | What follows a dog wherever it goes? | Tail |
| September 26 | It is by nature, soft as silk; A puffy cloud, white as milk; Snow tops this tropical crop; The dirtiest part of a mop. | Cotton |
| September 27 | The floor's on top, the roof's beneath, and from this place I rarely leave. Yet with the passing of each day. A new horizon greets my gaze. | Sailor |
| September 28 | We dwell in cottages of straw, and labor much for little gains; sweet food from us our masters draw, and then with death reward our pains. | Bees |
| September 29 | What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters? | Queue |
| September 30 | Even if my life is taken eight still remain. | Cat |
| October 1 | What kind of cup doesn't hold water? | Cupcake |
| October 2 | Four holes, one going in and three coming out; When you are going in you are out and when you are coming out you are in. | Shirt |
| October 3 | What is never eaten before lunch? | Dinner |
| October 4 | My first is snapping, snarling, growling, My second's industrious, romping, and prowling. Higgledy piggledy Here we lie, picked and plucked, and put in a pie. | Currants |
| October 5 | What kind of fish chases a mouse? | Catfish |
| October 6 | We are little brethren twain, arbiters of loss and gain; man to our counters run, some are made, and some undone; but men find it, to their cost, few are made, but numbers lost; though we play them tricks for ever, yet they always hope our favor. | Dice |
| October 7 | Where do penguins come from? | Eggs |
| October 8 | It goes up, but at the same time goes down Up toward the sky, and down to the ground. It's present tense and past tense too, Come for a ride, just me and you. | Seesaw |
| October 9 | What liquid can contain the soul? | Ink |
| October 10 | Looks like water, but it's heat. Sits on sand, lays on concrete. A play on the eyes, but it's all lies. | Mirage |
| October 11 | In wealth I abound; in water I stand; as a fencer I'm valued all over the land; at Venice I'm famous; by farmers I'm prized; respected by law, yet huntsmen despised; consternation and ruin ensue when I break; And the beasts of the forest advantage won't take. | Bank |
| October 12 | What sphinxes employ and players enjoy. | Riddle |
| October 13 | His eyes were raging, that scraggly beast. His lips were bursting, with rows of angry teeth. Upon his back a razor was found. It was a fearsome battle we fought, my life – or his, one would be bought. And when we were through, and death chilled the air, we cut out his heart, and ate it with flair. | Boar |
| October 14 | This is a coat that will soon dry but it must be put on while it is wet. | Paint |
| October 15 | Besides Paris, what is the capital of France? | F |
| October 16 | Though blind as well, can lead the blind well. | Cane |
| October 17 | If two is company and three is a crowd, what are four and five? | Nine |
| October 18 | I view the world in little space, am always changing place; No food I eat, but, by my power, procure what millions do devour. | Sun |
| October 19 | Can not be bought, can not be sold, even if it's made of gold. | Heart |
| October 20 | Despite having long teeth, every bit of food it grabs gets taken from it. | Fork |
| October 21 | My first, if you do, you'll increase; my second will keep you from heaven; my whole, such a human caprice, is more frequently given than taken. | Advice |
| October 22 | Oh lord! I am not worthy! I bend my limbs to the ground. I cry, yet without a sound. Let me drink of waters deep. And in silence I will weep. | Willow |
| October 23 | A hundred years I once did live, and often wholesome food did give, yet all that time I ne'er did roam, so much as a half a mile from my home, my days were spent devoid of strife, until at last I lost my life. And since my death – I pray give ear, I oft have traveled far and near. | Tree |
| October 24 | My first is a term to relate a circumstance present or past; and those who are much prone to prate, my second will spout away fast. My whole, in the days of our youth, is what we extremely despised; and though it say nothing but truth, yet it never need hope to be prized. | Telltale |
| October 25 | They try to beat me, they try in vain. And when I win, I end the pain. | Death |
| October 26 | What animal has feet on the head? | Lice |
| October 27 | What occurs four times in every week, twice in every month, only once in a year but never in a day? | e |
| October 28 | Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb. | Rain |
| October 29 | It's the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. | Lettuce |
| October 30 | I saw a fight the other day; A damsel did begin the fray. She with her daily friend did meet, then standing in the open street, she gave such hard and sturdy blows, he bled ten gallons at the nose; yet neither seemed to faint nor fall, nor gave her an abuse at all. | Pump |
| October 31 | What do rich people have that can be changed into the law. | Wealth |
| November 1 | It's red, blue, purple, and green, no one can reach it, not even the queen. | Rainbow |
| November 2 | Man of old, it is told would search until he tired, not for gold, ne'er be sold, but what sought he was fire. Man today, thou mayst say, has quite another aim, in places deep, he did seek, to find me for his gain! | Oil |
| November 3 | A vessel have I, that is round as pear, moist in the middle, surrounded with hair; and often it happens that water flows there. | Eye |
| November 4 | Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all. | Scissors |
| November 5 | The more holes you cover the lower it goes. | Recorder |
| November 6 | What is the middle of water but is not an island. | T |
| November 7 | Has its teeth on your head but doesn't bite. | Comb |
| November 8 | Where can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer? | Clock |
| November 9 | What is common to eat before it's born and after it's dead? | Chicken |
| November 10 | Sometimes it glitters, but often not; May be cold, or may be hot! Ever changing though the eye can't measure, concealed within are many treasures. Some find safety beneath its gate, while some may die beneath its weight! Old and broken, it brings forth life. | Rock |
| November 11 | What hole do you mend with holes? | Net |
| November 12 | Before a circle appear, twice twenty-five, and five in rear; One fifth of eight subjoin; and then you'll quickly find what conquers men. | Love |
| November 13 | I tremble at each breath of air, and yet can heaviest burdens bear. | Water |
| November 14 | It has no legs to dance, it has no lungs to breathe, it has no life to live or die, and yet it does all three. | Fire |
| November 15 | What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night? | Pillow |
| November 16 | What word has three syllables and twenty six letters? | alphabet |
| November 17 | A single syllable do I claim, black was my most famous name; Fetal to mortals here below, thousands have I slain in a single blow. | Plague |
| November 18 | My first a blessing sent to earth, of plants and flowers to aid the birth; my second surely was designed to hurl destruction on mankind; my whole a pledge from pardoning heaven, of wrath appeased and crimes forgiven. | Rainbow |
| November 19 | I am born in fear, raised in truth, and I come to my own in deed. When comes a time that I'm called forth, I come to serve the cause of need. | Courage |
| November 20 | Green but not a lizard, white without being snow, and bearded without being a man. | Leek |
| November 21 | It is in every mountain, it's not in any hill, it's not in all the world, and yet it's in the mill. | M |
| November 22 | Barren location, infertile and dry; my name means “to leave”, it's not heard to see why. | Desert |
| November 23 | What is between heaven and earth? | And |
| November 24 | Those wooden birds are now in sight whose voices roar, whose wings are white, whose maws are fill'd with hose and shoes, with wine, cloth, sugar, salt and news, when they have eas'd their stomachs here they cry farewell, until next year. | Ships |
| November 25 | A word there is of plural number, foe to ease and tranquil slumber; with any other word you take, to add an “s” would plural make. But if you add an “s” to this, how strange the metamorphosis: What plural was, is plural now no more, and sweet, what bitter was before. | caress |
| November 26 | I war with the wind, with the waves I wrestle; I must battle with both when the bottom I seek, my strange habitation by surges o'er-roofed. I am strong in strife, while I still remain; as soon as I stir, they are stronger than I. They wrench and they wrest, till I run from my foes; what was put in my keeping they carry away. | Anchor |
| November 27 | What fish is a celebrity? | Starfish |
| November 28 | My first is in riddle, but not in little. My second is in think, but not in brink. My third is in thyme, but not in time. My fourth is in mother, but not in brother. My last is in time, but no t in climb. | Rhyme |
| November 29 | Though it be cold, I wear no clothes, the frost and snow I never fear; I value neither shoes nor hose, And yet I wander far and near: My diet is forever good, I drink no cider, port, nor sack, what Providence doth send for food, I neither buy, nor sell, nor lack. | Fish |
| November 30 | This thing can bat but never hit. It is next to a ball that is never thrown. It is good luck when found and it falls when it is lost. | Eyelash |
| December 1 | In almost every house I'm seen, (No wonder then I'm common) I'm neither man, nor maid, nor child, nor yet a married woman. I'm penniless and poor as Job, Yet such my pride by nature, I always wear a kingly robe, though a dependent creature. | Cat |
| December 2 | My first is a slice affords so nice; my second discomposes; my whole's a bed where honor's head devotedly reposes. | Hammock |
| December 3 | My love for Eliza shall never know my first; neither shall it be my second; but it shall be my whole. | Endless |
| December 4 | I'm not a bird, but I can fly through the sky. I'm not a river, but I'm full of water. | Cloud |
| December 5 | What king can you make if you take the head of a lamb, the middle of a pig, the hind of a buffalo, and the tail of a dragon? | Lion |
| December 6 | My first is equality; my second is inferiority; my whole is superiority. | Peerless |
| December 7 | You can read it both ways, I wear; One way it's a number, reversed a snare. | Ten |
| December 8 | It stands on one leg with its heart in its head. | cabbage |
| December 9 | There is a word in the English language, the two first letters signify a male, the three first a female, the four first a great man, and the whole a great woman. | heroine |
| December 10 | Put into a pit, locked beneath a grate, guarded through the night, yet it still goes out. | Fire |
| December 11 | What fruit is of great use in history? | Date |
| December 12 | My first is second in line; I send shivers up your spine; not quite shining bright I glitter in the light. | Ice |
| December 13 | As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was it? | Sawdust |
| December 14 | What goes up and down without moving? | Stairs |
| December 15 | There's not a kingdom on the earth, but I have traveled over and over, and though I know not whence my birth, yet when I come, you know my roar. I through the town do take my flight, and through the fields and meadows green, and whether it be day or night, I neither am nor can be seen. | Wind |
| December 16 | My first brace Nelson yielded, midst the jar of angry battle, and the din of war; my second, when from labor we retreat, far form polite, yet offers us a seat; my whole is but my second more complete. | Armchair |
| December 17 | Has a tongue, but never talks. Has no legs, but sometimes walks. | Shoe |
| December 18 | what leaps one time out of four? | Year |
| December 19 | How do snails travel? | Slowly |
| December 20 | Though I have neither legs nor feet, my use is for to go; Altho' I cannot speak, I tell what others want to know. | Watch |
| December 21 | What has green hair, a round red head and a long thin white beard? | Radish |
| December 22 | What can you add to a bucket full of water to make it lighter? | Hole |
| December 23 | The more you take the more you leave behind. | Steps |
| December 24 | My parents are singers, and while my father has red hair I am pale and completely bald. | Egg |
| December 25 | There is someone, and there is always another, for without the other, there wouldn't be one. | Twins |
| December 26 | A man who worked in a butcher shop was six feet tall and wore size eleven shoes. What did he weigh? | Meat |
| December 27 | A useful thing, hard, firm, and white, outside in shaggy robe bedight; Hallowed within right cleverly, it goes to work both white and dry. When after labor it comes back, you'll find it moist and very black; for service it is ready ever, and fails the hand that guides it never. | Pen |
| December 28 | In Spring I look gay, Decked in comely array, In Summer more clothing I wear; when colder it grows, I filing off my clothes, and in winter quite naked appear. | Tree |
| December 29 | Locked up inside you and yet they can steal it from you. | Heart |
| December 30 | Men seize it form its home, tear apart its flesh, drink the sweet blood, then cast its skin aside. | Orange |
| December 31 | Bold are the first; true are the second; playful are the third; clever are the fourth; forceful are the fifth. | BRAVE |
May 16 doesn’t have an answer posted on this list. I finally figured it out without using any of the hints! The answer is “owl”
August 23 is wrong. I have no u to put in!
August 28 is rose btw since it is empty.