Unleashing the Magic of Thought Provoking Riddles
With these “Thought provoking riddles” feel the mind exploration fun and the rush of solving mysteries. Challenge your mind and gain problem solving abilities.
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Riddle #91
The faster you run, the harder it is to catch me. What am I?
Answer: Breath
Explanation
As the speaker mentioned in the riddle that if you keep running faster you won’t be able to catch it, this riddles forces you think about some object and confuses you with the wordplay. Answer of this riddles is simple, that is breath. When you start running faster, you also start breathing heavily and which makes it harder to control the breathing, which can also be said “harder to catch the breath” In modern way, Hope it clears everything.
Riddle #92
Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I?
Answer: Letter R
Explanation
Answer of this riddle is letter “R”. It is cleverly hidden inside the words given in the riddle but upon reading it forces you to think about something that have physical existence. In word Corner there are two R, In room there is one R, In word house there are zero R and In word shelter there is one R. This shows that how cleverly answers can be hidden inside the riddle, hope it clears everything.
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Riddle #93
You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
Answer: Telephone
Explanation
Answer of this riddle is “Telephone”. Telephone is the device which is designed to transmit and receive signals which results in communication between people. Here in this riddle it is said that telephone is always answered but it never asks any questions which means that telephone answers the incoming calls but never ask questions on its own. So it cleverly adds the twist in the riddle by making the people think about the nature of the telephone and how it helps many people to talk to each other without asking any question, hope it clears everything.
Riddle #94
I can’t go left, I can’t go right. I am forever stuck in a building over three stories high. What am I?
Answer: Elevator
Explanation
As it is mentioned in the riddle that it cannot go left or right and always stuck in a building. In order to solve this riddle we have gather the hidden clues inside the riddle. People might think that it is some stationary objects stuck inside the building but upon reading the riddle it is clear that it can move and the movement is limited to the up and down only and it exists only in multi story buildings, now it is clear that answer is “Elevator”. Elevator can move only in upward and downward direction and always stuck inside the building, hope it clears everything.
Riddle #95
I am green but not a tree. You can see me and sit on me and I grow around the world. What am I?
Answer: Grass
Explanation
Answer of this riddle is “Grass”, As the speaker mentioned in the first part that something that is green but not a tree, so the grass is small in size as compared to a tree, and the second part says you can see me and sit on me it refers to the idea that grass is visible and you can also sit on grass as they are very small in size and the last part says that I grow around the world the speaker is telling that grass are found all over the world.
Riddle #96
Many hear me, but no one sees me, and I only speak when spoken to. What am I?
Answer: Echo
Explanation
The answer to this riddle is “echo”. To understand this riddle first we have to learn how eco works, suppose you are in an empty room and you speak out some words, the words will bounce back to you as if someone is talking to you from the other side.
As the riddle says many hear me, but no one sees me concluding that echo can only be heard and there is no physical body responsible for it, and I only speak when spoken to means the words bounce back from the wall to the speaker.
Riddle #97
Where do fish keep their money?
Answer: River Bank
Explanation
This riddle asks “Where do fish keep their money” so the answer of this riddle is “River bank”. This riddle plays with words and makes this riddle fun and interesting. Fish do not have money they are just animals living in water but we humans have money and we store the money in the bank. So this riddle is about imagination, if fish had money they would keep them on the river bank. So there is a clever twist in this riddle.
