Day Riddles

To answer these riddles, think about the days of the week, and other ways that we talk about time!

What have you seen and everyone you know has seen but nobody will not see again?

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Yesterday.

When can Friday come before Thursday?

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In the dictionary.

What four days of the week start with T?

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Tuesday, Thursday, today, tomorrow.

A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed two nights, and left on Friday. How could that be?

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The cowboy's horse was named Friday.

Name three consecutive days without mentioning Monday, Wednesday, or Friday.

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Yesterday, today, tomorrow.

Riddles about Time

I'm going to be including riddles here in this "crazy wisdom" project because riddles are a great example of foolish wisdom, a skewed way of looking at the world which gives us new insights: the harder the riddle, the better the insights.

In this post, I'll be collecting riddles about time.

This thing all things devours:

Birds beasts trees flowers;

Gnaws iron, bites steel;

Grinds hard stones to meal;

Slays king, ruins town,

And beats high mountain down.

Time.

What goes up but doesn't come down?

Your age.

What four days of the week start with T?

Tuesday, Thursday, today, tomorrow.