Here is today's riddle:
My mouth is larger than my head;
I never sleep, but I have a bed;
not by food but by water I'm fed.
Who am I?
This is one of those multiple-meanings-of-a-word riddles: mouth, head, bed... they are not what you might think at first!
Here is today's riddle:
White dress, red nose;
she has no feet or hands,
yet the longer she stands,
the shorter she grows.clue:
Don't touch her red nose: it's hot!clue:
Her white dress is perfectly smooth.clue:
Sometimes she stands on top of a cake.reveal/hide answer
A candle.
This is a household object that used to be part of everyone's daily life, but that is no longer true. Although it is part of everyone's YEARLY life... but usually she doesn't get to stand for a long time, like she used to!
Here is today's riddle:
Two little holes
in the side of a hill,
and then down below
a red door to a mill.
What is the hill and what is the mill?
The mill is not a part of people's lives nowadays, but it used to be an important part of life, especially for people who lived in the country. You could grow grain, but you needed a mill to grind that grain in order to make it into flour. Of course, the mill here is a metaphorical mill... and everybody has one!
Here is today's riddle:
A wee wee man in a bright red coat;
staff in my hand, stone in my throat.
What am I?
In my family, we used the word "pit," not "stone," for this fruit. But then I learned the folk song which is sometimes called "The Riddle Song," and that's how I learned about the stone!
Here is today's riddle:
Pray tell me, people, if you can,
who is that highly favored man
who, though he has married many a wife,
may still be single all his life?
This is a traditional riddle so it is about a man, but you could also write a version about a woman who has married many a husband but stays single all her life.
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Here is today's riddle:
Three of us in six, and five of us in seven,
four of us in nine, and six in eleven.
Who are we?
I like this number riddle that is really not a number riddle at all!
Here is today's riddle:
Four fingers and a thumb,
yet flesh and blood I have none.
Who am I?
It is not an exact rhyme, but it's a good enough near-rhyme, and I like this riddle so much I had to include it!
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