The Color Riddle

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

Answer: Charcoal

The Wet Problem

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

Answer: A river

The Growing Mystery

What has a neck but no head?

Answer: A bottle

The Road Riddle

What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but can’t go in?

Answer: A keyboard

The Matching Problem

I am taken from a mine, and shut in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?

Answer: Pencil lead

The Growing Problem

What has a head and a tail but no body?

Answer: A coin

The Rainy Friend

I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?

Answer: Your shadow

The Counting Problem

What has 13 hearts but no other organs?

Answer: A deck of playing cards

The Walking Riddle

What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

Answer: A clock

The Speaking Question

Take off my skin and I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?

Answer: An onion