Word Play
Riddles that play with the meanings or sounds of words.
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 Riddle of Knowledge
What grows the more it is shared?
Answer: Knowledge
The Puzzle of Existence
What can you catch but never throw?
Answer: A cold
The Linguistic Puzzle
I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire
The Paradoxical Container
What can be broken, but is never held?
Answer: A promise
The Weightless Mystery
What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow
The Timeless Question
What has keys, but no locks; space, but no room; and you can enter, but not go in?
Answer: A keyboard
The Unstoppable Force
What moves faster: heat or cold?
Answer: Heat, because you can catch a cold
Solomon’s Riddle
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence
The Magic Word
What 8-letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Hint: Begin with words that have "ing" at the end.
Answer: Starting: "Starting", "Staring", "String", "Sting", "Sing", "Sin", "In", "I"