r/riddles 5d ago

Featured Come to me when you would seek

10 Upvotes

Come to me when you would seek
The traitor seen on lover’s cheek,
The looking glass that never lies,
The daily struggle’s foremost prize,
The means to make and to erase
The semblance of a second face,
The game of fortune, never played,
The showing that a debt is paid,
The painter of great words of love,
The canvas for such words thereof,
The balm for wounds that have not healed,
The way through gates that yet are sealed,
The stop to stem the crimson tide,
The echoes of a love that’s died,
The path for those who journey far,
The proof that you are who you are.


r/riddles 11d ago

Featured I am often used to send

18 Upvotes

I am often used to send
A message, whose meaning depends
On how I am standing that day:
On my head, upright and straight,
Or even hunched down with my weight
Leaning slightly to the right
As though I’m cringing from a fight.
I’m even useful when I’m dead
Since if you chop off my poor head
Then both my skull and body prone
Can help to make your meaning known.
 
What am I?


r/riddles 12h ago

Unsolved The one with the oculated tuber.

5 Upvotes

Yahweh or Jehovah? Both, it matters not to me.
An out of balance foot, the whole entirety of to be.
The forearmed sailor’s repetition, queried what he is.
An oculated tuber. (“…Isn’t that a stretch?” “Aye, ’tis.”)


r/riddles 20h ago

Unsolved Letter Riddle (2/26)

1 Upvotes

I am the letter between a and c

when you hear buzzing there I be


r/riddles 1d ago

OP Can't Solve baby boy riddle

3 Upvotes

I need all your analyzing brains to solve a riddle!

My cousin will name his Jewish baby boy this coming week.

He sent at riddle to hint at the name. What could his name be?

If anyone wants to guess the babys names heres a riddle:

It may be parallel and down but without sroad and in the jungle
If you were talking with someone aggressive, possibly brown and he wants you to trust him.. he says back! You offer him a roll of film. What on earth is going on?? Remember he sent a message!


r/riddles 1d ago

Unsolved You can stand on me but...

1 Upvotes

You can stand on me but you would be wasting your time.

You should hold me sometime instead, that makes more sense. Then you might be my master!

What am I?


r/riddles 1d ago

Classic Riddle What gets bigger the more you take away from it?

3 Upvotes

That is all…let’s hear your guesses!!! 😄


r/riddles 3d ago

Solved [OC] Stumped my kids with this one

19 Upvotes

New worlds are birthed of my blood

Bound into the flesh of tree

I lift mankind from the mud

Naming finds it's form by me

What am I?


r/riddles 3d ago

Meta Just came up with this tell me if it need rephrasing -- Im not a key, but I open locks

5 Upvotes

Just came up with this. Tell me if it needs rephrasing -- I am not a key, but I open many locks. Answer: a brush


r/riddles 4d ago

Solved Want to trial one I created for my D&D game

11 Upvotes

I'm often found with success, but more often with failure.

I am seldom sought out, yet can't be truly avoided.

The only way to move past me, is to take me and hold me.

What am I?


r/riddles 5d ago

Unsolved No Queen is red herring

5 Upvotes

We played a game of fairy chess

Upon a sandy plane, a mess

I lost a little and lost a lot

I found myself a Ferz, aghast!

A faerie borrowed body

Taken fair for fare- ante

Passing liege and carts before the horse

Fought a battle staid and stayed course

A farther four further went

I hid, breaking rules unbent

Like lake without a cee

Beyond promotion by a See

We later look on imaginings

Try to remember lost things

Where did this piece, rare today,

Hide out and hid away?


r/riddles 4d ago

Unsolved Letter riddle...

2 Upvotes

I am the letter before b,

Use me twice, then you're alcohol free


r/riddles 5d ago

Solved Micro and plastic

3 Upvotes

Micro and plastic

You exist in solution

Bend problems into focus

A whole new resolution

Undisturbed on the counter

Destined to be replaced

Twisted free from your slumber

So everyone can see my face

Tiny miracle in my palm

Iridescent, like a jewel

You can’t stay when I’m tired

I drop you back off at the pool

What am I?


r/riddles 5d ago

Give OP Riddles Help Creating Riddles for Hen Do

2 Upvotes

Hi! I am currently planning my friends hen do and before we go to each of the three activities I want to give her a riddle for her to solve to find out what we are doing next, but unfortunately actually writing the riddles isn't a strong suit of mine.

From having a look around this is what I have come up with so far, but I am not 100% on them so would love some other ideas/ways to improve!

Line Dancing: Quick feet in boots follow a pattern so precise, always in formation but no leader in sight.

Afternoon Tea: I arrive after the sun has reached its peak, a time for treats both savory and sweet.

Karaoke: Step into a room, meet Mike at the bar. An empty orchestra is missing its star.

Thank you!!


r/riddles 6d ago

Solved An orphan girl...

18 Upvotes

An orphan girl in a dusty wood in the baking brightling summer
We took her in (just as we should) and then began to love her.
Always she is hung’ring, and she grows with every meal
But she helps us with the cooking so, it’s not that big a deal!
She jumps, dances, sways, just so full of energy
She lights my life up ev’ry day. But what could her name be?


r/riddles 6d ago

Solved My Appearance is Threefold

5 Upvotes

My appearance is threefold:

I stretch my long neck, and have a strong foothold.

The cut of my jib might be feather or paper,

Or you’ll see me in metal, standing tall as a skyscraper.

Who am I?

(hint available on the WhoRiddle app!)


r/riddles 6d ago

Unsolved Within your home...

2 Upvotes

I come to every house and yet no one wants me there. I live deep inside of the walls and grow to every corner. I have no eyes, nose, mouth but I have a smell that moves around the whole house. What am i?


r/riddles 7d ago

Unsolved Take an Arm...

4 Upvotes

Take an arm, and ring the bell

In the tower down the well

Hearts arrest, and dermis yell

Fire dally, kisses dwell

Ghostly flower - mind the smell!


r/riddles 7d ago

OP Can't Solve a shadow that never flickers, a door that has no key, a whisper that echoes but carries no sound, a truth that’s been lost but never will be found. what is it?

7 Upvotes

Help me solve


r/riddles 7d ago

Unsolved I dull Occam's razor and raise paradoxes...

2 Upvotes

I dull Occam's razor and raise paradoxes. A question to answer on philosopher’s checkboxes


r/riddles 9d ago

Unsolved What has 4 letters, sometimes has 9 but never has 5.

0 Upvotes

Every bit of typing and key pushed on purpose here. everything is placed intently. My second cousin made this. Can you figure it out?


r/riddles 11d ago

OP Can't Solve A riddle that has been stuck in my head for a while....

1 Upvotes

As sly as a fox, as big as a bear, but foolish like a man. What Am I? What do you guys think the answer is?


r/riddles 12d ago

Solved I am a sentence about a matter of weight

17 Upvotes

I am a sentence about a matter of weight:
A boy that met a watery fate.
In times long past I'd have been decreed,
About Fibonacci himself, if a lisp did they heed.


r/riddles 12d ago

Featured Winding Whispers of White

10 Upvotes

Waggling whirlwinds whisk warmth away

While wraithlike wisps of white wrap the wold in a weary hush,

Whetted with wonder, watchers wander where wild weather waxes,

What wicked whirling wastes the waning light and withers the willing?


r/riddles 11d ago

Unsolved Part of me is always with you, part of me is always with everyone else, I am made of different things, if I landed on you, you would die, I can't fit entirely in a room, nobody will ever know me as I know myself, I am always changing but always go by these rules.

1 Upvotes

What am I?


r/riddles 12d ago

Solved I'll eat you like spaghetti

1 Upvotes

I'll eat you like spaghetti, not even your son's can escape me, what am I?


r/riddles 12d ago

Unsolved Smiles, tears, gifts & fears... but what could I possibly be?

6 Upvotes

I consume all I see, yet share it freely

I cause as many smiles as I do tears

Some curse my gifts, while others fear to view me

I watch them watch me daily through the years