Famous Riddles with Answers Everyone Should Know

What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

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

What has to be broken before you can use it?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

I am not alive, yet I grow. I have no lungs, yet I need air. I have no mouth, yet water kills me. What am I?

What has keys but can open no locks?

What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

What gets wetter the more it dries?

What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?

What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?

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

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

What can fill a room but takes up no space?

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?