What am I? Riddles to Test Your Mind

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I love riddles and I've heard a few.

So here are a few to be going on with I hope people will post more.

I'm as small as a bug, as big as a dinosaur. I'll approach like a breeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I have many, of my many names I have one. I'm as slow as a tortoise, but you can't run away from me. What am I?

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Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they may chomp,
Then they may stomp,
Then they stand still.

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I run o'er fields and woods all day. Under a bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, awaiting to be filled when I rise. What am I?
 

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For the first, I am going to guess the wind.

Second one, teeth.



I have a good one: I'm small as an apple, but I can fill a room. What am I?
 
#3 I'm guessing sneakers or sports shoes
werg22 A bottle of perfume the size of an apple?
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I guess it makes sense but it's not the answer I am looking for.
 
Schrödinger's Dog said:
I'm as small as a bug, as big as a dinosaur. I'll approach like a breeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I have many, of my many names I have one. I'm as slow as a tortoise, but you can't run away from me. What am I?
Answer: A shadow.
Werg22 said:
I have a good one: I'm small as an apple, but I can fill a room. What am I?
Answer: A dancing hamster.

The fisher's riddle: The ones we catch we throw away, and the ones we don't catch we keep.
 
thirty white horses

edit.. OK, I won't give it away- but I confirmed my answer with Google.
 
Ah well done guys only the first one eludes you so here's a clue.

Everything between the sizes mentioned and beyond has one of these. If something is invisible to the naked eye though it wont.
 
Thought jimmy got the first one.
 
Keep the ball roling

He did sorry I missed the spoiler; in that case anyone who put up the right answer on the riddles put another one up :smile:

You've asked that riddle before on this very Forum Jimmy, I won't give it away though.

And no forum searching obviously like I just did :smile:
 
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Werg22 said:
I have a good one: I'm small as an apple, but I can fill a room. What am I?



A lightbulb?

 
Schrödinger's Dog said:
I love riddles and I've heard a few.

So here are a few to be going on with I hope people will post more.

I'm as small as a bug, as big as a dinosaur. I'll approach like a breeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I have many, of my many names I have one. I'm as slow as a tortoise, but you can't run away from me. What am I?

I think it's time.

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Schrödinger's Dog said:
Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they may chomp,
Then they may stomp,
Then they stand still.

I agree, it would be one's set of teeth.

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Schrödinger's Dog said:
I run o'er fields and woods all day. Under a bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, awaiting to be filled when I rise. What am I?

I think it's the sun?
 
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How about this one:

Tho' I be small, when entire,
Have force to set the world afire;
Take of a letter and t'is clear,
My confines can hold a herd of deer;
Take of another and you'll see,
I once held all humanity.
 
DyslexicHobo got it right.
 
bel said:
Tho' I be small, when entire,
Have force to set the world afire;
Take of a letter and t'is clear,
My confines can hold a herd of deer;
Take of another and you'll see,
I once held all humanity.
Answer: spark, park, ark
 
Might be a good idea if whoever gets the last riddle, gives a new riddle or delegates to anyone.

The answer To Jimmys Fishermans riddle is:fleas[/color]

If you want to put one up though Jimmy go ahead.
 
Schrödinger's Dog said:
If you want to put one up though Jimmy go ahead.
What goes up the chimney down, but not down the chimney up?
 
jimmysnyder said:
What goes up the chimney down, but not down the chimney up?

It's an umbrella, come on you guys that ones a classic?

Here's one: -

The man who invented it does not want it. The man who bought it does not need it. The man who needs it does not know it. What is it?

I like this riddle. :smile:
 
An asylum for the insane? or is it a coffin?
 
Yup correct :smile: a coffin. If you like Bel put up a riddle.
 
Schrödinger's Dog said:
Yup correct :smile: a coffin. If you like Bel put up a riddle.
I thought it was a diaper.
 
Ha, I guess a diaper would work wouldn't it. :-)
 
Yeah it's like the fisherman's riddle there's more than one answer.

If no one wants to put one up, then Jimmy can go, his answer is fine. :smile:
 
How come I gave my wife half whole and half half and half.
 
Well I'm sure there's some clever item, but since half whole is half, half of that is a quarter and half of that again is an eighth you could do it that way? But I fear there is some clever word play answer involving some mysterious object like some weird zygote thing.
 
Schrödinger's Dog said:
But I fear there is some clever word play answer involving some mysterious object like some weird zygote thing.
Clever, yes (well I think so anyway. I made it up myself). Mysterious, no. And not a zygote. Would it help to point out that we were in a book store at the time? No, it would probably mislead.
 
jimmysnyder said:
Would it help to point out that we were in a book store at the time? No, it would probably mislead.
Well, thanks for that :smile:

Should this be thought of as more a lateral thinkin/situation type puzzle or something else?
 
jimmysnyder said:
Would it help to point out that we were in a book store at the time? No, it would probably mislead.

Yeah, I'm guessing it would be more of a hint to point out that you thought of it in a different type of store. But book stores these days DO provide opportunity to support this type of inspiration, I suppose.

DaveE
 
Mk said:
Should this be thought of as more a lateral thinkin/situation type puzzle or something else?
Good point. I still think it's a riddle, but maybe it works better as a lateral thinking puzzle. I don't think it's particularly hard though in any case.
 
whole milk and half and half sugar? coffee? @#$$%? I'm confused