14 More Of The Greatest Riddles Of All Time

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What, you thought you were just going to mindlessly browse the Internet all day and not have to test your brain? You thought wrong. Once you read the riddles below, you will be unable to resist the urge to answer every single one of them, even if you have to quit work for the day and go mad in the process. You may have solved 21 of the Greatest Riddles of All Time, but what about these?

14 More Of The Greatest Riddles Of All Time:

*Scroll down for the answers.*

1. What tastes better than it smells?

2. When you’re given one, you may have two or none.

3. I will ask you a question, but never give you an answer. What am I?

4. What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?

5. What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 1/2 goat?

6. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

7. I can be flipped and broken, but I never move. I can be closed and opened, and sometimes removed. I am sealed by hands. What am I?

8. What is brown and sticky?

9. You can catch me but you can’t throw me.

10. I talk, but I do not speak my mind

I hear words, but I do not listen to thoughts

When I wake, all see me

When I sleep, all hear me

Many heads are on my shoulders

Many hands are at my feet

The strongest steel cannot break my visage

But the softest whisper can destroy me

The quietest whimper can be heard.

What am I?

11. Alone I am 24th. Two of me makes 20. Add another and I am dirty. What am I?

12. I can bring tears to your eyes, resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an instant but I last a lifetime. What am I?

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

14. What heavy seven-letter word can you take two away from and be left with eight?

ANSWER KEY:

1. Your tongue

2. A choice

3. An owl

4. A pillow

5. Chicago

6. Lunch and dinner

7. A deal

8. A stick

9. A cold

10. An actor (this is reported to be the favorite riddle of Teddy Roosevelt)

11. The letter X

12. A memory

13. Footsteps

14. Weights

h/t GRiN

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