Today's Riddles

19

Most for the palate, some for the eye, A gift to say "sorry", "congrats", and "goodbye", I'm cotton, a name, and halloween, too. Taken with planning, or on the fly.

16

There is a 9 letters word in English, that you can remove one letter from to create another word in English, with 8 letters. You can than remove a letter from the 8 letters word created, to get a 7 letter word in English, which you can remove a letter from to get a 6 letters word in English, and so on until you are left with a one letter word. What is the original 9 letters word?

13

A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to make it weigh 12 pounds?

6

I make a loud noise when changing, grow bigger but weigh less. What am I?

17

It takes less time for me to count down from 100 than it does from 75.

3

I share a father with Polyphemus, And I am a cyclops too. But when it comes to sinking ships, I’m the better of the two.

15

What goes in a birdbath but never gets wet?

12

I have an end but no beginning, a home but no family, a space without room. I never speak but there is no word I cannot make. What am I?

9

What occurs once a minute, twice in every moment, but never in a thousand years?

3

What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?

3

If I have it, I don't share it. If I share it, I don't have it. What is it?

13

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

2

I am a bar that is not set high or low, but laterally. I add continuity to meaning by saying nothing. Struck the most and thought of the least. Ubiquitous and unique but surrounded by alternatives.

11

What goes around and around the wood but never goes into the wood?

14

I am the beginning of the end, the end of every place. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?