10 mind boggling riddles

Riddles have been around for many years and have caused much curiosity. The answers to all of the riddles are at the bottom of the page. We'll start this page of riddles with a very famous riddle, one that most people will recognise, although they may not know it's answer...

1. Why is a raven like a writing desk?


2. What gets wetter as it dries?

3.It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it?

4.At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

5.The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? Think about it!

6.If you break me, I do not stop working.
If you touch me, I may be snared.
If you lose me, nothing will matter.
What am I?

7. Say my name and I disappear. What am I?

8. What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?

9. What can travel around the world by staying in a corner?

10. I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?



Answers
1. This riddle was asked by The Mad Hatter in the book 'Alice in Wonderland' (written by Lewis Caroll) during The Mad Hatter's Tea Party that Alice atteneded. The answer is that Lewis Caroll never intended there to be an answer, merely a nonsense riddle to arouse the reader's wonder, although many people have come up with alternative answers that they claim are true. One favourite answer is that neither is made out of cheese, but this is not true.

2. The answer to this is a towel, because it gets wetter as it dries a wet object.

3. This riddle's answer is nothing. Nothing is greater than God, nothing is more evil than the devil, the poor have nothing, the rich need nothing and if you eat nothing you'll die.


4. The stars

5. Darkness

6. Your heart

7. Silence.

8. A river.

9. A stamp.

10. Fire.