Difficult Riddles

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Half-way up the hill, I see you at last, lying beneath me with your sounds and sights. A city in the twilight, dim and vast, with smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights.

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It holds most knowledge that has ever been said. But is not the brain, is not the head. To feathers and their masters, it's both bane and boonΒ…One empty, and one full.

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What asks but never answers?

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Gold in a leather bag, swinging on a tree, money after honey in its time. Ills of a scurvy crew cured by the sea, reason in its season but no rhyme.

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You use a knife to slice my head. And weep beside me when I am dead.

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Take off my skin, I won't cry, but you will.

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I am the fountain from which no one can drink. For many I am considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I am sought for, but my continued death brings wealth for all to want more.

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A little house full of meat, no door to go in and eat.

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A man went to the hardware store to buy items for his house. 1 would cost $.25. 12 would cost $.50. 122 would cost $.75. When he left the store he had spent $.75, what did he buy?

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What does man love more than life, fear more than death or mortal strife. What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire. What the miser spends, and the spendthrift saves. And all men carry to their graves.

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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.

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Two little holes in the side of a hill. Just as you come to the cherry-red mill.

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I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind.

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Gets rid of bad ones, short and tall. Tightens when used, one size fits all.

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What word is the same written forward, backward and upside down?

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Sometimes I am loud. And viewed with distaste. Poke out my 'eye', then I'm on the front of your face.

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I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken.

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Hold the tail, while I fish for you.

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A house of wood in a hidden place. Built without nails or glue. High above the earthen ground. It holds pale gems of blue.

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What is long and slim, works in light. Has but one eye, and an awful bite?

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Jan 16, 2026

What goes up the hill and down the hill, And spite of all, yet stand still?

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