What do you serve that you can't eat?
What do you serve that you can’t eat?
447 riddles for age 12
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What do you serve that you can’t eat?
What do you use to hoe a row, slay a foe, and wring with woe?
What falls but doesn’t break, and what breaks but doesn’t fall?
What fastens two people yet touches only one?
What force and strength cannot get through I with a gentle touch can do, And many in the street would stand were I not a friend in hand.
Hint: What force and strength cannot get through I with a gentle touch can do…
What gets wetter the more it dries?
What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
What goes into the water black and comes out red?
What goes into the water red and comes out black?
What goes through the door without pinching itself? What sits on the stove without burning itself? What sits on the table and is not ashamed?
Hint: What goes through the door without pinching itself…
What goes up and never comes down?
What goes up when the rain comes down?
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
What has a head and a tail, but no body?
What has a spine, but no bones? It has leaves, but no branches?
What has garbage and flies?
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
What has no heart Yet is alive? It never moves People stab it with knives.
What has one foot on each side and one in the middle?