Riddles for 12 Year Olds — Page 7

I can be found on a human or beast all people should have one at least I can be any shape or any size and my history you’ll despise What Am I?

Hint: I can be found on a human or beast all people should have one at least I can be …

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?

Hint: I can be long…

I can flutter and take your breath away. I can take a beating, but do not bruise. If I stopped you would be sure to lose. Everyday I am with you. What am I?

Hint: I can flutter and take your breath away…

I can trap many different things and colors, Ever changing, not boring. Look closely and you may find yourself also caught in my trap. What am I?

Hint: I can trap many different things and colors…

I come at the end of time and at the start of eternitiy. I come four times in every week, but only once in a thousand years. What am I?

Hint: I come at the end of time and at the start of eternitiy…

I come in darkness, but fill the mind with light. I bring enlightenment to some, while gripping others in the hand of fear. With me it can be a journey of inexplicable joy and sorrow. What I will show you will often be unreachable. Journey with me and what you see may haunt you. Journey with me and you may never want to return home. Journey with me and you will never know when it will end. What am I?

Hint: I come in darkness…

I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I?

Hint: I dig out tiny caves…

I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me; lower light I never see.

Hint: I fly…

I give milk and have a horn but I’m not a cow? What am I?

I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns.

Hint: I give you a group of three…

{ I GO UP AND DOWN… BUT NEVER MOVE. WHO AM I?

I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am NOT a gossip but I do get involved with everyone’s dirty business. Can you name me?

Hint: I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud…

I have a heart that never beats, I have a home but I never sleep. I can take a mans house and build anothers, And I love to play games with my many brothers. I am a king among fools. Who am I?

Hint: I have a heart that never beats…

I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall.

Hint: I have a little house in which I live all alone…

I have an eye but cannot see. I am stronger and faster then any man alive but have no limbs. What am I?

Hint: I have an eye but cannot see…

I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I’m always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?

Hint: I have four wings…

I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?

Hint: I have holes on the top and bottom…

You can play me with all ten fingers, and though I’m full of keys, none of them will open a single door.

Hint: Think about something musical you press to make sound.

I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I’m not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I’m never thrown. What am I?

Hint: I have many feathers to help me fly…

I have no voice and yet I speak to you, I tell of all things in the world that people do. I have leaves, but I am not a tree, I have pages, but I am not a bride or royalty. I have a spine and hinges, but I am not a man or a door, I have told you all, I cannot tell you more. What am I?

Hint: I have no voice and yet I speak to you…