Brain-Teasing Riddles

1. I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?
2. I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but I need water to live. What am I?
3. What has a head and a tail but no body?
4. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
5. I have four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening. What am I?
6. I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but I need water to live. What am I?
7. What has a heart that doesn’t beat, a mouth that doesn’t speak, and a soul that doesn’t feel?
8. I am light as a feather, yet the strongest man cannot hold me for more than a minute. What am I?
9. What is full of holes but still holds water?
10. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

Answers:

1. The future.
2. Fire.
3. A coin.
4. Footsteps.
5. A human, who crawls on hands and knees as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult, and uses a cane in old age.
6. A plant.
7. A painting.
8. Breath.
9. A sponge.
10. An echo.