All Printable Puzzles

Riddles — Sheet 4

Instructions: Read each riddle carefully. Use the hint if you get stuck, and write your answer on the line provided.

  1. 1.

    I follow you everywhere but you can never catch me. What am I?

    Hint: I appear when the sun is shining.

  2. 2.

    What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?

    Hint: The answer is part of your own body.

  3. 3.

    What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?

    Hint: I hold a warm beverage inside me.

  4. 4.

    I am not alive, but I grow. I don't have lungs, but I need air. What am I?

    Hint: I am hot and dangerous if not controlled.

  5. 5.

    What has a bed but never sleeps, and has a mouth but never eats?

    Hint: I flow through landscapes and sometimes flood.

Answer Key

Q1:a shadow
Q2:your left hand
Q3:a teapot
Q4:fire
Q5:a river