A Dozen Riddles


Riddle Me This

1.   You can keep it only after giving it to someone else.  What is it?  Your promise

2.   What gets wet when drying?  a towel

3.   What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? "m"

4.   The more you of them you take, the more you leave behind.  What are they? footsteps

5.   He who makes it doesn't use about it.  He who uses it doesn't know about it.  He who buys it,  doesn't want it.  What is it?  A coffin

6.   More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil, the dead it and the living die, if they eat it?  Nothing

7.   Three very large men are standing under a single little umbrella. But, not one of them gets wet. Why? not raining

8.   How many coconuts can you put into an empty sack? one - after that the sack is not empty

9.      When you lose something why  is it always found in the very last place you look? you  stop looking 
10.                 What belongs to you but others use it more than you do? your name

11.                 What is that you will break every time you name it? silence

12.                 The more you take away, the larger it becomes?  What is it?  a hole