1. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M.”

2. The more you take from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
Answer: A hole.

3. What disappears the moment you say its name?
Answer: Silence.

4. What has no beginning, end, or middle?
Answer: A circle.

5. I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?
Answer: The future.

6. I’m not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

7. What can travel the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.

8. What can you break, even if you never touch it?
Answer: A promise.

9. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.

10. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.

11. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.

12. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.

13. I am taken from a mine and locked up in a case, yet I am used by almost everyone. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.

14. What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.

15. The more of this you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.

16. I’m always hungry and must be fed, but if you give me water, I die. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

17. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle.

18. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.

19. What begins and has no end, and is the end of all that begins?
Answer: Death.

20. What flies forever, rests never?
Answer: The wind.

21. I am light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for long. What am I?
Answer: Breath.

22. I can fly without wings and cry without eyes. What am I?
Answer: A cloud.

23. I’m always running but never move. What am I?
Answer: Time.

24. What can’t be seen, can’t be felt, can’t be heard, and can’t be smelt, but can destroy everything?
Answer: Time.

25. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.

26. I’m invisible, weigh nothing, but if you put me in a barrel, it becomes lighter. What am I?
Answer: A hole.

27. I’m seen once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day. What am I?
Answer: The letter “E.”

28. What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly.

29. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right hand?
Answer: Your right elbow.

30. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke.

31. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.

32. What comes before yesterday and after tomorrow?
Answer: Today.

33. I am always moving but have no legs. What am I?
Answer: Time.

34. I’m found in Mercury, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I?
Answer: The letter “R.”

35. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.

36. I have cities, but no houses; mountains, but no trees; and water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.

37. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.

38. I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?
Answer: A feather.

39. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain.

40. I am always coming but never arrive. What am I?
Answer: Tomorrow.

41. What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Answer: Day breaks and night falls.

42. I’m made of water, but if you put me in water, I die. What am I?
Answer: Ice.

43. I have one head, one foot, and four legs. What am I?
Answer: A bed.

44. I am full of holes but still strong as steel. What am I?
Answer: A chain.

45. The more you share me, the less I become. What am I?
Answer: A secret.

46. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.

47. What can run, but never walks; has a mouth, but never talks?
Answer: A river.

48. I go up but never come down. What am I?
Answer: Your age.

49. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.

50. I am always there but never here. What am I?
Answer: The future.

51. I fly without wings, I roar without a mouth, I can swallow mountains and vanish a house. What am I?

Answer: The wind.

52. I am taken once, given twice, and broken sometimes without being touched. What am I?
Answer: A promise.

53. Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter — what is it?
Answer: The letter “R.”

54. You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “E.”

55. I bind without rope, mark without ink, and cross without feet. What am I?
Answer: A signature.

56. I am always hungry, never thirsty, never sleep — I devour day by day. What am I?
Answer: Time.

57. I grow but never breathe, I eat yet am not alive; I vanish when you call my name. What am I?
Answer: A rumor.

58. I have towns but not people, roads but no cars, and fields but no crops. What am I?
Answer: A map.

59. I have a spine but no bones, pages but no words, and knowledge without speech. What am I?
Answer: A book.

60. I go around all day but never move; I give directions without a face. What am I?
Answer: A compass (or a clock face interpreted as giving direction).

61. I am long when young and short when old, I light the dark but vanish as I’m told. What am I?
Answer: A candle.

62. I am in every corner and between every word; without me, speech would trip and blur. What am I?
Answer: Silence (or a pause).

63. I can be cracked, I can be told, I can be played, I can be bold. What am I?
Answer: A joke.

64. I’m born in water, melt away there, and shine in sun but vanish in heat. What am I?
Answer: Ice.

65. I surround a king but am not a crown; I move in straight lines and capture by surround. What am I?
Answer: A chessboard (or chess pieces — context implies the board).

66. The richer I become the less you see. Who am I?
Answer: Darkness.

67. I have a bed and a mouth, I have a head and a tail — but I’m not a living thing. What am I?
Answer: A river (bed and mouth) — tail ambiguous but poetic.

68. I sit at the center of gravity and walk without legs. What am I?
Answer: Balance.

69. I am never asked a question but always answered. What am I?
Answer: A telephone (or a doorbell).

70. You can give me away, keep me, and lose me — yet I’m useful most when shared. What am I?
Answer: Knowledge (or a secret fits too).

71. I have a thousand teeth but cannot bite; I can comb but not groom. What am I?
Answer: A comb (metaphorical: a saw has many teeth).

72. I travel the world but always stay in a corner of a room. What am I?
Answer: A stamp on a letter lying in the corner of an envelope/photo (classic: a stamp stays in the corner).

73. I can shout without a voice and echo without a mouth. What am I?
Answer: An echo.

74. I can be measured in seconds yet last for centuries; I can heal and I can wound. What am I?
Answer: Memory.

75. I bind people together though I’m not a chain, I can be lost without being found again. What am I?
Answer: Trust.

76. I fly without wings, settle without feet, and carry no weight though everything rests on me. What am I?
Answer: A cloud.

77. I am lighter than a feather yet the world’s strongest can’t hold me for long. What am I?
Answer: Breath.

78. I’m full of holes but hold water like a vault. What am I?
Answer: A sponge.

79. I begin with a door and end with an open path; without me journeys would never start. What am I?
Answer: A threshold (or doorway).

80. I’m always rising and always falling yet never change position. What am I?
Answer: The sun (rises and sets relative to observer) — or tide metaphor; accepted answer: tide.

81. I speak with no tongue, I devour with no teeth, I travel without legs. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

82. I have no hands but point the way; I tell the time without speaking. What am I?
Answer: A clock (or its hand — “no hands but point the way” could be a compass; clearer: a clock’s face points with hands but riddle says no hands—so answer: a compass).

83. I can be seen in the mirror but not by anyone else; I can follow but never lead. What am I?
Answer: Your reflection (or your shadow—mirror suggests reflection).

84. Remove my first letter and I remain the same; remove my last and I stay unchanged. What am I?
Answer: A palindrome (example: “level”).

85. I am taken by kings and given by rogues; I can make the brave stumble and the truthful choke. What am I?
Answer: A bribe (or a lie).

86. I am found in the middle of fire and water but never in wind. What am I?
Answer: The letter “R” (in fiRe and wateR).

87. I have thousands of keys but open no doors; I can play a tune without ever singing. What am I?
Answer: A piano (or keyboard).

88. I shrink as you add to me and grow as you remove from me. What am I?
Answer: A hole.

89. I fly on silent wings at dawn and dusk; hunters swear I am luck, not fear. What am I?
Answer: An owl.

90. I am a room without walls, a house without a roof, full of people though empty of proofs. What am I?
Answer: A dream.

91. I can be lost, found, stolen, or kept — yet I weigh nothing. What am I?
Answer: A heart (metaphorical: love) — or “mind” fits poetic; accepted: a secret.

92. I am older than mountains and younger than stars; I can break the tallest peak into sand. What am I?
Answer: Time.

93. I come only once, yet I last forever; I mark beginnings and ends together. What am I?
Answer: A moment.

94. I am seen in short bursts but never in long glows; I am wished for in darkness and feared in crowd. What am I?
Answer: A shooting star (or a wish — ambiguous; accepted: shooting star).

95. I burn without flame, cut without blade, and bind without rope. What am I?
Answer: Ice (can cut), or sunlight (burn without flame) — best answer: frost (cold burns, binds with ice).

96. I have no mouth yet taste; no eyes yet cry; no legs yet walk. What am I?
Answer: Onion (or a cloud—riddle fits onion: it makes you cry, you can taste it).

97. I am present in the beginning of eternity and the end of time, and I appear twice in a week. What am I?
Answer: The letter “E.”

98. I can be long or short; I can be grown or sharpened; I can be painted or bitten. What am I?
Answer: A nail.

99. I am invisible but color everything I touch; I change day to night without a switch. What am I?
Answer: Shadow.

100. I am the answer you sought but never the same; you chase me, I flee — yet when you stop I remain. What am I?
Answer: Understanding (or knowledge).