riddles.json

{
  "riddles": [
    {
      "riddle": "What always comes but never arrives?",
      "answer": "tomorrow"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "What has an eye but cannot see?",
      "answer": "needle"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "What can travel around the world but always stays in one corner?",
      "answer": "stamp"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "Feed me and I live. Give me a drink and I die. What am I?",
      "answer": "fire"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "What is broken every time it's spoken?",
      "answer": "silence"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?",
      "answer": "footsteps"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?",
      "answer": "trouble"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "What has a heart but no other organs?",
      "answer": "cards"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "You will always find me in the past. I can be created in the present, but the future will never change me.",
      "answer": "history"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "I have keys that open no locks, space but no room and you can use me to enter but not go in.",
      "answer": "keyboard"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "You can see me in water, but I can never get wet. What am I?",
      "answer": "reflection"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "What is harder to catch the faster you run?",
      "answer": "breath"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "It can be made, <br />It can be told, <br />It can be played, <br />It can be cracked. <br />What is it?",
      "answer": "joke"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "A woman is sitting alone in her hotel room one night...<br />There is a knock on the door. She answers it to find a man she has never met. <br />'Oh sorry, I thought this was my hotel room' he says. He turns and walks back along the corridor. <br />The woman closes the door and rings security. What made the woman suspicious?",
      "answer": "knock"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "A King has no children and no wife, so there is no one to take over the throne when he dies. He must decide on someone in his kingdom to take the throne. He gives each child in the kingdom a seed and tells them he will crown the child with the most beautiful plant at the end.</p><p>At the end of the contest, the children all came to the castle with their beautiful plants. The King finally decided to appoint a little girl with an empty pot as Queen.</p><p>Why did he decide on this child and not someone with a beautiful big plant?",
      "answer": "seeds"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "A thief enters a shop and threatens the clerk. He demands the clerk opens the safe for him, or he will kill the clerk. The clerk refuses to open the safe, instead he tries talking to the thief. The clerk says 'The code for the safe is different every day'; 'If you kill me now, you will never get into the safe.' </p><p>But the thief managed to get into the safe without the clerk telling him the code, and without killing the clerk. How did he know the code and what was it?",
      "answer": "different"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "I am found in the sea and on land.<br />I do not walk or swim.<br />I travel by foot but I have no toes.<br />No matter where I go, I’m never far from home.<br />What am I?",
      "answer": "snail"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "Two fathers and their two sons go fishing together. They each catch one fish to take home with them. They do not lose any fish, and yet when they arrive at home they only have three fish. </p><p>How can this be?",
      "answer": "grandfather"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "I weaken all men for hours each day. <br />I show you strange visions while you are away. <br />I take you by night, by day take you back. <br />None suffer to have me, but do from my lack.<br />What am I?",
      "answer": "sleep"
    },
    {
      "riddle": "First think of the person who lives in disguise,<br />Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.<br />Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,<br />The middle of middle and end of the end?<br />And finally give me the sound often heard,<br />During the search for a hard-to-find word.<br />Now string them together and answer me this,<br />Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?",
      "answer": "spider"
    }
  ]
}