Riddles for Cerebral Beasts!

Cerebral beasts love to play mental games with their prey.  Sometimes they will pose riddles to challenge the party, offering freedom, friendship, or information in exchange for correct answers.  (Other times they simply laugh and continue with their sinister plots.)

Note:  Some beasts, such as the Sphinx above, can belong to several categories.  In the case of the Sphinx, consider it both a Cerebral and a Flying beast.

Riddles for Cerebral Beasts

1. A box without hinges, key, or lid.  Yet inside a golden treasure is hid.
2. Thirty-six horses upon a pink hill.  Now they champ, now they stamp, now they stand still.
3. Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
4. What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?
5. I talk, but I do not speak my mind. I hear words, but I do not listen to thoughts. When I wake, all see me. When I sleep, all hear me. Many heads are on my shoulders. Many hands are at my feet. The strongest steel cannot break my visage. But the softest whisper can destroy me. The quietest whimper can be heard.
6. There is a house. One enters it blind and comes out seeing. What is it?
7. This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
8. What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
9. Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.
10. At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen.
11. I never was, am always to be, no one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all to live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
12. The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place.
13. Runs over fields and woods all day, under the bed at night sits not alone, with long tongue hanging out, a-waiting for a bone.
14. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies.
15. It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you’ll die.
16. What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
17. What comes in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes, but not in decades, years or days?
18. The one who makes it, sells it. The one who buys it doesn’t use it. The one who uses it never knows.
19. What’s black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you’re all through with it?
20. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.
21. I am always hungry, I must always be fed, the finger I touch, will soon turn red.
22. I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be!
23. When young, I am sweet in the sun. When middle-aged, I make you gay. When old, I am profitably sold.
24. I drive men mad for love of me, easily beaten, never free.
25. My life is measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick, fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe.

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