Riddle O'Day – September Answers

Here are the answers to the Riddle O’Day riddles that are used each September at Big Sea Games. They are in alphabetical order by the first word of the riddle, when applicable. If you’re playing in another month, you can find that month’s riddles at our Riddle O’Day Answers list page. For the latest news and information on Riddle O’Day, check out our archive of Riddle O’Day posts.

Archived Riddles – September

A break that kids take
In the middle of the day
Time in the schoolyard
When everyone plays
- RECESS

A clown in the court
A comic in the ring
A hat with three points
A joker to the king
- JESTER

A wise Christmas trio
That came bearing gifts
- MAGI

Days gone by
It is behind us
- PAST

Given away
In front of guests
A change in name
And a brand new dress
- BRIDE

I am hard but much desired
Men seek me in the dark until they are tired
When they find me they break my head and
take me from my resting bed
- COAL

I connect here to there
Sometimes I’m a real card
You can guess what I am
Without trying too hard
- BRIDGE

I love to dance
and twist and prance
I shake my tail
wingless I fly into the sky
- KITE

I run through hills and veer around mountains
I leap over rivers and crawl through forests without ever moving.
- ROAD

It can’t stand alone for it is too tired
- BICYCLE

JFGJQ
EOOAU
SOOPI
TLFEP
- JOKE

LISTL SWARET NRU
- DEEP

LXERXKIJI
AXSHYSTER
WRIXXLBME
YXCOUNSEL
ENILBREXE
RDEFENDER
- ATTORNEY

Many clear coats have I
The more I take off
The more you cry
- ONION

My days are numbered
- CALENDAR

My sides are firmly laced
Yet nothing is within
My head is strange indeed
Being nothing else but skin
- DRUM

Neither big nor small
Not liquid or gas
Can be broken
- SILENCE

Rises in darkness
Yet reflects the light
Always the same
But different each night
-MOON

Sometimes a mirror
Reflecting the light
Sometimes a swarm
Falling from a great height
- WATER

Temper tantrums,
Parts in a play,
Let me set it for you,
Don’t make one I pray
- SCENE

The root tops the trunk
On this backward thing
that grows in winter
and dies in spring
- ICICLE

This is a dead giveaway
- WILL

Thousands of ribs
And two backbones have I
I run through the land
But on the ground I lie
- RAILROAD

Two are often better than one
- HEADS

Very nice, very neat
Has lots of teeth
But cannot eat
- COMB

Virtuous or unwell
Depending on the spell
- PATIENCE

VPPD
AIOA
NCLV
GALI
OSON
GSCC
HOKI
- PAINTERS

When boiled
This is hard to beat
It must be stripped
In order to eat
- EGG

When my head is turned
I am a portal
Turned again
I become a wall
- KEY

When you do not know what it is
Then it is something
But when you know what it is
Then it is nothing
- RIDDLE

With a million pennies
On A golden Fan
This Bird looks Richer
Than the Richest Man
- PEACOCK

YRREF
RENIL
TFARC
EONAC
FFIKS
POOLS
- BOAT