Riddle O'Day – June Answers

Here are the answers to the Riddle O’Day riddles that are used each June 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 – June

A house with two occupants
an hourglass shape
break the walls
eat the tenants
then throw it away
- PEANUT

A rolling one gathers no moss
It describes the coldest
One in your kidney will hurt
The age is one of the oldest
- STONE

A warrior amongst flowers
He has a thrusting sword
To use whenever he must
To defend his golden hoard
- BEE

- MONSTER

Always old, but sometimes new
Never sad, but sometimes blue
Never empty, sometimes full
Never pushes, always pulls
- MOON

Everyone sees me
Without noticing me
For what they seek
Is beyond me
- WINDOW

Face with a tree
big as a house
a great beast am I
but scared of a mouse
- ELEPHANT

Goes through a door
But never comes in a door
And never goes out a door
- KEYHOLE

I sleep by day
I fly by night
without any feathers
I can still take flight
- BAT

If you have it
you want to share it
if you share it
you no longer have it
- SECRET

It can be written
It can be spoken
It can be exposed
- PROMISE

It has four legs
A foot and a head
It has no life
So it must be a
- BED

It has hands but no arms
It tells but cannot talk
It has a face but no head
It runs but cannot walk
- CLOCK

- MAGICIAN

- WAR

- CASTLE

Some try to hide from it
Some try to cheat it
But none will escape it
It is our fate to meet it
- DEATH

Sometimes called a rock
Often worth a great deal
A bauble or a precious stone
So tempting for some to steal
- JEWEL

Take one out
And scratch its head
It once was black
But now it’s red
- MATCH

The maker does not need it
The buyer does not use it
The user does not know it
- COFFIN

- WORM

There is a water
That can be found
But it is not from Heaven
Nor the ground
It always pours forth
From the same place
Can be sweet or salty
To the taste
- TEARS

They have no flesh or feathers
they have no scales or bone
yet they still have fingers
all of their own
-GLOVES

This can be broken without
dropping or hitting it
- PROMISE

This is sometimes put on a table
Often cut, but never eaten
- CARDS

This thing has four wings
but it cannot fly
it simply spins
against the sky
and whenever there’s
a gust or breeze
it does its work with
a quiet ease
- WINDMILL

This thing is missed
When it has flown
Until it is measured
It is not known
- TIME

Turn it once and what is out
Will not get in
Turn it again
What is in will not get out
- KEY

VLRS
EYHO
RRYN
SIMN
ECEE
SSST
- POETRY

Weight in my belly
Trees on my back
Nails in my ribs
But feet I do lack
- BOAT

You could say trickster
Or scoundrel or knave
A scalawag up to no good
A grafter, a cad
A lad full of mischief
Or just misunderstood
- RASCAL