Six Rhyming Riddles to Tease Your Brain

Six Rhyming Riddles to Tease Your Brain
A sea otter floats in Monterey Bay, Ca. in 2007. Fae/CC BY-SA 2.0
Evan Mantyk
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Put on your thinking caps. It’s time for an ocean of clever riddles. You'll find the answers at the end.

I. I travel thanks to water, But do not float or sail. More quickly than an otter And have a smoke-like tail.

What am I?

II. When at the beach, I soak up sun, Look down on waves (that’s always fun), But sometimes I get carried away, Especially on windy days.

What am I?

III. I walk where I like to enjoy a good salad And those lines on the road, well I find them invalid. Perhaps you have seen me while you’re driving past. Hey! those lights are nice but you’re going too—

What was I?

IV. I’m bigger than my mother But also I am smaller.  I’m colder than she is And when I talk she freezes. She wants me to use Danish Though I feel that’s a pain-ish.

What am I?

V. My hair is green and long. I always make a point. My body’s hard and strong But if you should disjoint It, you will see an eye; With tears of orange I cry.

What am I?

VI. An umbrella, a mushroom, A thick cream or a dream?  I keep changing my shape— The sky’s billowing cape.

What am I?

 
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Evan Mantyk
Evan Mantyk
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Evan Mantyk is an English teacher in New York and President of the Society of Classical Poets.