What is it, what is it? That's the question that starts the challenging riddles known as riddles. Although they are very common among children, they are also popular with adults.
In antiquity, riddles were used by men as a challenge to prove wisdom. Now they are symbols of popular culture and Brazilian folklore.
In the structure of riddles, there is a question that usually has a difficult and, at the same time, funny answer. With this, participants must use logic to respond.
Check now some folklore riddles:
1. What is it, what is it? It has a head and teeth, it is not an animal and it is not a person.
Answer: Garlic.
2. What is it, what is it? One printer said to the other.
Answer: Is this sheet yours or is it my impression?
3. What is it, what is it? It never comes back, even though it never went.
Answer: The past.
4. What is it, what is it? The sphere said to the cube.
Answer: Stop being square.
5. What is it, what is it? It is full during the day and empty at night.
Answer: Shoe
6. What is it, what is it? Several yellow dots on the wall.
Answer: Fandangos climbers.
7. What is it, what is it? It feeds on leagues.
Answer: The roadrunner.
8. What is it, what is it? The zero said for the eight.
Answer: What a cool belt!
9. What is it, what is it? It is at the beginning of the street, at the end of the sea and in the middle of the street.
Answer: The letter “r”.
10. What is it, what is it? It has a tail, but it is not a dog; it has no wings, but it knows how to fly. If they let it go, it doesn't go up, and goes out in the wind to play.
Answer: The kite.
11. What is it, what is it? The tomato went to make in the bank.
Answer: Extract
12. What is it, what is it? A tiger that looks like an old man.
Answer: When it is a Bengal tiger.
13. What is it, what is it? The animal that is no longer worth anything.
Answer: The wild boar.
14. What is it, what is it? The bigger the less you see.
Answer: Darkness.
15. What is it, what is it? There's orchard and in your jacket.
Answer: Mango.
16. What is it, what is it? In an instant it breaks when you say his name.
Answer: Silence.
17. What is it, what is it? As the sun rises, it shortens, as the sun descends, it lengthens.
Answer: The shadow.
18. What is it, what is it? A little house without a door and without a window.
Answer: The egg.
19. What is it, what is it? A match said to a birthday candle.
Answer: It's always you that I lose my mind.
20. What is it, what is it? It never passes and is always ahead.
Answer: The future.
21. What is it, what is it? One caterpillar said to the other.
Answer: Today I'm going to take a walk around the apple.
22. What is it, what is it? It has eight letters and taking half of it still leaves eight.
Answer: BISCoito.
23. What is it, what is it? Breaks when spoken.
Answer: The secret.
24. What is it, what is it? It is deaf and dumb, but it tells everything.
Answer: The book.
25. What is it, what is it? The photographer's joke.
Answer: Nobody knows, because it hasn't been revealed yet.
26. What is it, what is it? It has legs, but it doesn't walk; It has arms, but it doesn't hug.
Answer: The chair.
27. What is it, what is it? When written with “o” it usually kills, when written with “a” it tends to tie.
Answer: Shot/Strip.
28. What is it, what is it? What the seal likes best.
Answer: Gossip.
29. What is it, what is it? The most certain place in Brazil.
Answer: The Sertão.
30. What is it, what is it? The zebra said to the fly.
Answer: You are on my blacklist.
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