The Daily Riddle

Two legs was sitting on three legs holding one leg,
Along came four legs and seized one leg,
So two legs picked up three legs and threw it at four legs,
And four legs brought back one leg.

When the horse strokes the cat
The wood begins to sing.

By night they come without being fetched,
By day they are lost without being stolen.

What sits in the corner and travels around the world?

Brothers and sisters I have none,
But that man’s father is my father’s son.
Who is he?

What comes once in a minute,
Twice in a moment,
But never in a thousand years?

What goes up the chimney down,
But can’t go down the chimney up?

Little Nancy Etticoat in a white petticoat and a red nose,
The longer she lives the shorter she grows.

Make of me nothing – and nothing fits me,
Make of me something – and something I’ll be.

Something dead sits on something alive,
That sits on something dead,
That sits on something alive,
That stands on something dead,
That sits on something alive.