100 tricky riddles that Soviet schoolchildren could easily guess

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Try to solve simple and difficult puzzles from the old Murzilka magazine.

Easy riddles

- 1 -

There is an oak tree. It has 12 nests. Each nest has 4 eggs, each egg has 7 chicks.

Year

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- 2 -

In the corner is a sieve, not by hands of vito.

Web

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- 3 -

Who is upside down above us?

Fly

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- 4 -

Many holidays are kept on the painted pages.

Calendar

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- 5 -

In the forest without fire, the boiler is boiling.

Anthill

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- 6 -

A man walked through the forest, carrying a mirror in his belt. He bowed to the forest, the forest fell.

Axe

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- 7 -

You can easily find me in the winter, but I always die in the spring; I grow upside down - upside down.

Icicle

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- 8 -

Who has eyes on the horns and the house on the back?

Snail

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- 9 -

White, but not sugar. Fluffy, but not a bird. No legs, but walking.

Snow

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- 10 -

Not a motor, but a buzzing sound. Not a pilot, but flying. Not a snake, but a sting. Not a warrior, but knocking down the enemy.

Wasp

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- 11 -

Home is not home. From the chimney - a column of smoke. All he walks with a shake. And the people are swinging back and forth.

Steamer

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- 12 -

He walks back and forth in the hallway, but does not enter the hut.

Door

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- 13 -

Olya, Katya, Tanya, Yasha, Borya, Rita pull a soft sign behind them.

October

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- 14 -

What animals are conifers?

Hedgehog

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- 15 -

The ball is small, but it tells you to cry.

Onion

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- 16 -

Salt, not salted, beans, not green.

F and G

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- 17 -

Shall give a hand to everyone who comes and everyone who leaves.

Doorhandle

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- 18 -

Himself on horseback, and legs behind the ears.

Glasses

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- 19 -

Walkers all over the world, but their legs are gone.

Boots

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- 20 -

Giants walk, hump the oceans. When they come to the shore, they will immediately disappear.

Waves

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- 21 -

Kolob-kolobok wandered to the ceiling.

The sun

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- 22 -

With two hands, with one he walks on water. Wears it on itself, not drowns.

A boat

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- 23 -

Two sisters swayed, sought the truth. They achieved the truth - they stopped.

scales

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- 24 -

No one scolds the boy, but they beat him endlessly. Until he hides, no one will calm down.

Nail

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- 25 -

What kind of freak had a piglet that he didn't spend and didn't make another?

Piglet

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- 26 -

I don’t know, I’ve been writing for a century.

Feather

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- 27 -

He was young - he looked good; under old age tired, began to grow dim. A new one will be born - it will be merry again.

Month

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- 28 -

Flies - squeaks. If he sits down, he will be silent.

Mosquito

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- 29 -

The ball is small, it does not order to be lazy; if you know the subject, you will show the whole world.

globe

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- 30 -

And in the morning the sun comes out - and you won't find a single grain!

Stars

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- 31 -

This is the house: one window. Every day at the cinema window!

Television

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- 32 -

Sits on a spoon, legs dangling.

Noodles

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Riddles are more difficult

- 1 -

There are wings, but not flying. No legs, but you can't catch up. Who is this?

A fish

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- 2 -

Bows, bows. When he comes home, it stretches out.

Axe

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- 3 -

Knocks, rattles, spins, walks all his life, and not a man.

Wall Clock

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- 4 -

Ringing, spitting, going back and forth. What it takes in the teeth, it will break into two parts.

Saw

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- 5 -

They don't eat me alone, and they don't eat much without me.

Salt

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- 6 -

What do you find in common with a tree and a book?

Sheets

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- 7 -

Brother and sister live next to each other, but flee from each other like enemies.

Day and night

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- 8 -

Small lake, but the bottom can not be seen.

A cup of milk

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- 9 -

I twist, grumble. I don't want to know anyone.

Snowstorm

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- 10 -

The bubble is small, like a star is a light.

Bulb

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- 11 -

Juicy and golden between the greenery flickers, and melts in your mouth.

Pear

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- 12 -

A throat-throat screams across the sea-ocean - receives an answer across the whole world.

Radio

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- 13 -

Curved like a rooster's tail, serrated like the teeth of a pike.

Sickle

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- 14 -

Daria and Marya see each other, but do not agree.

Floor ceiling

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- 15 -

What a beast: in the winter it eats, and in the summer it sleeps; the body is warm, but there is no blood; you will sit on it, and will not be taken from your place?

Stove

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- 16 -

There was a child - he did not know diapers. He became an old man - a hundred diapers on him.

Head of cabbage

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- 17 -

Two heads, six legs. And he goes on four.

Horse rider

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- 18 -

Where can no end or beginning be found?

Circle

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- 19 -

In a circle - a point, in a point - a night; whatever he meets, he will notice everything.

Pupil

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- 20 -

It flies without wings, bites without teeth. Less berries, stronger than a bull.

Bullet

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- 21 -

Yellow, not gold. It is melting, not the snow.

Butter

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- 22 -

There are always ships and, of course, people.

Nose

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- 23 -

Here is a house made of tin, and the tenants in it - the news.

Mailbox

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- 24 -

Peas were scattered on four hundred roads. The sun will rise - it will collect everything.

Hail

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- 25 -

In winter, the house is freezing, but not outside.

Window glass

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- 26 -

He lives without a body, speaks without a language, no one sees it, but everyone hears.

Echo

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- 27 -

Not tied - like a track, but tied - so clothes.

Thread

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- 28 -

Runs - makes noise, and in winter it is silent.

River

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- 29 -

The blue blanket ran high, sank down - turned into water.

Cloud

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- 30 -

In the evening he will arrive, lie down all night, and in the morning he will fly away again.

Dew

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- 31 -

Runs, runs - does not run out, flows, flows - does not flow out.

River

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- 32 -

From the hut - they dance, in the hut - they cry.

Buckets

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- 33 -

I swam in the water, but remained dry.

goose

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- 34 -

I sit under the glass, looking in one direction.

Portrait

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- 35 -

The ladies are there - crying and grumbling. I will not give anything - she is silent.

Pan

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- 36 -

He rides on someone else's back, but carries on his load.

Saddle

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- 37 -

The pillar is on fire, but there are no coals.

Candle

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Complex riddles

- 1 -

On a fossa, a fossa, one hundred fossa with a fossa.

Thimble

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- 2 -

No ears, but hears. No hands, but writing.

Record player

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- 3 -

The goby is horned, clamped in his hands. There is enough food, but he himself is starving.

Grip

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- 4 -

Who has as many eyes as there are days in a year?

Born on January 2

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- 5 -

That a large space passes without moving from its place?

Road

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- 6 -

The more I give, the more I grow. I measure my size by giving.

Pit

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- 7 -

Black, ankle. Bend over a lot.

Smoke

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- 8 -

Tied the knot, you can't untie it.

Lock

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- 9 -

Strength is not strength, but dirt has killed.

Soap

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- 10 -

Made of rags, but no threads are visible.

Paper

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- 11 -

No eyes, no ears, but he leads the blind.

Stick

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- 12 -

Who is not born, not learned, but lives by the truth.

scales

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- 13 -

Lives - lies. If he dies, he will run.

Snow

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- 14 -

There is water all around, but there is trouble with drinking.

Sea

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- 15 -

Bone threshold, and behind it a red talk.

Language

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- 16 -

In the summer - curls, and in the winter - in powder.

Birch

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- 17 -

No mind, but cunning.

Trap

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- 18 -

What is this road: whoever walks limps?

Ladder

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- 19 -

Light, small, but you can't throw it on the roof.

Feather

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- 20 -

It does not fly, does not sing and not a bird, but bites.

Fishing rod

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- 21 -

The skate flew around the whole world in a day.

Wind

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- 22 -

Two abdomens, four ears.

Pillow

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- 23 -

Outside is a bird, inside is a man.

Airplane

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- 24 -

The black horse gallops into the fire.

Poker

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- 25 -

Half a ring stretched from end to end.

Rainbow

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- 26 -

Stands over the river, shakes his beard.

Willow

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- 27 -

A hut was built without hands, without a hatchet.

Nest

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- 28 -

Emelka sleeps on a twig in a wooden cradle.

Nut

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- 29 -

He threw one and took a whole handful.

Corn

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- 30 -

In winter everyone is warmer, and in summer everyone is colder.

Cellar

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- 31 -

They have teeth, but they don't know toothache.

Rake

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