Classic Riddles #3 — Answers

Every answer from Classic Riddles Set 3, with an explanation for each. The two hard ones both turn on noticing what a word is doing rather than what it means.

#1easy

What has teeth but cannot bite?

Answer: a comb

A comb's teeth are the row of thin prongs that run through your hair.

#2easy

What has four legs in the morning, two at midday and three in the evening?

Answer: a person

A baby crawls on all fours, an adult walks on two legs, and in old age a walking stick makes three.

#3medium

What can you catch but never throw?

Answer: a cold

You catch a cold from someone else, but there is nothing solid to throw back.

#4medium

What goes up but never comes back down?

Answer: your age

Age only ever increases, no matter how much anyone might wish otherwise.

#5hard

What can fill a whole room without taking up any space?

Answer: light

Light reaches every corner of a room, yet it has no volume and displaces nothing.

#6hard

I am always in front of you, but I can never be seen. What am I?

Answer: the future

The future is permanently ahead of you and never visible, because the moment it arrives it becomes the present.