Sphinx Riddles 🦁 in 2024

As small as your thumb, I am light in the air, you may hear me before you see me, but trust that I’m there.

Some try to hide, some try to cheat; but time will show, we always will meet. Try as you might to guess my name.

As small as your thumb, I am light in the air. You may hear me before you see me, but trust that I’m here.

I create my lair with earthen string, and dispatch my prey with a biting sting.

Never resting, never still; moving silently from hill to hill; it does not walk, run or trot; all is cool where it is not

I have a thundering roar, and a hurried gait. I perpetually run yet in a sole place I wait. I have an endless mouth that runs deep. I lie in a bed, but cannot sleep

You can throw me out but you cannot lock me away. I can hardly survive when extremes are in play.
You will most definitely fall if you lose me but if you have to keep me, you will not be able to do it all

What is always old and sometimes new; never sad, sometimes blue; never empty, but sometimes full; never pushes, always pulls?

Never resting, never still; moving silently from hill to hill; it does not walk, run or trot; all is cool where it is not.

This thing all things devour: birds, beasts, trees, flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel; grinds hard stones to the meal

I’m alive, but without breath; I’m as cold in life as in death; I’m never thirsty, though I always drink

What is always old and sometimes new; never sad, sometimes blue; never empty, but sometimes full; never pushes, always pulls?

In spring I am gay in stunning array; in summer, more clothing I wear; when colder it grows, I fling off my clothes; and in winter quite naked appear.

In spring I am gay in handsome array; in summer more clothing I wear; when colder it grows, I fling off my clothes; and in winter quite naked appear.

What can bring back the dead; make you cry, make you laugh, make you young; is born in an instant, yet lasts a lifetime.

I disappear in the dark and appear in the day. You cannot feel me if you touch me.