30 Examples of Riddles and Answers

We must be familiar with one type of work literature pantun. Pantun uses words that are lined up in a stanza and have a certain meaning. Pantun is one of the old types of poetry that is still bound by the rules regarding the number of vocabularies word in the line, the number of lines in a stanza, and the rhyme. Pantun generally rhymes ab-ab or aa-aa. Pantun consists of several types such as riddle poems, advice poems, rhymes love, traditional rhymes, witty rhymes, and so on based on the content or age of the rhyme itself. For this time we specifically discuss examples of riddles and their answers.

Poetry riddles are included in the category of one type of literary game. The characteristics of this riddle rhyme contain interesting questions that can be answered. Questions are usually implied in the last line of the poem. This poem is enough unique so that it triggers people to think. The function of this poem is for entertainment. This riddle rhyme is very interesting by using language range and sharpen the mind. The following is an example of a riddle rhyme that can help you understand it more deeply.

Examples of riddles

Below are some examples of riddles:

(1) If the title is sandalwood

Take a bushel of rice

If the wise master is wise

What animal has horns on the feet?

Answer: rooster

(2) Parrot pigeon

Fly to the side of the garden of heaven

Try to find it, brother

The more filled the lighter

Answer: balloon

(3) Buzzing instead of beetle

Proboscis instead of elephant

Dark fog just fly

Almost to the living

 Answer: stinger bee/bee

(4) Not clams or snails

Hand-legged instead of compote

Flickering twinkling sitting covered

Crawling along the marsh in the grass

Answer: have

(5) Mr Pong Mr Mustafa

Mrs Dollah at her house

Mixed flour with coconut

Java sugar in the middle

 Answer: malacca cake/lompang

(6) If you go to the shop

Buy me the sugar cube

If you are a smart person

Is the animal bone one

Answer: sontong fish

(7) Take the shank and cut the knife

Low ripe fruit

Little little in black

Already big in red

Answer: red chili

(8) The fruit of virtue

Cook a piece on the beach

Loss of reason

What fruit is not stemmed?

Answer: Baby

(9) Slaves playing with stones

The stones are counted one by one

One-eyed straight body

What sharp tail is that?

Answer: needle

(10) The thorny teeth have been angled

The wood splitter is useful

If you are a smart person

What things eat two ways?

Answer: saw

(11) If you go to a shop, go shopping

Buy me a spoon and a spoon

If you're good, say it

The more contained the more bent?

Answer: rice

(12) Folding knife played by monkey

His hand was injured and he fell

Eat strong beyond measure

The fullness does not know to pile up?

Answer: fire

(13) The princess learns to dance

Dance is taught by Mr. Harun

If you are wise, bestari

What goes up never goes down?

Answer: age

(14) Looking for stones in the middle of the market

After the market is all over

If it looks smart

What animal has a tail on the head?

Answer: elephant

(15) Go to the village wearing batik

Strolling through the fields

What is the thing that will rise

When the water falls down?

Answer: umbrella

(16) Go to the fields to plant seeds

Don't forget to bring a hoe

Black face is white

Sweet taste like sugar

Answer: mangosteen

(17) Rarely go to the watch shop

If you go, come down rain

This animal has sharp teeth

When you go to sleep

Answer: crocodile

(18) Carrying sacks was dragged along

The more torn the snake bites

White people sitting in a row

Fence inside wall outside

Answer: teeth

(19) Have a body as well as hands

Lost the head and legs

Likes to help when it rains

Guess what this is?

Answer: rain

(20) Live quietly inside village

Have one leader

Hard working workers

Soldiers on duty all the time

Answer: ants

(21) Planting trees in a large garden

The garden is beautiful and colorful

It is a beast

His beard is thick and brave

Answer: lion

(22) Looking for fish in the middle of the river

Wear bait in the form of worms

The body is very wide

Many feathers are not fleshy

Answer: carpet

(23) Together we learn yoga

So that the body is always healthy

Eyes four legs three

The road bends the skin withers

Answer: grandparents

(24) Don't make fun of yourself

Can lose in the end

There are leaves without trees

Every building has it?

Answer: door

(25) He is the brave one

The house is in a stone cave

My eyes are three colorful

Don't have a single hand

Answer: red light

(26) Sailing the ship from veranda

Towards the Strait of Malacca

Width of head than body

What is it, guess what?

Answer: stingray

(27) Seeing the stars in the dark sky

As for the moon covered in ash

Is the blood beast black

The eight-bone beard is one?

Answer: squid

(28) Jaka visited the lady's house

Want to propose to his daughter

Sweet red in color

What's the fruit on the outside?

Answer: cashew fruit

(29) The tree is round with shady leaves

Sour and green when young

Its shape is like a star

Even if it's cooked, it's yellow

Answer: star fruit

(30) If you buy a mat

The mat is made of mengkuang

If you are really smart

What snake is wrapped around the waist

Answer: belt

The riddle rhymes are made by paying attention to the use of interesting words and rhyme rhythmic ending. This riddle rhyme makes the listener or reader try to think about the meaning of one word by one which is then further emphasized by the fourth line. The riddle contains four lines. In the third and fourth lines, then the words used are more directed to the answer than the first and second lines. Most of the riddle poems describe a particular object or object from the characteristics of its form or function.

Pantun is also often used in everyday life for the purpose of entertaining or filling spare time. Pantun often uses words that do not directly have the meaning of the object in question but use words such as in poetry which means false.

Hopefully this article on the example of riddles and their answers provides insight for you and is useful.