Riddle Me This
What's high in the sky,
and low to the ground,
yet it's bottom end,
can never be found?
---- A Rainbow
A box without
HInges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure
Inside is hid.
---- An Egg
From the Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
What goes on four legs in the morning,
on two legs at noon,
and on three legs in the evening?
Riddle of the Sphinx
---- A man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult, and walks with a cane in old age.
Greek Mythology. In Greek mythology, the Sphinx sat outside of Thebes and asked this riddle of all travelers. If the traveler failed to solve the riddle, then the Sphinx killed him/her. Should the traveler answer the riddle correctly,,the Sphinx would destroy herself.
Oedipus solved the riddle, thus ending the Sphinx. She killed herself. It wasn't the same Sphinx that is in Egypt.
