FUN & GAMES
All My Palindrome Riddles
gallery | 77 riddles — making sense of nonsense
Welcome to my mostly “off-brand” and goofy palindrome riddles! If you’re not a word nerd or into goofy, I encourage you to skip this page entirely and explore something more meaningful.
Or find even more similarly silly stuff on my Kooky Koans page.
Thank you to the unknown authors of the palindromes. I wrote the riddle questions to go along with palindromes I found online.
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Palindromes are words or sets of words that are spelled the same forward and backward. For example the name “Hannah” is a palindrome, and so is “Did Hannah see bees? Hannah did.” (I have no idea how people figure these things out!)
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After my inner 10-year-old finished this project, I noticed this creative process was related to how I perceive reality and make sense of the world.
I first started making up these palindrome riddles in early 2020, just as news of the pandemic was getting real and things were starting to not make as much sense as before.
As a relief from solving the unsolvable riddle of pandemic preparation, I poked my nose into the world of palindromes. I found myself making sense of the many odd phrases I found there. In what scenario would someone say “Too bad I hid a boot.”? Who would merit the nickname “Dr. Awkward”? I made sense of the odd ideas by creating a scenario (the riddle question) in which a particular string of words (the palindrome) fit in. All in fun. I thought of it as a sidetrack from “real life.”
But then again, isn’t this what we do in real life? We see odd or unexpected happenings around us (e.g. a dawning pandemic) and want so much for it all to make sense. So, we conjure stories in which the new and unfamiliar fit right in.
The ability to conjure up stories and scenarios is a built-in creative capacity we all have and exercise regularly without even realizing it. It is a basis for functioning in an infinitely complex universe. But we can and do take it too far! The pandemic is teaching us that — among many other things.
How’s it going for you? Are there any old or new stories in need of a re-write?
Palindrome Riddles Categories
Animals
(Click on the riddles to see the answers.)
7 letters
9 letters / Tangy
12 letters / Hoot
12 letters / Pets, No
15 letters / Too, Bad, Hid
17 letters / Jar, Tuna, For
19 letters / Cat, Car, Saw
29 letters / Dog, Devil, Deified
9 Letters / Stunt
15 Letters / Nate, Bit
Arts & Entertainment
(Click on the riddles to see the answers.)
9 letters / Metal
13 letters / Name, One
17 letters / Flee, Remote
17 letters / Words, Alas, Drown
17 letters / Kramer, Not
17 letters / Yawn, Roman
19 letters / Potato, Pan, Otis
25 letters / Soon, Saw, Bob, Osiris
5 Letters
9 Letters / Tube
3 Letters
Food
(Click on the riddles to see the answers.)
7 letters / UFO
13 letters / Salami
14 Letters / Roll, Nut
15 letters / Lager
15 letters / Melon
15 letters / Such
15 letters / Did, Mom
19 letters / No, Trace, Carton
27 Letters / Was, Ere, Desserts
Math & Science
(Click on the riddles to see the answers.)
4 letters
7 letters / Ton
7 letters / Don't
9 letters / Prefer
14 letters / Never
4 Letters
9 Letters / Nurses
13 Letters
11 Letters
10 Letters / Tom, Moths
People
(Click on the riddles to see the answers.)
3 letters
11 letters / Borrow
12 letters / No, Side
17 letters / Erases, Dot
10 Letters / Nixon
9 letters / Awkward
36 Letters / Swap, Janitor, Jar, Dog
13 Letters / O, Stone
5 Letters
15 Letters, Now, Sir, War
Sports & Hobbies
(Click on the riddles to see the answers.)
7 Letters
23 letters / Bonsai, Man, Am
15 letters / Pull, Up, If
5 letters / We
7 Letters / Top
9 Letters / Rams
17 Letters / Men, Inward
Things
(Click on the riddles to see the answers.)
7 letters
9 letters / Tons
9 letters / Tie, On
15 letters / Ed, Lotion
21 letters / It, Eliot's, Saw
29 Letters / Cigar, Toss, Can
Spiritual & Religious
(Click on the riddles to see the answers.)
11 letters / Adam, I'm
11 letters / Sages
12 letters
9 letters / Tara
11 letters / Dammit
11 letters / I, Love
19 letters / Ma, Selfless, I
13 letters / Geese, God
3 letters
15 Letters / Aloof, Am
41 Letters / Propagates, Prevention
11 Letters / Dogma
10 Letters / Is, It
19 Letters / Dennis, Edna
13 Letters / Doo, God
7 Letters / Bird