Tall when Young

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?




Similar Riddles

These types of puzzles are known as charades. What you have to do is to find two words that are referred to in the first stanza and the second stanza and put them together to form the third word in the third stanza.

Just for example, if my first refers to 'off' and my second refers to 'ice', then my whole will be the 'office'.

My first is present - future's past -
A time in which your lot is cast.

My second is my first of space
Defining people's present place.

My whole describes a lack of site -
A place without length, breadth, or height.

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How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?

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There is a box. The area of its top is 240 square units, the area of the front is 300 square units and the area of the end is 180 square units.

Can you calculate the dimensions of this box with the given data?

Asked by Neha on 19 Apr 2025


What is more useful when it is broken?

Asked by Neha on 30 Mar 2022

There are nine dots in the picture that has been attached with this question. Can you join all the dots by drawing four straight lines without picking up your pen?

Dots on Lines

Asked by Neha on 11 Nov 2023

What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?

Asked by Neha on 20 Feb 2022


There is a place where if I stand up straight, I will still be considered sideways.

Asked by Neha on 05 May 2025

I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 14 Mar 2025

A Monkey, a squirrel, and an Eagle are racing to the top of the mango tree. Assuming all these animals are in perfect shape, Which animal will reach to Banana first?

Asked by Neha on 10 Apr 2026


I have four wings but can't fly.
I express no emotions.
I am found on the exact spot every time you look.
I keep toiling away with a little sound.

Do you know what am I?

Asked by Neha on 10 Dec 2023

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The phrase “thinking outside the box” was popularised from the solution to a topographical puzzle involving 9 dots in a box shape.