01 / 08

Un platito de avellanas

Que de día se recoge y de noche se derrama.

Gathered up by day, spilled out at night. Answer: las estrellas, the stars.

02 / 08

En alto vive

En alto mora, en alto teje, la tejedora.

She lives up high and weaves up high. Answer: la araña, the spider.

03 / 08

Una arquita

Que todos saben abrir, pero ninguno cerrar.

Everyone can open it, nobody can close it. Answer: el huevo, the egg.

04 / 08

Siete pájaros

Siete pájaros en una azotea, matando tres, ¿cuántos quedan?

Seven birds on a roof, you kill three. How many are left? Answer: the three dead ones.

05 / 08

Un cántaro lleno

¿De qué pesa menos?

A full jug. What does it weigh less of? Answer: de agujeros, of holes.

06 / 08

Morcilla o chorizo

Spain said de día, morcilla. Chile in 1911 said de dia chorizo.

By day a sausage, by night a little gut. Answer: la media, the stocking.

07 / 08

Pica i no saca sangre

A riddle Flores heard in Chile, about a plant native to the Americas.

It bites and draws no blood. Answer: el ají, chilli pepper.

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Riddles Eliodoro Flores printed in Chile in 1911. He linked around 60 to a book from Spain.

The same riddles crossed the Atlantic.

Tap for all 15 riddles, the words they teach and the level for each.