How do you spell hard water with three letters?

Answer: Ice.

More Classic Riddles with answers

More Classic Riddles

How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the English language spelling of a whole number?
How is it possible to always find what your looking for in the last place you look?
How is it that a person born in Massachusetts, whose parents were both born in Massachusetts, is not born a U.S. Citizen?
How many birth days does the average person have?
How many black beans will make five white ones?
How many seconds are there in one year?
I am a word of five letters. Take away my first and I am the name of what adorns the estate of many of the nobility of England. Take away my first and second, and I am the name of a place where all the world was once congregated. Take away my last, and I am the name of a beautiful mineral. Take away my two last, and I am the name of a fashionable place of resort. I am small in stature but capable of doing a great deal of mischief, as I once did in London in the year 1666. What word am I?
I am a word of three syllables, each of which is a word; my first is an article in common use; my second, an animal of uncommon intelligence; my third, though not an animal, is used in carrying burdens. My whole is a useful art. What am I?
I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
I am big on Saturday and Sunday. Small on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I'm not on Monday or Friday. What am I?
I am born in fear, raised in truth, and I come to my own in deed. When comes a time that I'm called forth, I come to serve the cause of need. What am I?
I am more powerful than god and more evil than the devil. I am what rich people want and what poor people have. I can never die. What am I?