I can be black or white, but you won’t find me in the rainbow. What am I?
Category: Wordplay · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think about games played on a board.
Answer
A chess piece
Explanation
Chess pieces come in black and white and are not represented in the colors of a rainbow.
This is a expert wordplay riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is A chess piece.
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