What can be green, red, or yellow, but is never ripe?
Category: Wordplay · Difficulty: hard
Hint: Consider something that directs movement.
Answer
A traffic light
Explanation
The answer plays on the colors of a traffic light, which are never 'ripe' in the fruit sense.
This is a hard wordplay riddle — a tricky one that takes a little thought. The answer is A traffic light.
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