HardAbstract
"I exist all around you but I have no colour of my own. Without me you would see no colour at all. I am destroyed by darkness yet I create it. What am I?"
Answer
Light
Explanation
Light itself has no colour — it is a spectrum of wavelengths that the eye interprets as colour. Without light there would be no colour perception. Light is extinguished by darkness, yet the absence of light is what creates darkness.
This is a hard riddle in the Abstract category — Riddles about ideas, emotions, and intangible things.
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