66 riddles for kids with answers
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Whether you’re looking for riddles that are easy or hard, funny or mathematical, we have you covered. This epic list of riddles for kids is sure to keep your little ones entertained for hours.
27 easy riddles for kids
These riddles are easier than some, but still plenty challenging enough for kids. Help your little one learn to think in new ways with these simple riddles - you'll be amazed at how long they can keep your child occupied!
1. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
2. What is always in front of you but can't be seen?
Answer: The future
3. Oliver's parents have three sons: two are called Snap and Crackle. What’s the third son's name?
Answer: Oliver
4. What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band
5. How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
Answer: 18 - three in ‘the’, seven in ‘English,’ and eight in ‘alphabet’
6. Riddle: What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle
7. I’m always on the table at mealtimes, but you never eat me. What am I?
Answer: Cutlery
8. If a man, his sister, and their dog weren’t under an umbrella, why didn’t they get wet?
Answer: It wasn’t raining
9. What can you always count on when things go wrong?
Answer: Your fingers
10. What word is spelled wrong in the dictionary?
Answer: Wrong
11. What can you catch, but not throw?
Answer: A cold
12. What has legs but can’t walk?
Answer: A table
13. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg
14. What begins with T, finishes with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot
15. I’m not alive, but I can die: what am I?
Answer: A battery
16. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Shorter. (Short + ‘er’)
17. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock
18. What has 88 keys, but can’t open a door?
Answer: A piano
19. What has a bed but never sleeps, can run but never walks and has a bank but no money?
Answer: A river
20. I shave 10 times a day, but I still have a beard: who am I?
Answer: A barber
21. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed
22. What is something you can only keep after you’ve given it to someone?
Answer: A promise
23. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole
24. Three men fell in a river but only two got their hair wet – why?
Answer: The third man was bald
25. A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. Why?
Answer: She fell off the bottom step
26. What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
Answer: A potato
27. Everyone has one and no one can lose it; what is it?
Answer: A shadow
23 hard riddles for kids
These riddles require a bit more lateral thinking, or knowledge of the world. Only the brightest kids will get the answers to these ones! Bamboozle your kid with these tricky riddles.
1. If a red house is made of red bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?
Answer: Greenhouses are made of glass
2. A rooster is facing West. If it laid an egg, which way would it roll?
Answer: Roosters don’t lay eggs
3. What has four eyes but can’t see?
Answer: Mississippi.
4. If you throw a yellow stone into the Red Sea, what will it become?
Answer: Wet
5. What happens once in a lifetime, twice in a moment, but never in one hundred years?
Answer: The letter “M”
6. If an electric train is travelling east, and the wind is blowing north, which way does the smoke go?
Answer: Electric trains don’t produce smoke
7. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
8. What goes up and down, but never moves?
Answer: A staircase
9. A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days, then leaves on Friday. How did he do it?
Answer: His horse’s name was Friday
10. What travels around the world but stays in one spot?
Answer: A stamp
11. There’s a one-story house where everything is yellow. The walls are yellow. The doors are yellow. Even all the furniture is yellow. What colour are the stairs?
Answer: There aren’t any stairs - it’s a one-story house
12. How far can a fox run into the woods?
Answer: Only halfway, otherwise it would be running out of the woods!
13. What question can you never honestly say yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep?
14. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old, what am I?
Answer: A candle
15. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence
16. What begins with an E but only has one letter in it?
Answer: An envelope
17. What’s easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble
18. Where does Friday come before Thursday?
Answer: In the dictionary
19. Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?
Answer: A map
20. What kind of coat can you only put on when it’s wet?
Answer: A coat of paint
21. You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “E”
22. Mr. Blue lives in the Blue house. Mr. Yellow lives in the Yellow House. Mr. Orange lives in the orange house. Who lives in the White House?
Answer: The President of the United States
23. What goes up but never comes back down?
Answer: Your age
9 funny riddles for kids
Half-riddle, half-joke - these brain teasers are sure to get your little one chuckling when the correct answer is revealed.
1. Why are ghosts bad at lying?
Answer: You can see right through them
2. What’s black and white and blue?
Answer: A sad zebra
3. Why did Mickey Mouse go into space?
Answer: He wanted to visit Pluto
4. Why do bees hum?
Answer: They don’t know the words
5. How can a leopard change its spots?
Answer: By moving from one spot to another
6. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs
7. What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot
8. What’s black and white and read all over?
Answer: A newspaper
9. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck
7 maths riddles for kids
These classic riddles will put your child's mathematical skills to the test.
1. If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine
2. I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven
3. How many months have 28 days?
Answer: All of them (some have more, too)
4. Which is heavier, a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: neither, they both weigh a ton
5. A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains, what is it?
Answer: Dozens
6. Mary has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother — how many children does Mary have?
Answer: Five, each daughter has the same brother.
7. You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make it a longer line?
Answer: Draw a short line next to it – now the first line is ‘longer’ than the short one.
If your little one can't get enough riddles, we highly recommend Riddles and Trick Questions for Kids and Family! It contains 150 short riddles and tricky brain teasers of low to medium difficulty and you can get it here at Amazon.
Little jokers might also like this practical joke kit – see more details here at The Works.
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