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classic riddles for kids
1. What has a head and a tail but no body?
coin.
2. Which letter in the alphabet has the most water content?
“C”
3. What is Black and White Unlimited Reading?
It’s a newspaper.
4. What is something that grows bigger the more you take it away?
It’s a hole.
5. Which month has 28 days?
Every month has at least 28 days.
6. If you don’t protect it, it will break. What am I?
It’s a promise.
7. It fills up a room but doesn’t take up much space. What am I?
light.
8. Lifting is easy for me, but throwing is difficult. What am I?
It’s a feather.
9. What must be broken before eating?
egg.
10. Where can I find the Friday before Thursday?
In the dictionary.
11. Name two things you should never eat for breakfast.
lunch and dinner.
12. What kind of room is without walls, doors, or windows?
mushroom.
13. What goes up but doesn’t come down?
year.
14. What building has the most floors?
library.
15. What has a ring but no finger?
phone.
animal riddles for kids
16. What happens when a sheep learns karate?
Lamb chops.
17. My teddy bear is never hungry. why?
He’s full.
18. Which fish is the most expensive?
goldfish.
19. Which two keys cannot open any door?
monkey and donkey.
20. What is the frog’s favorite game?
Leapfrog.
21. How do you catch schools of fish?
With bookworms.
22. What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?
It is the shadow of an elephant.
23. What do you call it when a dinosaur makes a soccer goal?
Dinosaur score.
24. Does anyone wear shoes when they sleep?
It’s a horse.
math riddles for kids
25. Adding 9 to 5 equals 2. The answer is correct, so what am I?
clock. If it is 9 a.m., add 5 hours and it will be 2 p.m.
26. Which number stays the same no matter what number it is multiplied by?
0.
27. A train is heading east at 400 miles per hour. How fast will the smoke blow?
Trains don’t emit smoke.
28. Kavita has 3 strawberries and 2 oranges in one hand and 2 strawberries and 4 oranges in the other hand. How many oranges and strawberries are there in Kavita?
6 oranges and 5 strawberries.
29. Bill, Judy, and Dane attended a baseball game together and each bought one ticket. How many tickets did they buy in total?
3.
30. How many times can you subtract 10 from 25?
one time. First we subtract 10 from 25, which gives us 15.
31. What is 1,000 when you add 8 8s?
8 + 8 + 8 + 88 + 888 = 1,000.
32. Rachel goes to the supermarket and buys 10 tomatoes. Unfortunately, all but 9 of them were ruined on the way home. How many tomatoes are left in good condition?
9.
33. I was 9 years old when my father was 30 years old. I’m 40 years old now, how old is my father now?
61.
34. How do you equalize the number 7 without adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing?
Delete “S”.
35. What comes before 11 and after 15?
10 and 16.
36. When Rebecca was 8 years old, her younger brother Bob was half her age. If Rebecca is 20 years old today, how old is Bob?
16.
37. What can we put between 4 and 5 so that the result is greater than 4 and less than 5?
Decimal number.
38. How many sides does a square have?
4.
39. If 2 is the company and 3 is the crowd, what are 4 and 5?
9.
40. When are 1500 plus 20 and 1600 minus 40 the same?
When it comes to military time.
Word riddles for kids
41. What four-letter word can be written the same way backwards and forwards?
noon.
42. What words start and end with “E” but have only one letter?
envelope.
43. What English word has three consecutive two letters?
Bookkeeper.
44. We won’t meet at all in March, May, or January, but please meet once in June and twice in November. What am I?
The letter “E”.
45. How do I erase the word “1”?
Add “G” to the beginning and it will disappear.
46. What’s at the end of the rainbow?
The letter “W”.
47. I’m not on Venus or Neptune, but you can find me on Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus. What am I?
The letter “R”.
48. Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?
Wrong.
49. What 5 letter word is shortened by adding 2 letters?
short.
50. What is a 7-letter word that has the same spelling?
race car.
object riddles for kids
51. What has many keys but cannot open one door?
piano.
52.What is something that you can’t chew even though you have lots of teeth?
comb.
53. What has a neck but no head?
bottle.
54. I travel all over the world but never leave my corner. What am I?
It’s a stamp.
55. What games are dangerous for mental health?
You don’t want to lose your marbles.
56. What has legs but cannot walk?
stool.
57. People buy me to eat, but I cannot be eaten. What am I?
dish.
58. What is the one thing you always get answered without being asked?
doorbell.
59. What is something that has holes all over it but still holds water?
sponge.
60. I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
battery.
61. What is something you have words for but never talk about?
Book.
62. I’m light as a feather, but even the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
your breath.
63. What gets wet easily when it dries?
towel.
64. I have a face and arms, but no legs. What am I?
clock.
65. What doesn’t make your heart beat?
artichoke.
66. I start with a “t”, end with a “t”, and have a “t” in me. What am I?
teapot.
67.What has a city but no houses, a forest but no trees, a river but no water?
map.
Life and nature riddles for kids
68. The more you take away, the more you leave behind. What am I?
footsteps.
69. What goes down but doesn’t go up?
rain.
70. What can you not sew even though you have a lot of needles?
pine tree.
71. I do not live, but I grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. They don’t have mouths, but if they have water they will die. What am I?
fire.
72.What kind of wood can you carry in your hand?
palm tree.
73. Children can make it, but they will never hold it or look at it. What is it?
noise.
74. Everyone has it, but no one can lose it. What is it?
shadow.
Funny riddles for kids
75. Bobby’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle, ___?
Bobby.
76. Where would you board a sick ship?
To the dockter.
77. What is something that loses its head in the morning but returns to normal at night?
pillow.
78. What is the brown thing that has a head and a tail but no legs?
penny.
79. What do you have 88 teeth that you have never brushed?
piano.
80. You enter a room with matches, candles, and a fireplace. Which one should I light first?
game.
81. If you throw a black stone into the Red Sea, what will it become?
I got wet.
82. Why did the golfer wear a second pair of pants?
He got a hole in one.
83. Why did the soccer coach go to the bank?
He wanted his own quarterback.
84. How do seashells move through the ocean?
Taxi crab.
85. Imagine being locked in a closet with the door locked. How do you get out?
Please stop imagining it.
86. What is something that other people use that is unique to you?
your name.
87. What did the sea say to the sand?
Nothing, just a wave.
Tricky riddles for kids
88. Is it possible for a woman to go 10 days without sleeping?
Yes, she sleeps at night.
89. How many animals did Moses put on the ark?
zero. Noah took them.
90. When the water goes down, it goes up. What am I?
umbrella.
91. What do you call a man who is missing all the fingers on one hand?
Humans are men because they have fingers on both hands.
92. A woman called for a horse from the other side of the river. The horse crossed the river without getting wet and without using a boat or a bridge. how?
The river was frozen.
93. I see the boat full of people. The ship hadn’t sunk, but when I looked again, there was no one on board. Why not?
they are all married.
94. Three men jump into the water, but only two come out with wet hair. why?
The third man was bald.
95. My life is measured in time and I serve you by expiring. It’s fast when you’re thin and slow when you’re fat. The wind is my enemy. What am I?
candle.
96. What is white but smells like blue paint?
white paint.
97. A woman fell from a 30-foot ladder and was not injured. how?
She was standing on the bottom step.
98. On Friday, a cowboy came into town on his horse. He stayed three nights and rode out on Friday. How is this possible?
The horse’s name is Friday.
99. A train collided and everyone died. Who lived there?
couples.
100. When Amy threw the ball with all her might, it came back to her without touching anything or anyone. how?
She threw the ball up in the air.
101. Sally’s father has five daughters: Sammy, Stella, Sarah, and Sadie. Please guess the name of the fifth daughter.
Sally.
102. What is the fastest way to double your money?
Place it in front of the mirror.
103. A red house is made of red bricks, a blue house is made of blue bricks, and an orange house is made of orange bricks. What is the greenhouse made of?
It’s usually glass so plants can grow more easily.
104. What comes once a minute, twice in an instant, but never in a thousand years?
The letter “M”.
105. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
gloves.
106. A one-story house has a green chair, a green bed, a green computer, a green sofa, green flowers, a green carpet, and a green table. What color are the stairs?
There are no stairs. It is a one-story house.
107. There are many colors, but what is always black?
blackboard.
108. What comes at the end of everything?
The letter “g”.
109. What is something that has a key but cannot be unlocked, a space but no room, or something that can be entered but cannot be entered?
keyboard.
110.What can you see even though you have one eye?
needle.
111. If you have it, you’ll want to share it. Even if you share, you don’t have it. What is it?
It’s a secret.
112. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never speaks, has a head but never thinks, has a bed but never sleeps?
river.
113. What has a bottom at the top?
your legs.
114. What starts with “p” and ends with “e” and has thousands of letters?
post office.
115. What does not move even though it rises and falls?
It’s a staircase.
116. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right hand?
Right elbow.
117. I will be taken out of the mine and locked in a wooden box from which I will never be released. Yet, I get taken advantage of by almost everyone. What am I?
pencil lead.
118. What always comes but never arrives?
tomorrow.
119.What invention can be seen directly through walls?
window.
120. I shave every day, but my beard doesn’t change. What am I?
Barber.
121. What can you catch but not throw?
cold.
122. What is something that is always right in front of you but you cannot see it?
future.
123. What is made of water but will die if you put it in water?
ice cubes
124.What is something so fragile that it breaks when you say its name?
silence.
125. The more of this there is, the less you can see. What is it?
darkness.
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