100 Fun Riddles For Kids With Answers
Riddles are like linguistic acrobatics that challenge the mind, often leaving you scratching your head or chuckling in delight when you finally crack the code. For kids, they're not just amusing wordplay but a gateway to the world of critical thinking and problem-solving.
Therefore, the next time a child gleefully shouts the answer to a riddle, they're not just solving a puzzle but are unlocking the doors to a world where curiosity is the key and imagination is the map. So, let's begin the fun!
Easy Riddles For Kids
1. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg
2. Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
3. Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them
4. Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
5. Riddle: What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
6. Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
7. Riddle: There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
8. Riddle: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise
9. Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
10. Riddle: A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
Answer: He was bald.
Fun Riddles For Kids
11. Riddle: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo.
12. Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.
13. Riddle: I'm tall when I'm young, and short when I'm old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
14. Riddle: What has keys but can't open locks?
Answer: A piano.
15. Riddle: I'm full of holes, but still hold water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge.
16. Riddle: The more you cut, the bigger I grow. What am I?
Answer: A hole.
17. Riddle: I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A joke.
18. Riddle: What has a heart that doesn't beat?
Answer: An artichoke.
19. Riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter 'M'.
20. Riddle: I'm not alive, but I can grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
21. Riddle: What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel
22. Riddle: What can you keep after giving to someone?
Answer: Your word
23. Riddle: I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
Answer: A barber
24. Riddle: You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
Answer: All the people on the boat are married.
25. Riddle: You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
Answer: The match
26. Riddle: A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
Answer: He was born on February 29.
27. Riddle: I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
Answer: A bank
28. Riddle: What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo
29. Riddle: The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer: Darkness
30. Riddle: What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
Answer: A potato
Mystery Riddles For Kids
31. Riddle: David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?
Answer: David
32. Riddle: I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow
33. Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano
34. Riddle: What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Answer: Your right elbow
35. Riddle: What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
Answer: A chalkboard
36. Riddle: What gets bigger when more is taken away?
Answer: A hole
37. Riddle: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Your breath
38. Riddle: I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
Answer: Yarn
39. Riddle: Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: The dictionary
40. Riddle: What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window
41. Riddle: If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?
Answer: A secret
42. Riddle: What can’t be put in a saucepan?
Answer: It’s a lid
43. Riddle: What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase
44. Riddle: If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Answer: Second place
45. Riddle: It belongs to you, but others use it more than you do. What is it?
Answer: Your name
46. Riddle: What has one eye, but can’t see?
Answer: A needle
47. Riddle: What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?
Answer: A Christmas tree
48. Riddle: What has hands, but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock
49. Riddle: What has legs, but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table
50. Riddle: What has one head, one foot and four legs?
Answer: A bed
Riddles For Kindergarteners
51. Riddle: I'm tall and green, with leaves that sway. Children love to swing and play. What am I?
Answer: A tree.
52. Riddle: I'm round and bright up in the sky, I come out at night. What am I?
Answer: The moon.
53. Riddle: I have a fluffy tail, and I hop around. In gardens and parks, I can be found. What am I?
Answer: A bunny/rabbit.
54. Riddle: I'm a yellow fruit, and monkeys love me. I rhyme with "banana." What am I?
Answer: Banana.
55. Riddle: I'm the king of the jungle, with a mighty roar. Stripes on my back, but I'm not a bore. What am I?
Answer: A tiger.
56. Riddle: I have a mane and love to roar. In the zoo, you'll hear me for sure. What am I?
Answer: A lion.
57. Riddle: I'm small and red, juicy to eat. On ice cream or in a pie, I'm a treat. What am I?
Answer: Strawberry.
58. Riddle: I quack, waddle, and swim in a pond. Feathers so soft, and I'm never fond of a frown. What am I?
Answer: A duck.
59. Riddle: I'm a big, gray animal, with a long trunk. In hot weather, I like to splash and dunk. What am I?
Answer: An elephant.
60. Riddle: I'm a little insect, buzzing around. I make honey, and in flowers, I'm found. What am I?
Answer: A bee.
61. Riddle: I'm a pet in a bowl, with fins and scales. Colorful and small, in the water, I trail. What am I?
Answer: A fish.
62. Riddle: I'm white and cold, falling from the sky. In winter, kids use me to build and fly. What am I?
Answer: Snow.
63. Riddle: I'm a farm animal, oink is my sound. Rolling in mud, I love to be found. What am I?
Answer: A pig.
64. Riddle: I'm orange and round, a Halloween delight. Inside, I have seeds, and I give a fright. What am I?
Answer: Pumpkin.
65. Riddle: I'm a baby cat, soft and small. I purr when you pet me, and I love to sprawl. What am I?
Answer: Kitten.
66. Riddle: I'm a bird with colorful feathers, a symbol of peace. In the sky, I soar, and my cooing won't cease. What am I?
Answer: A dove.
67. Riddle: I'm a vehicle with four wheels, taking you from place to place. In traffic, I set the pace. What am I?
Answer: A car.
68. Riddle: I'm a sweet treat on a stick, a sugary delight. On a hot day, I melt, and kids take a bite. What am I?
Answer: Ice cream.
69. Riddle: I'm a furry friend, barking with glee. Loyal and true, always by your knee. What am I?
Answer: A dog.
70. Riddle: I'm a piece of furniture, cozy and soft. On me, you can nap or read a story aloft. What am I?
Answer: A couch/sofa.
Riddles For Middle Schoolers
71. Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven
72. Riddle: If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine
73. Riddle: What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?
Answer: One, two and three
74. Riddle: 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.
75. Riddle: Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: Neither—they both weigh a ton.
76. Riddle: Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Bill actually have?
Answer: None. He has three sisters.
77. Riddle: Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
Answer: They are a grandfather, father and son.
78. Riddle: The day before yesterday I was 21, and next year I will be 24. When is my birthday?
Answer: December 31; today is January 1.
79. Riddle: A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going home, all but three break. How many eggs are left unbroken?
Answer: Three
80. Riddle: A man describes his daughters, saying, “They are all blonde, but two; all brunette but two; and all redheaded but two.” How many daughters does he have?
Answer: Three: A blonde, a brunette and a redhead
81. Riddle: If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?
Answer: You have two apples.
82. Riddle: A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
Answer: Four sisters and three brothers
Tough Riddles For Kids
83. Riddle: What can you catch, but not throw?
Answer: A cold
84. Riddle: What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band
85. Riddle: What has many teeth, but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb
86. Riddle: What is cut on a table, but is never eaten?
Answer: A deck of cards
87. Riddle: What has words, but never speaks?
Answer: A book
88. Riddle: What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?
Answer: A fence
89. Riddle: What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
Answer: A stamp
90. Riddle: What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?
Answer: A glove
91. Riddle: What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
92. Riddle: Where does one wall meet the other wall?
Answer: On the corner
93. Riddle: What building has the most stories?
Answer: The library
94. Riddle: What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue
95. Riddle: What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards
96. Riddle: It stalks the countryside with ears that can’t hear. What is it?
Answer: Corn
97. Riddle: What kind of coat is best put on wet?
Answer: A coat of paint
98. Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs
99. Riddle: What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck
100. Riddle: What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Answer: Heroine
