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.
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.
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
