RIDDLES FOR KIDS

NO RIDDLES ANSWERS

1 What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? A clock

2 What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter? Envelope

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters
3 Short
to it?

4 What has to be broken before you can use it? An egg

The letter “D.” The sequence contains the

5 What is next in this sequence? JFMAMJJASON . . .
first letter of each month.

They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the
6 Stars
day without being stolen. What are they?

7 What kind of tree can you carry in your hand? A palm

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in

8 The letter M
one thousand years?

9 I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?  A candle

10 Which letter of the alphabet has the most water? C

11 What goes up but never goes down? Your age

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What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a

12 The letter M
thousand years?

 I have keys but no doors. I have space but no rooms, I allow

13 A keyboard
you to enter but you are never able to leave. What am I?

14 What’s full of holes but still holds water? A sponge

15 What has one eye but can’t see? A needle

Using only addition, how do you add eight 8s and get the number
16 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
1,000?

17 The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? Footprints

18 What belongs to you but is used more by others? Your name

19 I’m full of keys but I can’t open any door.  What am I? A piano

20 What gets sharper the more you use it? Your brain

If I have it, I don’t share it.  If I share it, I don’t have it.
21 A secret.
 What is it?

I’m as hard as a rock, but I melt immediately in hot water.

22 An ice cube
What am I?
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23 What grows only upwards and can never come down? Our height

24 What has teeth, but cannot chew? A comb

25 I can carry lots of food, but cannot eat anything. A refrigerator

26 You cannot come in or go out without me. What am I? A door

27 I’m excellent to taste, but horrible to smell. What am I? A tongue

28 I am made of water, but I’m not wet. What am I? A cloud

29 I’m a single digit number having no value. Which number am I? Number 0 (zero)

A doctor and a boy were fishing. The boy was the doctor’s son,
30 His mother
but the doctor was not the boy’s father. Who was the doctor?

31 What gets wet when drying? A towel

32 What has a neck but no head? A bottle

33 Everyone has it and no one can lose it, what is it? A shadow
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What can point in every direction but can't reach the destination
34 Your finger
by itself.

I have no feet, no hands, no wings, but I climb to the sky. What

35 Smoke
am I?

36 What is shaped like a box, has no feet, and runs up and down? An Elevator

I have wings, I am able to fly, I‘m not a bird yet I soar high in
37 An airplane
the sky. What am I?

38 I am a fruit, I am a bird and I am also a person. What am I? Kiwi

39 What do cats, dogs, birds, fish and turtles all have in common? The letter S

40 What has feet on the inside but not on the outside? Shoes

41 What comes down but never goes up? Rain

42 What has one head, one foot and four legs? A bed

What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in
43 An anchor
when you don’t want to use it?

44 What can run but can’t walk? Water

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What goes up the chimney when down, but can't go down the
45 An umbrella
chimney when up?

You hear me once, you heard me again, and then I die until I am
46 An echo
called again.

47 The more you take away, the larger it becomes? What is it? A hole

Thousands lay up gold within this house, but no man made it.
48 Beehive
Spears past counting guard this house, but no man wards it.

I am so simple, that I can only point yet I guide men all over
49 Compass
the world.

50 If you feed it, it lives, If you water it-it dies! Fire

51 What has legs but cannot walk? A table

Creeping on its belly, curled into a ring.

52 Snake
Eyes forever open, beware its lethal sting.

Use me well and I am everybody, Scratch my back and I am

53 Mirror
nobody.

Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw
54 Corn
away the inside.

55 What kind of room has no windows or doors? Mushroom

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You can drop me from the tallest building and I'll be fine, but if
56 Paper
you drop me in water I die. What am I?

57 What has a head and a tail, but no body? A coin

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a
58 white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside Watermelon
the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?

59 What gets broken without being held? A promise

60 Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I? An onion

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man

61 His breath
couldn't hold it for more than a minute?

62 What is always coming but never arrives? Tomorrow

 I lose my head every morning, but get it back at night. What

63  A pillow
Am I?

What starts with a P and ends with an E and has thousands of

64 Post Office
letters in it?

You might be called this animal

If someone thinks that you’re afraid
65 Chicken
This is something that you might eat
As well as its eggs that it laid
What has a face and two hands but no I have no feet, no hands, no wings, but
arms or legs? I climb to the sky. What am I?

Answer: Answer:

What word begins and ends with What is shaped like a box, has no feet,
an E but only has one letter? and runs up and down?

Answer: Answer:
What five-letter word becomes shorter
I have wings, I am able to fly, I‘m not
when you add two letters to it?
a bird yet I soar high in the sky. What
am I?
Answer:

What has to be broken before you can I am a fruit, I am a bird and I am also
use it? a person. What am I?

Answer: Answer:
What is next in this sequence? What do cats, dogs, birds, fish and
JFMAMJJASON . . . turtles all have in common?

Answer: Answer:

They come out at night without being

called, and are lost in the day without
What has feet on the inside but not on
being stolen. What are they?
the outside?

Answer:
What kind of tree can you carry in your
What comes down but never goes up?
hand?

Answer:
Answer:

What occurs once in a minute, twice in

What has one head, one foot and four
a moment, and never in one thousand
legs?
years?

Answer:
Answer:
 What do you throw out when you want
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short
to use it, but take in when you don’t
when I’m old. What am I?
want to use it?

Answer:
Answer:

Which letter of the alphabet has the

What can run but can’t walk?
most water?

Answer:
Answer:

What goes up but never goes down?
Answer:
What goes up the chimney when down,
but can't go down the chimney when
up?
Answer:

What comes once in a minute, twice in

You hear me once, you heard me again,
a moment, but never in a thousand
and then I die until I am called again.
years?

Answer:
Answer:
 I have keys but no doors. I have space
The more you take away, the larger it
but no rooms, I allow you to enter but
becomes? What is it?
you are never able to leave. What am I?

Answer:
Answer:

Thousands lay up gold within this house,

What’s full of holes but still holds but no man made it. Spears past
water? counting guard this house, but no man
wards it.
Answer:
Answer:
 I am so simple, that I can only point
What has one eye but can’t see?
yet I guide men all over the world.

Answer:
Answer:

Using only addition, how do you add If you feed it, it lives, If you water it-
eight 8s and get the number 1,000? it dies!

Answer: Answer:
The more you take, the more you leave
What has legs but cannot walk?
behind. What are they?

Answer:
Answer:

Creeping on its belly, curled into a ring.

What belongs to you but is used more
Eyes forever open, beware its lethal
by others?
sting.

Answer:
Answer:
I’m full of keys but I can’t open any Use me well and I am everybody,
door.  What am I? Scratch my back and I am nobody.

Answer: Answer:

Remove the outside, cook the inside,

What gets sharper the more you use it?
eat the outside, throw away the inside.

Answer:
Answer:
If I have it, I don’t share it.  If I share What kind of room has no windows or
it, I don’t have it.  What is it? doors?

Answer: Answer:

You can drop me from the tallest

I’m as hard as a rock, but I melt
building and I'll be fine, but if you drop
immediately in hot water. What am I?
me in water I die. What am I?

Answer:
Answer:
What grows only upwards and can never What has a head and a tail, but no
come down? body?

Answer: Answer:

There was a green house. Inside the

green house there was a white house.
What has teeth, but cannot chew? Inside the white house there was a red
house. Inside the red house there were
Answer: lots of babies. What is it?

Answer:
I can carry lots of food, but cannot eat
What gets broken without being held?
anything.

Answer:
Answer:

You cannot come in or go out without Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you
me. What am I? will! What am I?

Answer: Answer:
 What is as light as a feather, but even
I’m excellent to taste, but horrible to
the world's strongest man couldn't hold
smell. What am I?
it for more than a minute?

Answer:
Answer:

I am made of water, but I’m not wet. What is always coming but never
What am I? arrives?

Answer: Answer:
I’m a single digit number having no  I lose my head every morning, but get
value. Which number am I? it back at night. What Am I?

Answer: Answer:

A doctor and a boy were fishing. The

boy was the doctor’s son, but the
What starts with a P and ends with an
doctor was not the boy’s father. Who
E and has thousands of letters in it?
was the doctor?

Answer:
Answer:
 You might be called this animal
If someone thinks that you’re afraid
What gets wet when drying?
This is something that you might eat
As well as its eggs that it laid
Answer:

Answer:

What has a neck but no head?

What can point in every direction but
can't reach the destination by itself.
Answer:
Everyone has it and no one can lose it,
what is it?

Answer: