101 Riddles That Will Make Your Kids’ Day!
1. Riddle: It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?
Answer: Your name
2. Riddle: I am so simple that I can only point, yet I guide people all over the world.
Answer: Compass
3. Riddle: What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold
4. Riddle: What begins with T ends with T and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot
5. Riddle: What has thirteen hearts, but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards
6. Riddle: What is easier to get into than out of?
Answer: Trouble
7. Riddle: Remove my skin and I won’t cry, but you might!
Answer: An onion
8. Riddle: What can fill a room but doesn’t take up space?
Answer: Light
9. Riddle: Where are the lakes always empty, the mountains always flat and the rivers always
still?
Answer: A map
10.Riddle: A man looks at a painting and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s
father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting?
Answer: His son
11.Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano
12.Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future
13.Riddle: Lighter than a feather, there’s nothing in it, but the strongest man can’t hold it for
more than a few minutes.
Answer: Breath
14.Riddle: What has legs but cannot walk?
Answer: A chair
15.Riddle: If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine!
16.Riddle: Where would you take a sick boat?
Answer: To the dock
17.Riddle: What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
18.Riddle: If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but smile at me, and I’ll always smile back. What
am I?
Answer: A mirror
19.Riddle: I can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard? What am I?
Answer: A barber
20.Riddle: What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band
21.Riddle: Bob’s mother has three children. Their names are Huey, Dewey, and … ?
Answer: Bob
22.Riddle: What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
23.Riddle: What is powerful still so delicate that it breaks when you say its name?
Answer: Silence
24.Riddle: I can be cracked. And I can be made. I can be told. And I can be played. What am I?
Answer: A joke
25.Riddle: What is made of water, but if you put it into water it vanishes?
Answer: An ice cube.
26.Riddles: What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg!
27.What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock!
Easy and Funny Riddles for Kids
28.Riddle: There are 3 apples in a basket and you take away 2. How many apples do you have
now?
Answer: You have 2 apples. You took away 2 apples and left 1 in the basket.
29.Riddle: 81 x 9 = 801. What do you need to do to make this equation true?
Answer: Turn it upside down: 108 = 6 x 18
30.Riddle: What 3 numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?
Answer: 1, 2, and 3 (1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and 1 x 2 x 3 = 6).
31.Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age
32.Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven
33.Riddle: During which month do people sleep the least?
Answer: February (as February has fewer nights)
34.Riddle: There is one word spelled wrong in every English dictionary. What is it?
Answer: Wrong
35.Riddle: You see it once in June, three times in September and never in May. What is it?
Answer: The letter E
36.Riddle: How do you make the number one disappear?
Answer: Add the letter G and it’s “gone”
37.Riddle: Where does Thursday come after Friday?
Answer: The dictionary
38.Riddle: What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes but not in decades, years, or
days? Answer: The letter N
39.Riddle: What did the triangle say to the circle?
Answer: You are pointless.
40.Riddle: How many seconds are in a year?
Answer: Twelve — January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd…
41.Riddle:: A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains, what is it?
Answer: Dozens.
42.Riddle: When things go wrong, what can you always count on?
Answer: Your fingers.
43.Riddle: How many letters are there in the alphabet?
Answer: There are 11: three in “the” and eight in “alphabet.”
44.Riddle: If there are seven oranges and you take three away, how many oranges do you have?
Answer: Three, since that’s how many you took.
45.Riddle: You have a basket that’s one foot in diameter and one foot deep. How many apples
can you fit in the empty basket?
Answer: Only one, because then it’s not empty anymore.
46.Riddle: Ms. Smith has four daughters. Each daughter has a brother. How many kids are
there in total?
Answer: Five, there are four daughters and one son. Each daughter has the same brother.
47.Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them!
48.Riddle: Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle, hard all around. What am I?
Answer: A bed.
49.Riddle: Why was 6 afraid of 7?
Answer: Because 7, 8 (ate), 9!
50.Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.
Animal Riddles for Kids
51.Riddle: What kind of lion never roars?
Answer: A dandelion.
52.Riddle: What’s bright orange with green on top and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot.
53.Riddle: I grow down as I grow up. What am I?
Answer: A goose. Goose feathers are called down.
54.Riddle: A rooster is sitting on the roof of a barn facing west. If it laid an egg, would the egg
roll to the north or to the south?
Answer: It’s impossible — roosters don’t lay eggs.
55.Riddle: Why do bees have sticky hair?
Answer: Because they use their honeycombs.
56.Riddle: What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear.
57.Riddle: What’s black, white and blue?
Answer: A sad zebra.
58.Riddle: What has a thousand needles but cannot sew?
Answer: A porcupine.
59.Riddle: An elephant in Africa is called Lala. An elephant in Asia is called Lulu. What do you
call an elephant in Antarctica?
Answer: Lost.
60.Riddle: Without me Thanksgiving and Christmas are incomplete, when I’m on the table
everyone tends to overeat. What am I?
Answer: Turkey.
61.Riddle: I jump when I walk and sit when I stand. What am I?
Answer: Kangaroo.
62.Riddle: A cowgirl road into town on Friday. Three days later, she left on Friday. How is that
possible?
Answer: Friday is the name of her horse.
63.Riddle: I am a sea animal with eight arms and a soft body. I squirt ink to protect myself.
Who am I?
Answer: Octopus
64.Riddle: I am a big cat with black stripes and sharp claws. I love to hunt in the jungle. Who
am I?
Answer: Tiger.
65.Riddle: I am a slow-moving animal with a hard shell on my back. I love to munch on leafy
greens. Who am I?
Answer: Turtle.
66.Riddle: I have black and white stripes and live in Africa. I am the tallest land animal in the
world. Who am I?
Answer: Zebra.
67.Riddle: I am a colorful bird with a curved beak. I love to imitate human speech. Who am I?
Answer: Parrot.
68.Riddle: What do you call a pig that does karate?
Answer: A pork chop!
69.Riddle: Why did the chicken cross the playground?
Answer: To get to the other slide!
70.Riddle: What do you call a camel that can play music?
Answer: A dromedary DJ!
71.Riddle: What do you get when you cross a zebra with a donkey?
Answer: A zonkey!
72.Riddle: Why did the frog call his insurance company?
Answer: He had a jump in his car!
73.Riddle: What do you call a dog magician?
Answer: A labracadabrador!
74.Riddle: What do you get when you cross a sheep and a kangaroo?
Answer: A woolly jumper!
75.Riddle: Why do gorillas have big nostrils?
Answer: Because they have big fingers!
Hard Riddles for Kids
76.Riddle: What starts with a P, ends with an E and has thousands of letters?
Answer: The post office
77.Riddle: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm
78.Riddle: What building has the most stories in the world?
Answer: The library
79.Riddle: I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh
less. What am I?
Answer: Popcorn
80.Riddle: What runs but cannot walk, has a mouth but no teeth and has a bed but cannot sleep?
Answer: A river
81.Riddle: I’m taller when I’m young, shorter when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
82.Riddle: If you feed me, I grow, but if you give me water, I die. What am I?
Answer: Fire
83.Riddle: What’s full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
84.What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M.”
85.If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but smile at me and I’ll smile back. What am I?
Answer: Wet
86.What goes up but never comes back down?
Answer: Your age.
87.What is yours but mostly used by others?
Answer: Your name
88.I have cities, but no houses.I have forests, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map
89.You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I
Answer: The letter R
90.I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Your breath
91.What goes in a birdbath but never gets wet?
Answer: The bird’s shadow
92.What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner
93.What has many rings but no fingers?
Answer: A telephone
94.What has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile?
Answer: A clock
95.What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise
96.I go all around the world, but never leave the corner. What am I?
Answer: A stamp
97.Give me a drink, and I will die. Feed me, and I’ll get bigger. What am I?
Answer: A fire
98.If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
Answer: Wet
99.What word begins with E and ends with E, but only has one letter?
Answer: Envelope
100.I’m always on the dinner table, but you don’t get to eat me. What am I?
Answer: Plates and silverware
101.Which question can you never answer “yes” to?
Answer: “Are you asleep?”
