Riddles for kids are a great way to kick start creativity and help lateral and critical thinking as well as problem-solving, plus they’re fun to do.
We brought you the best Christmas jokes, best dad jokes, the best knock-knock jokes, and the ultimate fantastic facts for kids, now we have riddles and answers for kids. We have searched high and low, these riddles for kids have easy riddles, word riddles, maths riddles, and food riddles.
Kids always surprise us, they think outside the box and come up with ideas we may not have. They have a natural aptitude for learning (such as researching the answer to who is Guy Fawkes?), and can usually tackle a riddle that has you stumped. The best riddles engage a kid’s natural problem-solving skills and make them laugh along the way. Research shows the main benefits for solving puzzles and riddles are;
- Strengthens memory
- Better problem-solving skills
- Improved visual-spatial reasoning
- Increased IQ
- Improved mood
- Lower stress levels
- Increased attention to detail
Riddles for kids
Easy riddles
1. Riddle: What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?
2. Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them
3. Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
4. Riddle: What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel
5. Riddle: What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo
6. 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
7. Riddle: What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Answer: Your right elbow
8. Riddle: What gets bigger when more is taken away?
Answer: A hole
9. Riddle: What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: A staircase
Word riddles
10. 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.
11. Riddle: What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “g”
12. Riddle: What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
Answer: The letter “o”
13. Riddle: What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
Answer: NOON
14. Riddle: What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue
15. Riddle: What word contains 26 letters, but only has three syllables?
Answer: Alphabet
16. Riddle: Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?
Answer: The letter “r”
17. Riddle: You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e”
18. Riddle: What begins with an "e" and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope
19. Riddle: What begins with T, finishes with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
20. Riddle: There’s only one word in the dictionary that’s spelled wrong. What is it?
Answer: The word “wrong.” It’s the only word that’s spelled W-R-O-N-G.
21. Riddle: Which word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?
Answer: The word “short.”
22. Riddle: You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I?
Answer: The letter “R.”
Maths riddles
23. Riddle: If you took two apples from a pile of three apples, how many apples would you have?
Answer: The two apples you took.
24. Riddle: When Grant was 8, his brother was half his age. Now, Grant is 14. How old is his brother?
Answer: His brother is 10. Half of 8 is 4, so Grant’s brother is 4 years younger. This means when Grant is 14, his brother is still 4 years younger, so he’s 10.35.
25. Riddle: Mrs. Brown has 5 daughters. Each of these daughters has a brother. How many children does Mrs. Brown have?
Answer: They have 6 children. Each daughter has the same brother. There are 5 daughters and 1 son.
26. Riddle: I am a three-digit number. My second digit is 4 times bigger than the third digit. My first digit is 3 less than my second digit. Who am I?
Answer: 141
Food riddles
27. Riddle: You have to break me to use me. What am I?
Answer: An egg
28. Riddle: I am a fruit that is always sad. What am I?
Answer: A blueberry.
28. Riddle: What has an ear but can't hear?
Answer: Corn.
30. Riddle: I'm a room that you can eat. What am I?
Answer: A mushroom.
31. Riddle: I have no beginning, middle or end, but somehow people manage to eat me. What am I?
Answer: A doughnut.
32. Riddle: What kind of dog has no tail?
Answer: Hotdog
33. Riddle: What fruit never wants to be alone?
Answer: Pear
34. Riddle: What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: a carrot
35. Riddle: What 2 things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner.
What is a riddle?
A riddle is a fun type of brain teaser, it sounds like a question or statement that needs to be solved. Riddles and answers for kids are a great introduction to this fun - and sometimes competitive - wordplay.
Usually, riddles are worded in a misleading way, to throw you off the correct answer. Many have a double or hidden meaning that requires creative, outside-the-box thinking. Their answers are often unexpected, so if you're solving a riddle, think very carefully and creatively and really listen or read the riddle, sometimes the clue is in there.
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