πŸ€” Riddles for Kids

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All 91 riddles

What has hands but can't clap?

A clock
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What has to be broken before you can use it?

An egg
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I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?

A candle
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What has a neck but no head?

A bottle
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What gets wetter the more it dries?

A towel
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What can you catch but not throw?

A cold
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What has many keys but can't open a single lock?

A piano
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What goes up and down but doesn't move?

The stairs
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What has one eye but can't see?

A needle
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What building has the most stories?

A library
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What is full of holes but still holds water?

A sponge
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What has legs but doesn't walk?

A table
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What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

A stamp
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What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?

A glove
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What has teeth but can't bite?

A comb
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What month has 28 days?

All of them!
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What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it?

A teapot
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The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

Footsteps
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What is always in front of you but can't be seen?

The future
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What has a head and a tail but no body?

A coin
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What goes up when rain comes down?

An umbrella
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What kind of room has no doors or windows?

A mushroom
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What is black and white and read all over?

A newspaper
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I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?

A map
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What can fill a room but takes up no space?

Light
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What has four wheels and flies?

A garbage truck
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What can you hold in your right hand but not in your left?

Your left elbow
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I'm light as a feather, but even the strongest person can't hold me for long. What am I?

Your breath
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What has a bed but never sleeps?

A river
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What comes down but never goes up?

Rain
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What has lots of eyes but can't see?

A potato
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What do you call a bear with no ears?

A "B"
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What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

Silence
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Where does today come before yesterday?

In the dictionary
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What has words but never speaks?

A book
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I go around the house but never move. What am I?

A fence
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What can you break without touching it?

A promise
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What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?

The post office
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What has a ring but no finger?

A telephone
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What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?

A road
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What has to be answered but never asks a question?

A doorbell
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What has a bottom at the top?

Your legs
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Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

Neither β€” they both weigh a pound!
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What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?

Trouble
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What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?

A pillow
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If you drop me I crack, but smile at me and I smile back. What am I?

A mirror
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What kind of band never plays music?

A rubber band
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What flies without wings?

Time
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What has a head and a foot but no body?

A bed
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I have keys but no locks, space but no room. What am I?

A keyboard
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What is always coming but never arrives?

Tomorrow
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What gets bigger the more you take away from it?

A hole
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What has a thumb but no hand, and keeps your fingers warm?

A mitten
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What can you keep after giving it to someone?

Your word
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What is so light that it can float, but a hundred people can't lift it?

A bubble
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What do you find at the end of a rainbow?

The letter W
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What has many teeth but never eats?

A zipper
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What can you hear but never see or touch?

Your voice
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What is black when clean and white when dirty?

A chalkboard
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What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?

A coat of paint
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The more there is, the less you see. What is it?

Darkness
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I have leaves but I'm not a tree. What am I?

A book
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What is yours, but other people use it more than you do?

Your name
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What goes up white and comes down yellow and white?

An egg
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What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

A carpet
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What kind of dog never barks?

A hot dog
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What can clap without any hands?

Thunder
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A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 run away. How many are left?

9 β€” "all but 9" means 9 stayed!
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If you have three apples and you take away two, how many do you have?

Two β€” the two you took!
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What number do you get when you multiply all the numbers on a phone keypad?

Zero β€” because one of the numbers is 0!
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A rooster lays an egg on top of a barn roof. Which way does it roll?

It doesn't β€” roosters don't lay eggs!
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How many months have 31 days?

Seven: January, March, May, July, August, October and December
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I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?

Seven (take away the S and you get "even")
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What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Short (add "er" to make "shorter")
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What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

The letter M
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Mary's father has five daughters: Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughter's name?

Mary!
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What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never eats, and has a bank but no money?

A river
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How can you drop an egg on a concrete floor without cracking it?

Concrete floors are very hard to crack!
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What has 13 hearts but no other organs?

A deck of cards
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Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?

A ton ("not" backward)
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What goes up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?

An umbrella
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If two's company and three's a crowd, what are four and five?

Nine!
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What is the next number in the pattern: 2, 4, 8, 16, …?

32 β€” each number doubles
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What is the next letter in the pattern: J, F, M, A, M, J, J, …?

A β€” they are the first letters of the months
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A boy has as many sisters as brothers, but each sister has only half as many sisters as brothers. How many brothers and sisters are there?

Four brothers and three sisters
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I am orange, I have a face, and I glow at night in October. What am I?

A jack-o'-lantern
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I fly at night, I hang upside down, and I am not a bird. What am I?

A bat
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I stand in a field all day with my arms out, and I keep the crows away. What am I?

A scarecrow
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I fall in autumn but I never get hurt. What am I?

A leaf
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What has eight legs and spins a home every night?

A spider
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I am small, brown, and squirrels love to hide me. What am I?

An acorn
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