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139 Fun And Easy Riddles For Kids
Those who have kids know that you must figure out a million ways to entertain the little devils each and every day. You’re in luck if your spawn can sit quietly and draw things for hours, but that’s a rare chance. So, you’re probably stuck thinking of new games and new ways to spend time with your babies, counting new gray hairs with each failed attempt. However, have you tried enticing your bairn with easy riddles for kids? You haven’t? Well then, this is your perfect chance to try yet another activity that might give your child something entertaining to do and at least half an hour for you to drink your coffee in peace.
These fun riddles are definitely suitable for kids - they are fairly easy to solve, they exercise the little brains, and your kid won’t even notice that he’s actually learning something new! A truly fruitful combo of entertainment and learning, these are. Also, to make it all even easier on your part, the simple riddles are each supplied with the correct answer, although we’d suggest letting your babies try and solve them first of their own accord. You might even try and solve these easy riddles together! Once you have your well-deserved coffee first, of course.
So, desperate for new ways to entertain your kids or just casually scrolling for things to do when you are babysitting your tiny little niece or nephew, these kids’ riddles might be just the thing you’re looking for. You’ll find the whole collection of these funny riddles just a bit further down, and once you are there, you can also vote for the ones you think to be the best!
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#1
Not many people have stepped on me. I never stay full for long. I have a dark side. What am I?
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#2
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
#3
What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?
Tharizin 🇺🇦 4 years ago
What starts with e and ends with e, and has one letter in between? There are actually two answers…
#4
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
#6
How do you make the number one disappear?
#7
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
#8
What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
#9
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
#10
What question can you never answer yes to?
#11
What 2 things can you never eat for breakfast?
#12
I’m easy to get into, but you can’t get out easily. What am I?
#13
What’s black and white and read all over?”
#14
If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
#15
What has words, but never speaks?
#16
What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
#18
It belongs to you, but your friends and family use it more. What is it?
#19
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
#20
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Aaron Marts 4 years ago
Actually you would then be looking through the window and being called a peeping tom
#21
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it, but almost nobody takes it. What is it?
#24
What is orange in color, green on top, and sounds like a parrot?
#25
Where would you take a sick boat?
#26
What has four wheels and flies?
#27
What is the end of everything?
#28
What building has the most stories?
#29
What has legs but cannot walk?
#30
What has a head and a tail but not a body?
#31
You’re running a race and at the very end, you pass the person in 2nd place. What place did you finish the race in?
#32
I sometimes run, but I cannot walk. You always follow me around. What am I?
#33
Riddle: Where are the lakes always empty, the mountains always flat and the rivers always still?
#34
During which month do people sleep the least?
#35
If you take away one hand, some will remain. What am I?
#36
What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?
#37
What falls a lot but doesn’t get hurt at all?
#38
If you feed me, I grow, but if you give me water, I die. What am I?
#39
There were two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck, and one duck in the middle. How many ducks were there in total?
#40
What’s as big as an elephant, but weighs nothing?
#41
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
#42
What kind of coat is best put on wet?
#43
It stalks the countryside with ears that can’t hear. What is it?
#44
What is cut on a table, but is never eaten?
BRODOOLERINGO 4 years ago
I cut a lot of things on my table. I only have one table and I like to do crafts.
#45
There is a rooster sitting on top of a barn. If it laid an egg, which way would it roll?
#46
A doctor drops off a young boy at school every morning before work. The doctor is not the child’s father, but the child is the doctor’s son. Explain.
#47
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
#48
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
#49
Tom’s father has three sons: Jim, John, and what’s the third one’s name?
#51
A man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?
#52
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
#53
What begins with an “e” and only contains one letter?
#54
What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
#55
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
#56
What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
#57
You can play me with cards, but don’t burn me. Rest glasses on me or walk across me. What am I?
#58
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
#59
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
#60
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?
#61
I am so simple, that I can only point yet I guide men all over the world.
#62
I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?
#63
What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?
#65
A group of bunnies were having a birthday party. What kind of music were they listening to?
#67
I have a head much smaller than my long neck. People who play with me pick at me and that’s fine. What am I?
#68
We come in a set. We can dash or pour. If we’re too much, the serving is ruined. If we’re held back, the course is flat. What are we?
#69
I get answered even though I never ask a question. What am I?
#71
You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. What would you light first?
#72
I have wings, I am able to fly, I’m not a bird yet I soar high in the sky. What am I?
#73
What can you keep after giving to someone else?
#74
What runs but never gets tired?
#75
What is made of water, but if you put it into water it dies?
#76
What is full of holes but still holds water?
#77
A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. Why?
#78
If two’s a company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
#79
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
#80
There’s only one word in the dictionary that’s spelled wrong. What is it?
#82
A man was driving a black truck. His lights were not on. The moon was not out. A lady was crossing the street. How did the man see her?
#83
The blue house is made with blue bricks and the red house with red bricks. What did they use to build the greenhouse with?
#84
Riddle: What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?
#85
I go up and down stairs without moving. What am I?
#86
I have to be opened, but I don’t have a lid or a key to get in. What am I?
Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
A box without hinges, key or lid yet golden treasure within is hid. What am I?
#87
I have four eyes, yet I can’t see a thing. What am I?
#88
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
#89
Where does Friday come before Thursday?
#90
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
#91
What kind of band never plays music?
#92
It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can’t go inside. What is it?
#93
What gets bigger the more you take away?”
#94
What has many keys but can’t open any doors?
#95
You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
#96
What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?
#97
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and white when you are done with it?
#98
What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
#99
What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
#100
A bus driver was heading down a busy street in the city. He went past three stop signs without stopping, went the wrong way down a one-way street, and answered a message on his phone. But the bus driver didn’t break any traffic laws. How?
#101
I add lots of flavor and have many layers, but if you get too close I’ll make you cry. What am I?
#102
If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
#103
What word contains 26 letters, but only has three syllables?
#105
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
#106
Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?
#107
If six children and two dogs weren’t under an umbrella, how come none of them got wet?
#108
A man started to town with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn. He came to a stream which he had to cross in a tiny boat. He could only take one across at a time. He could not leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How did he get them all safely over the stream?
Larysa Perih 2 years ago
Answer: He took the goose over first and came back. Then he took the fox across and brought the goose back. Next, he took the corn over. He came back alone and took the goose.
#109
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?
#110
How do you catch a school of fish?
#111
When Grant was 8, his brother was half his age. Now, Grant is 14. How old is his brother?
#112
Sometimes I’m short and fat and sometimes I’m long and thin with a nail at the end and red within. What am I?
#113
What tastes better than it smells?
#114
I am running all the time, but never get tired or hot. What am I?
#115
What period of time weighs the least?
#116
What has to be broken before you can use it?
#117
I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
#118
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
#119
What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes but not in decades, years, or days?
#120
How many animals did Moses take on the ark?
#121
After an electric train crashed, every single person died. Who survived?
#122
Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Bill actually have?
#123
A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How is this possible?
#124
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
#125
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
#126
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?
#127
I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
#128
You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. What am I?
#129
Mirabel has a very big family, she has 25 uncles, 25 aunts and 40 cousins. Each of her cousins has an uncle who is not Mirabel’s uncle. How is this possible?
#130
What has many teeth, but can’t bite?
#132
I sound like I could cut you, but I’m actually quite comfortable. I can be green or yellow. I can be stiff or soft. I am a friend to bugs and also bare feet. What am I?
#133
I have a stem, but I am not a flower. I have a foot, but I cannot hop. Children are too young to hold me. What am I?
#134
What kind of cup doesn’t hold water?
#135
What kind of apples do computers prefer?
#136
What kinds of stones are never found in the ocean?
#137
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?
#138
It’s raining at midnight, but the forecast for tomorrow and the next day is clear. Will there be sunny weather in 48 hours?
Larysa Perih 2 years ago
Answer: No, it won’t be sunny because it will be dark out. In 48 hours, it will be midnight again.
#139
What is made of water but if you put it into water it will die?
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