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60 Riddles for Kids
1. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A clock
2. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
3. What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter?
Envelope
4. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle
5. What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel
6. Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
7. What starts with a P, ends with an E and has thousands of letters?
The Post Office
8. What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
9. What begins with T ends with T and has T in it?
A teapot
10. How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
There are 18: 3 in the, 7 in English, and 8 in alphabet.
11. Which month has 28 days?
All of them, of course
12. Three men were in a boat. It capsized, but only two got their hair wet. Why?
One was bald
13. Where does Friday come before Thursday?
In the dictionary
14. What ship has two mates, but no captain?
A relationship
15. Bobby throws a ball as hard as he can. It comes back to him, even though nothing and nobody
touches it. How?
He throws it straight up.
16. Mary’s father has five daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughter’s name?
If you answered Nunu, you are wrong. It is Mary!
17. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
The letter M
18. What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
Silence
19. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
A palm
20. If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?
There is no smoke; it is an electric train!
21. They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What
are they?
Stars
22. What is next in this sequence? JFMAMJJASON . . .
The letter “D.” The sequence contains the first letter of each month.
23. What can make an octopus laugh?
Ten tickles (tentacles)
24. What goes up but never goes down?
Your age
25. What is the last thing you take off before bed?
Your feet off the floor
26. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
A towel
27. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window
28. What has four legs, but can’t walk?
A table
29. How do you make the number one disappear?
Add the letter G and it’s “gone”
30. A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana
first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?
None of them, because you cannot get a banana from a coconut tree!
31. Why is an island like the letter T?
Because it is in the middle of water.
32. How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?
It can have a hole in it.
33. Name three days consecutively where none of the seven days of the week appear.
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
34. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly
35. Why are teddy bears never hungry?
Because they are always stuffed
36. What is the best cure for dandruff?
Baldness
37. What has many rings, but no fingers?
A telephone
38. What are two things you cannot have for breakfast?
Lunch and dinner
39. What kind of cup can’t hold water?
A cupcake
40. What is the center of Gravity?
The letter V
41. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A mushroom
42. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your name
43. What is full of holes, but can still hold a lot of water?
A sponge
44. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but can’t go outside. What am
I?
A keyboard
45. What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold it for more than a
minute?
Your breathe
46. What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon, and 3 legs at night?
A person! As a baby you crawl (4 legs), as an adult you walk (2 legs), then when you are older you use a
cane (3 legs)
47. I do not have wings, but I can fly. I don’t have eyes, but I will cry! What am I?
A cloud
48. I’m with poor people and rich people don’t have me. If you eat me, you will die. What am I?
I am nothing.
49. If you give me water, I will die. What am I?
Fire
50. I am tall when I am young and I am short when I am old. What am I?
A candle
51. Take away my first letter, and I still sound the same. Take away my last letter, I still sound the
same. Even take away my letter in the middle, I will still sound the same. I am a five letter word.
What am I?
Empty
52. It lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, and is born in air. What is
it?
An echo
53. We see it once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day. What is it?
The letter “E”
54. It loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night? What is it?
A pillow
55. It has one eye but cannot see? What is it?
A needle
56. You can catch it, but not throw it? What is it?
A cold
57. It gets beaten, and whipped, but never cries? What is it?
An egg
58. You can you serve it, but never eat it? What is it?
A tennis ball
59. This type of dress can never be worn. What is it?
An address
60. It is easy to get into, but hard to get out of? What is it?
Trouble
