Riddles for Kids: 70 Riddles for Endless Fun and Learning

Riddles for kids are not just for fun. There are ways to engage with your children and even make them learn. Riddles can spark curiosity and even improve critical thinking skills. Whether you want to play riddles as a part of family time, or you are a teacher looking for some riddles to play with your kids, we have provided the ultimate riddles list. The riddles below are a mix of tricky, silly, and thought-provoking questions. Use these riddles for kids to bond with the children and boost their confidence. 

10 Tricky Riddles for Kids

These are the top tricky riddles for kids 

1. What goes up but never comes down?
   Answer: Your age.
   
2. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
   Answer: Your breath.
   
3. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
   Answer: A teapot.
   
4. What has keys but can’t open locks?
   Answer: A piano.
   
5. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
   Answer: Footsteps.
   
6. What has hands but cannot clap?
   Answer: A clock.
   
7. What has a head and a tail but no body?
   Answer: A coin.
   
8. What can you catch but not throw?
   Answer: A cold.
   
9. What room has no doors or windows?
   Answer: A mushroom.
   
10. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
    Answer: A palm. 

10 Riddles for Kids Book

These are the riddles in kids’ book

1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
   Answer: An egg.
   
2. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
   Answer: A comb.
   
3. What is full of holes but still holds water?
   Answer: A sponge.
   
4. What has feet but no legs?
   Answer: A ruler.
   
5. What has an eye but cannot see?
   Answer: A needle.
   
6. What has a neck but no head?
   Answer: A bottle.
   
7. What gets wetter as it dries?
   Answer: A towel.
   
8. What can you hold without ever touching it?
   Answer: A conversation.
   
9. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
   Answer: A window.
   
10. What goes up and down stairs without moving?
    Answer: A carpet.
    

10 Riddles for Kids: “What am I?”

These are the riddles for kids with answers

1. I am tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
   Answer: A candle.
   
2. I have a face and two hands, but no arms or legs. What am I?
   Answer: A clock.
   
3. I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
   Answer: Fire.
   
4. I am always running but never get tired. What am I?
   Answer: Water.
   
5. I am found in socks, scarves, and mittens, and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
   Answer: Yarn.
   
6. I have keys but no locks, space but no room, you can enter but cannot go outside. What am I?
   Answer: A keyboard.
   
7. I make two people out of one. What am I?
   Answer: A mirror.
   
8. If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
   Answer: A mirror.
   
9. I help you see at night, but vanish with bright light. What am I?
   Answer: The moon.
   
10. I’m soft and sticky, I tinker and bind; your words and visions I help combine. What am I?
    Answer: Glue.
    

10 Math Riddles for Kids

These are some math riddles for kids

1. What three positive numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?
   Answer: 1, 2, and 3.
   
2. If you have two coins that add up to 30 cents and one of them is not a nickel, what are the coins?
   Answer: A quarter and a nickel.
   
3. What is the next number in the sequence: 2, 4, 6, 8, __?
   Answer: 10.
   
4. How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?
   Answer: Once (after that it’s 90).
   
5. If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs does one hen lay in one day?
   Answer: One.
   
6. What is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order?
   Answer: Forty.
   
7. What is the missing square in this sequence: 1, 4, 9, 16, __?
   Answer: 25.
   
8. How many months have 31 days?
   Answer: Seven.
   
9. How many minutes are in a day?
   Answer: 1,440.
   
10. How many zeros are there in one million?
    Answer: Six.

10 Hard Riddles for Kids

These are some hard riddles for kids with answers

1. What disappears as soon as you say its name?
   Answer: Silence.
   
2. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
   Answer: A map.
   
3. I have a thumb and four fingers, but I am not alive. What am I?
   Answer: A glove.
   
4. What goes through towns but never moves?
   Answer: Roads.
   
5. What runs but never walks?
   Answer: A refrigerator.
   
6. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
   Answer: Your name.
   
7. What has four eyes but cannot see?
   Answer: Mississippi.
   
8. What has a ring but no finger?
   Answer: A telephone.
   
9. What gets bigger the more you take away?
   Answer: A hole.
   
10. I am taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case, from which I am never released, yet people use me every day. What am I?
    Answer: Pencil lead.
    

10 Science Riddles for Kids

These are science riddles for kids with answers

1. I’m not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
   Answer: Fire.
   
2. What planet is known as the Red Planet?
   Answer: Mars.
   
3. What force pulls objects toward Earth?
   Answer: Gravity.
   
4. What gas do plants take in that humans breathe out?
   Answer: Carbon dioxide.
   
5. What is the center of an atom called?
   Answer: The nucleus.
   
6. What is H₂O commonly known as?
   Answer: Water.
   
7. Which part of the plant conducts photosynthesis?
   Answer: The leaf.
   
8. What organ pumps blood through your body?
   Answer: The heart.
   
9. What is the closest star to Earth?
   Answer: The Sun.
   
10. What do bees collect and use to make honey?
    Answer: Nectar.
    

10 Riddles for Kids About the Planet

These are riddles for kids about the planet Earth

1. I’m an invisible line that divides Earth into North and South. What am I?
   Answer: The equator.
   
2. I’m the layer of gases that surrounds our planet. What am I?
   Answer: The atmosphere.
   
3. I’m the deepest part of the ocean, found in the Pacific. What am I?
   Answer: The Mariana Trench.
   
4. I’m the highest mountain on Earth. What am I?
   Answer: Mount Everest.
   
5. I’m made of solid rock and form Earth’s outer shell. What am I?
   Answer: The crust.
   
6. I’m molten rock found beneath Earth’s surface. What am I?
   Answer: Magma.
   
7. I was the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago. What am I?
   Answer: Pangaea.
   
8. I’m where land meets water. What am I?
   Answer: The shore.
   
9. I’m the moment when day and night are equal in length. What am I?
   Answer: An equinox.
   
10. I lie between the crust and the core of the Earth. What am I?
    Answer: The mantle.
    

10 Funny Riddles for Kids

These are some funny riddles for kids with answers

1. Why did the cookie go to the doctor?
   Answer: Because it felt crummy.
   
2. What building has the most stories?
   Answer: A library.
   
3. Why did the math book look sad?
   Answer: Because it had too many problems.
   
4. What do you call an alligator in a vest?
   Answer: An investigator.
   
5. Why was the broom late?
   Answer: It swept in.
   
6. What do you call cheese that isn’t yours?
   Answer: Nacho cheese.
   
7. Why don’t skeletons fight each other?
   Answer: They don’t have the guts.
   
8. What do you call a fake noodle?
   Answer: An impasta.
   
9. Why can’t you give Elsa a balloon?
   Answer: Because she will let it go.
   
10. What do you call a rabbit with fleas?
    Answer: Bugs Bunny.

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10 Riddles for Kindergarten Students

These are some riddles for kindergarten kids

1. What has four legs and a flat top but cannot walk?
   Answer: A table.
   
2. What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
   Answer: A carrot.
   
3. What animal says “moo”?
   Answer: A cow.
   
4. What goes up when the rain comes down?
   Answer: An umbrella.
   
5. What do you call a sleeping bull?
   Answer: A bulldozer.
   
6. What has ears but cannot hear?
   Answer: Corn.
   
7. What wheels can take you to school?
   Answer: A school bus.
   
8. What wiggles and lives in the ground?
   Answer: A worm.
   
9. What is big and gray and has a long trunk?
   Answer: An elephant.
   
10. Which month has 28 days?
    Answer: All of them.
    

10 Riddles for Adults to Play with Kids

These are some riddles for adults to play with their kids

1. What word begins and ends with an E but only has one letter?
   Answer: Envelope.
   
2. What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?
   Answer: Post office.
   
3. What is at the end of a rainbow?
   Answer: The letter W.
   
4. What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
   Answer: Wrong.
   
5. What can you serve but never eat?
   Answer: A volleyball.
   
6. What has a spine but no bones?
   Answer: A book.
   
7. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
   Answer: A stamp.
   
8. What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don’t want to use it?
   Answer: An anchor.
   
9. What has branches but no fruit, trunk, or leaves?
   Answer: A bank.
   
10. What building has the most stories?
    Answer: A library.
    

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10 Riddles for Kids with Answers in English

Here are some additional riddles for kids with answers

1. What is black and white and read all over?
   Answer: A newspaper.
   
2. What has four wheels and flies?
   Answer: A garbage truck.
   
3. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
   Answer: A gummy bear.
   
4. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
   Answer: The letter M.
   
5. What kind of band never plays music?
   Answer: A rubber band.
   
6. What goes up when the rain comes down?
   Answer: An umbrella.
   
7. What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary?
   Answer: A thesaurus.
   
8. What has words but never speaks?
   Answer: A book.
   
9. What is put on the table and cut but never eaten?
   Answer: A deck of cards.
   
10. What has a bottom at the top?
    Answer: A leg.
    

10 Holiday Riddles for Kids

These are the top ten holiday riddles for kids

1. What do snowmen wear on their heads?
   Answer: Ice caps.
   
2. What do you call a snowman in summer?
   Answer: A puddle.
   
3. What is red and white and gives children presents?
   Answer: Santa Claus.
   
4. What kind of ball doesn’t bounce?
   Answer: A snowball.
   
5. What do you get if you cross a snowman and a vampire?
   Answer: Frostbite.
   
6. What has a jolly laugh and rides a sleigh?
   Answer: Santa Claus.
   
7. Where do snowflakes go to dance?
   Answer: The snowball.
   
8. What’s green, covered in tinsel, and goes ribbit?
   Answer: A mistletoe.
   
9. Why did the turkey cross the road?
   Answer: It was the chicken’s day off.
   
10. What do you get when you cross a bell with a skunk?
    Answer: Jingle smells.
    

10 Halloween Riddles for Kids

These are some Halloween riddles for kids with answers

1. What room do ghosts avoid?
   Answer: The living room.
   
2. What do ghosts serve for dessert?
   Answer: Boo‑scream.
   
3. What do you get when you drop a pumpkin?
   Answer: Squash.
   
4. What is a tree’s least favorite month?
   Answer: Sep‑timber.
   
5. Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?
   Answer: He had no body to go with.
   
6. What ghost is the best dancer?
   Answer: The Boogie Man.
   
7. Why do vampires need mouthwash?
   Answer: Because they have bat breath.
   
8. What do mummies call their true love?
   Answer: Their ghoul friend.
   
9. What is a ghost’s favorite fruit?
   Answer: Boo‑berry.
   
10. What does a witch put on her hair?
    Answer: Scare‑spray.

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