25 Riddles for Kids With Answers
Twenty-five fun riddles for kids with answers hidden until they tap, sorted from easy to tricky. Great for classrooms, car journeys and screen-free family time.
30 Riddles With Answers: From Easy to Hard
Thirty riddles with answers, sorted from easy to hard, with answers hidden until you tap. Great for kids, classrooms, road trips and family game night.
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Riddles are the perfect brain workout: quick to share, fun to solve and impossible to forget once you know the answer. These thirty are sorted from easy to hard. Answers are hidden, so tap only when you’re ready.
Easy riddles
For younger solvers, our riddles for kids are gentler still.
1. What has hands but can’t clap?
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A clock.
2. What has to be broken before you can use it?
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An egg.
3. What gets wetter the more it dries?
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A towel.
4. What has a neck but no head?
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A bottle.
5. What goes up but never comes down?
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Your age.
6. What has keys but can’t open locks?
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A piano.
7. What has one eye but can’t see?
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A needle.
8. What is full of holes but still holds water?
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A sponge.
9. What can you catch but not throw?
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A cold.
10. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
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A table.
Medium riddles
11. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
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Darkness.
12. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
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A candle.
13. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
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A stamp.
14. What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do?
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Your name.
15. What has many teeth but can’t bite?
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A comb.
16. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
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Light.
17. If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but smile at me and I’ll smile back. What am I?
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A mirror.
18. What has a head and a tail but no body?
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A coin.
19. What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?
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A river.
20. What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
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“Wrong.”
Hard riddles
Still too easy? Try our brain teasers for adults or these math riddles and logic puzzles.
21. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
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The letter M.
22. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
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An echo.
23. The person who makes it sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The person who uses it never knows. What is it?
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A coffin.
24. What can you keep after giving it to someone?
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Your word.
25. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees and water but no fish. What am I?
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A map.
26. What disappears as soon as you say its name?
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Silence.
27. A man looks at a portrait and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the portrait?
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His son.
28. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
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“Short” (add “er” to make “shorter”).
29. You see a boat full of people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How?
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Everyone on the boat is married.
30. What can run but never gets tired, has a bed but never sleeps?
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A river.
Tips for a riddle game
- Take turns reading riddles aloud, and give everyone thirty seconds before hints.
- Offer hints by narrowing the category: “It’s something in the kitchen.”
- Award points for creative wrong answers that could almost work.
- Mix in jokes between rounds; our clean jokes for kids are a good warm-up.
Frequently asked questions
What makes a good riddle?
A good riddle describes something familiar in an unexpected way, so the answer feels obvious once you hear it.
Are riddles good for kids?
Yes. Riddles build vocabulary, lateral thinking and patience, and they are a great screen-free game.
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