Can You Solve These Surprisingly Tricky Riddles For Kids?
"What's really easy to get into, and hard to get out of?"
The Best Riddles For Kids
I’m always on the dinner table, but you don’t get to eat me. What am I?
Answer: Plates and silverware
The best riddles for kids play with their sense of imagination and encourage them to think critically!
Riddle Me This…
What’s bright orange with green on top and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot
This is one of the trickier riddles for kids because it sends them into the direction of thinking of different types of birds. The article “a,” “a parrot,” is a bit clunky, because if the riddle used “sounds like parrot” or “rhymes with parrot,” kids would probably get the answer right off the bat.
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Riddle: Mellow yellow
There’s a one-storey house where everything is yellow. The walls are yellow. The doors are yellow. Even all the furniture is yellow. The house has yellow beds and yellow couches. What colour are the stairs?
Answer: There aren’t any stairs—it’s a one-storey house.
Riddles with scenarios try to trip you up by assuming you’ll focus on highlighted details and forget the detail that pulls you toward the answer. These kinds of riddles for kids help them with listening skills and precision.
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Riddle: Time out
What’s really easy to get into, and hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble
When kids learn the answer to this fun riddle, they’ll get a kick out of the play on words.
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Riddle: Easy as ABC
What word contains 26 letters, but only has three syllables?
Answer: Alphabet
The most fun riddles for kids stimulate their imagination and jumpstart a tendency to think wisely. This riddle helps kids practice brainstorming for long vocabulary words until they realize the word they’re actually looking for.
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Riddle: Talk the talk
What can you hear, but not see or touch, even though you control it?
Answer: Your voice
Riddles for kids challenge their understanding of language. This riddle encourages kids to think conceptually about the way they experience the world.
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Riddle: Safety first
A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. Why?
Answer: She fell off the bottom step.
Riddle: Take a look
What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
Answer: A potato
Riddles for kids should be challenging, but the best ones deliver a laugh with their solution!
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Riddle: Best pals
I am often following you and copying your every move. Yet you can never touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: A shadow
This is a great riddle for kids when they’re playing outside because you can demonstrate the answer if the lighting is right.
Riddle: Storytime
Grandpa went out for a walk and it started to rain. He didn’t bring an umbrella or a hat. His clothes got soaked, but not a hair on his head was wet. How is this possible?
Answer: Grandpa was bald
Situation or story riddles for kids help them focus on details and develop logic skills. You’ll enjoy watching them problem-solving and helping them out.
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Riddle: Teardrops
I add lots of flavour and have many layers, but if you get to close I’ll make you cry. What am I?
Answer: An onion
Riddles for kids train them to think critically and conceptually. To get the answer, they’ll have to learn to go beyond the obvious, push past their first thoughts, and think in the abstract to find the answer.
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Riddle: Buy a vowel
You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e”
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Riddle: Cross your heart
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Answer: A promise
Riddle: Play outside
I run along your property and all around the backyard, yet I never move. What am I?
Answer: A fence
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Riddle: Sunnyside up
I have to be opened, but I don’t have a lid or a key to get in. What am I?
Answer: An egg
Some riddles are frustrating. They’re designed to trip you up and make you twist your thinking style into new positions. Guide your kids through the challenge. It’s not always about getting it right, but understanding why the answer makes sense.
Riddle: Weight for it
Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: Neither, they both weigh the same.
Everyone loves this classic brain-twister. The answer relies on the details. Kids need to avoid the distraction of heavy bricks and light feathers and focus on the actual unit of weight in the clue.
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Riddle: Hey bro!
Tom’s father has three sons: Jim, John, and what’s the third one’s name?
Answer: Tom
Riddle: Bless you!
What can you catch, but not throw?
Answer: A cold
The answer to this riddle relies on an idiom, a turn of phrase, with which they may not be familiar. It’s another riddle that encourages kids to think beyond objects to find the answer in the abstract.
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Riddle: Sweet treat
What kind of cup doesn’t hold water?
Answer: Cupcake (or hiccup!)
This is another one of those riddles for kids that can also prove super challenging for grown-ups. Though you may be clued into the fact that you’re looking for something beyond a teacup, the two potential answers are tricky to find.
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Riddle: Just up ahead
I am always in front of you and never behind you. What am I?
Answer: Your future
Kids will probably need some help coming up with this conceptual answer. Encourage them to think creatively and in the abstract. Help kids avoid frustration and stay positive during the challenge of a hard riddle.
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Riddle: Rock on
What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band
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Riddle: Trick time
Which month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them
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Riddle: Brush up
I have many teeth, but I cannot bite. What am I?
Answer: A comb
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