101 Riddles for Kids and Adults to Test Your Smartness: With Answers
by P Nandhini
Updated May 20, 2023
101 Riddles For Kids and Adults
Challenge yourself with an array of riddles, ranging from easy to hard! These riddles are suitable for both kids and adults, providing a fun opportunity to test your riddle-solving skills. Prepare to be baffled and puzzled as you engage with these mind-bending questions. Riddles offer an enjoyable way to spend your time when you're seeking something entertaining to do. Explore our collection of the best riddles, designed to challenge and engage your mind.
We have curated a diverse selection of riddles, ensuring there is something for everyone, regardless of age or difficulty level. Whether you're seeking a simple brain teaser or a riddle that requires deep thought, this ultimate riddles list has got you covered. Feel free to share your results and let us know how many riddles you manage to solve from this captivating compilation!
101 Riddles That Will Make Your Kids’ Day
Engage your children with a collection of enjoyable riddles that not only stimulate their critical thinking skills but also provide entertainment. Join us as we explore a series of captivating riddles for kids, accompanied by their corresponding answers. These riddles are designed to challenge their minds while keeping them thoroughly entertained. Let's dive into the world of good riddles and discover the solutions together!
- Riddle: It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?
Answer: Your name - Riddle: I am so simple that I can only point, yet I guide people all over the world.
Answer: Compass - Riddle: What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold - Riddle: What begins with T ends with T and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot - Riddle: What has thirteen hearts, but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards - Riddle: What is easier to get into than out of?
Answer: Trouble - Riddle: Remove my skin and I won’t cry, but you might!
Answer: An onion - Riddle: What can fill a room but doesn’t take up space?
Answer: Light - Riddle: Where are the lakes always empty, the mountains always flat and the rivers always still?
Answer: A map - Riddle: 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?
Answer: His son - Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano - Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future - Riddle: Lighter than a feather, there’s nothing in it, but the strongest man can’t hold it for more than a few minutes.
Answer: Breath - Riddle: What has legs but cannot walk?
Answer: A chair - Riddle: If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine! - Riddle: Where would you take a sick boat?
Answer: To the dock - Riddle: What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet? - Riddle: If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but smile at me, and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror - Riddle: I can shave 25 times a day and still have a beard? What am I?
Answer: A barber - Riddle: What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band - Riddle: Bob’s mother has three children. Their names are Huey, Dewey, and … ?
Answer: Bob - Riddle: What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Lunch and dinner. - Riddle: What is powerful still so delicate that it breaks when you say its name?
Answer: Silence - Riddle: I can be cracked. And I can be made. I can be told. And I can be played. What am I?
Answer: A joke - Riddle: What is made of water, but if you put it into water it vanishes?
Answer: An ice cube. - Riddles: What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg! - What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock!
Easy and Funny Riddles for Kids
- Riddle: There are 3 apples in a basket and you take away 2. How many apples do you have now?
Answer: You have 2 apples. You took away 2 apples and left 1 in the basket. - Riddle: 81 x 9 = 801. What do you need to do to make this equation true?
Answer: Turn it upside down: 108 = 6 x 18 - Riddle: What 3 numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?
Answer: 1, 2, and 3 (1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and 1 x 2 x 3 = 6). - Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Age - Riddle: I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven - Riddle: During which month do people sleep the least?
Answer: February (as February has fewer nights) - Riddle: There is one word spelled wrong in every English dictionary. What is it?
Answer: Wrong - Riddle: You see it once in June, three times in September and never in May. What is it?
Answer: The letter E - Riddle: How do you make the number one disappear?
Answer: Add the letter G and it’s “gone” - Riddle: Where does Thursday come after Friday?
Answer: The dictionary - Riddle: What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes but not in decades, years, or days? Answer: The letter N
- Riddle: What did the triangle say to the circle?
Answer: You are pointless. - Riddle: How many seconds are in a year?
Answer: Twelve — January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd… - Riddle:: A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains, what is it?
Answer: Dozens. - Riddle: When things go wrong, what can you always count on?
Answer: Your fingers. - Riddle: How many letters are there in the alphabet?
Answer: There are 11: three in “the” and eight in “alphabet.” - Riddle: If there are seven oranges and you take three away, how many oranges do you have?
Answer: Three, since that’s how many you took. - Riddle: You have a basket that’s one foot in diameter and one foot deep. How many apples can you fit in the empty basket?
Answer: Only one, because then it’s not empty anymore. - Riddle: Ms. Smith has four daughters. Each daughter has a brother. How many kids are there in total?
Answer: Five, there are four daughters and one son. Each daughter has the same brother. - Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them! - Riddle: Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle, hard all around. What am I?
Answer: A bed. - Riddle: Why was 6 afraid of 7?
Answer: Because 7, 8 (ate), 9! - Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.
Animal Riddles for Kids
- Riddle: What kind of lion never roars?
Answer: A dandelion. - Riddle: What’s bright orange with green on top and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot. - Riddle: I grow down as I grow up. What am I?
Answer: A goose. Goose feathers are called down. - Riddle: A rooster is sitting on the roof of a barn facing west. If it laid an egg, would the egg roll to the north or to the south?
Answer: It’s impossible — roosters don’t lay eggs. - Riddle: Why do bees have sticky hair?
Answer: Because they use their honeycombs. - Riddle: What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear. - Riddle: What’s black, white and blue?
Answer: A sad zebra. - Riddle: What has a thousand needles but cannot sew?
Answer: A porcupine. - Riddle: An elephant in Africa is called Lala. An elephant in Asia is called Lulu. What do you call an elephant in Antarctica?
Answer: Lost. - Riddle: Without me Thanksgiving and Christmas are incomplete, when I’m on the table everyone tends to overeat. What am I?
Answer: Turkey. - Riddle: I jump when I walk and sit when I stand. What am I?
Answer: Kangaroo. - Riddle: A cowgirl road into town on Friday. Three days later, she left on Friday. How is that possible?
Answer: Friday is the name of her horse. - Riddle: I am a sea animal with eight arms and a soft body. I squirt ink to protect myself. Who am I?
Answer: Octopus - Riddle: I am a big cat with black stripes and sharp claws. I love to hunt in the jungle. Who am I?
Answer: Tiger. - Riddle: I am a slow-moving animal with a hard shell on my back. I love to munch on leafy greens. Who am I?
Answer: Turtle. - Riddle: I have black and white stripes and live in Africa. I am the tallest land animal in the world. Who am I?
Answer: Zebra. - Riddle: I am a colorful bird with a curved beak. I love to imitate human speech. Who am I?Answer: Parrot.
- Riddle: What do you call a pig that does karate?
Answer: A pork chop! - Riddle: Why did the chicken cross the playground?
Answer: To get to the other slide! - Riddle: What do you call a camel that can play music?
Answer: A dromedary DJ! - Riddle: What do you get when you cross a zebra with a donkey?
Answer: A zonkey! - Riddle: Why did the frog call his insurance company?
Answer: He had a jump in his car! - Riddle: What do you call a dog magician?
Answer: A labracadabrador! - Riddle: What do you get when you cross a sheep and a kangaroo?
Answer: A woolly jumper! - Riddle: Why do gorillas have big nostrils?
Answer: Because they have big fingers!
Riddles For Adults
- Riddle: What starts with a P, ends with an E and has thousands of letters?
Answer: The post office - Riddle: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm - Riddle: What building has the most stories in the world?
Answer: The library - Riddle: I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?
Answer: Popcorn - Riddle: What runs but cannot walk, has a mouth but no teeth and has a bed but cannot sleep?
Answer: A river - Riddle: I’m taller when I’m young, shorter when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle - Riddle: If you feed me, I grow, but if you give me water, I die. What am I?
Answer: Fire - Riddle: What’s full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge - What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M.” - If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but smile at me and I’ll smile back. What am I?
Answer: Wet - What goes up but never comes back down?
Answer: Your age.
87. Riddle: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river
88. Riddle: Speaking of rivers, 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?
Answer: The river was frozen.
89. Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light
90. Riddle: 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
91. Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps
92. Riddle: I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?
Answer: A key
93. Riddle: People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Answer: Money
94. Riddle: What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Answer: Day, and night
95. Riddle: What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
Answer: A road
96. Riddle: I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Answer: Fire
97. Riddle: The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin
98. Riddle: A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting?
Answer: The man’s son
99. Riddle: With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?
Answer: A stapler
100. Riddle: I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
Answer: A map
101. Riddle: What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?
Answer: Nothing
101 Riddles For Kids and Adults - FAQs
The riddles in the collection range from easy to hard, catering to both kids and adults.
Riddles require problem-solving and logical thinking, challenging individuals to think creatively and analytically.