70 Fun Riddles for Kids – 2024 Edition [With Answers]

Ready to test your knowledge with your kids? Here are 70 fun riddles we’ve put together that cover a wide range of topics from onomatopoeia, logic puzzles and simple facts to keep things interesting. So let’s get started, and as always, remember to keep track of your score for the end!

 

1. What two keys cannot open doors?

Answer: Monkeys and Donkeys

 

2. Why was 6 afraid of 7? 

Answer: Because 7, 8, 9! Or 7 ate 9

 

3. What is a word that contains six letters, but remove one letter and 12 remains?

Answer: Dozens

 

4. What can you catch but not throw?

Answer: A cold

 

5. What goes up but never comes down?

Answer: Age

 

6. What comes down but never goes up?

Answer: Rain

 

7. Which fish costs the most?

Answer: A goldfish

 

8. What has to be broken before you can use it?

Answer: An egg

 

9. What is light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for longer than 5 minutes?

Answer: Your breath

 

10. Who wears shoes while sleeping?

Answer: A horse

 

11. What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?

Answer: A post office

 

12. What is at the end of a rainbow?

Answer: The letter W

 

13. What do you call a bear with no teeth?

Answer: A gummy bear

 

14. I have a teeth but can’t bite. What am I?

Answer: A zipper

 

15. What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?

Answer: Trouble

 

16. What has a bed but never sleeps, and runs but never walks?

Answer: A river

 

17. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

Answer: The letter “M”.

 

18. What can be broken without being touched?

Answer: A promise

 

19. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?

Answer: A glove

 

20. What can you hear, but not see, and only speaks when spoken to?

Answer: An echo

 

21. What runs around your yard without moving?

Answer: A fence

 

22. What has four wheels and flies?

Answer: A garbage truck

 

23. What did the triangle say to the circle?

Answer: You are pointless

 

24. When things go wrong, what can you always count on?

Answer: Your fingers

 

25. How many letters are in the alphabet?

Answer: 11, three in “the” and eight in “alphabet”

 

26. What kind of apples do computers prefer?

Answer: Macintosh

 

27. What kind of room has no doors or windows?

Answer: A mushroom

 

28. What is the richest nut?

Answer: A cashew

 

29. What did the sea say to the sand?

Answer: Nothing, it just waved.

 

30. What has a head, but no eyes, nose, or mouth?

Answer: Lettuce

 

31. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I? 

Answer: A secret

 

32. What kind of dog has no tail?

Answer: A hot dog

 

33. I sometimes run, but can never walk, what am I?

Answer: Your nose

 

34. What do you call it when a dinosaur scores a goal?

Answer: dino-score

 

35. What kind of lion never roars?

Answer: A dandelion

 

36. What goes from z to a?

Answer: A zebra

 

37. Why do bees have sticky hair?

Answer: Because they use honeycombs

 

38. You walk into a room that has a match, a candle and a fireplace. Which should you light first?

Answer: The match

 

39. A cowgirl rides into town on Friday. Three days later, she left on Friday. How is this possible?

Answer: Friday is the name of the horse.

 

40. What do you call a pig that practices karate?

Answer: A pork chop!

 

41. How do you make the word “one” disappear?

Answer: Add a G to make the word “gone”

 

42. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

Answer: A palm

 

43. I’m taller when I’m young, shorter when I’m old. What am I?

Answer: A candle

 

44. If you drop me, I will crack, but smile at me and I’ll smile back. What am I?

Answer: A mirror

 

45. Why did the golfer put on a second pair of pants?

Answer: He got a hole in one

 

46. You can drop me from the tallest building and I’ll be fine, but if I get wet, I’ll die. What am I?

Answer: Paper

 

47. You’ll find me in Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, but not in Neptune or Venus. What am I?

Answer: The letter R

 

48. I go all around the world, but never leave the corner. What am I?

Answer: A stamp

 

49. Give me a drink and I will die, but feed me and I’ll get bigger. What am I?

Answer: A fire

 

50. If you drop a yellow hat into the Red Sea, what does it become?

Answer: Wet

 

51. What has a neck but no head?

Answer: A bottle

 

52. Why did the football coach go to the bank?

Answer: He wanted his quarterback

 

53. The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?

Answer: Darkness

 

54. What has words but never speaks?

Answer: A book

 

55. How do you catch a school of fish?

Answer: use a bookworm

 

56. What can fill a room but takes no space?

Answer: light

 

57. What has ears but can’t hear?

Answer: Corn

 

58. What has legs but can’t walk?

Answer: A table

 

59. What is so fragile that saying it’s name breaks it?

Answer: silence

 

60. People have stepped on me, but not many. I never stay full for long and I have a dark side as well. What am I?

Answer: The moon

 

61. I can be cracked or played; told or made. What am I?

Answer: A joke!

 

62. Where do you take sick boats?

Answer: To the dock

 

63. Cats have four, bugs have four, but schools have six. What are they?

Answer: Letters

 

64. Why are teddy bears never hungry?

Answer: Because they are always stuffed.

 

65. What is the father of fruits?

Answer: A papa-ya

 

66. Why is bright orange with a green top and rhymes with parrot?

Answer: A carrot

 

67. What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees and water but no fish?

Answer: A map

 

68. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

Answer: Lunch and dinner

 

69. What has many rings but no fingers?

Answer: Saturn

 

70. What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

Answer: A coat of paint

 

So, how’d you do? Now that you’ve mastered our questions, remember that the fun doesn’t have to end here. Create your own question list and challenge yourselves to expand your knowledge and of course, remember to have fun!