50 Easy Riddles for Kids – 2024 Edition [With Answers]

Here are 50 easy riddles for you and your kids to figure out together. They cover a wide range of easy topics from geography, word identification and logic. As always, remember to keep track of your school until the very end and have fun!

1. What is a frog’s favorite game?

Answer: Leapfrog

 

2. What can kids make but never see?

Answer: Noise

 

3. I am so simple that I can only point, yet I guide people all over the world. What am I?

Answer: A compass

 

4. What is the capital of France?

Answer: The letter “F” as it is the only capital letter in the word. 

 

5. What has keys but can’t open locks?

Answer: A piano

 

6. I go up and down but never move. What am I?

Answer: A staircase.

 

7. Remove my skin and I won’t cry, but you might. What am I?

Answer: An onion

 

8. A man remarks: “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is the man?

Answer: His son

 

9. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

Answer: The future

 

10. I shave more 25 times a day and still have a beard. Who am I?

Answer: A barber

 

11. What kind of band never plays music?

Answer: A rubber band

 

12. What is a four letter word that can be written the same forward and backward as well as upside down?

Answer: noon

 

13. What has many teeth but can’t bite or chew?

Answer: A comb

 

14. What has hands but can’t clap?

Answer: A clock

 

15. What has one eye but can’t see?

Answer: A needle

 

16. What has foru eyes but can’t see?

Answer: Mississippi

 

17. What has a bottom at the top?

Answer: a leg

 

18. What begins with T, ends with T and has T in it?

Answer: A teapot

 

19. What begins with an E but only has one letter?

Answer: An envelope

 

20. What’s black and white and read all over?

Answer: A newspaper

 

21. What game is dangerous to your mental health?

Answer: Marbles-you don’t want to lose them

 

22.What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?

Answer: His shadow

 

23. You won’t see me in March, January, or May, but you can catch me once in June, and twice in November. What am I?

Answer: The letter E

 

24. I have no life, but I can die, what am I?

Answer: A battery

 

25. When does Friday come before Thursday?

Answer: The dictionary

 

26. I am bought to eat, but I cannot be eaten, what am I?

Answer: A plate

 

27. What is always answered without being questioned?

Answer: A doorbell

 

28. What is full of holes but still holds water?

Answer: A sponge

 

29. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

Answer: A penny

 

30. What loses a head in the morning, but gets it back at night?

Answer: pillow

 

31. What room do ghosts avoid?

Answer: The living room

 

32. What has thousands of needles but cannot sew?

Answer: A porcupine

 

33. What building has the most stories?

Answer: A library

 

34. What is yours but is used by others?

Answer: Your name

 

35. What gets sharper the more you use it?

Answer: Your brain

 

36. What gets wetter as it dries?

Answer: A towel

 

37. What kind of fruit can you never cheer up?

Answer: A blueberry

 

38. What runs around your yard without moving?

Answer: A fence

 

39. What fruit never wants to be alone?

Answer: A Pear

 

40. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?

Answer: An artichoke

 

41. Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

Answer: The letter C

 

42. I have a spine but no bones, pages but no face. What am I?

Answer: A book

 

43. What question can you never answer “yes” to?

Answer: “Are you asleep?”

 

44. I shrink smaller every time I take a bath. What am I?

Answer: A bar of soap

 

45. What comes out at night without being called, but is lost in the day?

Answer: the stars

 

46. I am not alive, but I grow; I dont have lungs but I need air, what am I?

Answer: A balloon

 

47. What is made of water, but vanishes when placed in water?

Answer: Ice cube

 

48. Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?

Answer: incorrectly

 

49. When the water comes down, I go up. What am I?

Answer: An umbrella

 

50. What is white but smells like blue paint?

Answer: White 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!