Funny Riddles for Kids

Q: What type of cheese is made backwards?

A: Edam.

Q: Why are ghosts bad liars?

A: Because you can see right through them.

Q: Imagine you’re in a room that is filling with water. There are no

windows or doors. How do you get out?
A: Stop imagining!

Q: What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

A: Lunch and dinner!

Q: Why do bees hum?

A: Because they don’t know the words.

Q: If you throw a blue stone into the Red Sea, what will it become?
A: Wet.

Q: Why did Mickey Mouse go to Outer Space?

A: He wanted to visit Pluto.

Q: What do you call a fairy that hasn’t taken a bath?

A: Stinker Bell.

Q: What did the beach say when the tide came in?
A: Long time, no sea.

Q: What did the baseball glove say to the ball?

A: Catch you later.

Q: You will buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?

A: A plate.

Q: What do you call it when your parachute doesn’t open?

A: Jumping to a conclusion.

Q: You can you serve it, but never eat it? What is it?
A: A tennis ball.
Q: How do oceans say hello to each other?
A: They wave!

Q: What can you catch but not throw?

A: Cold.

Q: Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

A: The C.

Q: What goes up and down but never moves?

A: The temperature.

Q: What superhero is terrible at their job because they always get

lost and are late?
A: Wander Woman.

Q: What starts with a P, ends with an E and has thousands of

letters?
A: Post office.

Q: I have wings and I have a tail, across the sky is where I sail. Yet
I have no eyes, ears or mouth, and I bob randomly from north to
south. What am I?
A: A kite.

Q: Mr. Blue lives in the blue house, Mr. Yellow lives in the yellow
house, and Mr. Black lives in the black house. Who lives in the
white house?
A: The President.

Q: A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all.

There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How?
A: The woman is blind, and she is reading Braille.
Q: What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
A: A towel.

Q: You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make the line
longer?
A: You draw a shorter line next to it, and it becomes the longer line.
Q: What goes around and around the wood, but never goes into
the wood?
A: The bark on a tree.

Q: You walk across a bridge and you see a boat full of people, yet
there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
A: All the people on the boat are married.

Q: How is Europe like a frying pan?

A: Because it has Greece at the bottom.

Q: If an electric train is going east at 60 miles an hour and there is

a strong westerly wind, which way does the smoke from the train
drift?
A: There is no smoke coming from electric trains.

Q: I have keys but no doors. I have space but no rooms, I allow

you to enter but you are never able to leave. What am I?
A: A keyboard.

Q: They come out at night without being called and are lost in the
day without being stolen. What are they?
A: The stars.
Q: It has a neck but no head, and wears a cap? What is it?
A: A bottle.
Q: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has
a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
A: A river.

Easy Riddles for Kids

Q: What goes up but never goes down?
A: Your age.

Q: What starts with the letter T, is filled with T and ends in T?

A: A teapot.
Q: What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A: A window.

Q: Beth’s mother has three daughters. One is called Laura, the

other one is Sarah. What is the name of the third daughter?
A: Beth.

Q: Say Racecar backwards.

A: “Racecar backwards.”

Q: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

A: A palm.

Q: How can you throw a ball as hard as you can, to only have it
come back to you, even if it doesn’t bounce off anything?
A: Throw the ball straight up in the air.

Q: What never asks questions but is often answered?

A: A doorbell.

Q: What belongs to you but other people use it more than you?
A: Your name.

Q: What goes up but never goes back down?

A: Your age.

Q: What has four legs but can’t walk?

A: A table.

Q: I scream, you scream, we all scream. For what?

A: Ice cream!

Q: What did one wall say to the other wall?

A: I’ll meet you at the corner.

Q: I come in many different colors and I get bigger when I’m full. I
will float away if you don’t tie me down and I will make a loud
sound if I break. What am I?
A: A balloon.
Q: This goes up and down, but never moves? What is it?
A: A flight of stairs.

Q: What can be big, white, dirty and wicked?

A: A lie.

Q: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?

A: A glove.

Q: I am round or oval. I can be light or dark. You can cut me in

pieces. What am I?
A: A potato.

Q: What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?

A: Frostbite.

Math Riddles and Brain Teasers

Q: Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
A: Neither. They both weigh one pound.

Q: How many months have 28 days?

A: All 12 months.

Q: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a

thousand years?
A: The letter M.

Q: Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat. Everyone ate
one burger, yet only three burgers were eaten in all. How is this
possible?
A: They were a grandmother, mother, and daughter.

Q: Using only addition, how do you add eight 8s and get the
number 1,000?
A: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000.

Q: If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do
you have?
A: If you take two apples, then, of course, you have two.
Q: What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?
A: The read the same right side up and upside down.

Q: I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even.

What number am I?
A: Seven (take away the “s’”and it becomes “even”).

Q: I have a large money box, 10 inches wide and 5 inches tall.

Roughly how many coins can I place in my empty money box?
A: Just one, after which it will no longer be empty.

Q: Mrs. Black has two children. If the oldest child is a girl, what are
the odds that the other child is also a girl?
A: 50 percent.

Q: If twos’ company and three’s a crowd, what are five and six?
A: Eleven.

Q: What time did the tooth fairy show up to get a kid’s tooth and
leave a dollar under the pillow?
A: Exactly TWOoth o’ clock.

Q: Is an older one-hundred dollar bill worth more than a newer

one?
A: Yes. A $100 bill is worth more than a $1 bill (newer one).

Q: Tara has $30.00 dollars. She bought 5 coloring books that cost
$3.00 each, 4 boxes of Crayola crayons that cost $2.00 each. She
spends the rest of her money on markers. How much money did
she spend on markers?
A: She spent $7 on markers.

Q: I am a three digit number. My second digit is four times bigger

than the third digit. My first digit is 3 less than my second digit.
What number am I?
A: 141.

Q: Adored by few, feared and hated by many. Mistress of the entire

universal reason, master in the art of numbers. Some may have
solved many of your mysteries, but there still much of them to
find. What are they?
A: Mathematics.
Q: If you multiply me by any other number, the answer will always
remain the same. What number am I?
A: Zero.

Q: If four people can repair four bicycles in four hours, how many
bicycles can eight people repair in eight hours?
A: 16 bicycles.