Riddles for kids and hard riddles, with answers

What has big ears, eats bamboo and gets easy riddles wrong? Me, Polarzinho. To make up for it, I gathered 40 riddles with answers, from ones you heard as a kid to some truly hard ones.

There are easy riddles for kids, hard riddles for adults and riddles about things at home. Read the question, think for a bit, and only then look at the answer.

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Classic riddles

1. What has teeth but cannot bite? Answer: a comb.
2. What gets bigger the more you take away? Answer: a hole.
3. What has a neck but no head? Answer: a bottle.
4. What gets wetter the more it dries? Answer: a towel.
5. What has hands but cannot clap? Answer: a clock.
6. What has a crown and scales but is not a king or a fish? Answer: a pineapple.
7. What starts tall and gets shorter as it works? Answer: a pencil.
8. What goes up when the rain comes down? Answer: an umbrella.
9. What has keys but cannot open doors? Answer: a keyboard.
10. What has many rings but no fingers? Answer: a tree.

Easy riddles for kids

1. What has four legs but cannot walk? Answer: a table.
2. What has pages but is not a tree? Answer: a book.
3. What has a tail, flies, but has no wings? Answer: a kite.
4. What has a cap but no head, and a stem but no flower? Answer: a mushroom.
5. What has one eye but cannot see? Answer: a needle.
6. What goes up and down but never moves? Answer: stairs.
7. What is yellow, peels, and monkeys love it? Answer: a banana.
8. What sweeps the whole house and then rests in a corner? Answer: a broom.
9. What has a bed but never sleeps? Answer: a river.
10. What has legs but does not walk, and you sit on it? Answer: a chair.

Hard riddles for adults

1. The more of it there is, the less you see. What is it? Answer: darkness.
2. What can pass through glass without breaking it? Answer: light.
3. What disappears as soon as you say its name? Answer: silence.
4. What has cities but no houses, and rivers but no water? Answer: a map.
5. What is always in front of you but cannot be seen? Answer: the future.
6. What answers everything but has no mouth? Answer: an echo.
7. What is full of holes but still holds water? Answer: a sponge.
8. What can be broken without being touched? Answer: a promise.
9. What runs but has no legs, and has a mouth but never speaks? Answer: a river.
10. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? Answer: the letter M.

Riddles about things at home

1. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? Answer: a clock.
2. What has teeth but never eats? Answer: a fork.
3. What is full in the morning and empty at night? Answer: a shoe.
4. What goes in dry and comes out wet? Answer: a tea bag.
5. What opens and closes but has no door? Answer: an eye.
6. What has words but never speaks? Answer: a book.
7. What gets sharper the more you use it? Answer: your brain.
8. What has a head and a tail but no body? Answer: a coin.
9. What has one foot and a hat and makes shade in the yard? Answer: a beach umbrella.
10. What can you catch but never throw? Answer: a cold.

How to play riddles in a group

• One person reads the riddle, the others have 30 seconds to answer.
• Whoever gets it right scores a point and reads the next one.
• Nobody got it? Give a hint and try again.
• At the end, invent new riddles: the best ones join the family list.

Guessing games to play online

Like guessing? Two Polar Games titles follow the same idea, in your browser with nothing to install:

Lumora: guess words from clues

Follow clues and complete words while exploring floating islands. There are new challenges every day.

PolarzinhoIt is like a riddle, except the game does not laugh when I get it wrong.

Zabum!: a trivia quiz

A general knowledge quiz with seven categories, to play alone or in a room with friends.

PolarzinhoAt least there I get four options. With riddles, it is just me and my head.

FAQ

What is a riddle?

A question with a hidden way to answer it, usually playing with the meaning of words.

What is the most famous riddle?

One of the best known: what has keys but cannot open doors? A keyboard (or a piano).

Your turn

Gather your group, read a riddle and see who gets it first. Then try Lumora and Zabum! below.

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