What are some good riddles for kids?

Five from this list: I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old, and I glow my whole life. What am I? (A candle) What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? (A stick) What has a mouse that no cat will chase? (A computer) What dives into the soup empty and comes out full? (A spoon (or ladle)) When is a car not a car? (When it turns into a driveway)

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Updated November 2026.

What has 88 keys but can't open a single door? Answer: A piano
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? Answer: A clock
What gets wetter the more it dries? Answer: A towel
What little white house has no doors or windows, so you have to break in to reach the gold? Answer: An egg
What has one eye but can't see, and is sharp at the other end? Answer: A needle
What has a neck and a cap but no head? Answer: A bottle
What has teeth but never bites, and runs through your hair every morning? Answer: A comb
What goes up by one every birthday and never comes back down? Answer: Your age
What has two arms, four legs and a back, but has never taken a step? Answer: An armchair
What is full of holes but still holds water? Answer: A sponge
What has a mouth but never eats, a bed but never sleeps, and runs all day without legs? Answer: A river
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old, and I glow my whole life. What am I? Answer: A candle
What building has the most stories? Answer: A library
What room can you eat? Answer: A mushroom
What has four wheels and flies? Answer: A garbage truck
How many months have 28 days? Answer: All twelve
What gets bigger the more you take away from it? Answer: A hole
What has a head and a tail but no body? Answer: A coin
What kind of band never plays music but snaps if you stretch it too far? Answer: A rubber band
What two things can you never eat for breakfast? Answer: Lunch and dinner
What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary? Answer: The word "wrong"
What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it? Answer: A teapot
What has a ring for every birthday but no fingers to wear them on? Answer: A tree
What can fill a whole room the second you flip a switch, without taking up any space? Answer: Light
What invention lets you look straight through a wall? Answer: A window
What has ears but can't hear, and grows taller than you in a field? Answer: Corn
What kind of tree fits in your hand? Answer: A palm tree
What can you hear but never see, and it only speaks after you do? Answer: An echo
What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing at all? Answer: The elephant's shadow
What has a tongue but never talks, and gets tied up before it goes anywhere? Answer: A shoe
What runs all the way around a yard without moving? Answer: A fence
What goes up when the rain comes down? Answer: An umbrella
What has lots of eyes but can't see a thing? Answer: A potato
What kind of key opens a banana? Answer: A monkey
What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Answer: Nacho cheese
A rooster lays an egg on the very top of a barn roof. Which way does it roll? Answer: It doesn't. Roosters don't lay eggs.
How do you spell candy with just two letters? Answer: C and Y
If two is company and three is a crowd, what are four and five? Answer: Nine
What can jump higher than a house? Answer: Almost anything. Houses can't jump.
Which is faster, hot or cold? Answer: Hot. Anyone can catch a cold.
What do you call a sleeping dinosaur? Answer: A dino-snore
What room do ghosts stay out of? Answer: The living room
Why was six afraid of seven? Answer: Because seven ate nine
What has a head, a foot and four legs? Answer: A bed
What kind of nut has a hole, no shell and sometimes sprinkles? Answer: A doughnut
What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? Answer: A stick
What kind of dog never bites and comes in a bun? Answer: A hot dog
I'm an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I? Answer: Seven
Lily's mom has four kids. Three are named April, May and June. What is the fourth one's name? Answer: Lily
If there are five cookies on a plate and you take three, how many do you have? Answer: Three
How many seconds are there in a year? Answer: Twelve: January second, February second, and so on
A red house is made of red bricks and a blue house is made of blue bricks. What is a greenhouse made of? Answer: Glass
An electric train is heading north and the wind is blowing west. Which way does the smoke blow? Answer: There is no smoke. It's electric.
You are in a race and you pass the runner in second place. What place are you in now? Answer: Second place
What do you sit on, sleep on and brush your teeth with? Answer: A chair, a bed and a toothbrush
What color is the wind? Answer: Blew
What do you call a snowman in July? Answer: A puddle
What did the zero say to the eight? Answer: Nice belt
What did the ocean say to the beach? Answer: Nothing. It just waved.
Why do bees have sticky hair? Answer: They use honeycombs
What do you lose every time you stand up? Answer: Your lap
What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands? Answer: A kangaroo
What flies without wings and cries without eyes? Answer: A cloud
What is always hungry for wood but can't survive one drink of water? Answer: Fire
What howls with no mouth and pushes with no hands? Answer: The wind
What come out at night by the thousands without being called, and are gone by morning without being stolen? Answer: The stars
What gets up every morning without an alarm and goes down every evening without a bed? Answer: The sun
What falls all winter and never gets hurt? Answer: Snow
What changes shape every night for a month but never changes size? Answer: The moon
What grows upside down in winter and drips when the sun comes out? Answer: An icicle
What always shows up a few seconds after the flash, grumbling? Answer: Thunder
What leaves a silver trail and carries its house on its back? Answer: A snail
What bird wears a tuxedo every day, swims like a fish and can't fly? Answer: A penguin
What horse wears striped pajamas all day? Answer: A zebra
What animal can look into a second-floor window without a ladder? Answer: A giraffe
What spins its own house and catches dinner without ever leaving home? Answer: A spider
What takes its trunk everywhere but never packs a thing? Answer: An elephant
What paddles around the pond with a bill it never has to pay? Answer: A duck
What has a mouse that no cat will chase? Answer: A computer
Which bird always wants to know who's there? Answer: An owl
What has feathers, a wake-up call and no snooze button? Answer: A rooster
What goes to sleep crawling and wakes up flying? Answer: A caterpillar (it wakes up as a butterfly)
What starts life with a tail and no legs, and ends up with legs and no tail? Answer: A frog
What do you call a deer with no eyes? Answer: No idea
What fish costs the most? Answer: A goldfish
What kind of jam makes you late for school? Answer: A traffic jam
What kind of bow shows up after the rain and can never be tied? Answer: A rainbow
What kind of star walks on a red carpet? Answer: A movie star
What bird can lift the most weight? Answer: A crane
What dog always knows what time it is? Answer: A watchdog
What kind of horse only comes out after bedtime? Answer: A nightmare
What kind of flower grows right under your nose? Answer: Tulips
What kind of driver has no license and lives in a toolbox? Answer: A screwdriver
What animal lives in a pen but can't write a word? Answer: A pig
What can you wear on your finger and hear from a phone? Answer: A ring
What flies around at night and also hits home runs? Answer: A bat
What calf has never lived on a farm and goes wherever you walk? Answer: The one on your leg
What nails should you never hit with a hammer? Answer: Your fingernails
Where on your body is there a drum that nobody plays? Answer: In your ear
What has a cap but never wears a hat, and bends every time you sit down? Answer: Your knee
What has a bridge that no one can cross, and runs without legs? Answer: Your nose
What do you open first thing every morning without using your hands? Answer: Your eyes
What do you make every morning that nobody eats? Answer: Your bed
What goes into the washing machine as a pair and comes out alone? Answer: A sock
What has a horn, a hood and a trunk but is not an animal? Answer: A car
What kind of belt do you only wear sitting down? Answer: A seat belt
What has buttons but no shirt, and takes you upstairs without any stairs? Answer: An elevator
What says welcome all day and gets walked on for it? Answer: A doormat
What sits on your nose, hangs on your ears and gets lost on top of your head? Answer: Glasses
Who copies every move you make, but raises a left hand when you raise your right? Answer: Your reflection
What gets smaller every time it takes a bath? Answer: A bar of soap
What roll can't be eaten and always runs out when you need it most? Answer: Toilet paper
What dives into the soup empty and comes out full? Answer: A spoon (or ladle)
What comes to the party in a square box and gets cut into triangles, even though it's round? Answer: A pizza
What pops when it gets hot and gets eaten in the dark at the movies? Answer: Popcorn
What goes in soft and white and jumps out brown and crunchy? Answer: A slice of toast
What sits on the stove and whistles when it has had enough heat? Answer: A kettle
What gets bigger when you breathe into it and louder when it meets a pin? Answer: A balloon
What gets wrapped by someone who knows what's inside and unwrapped by someone who doesn't? Answer: A present
What gets hit with a stick at a party and pays everyone back in candy? Answer: A piñata
What animal gets a new tail at birthday parties from kids wearing blindfolds? Answer: The donkey
What do people sing to right before they cut it into pieces? Answer: A birthday cake
What do you wear at a party that comes to a point but has no point? Answer: A party hat
What gets tossed in the air at a party and found in the couch for months? Answer: Confetti
In what game does one seat go missing every time the music stops? Answer: Musical chairs
What game do you win by being the person nobody can find? Answer: Hide and seek
What gets passed around the circle fast because nobody wants to be holding it when the music stops? Answer: The hot potato
What sleepover fight leaves feathers on the floor and nobody hurt? Answer: A pillow fight
What do you roast on a stick until it turns gold, or until it catches fire? Answer: A marshmallow
What do you say to make everyone smile for a photo, even though it's a food? Answer: Cheese
What can you drink at a party even though it sounds like it should hurt? Answer: Punch
What kind of music are balloons afraid of? Answer: Pop music
Why didn't the skeleton go to the party? Answer: He had no body to go with
How do you throw a party in outer space? Answer: You planet
What did the cake say to the knife? Answer: You want a piece of me?
What does the dog always get blamed for eating? Answer: Your homework
What makes mistakes disappear and gets smaller every time it does? Answer: An eraser
What king is best at measuring things? Answer: A ruler
Why was the math book so sad? Answer: It had too many problems
What table do you learn in math class but never eat dinner on? Answer: The times table
Which letter of the alphabet is always asking a question? Answer: Y
Which three letters can sting you, blink at you and fill your cup? Answer: B, I and T
What has a head like a cat, feet like a cat and a tail like a cat, but isn't a cat? Answer: A kitten
In a one-story house where everything is yellow, what color are the stairs? Answer: There are no stairs
If you threw a white stone into the Red Sea, what would it become? Answer: Wet
In which month do people sleep the least? Answer: February. It has the fewest nights.
When is a car not a car? Answer: When it turns into a driveway
What instrument do you keep in the bathroom? Answer: A tuba toothpaste
What does a cloud wear under its raincoat? Answer: Thunderwear
What did the left eye say to the right eye? Answer: Between us, something smells
What do you call a bee that can't make up its mind? Answer: A maybe
Why did the teddy bear say no to dessert? Answer: It was already stuffed
What do you call a bear with no teeth? Answer: A gummy bear
What flies all day long but never leaves its pole? Answer: A flag
What tells time by running out of sand? Answer: An hourglass
What picture do you have to build before you can see it? Answer: A jigsaw puzzle
What has two wheels, two pedals and a bell, and falls over as soon as it stops? Answer: A bicycle
What has stripes and a whistle and runs the whole game without ever scoring? Answer: A referee
What has a net that can't catch anything because there's a big hole in the bottom? Answer: A basketball hoop
What has a spine and a jacket but no bones and no arms? Answer: A book
What can you catch just by watching someone open their mouth wide? Answer: A yawn
What vegetable can make you cry without saying one mean word? Answer: An onion
What fruit never goes anywhere alone? Answer: A pear
What wears a yellow jacket, grows in a bunch and makes cartoon characters slip? Answer: A banana
What is always coming but never arrives? Answer: Tomorrow
What has many hooks but has never caught a fish? Answer: A coat rack
What sound keeps the whole house awake but never wakes the person making it? Answer: Snoring
What is always lost in the couch right when your show is starting? Answer: The TV remote

Tips for a better game

Offer one hint for the hard riddles, such as the first letter of the answer.
With kids, let them read the riddles to the adults. They enjoy knowing the answer.
Start a round with two easy riddles so that everyone has scored before the hard ones.

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What are some good riddles for kids?: Five from this list: I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old, and I glow my whole life. What am I? (A candle) What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? (A stick) What has a mouse that no cat will chase? (A computer) What dives into the soup empty and comes out full? (A spoon (or ladle)) When is a car not a car? (When it turns into a driveway)