Riddles

100 classic riddles for kids and families: tricky questions, clever answers, and a hint if you get stuck.

Click any riddle to open its own page with a hint and a hidden answer. Riddles are great brain exercise for kids: they build vocabulary, logic, and creative thinking. All 100 riddles below are clean and family-friendly.

1. What has keys but cannot open a single lock?
2. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
3. What gets wetter the more it dries?
4. What has a neck but no head?
5. What has one eye but cannot see?
6. What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, and has a bed but never sleeps?
7. What can you catch but never throw?
8. What goes up but never comes down?
9. What has many teeth but cannot bite?
10. What is full of holes but still holds water?
11. What has a head and a tail but no body?
12. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
13. What has four legs but cannot walk?
14. What can fill a whole room without taking up any space?
15. What travels around the world but stays in a corner?
16. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
17. What can you break without touching it?
18. What is always in front of you but cannot be seen?
19. What gets bigger the more you take away?
20. What has words but never speaks?
21. What runs around the yard without ever moving?
22. What has a bottom at the top?
23. What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?
24. What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
25. The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
26. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
27. What has ears but cannot hear?
28. What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
29. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
30. What is at the end of a rainbow?
31. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
32. What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
33. What goes through cities and fields but never moves?
34. What can you keep after giving it to someone?
35. What has a heart that does not beat?
36. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
37. What is always coming but never arrives?
38. What has thirteen hearts but no other organs?
39. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
40. What has a ring but no finger?
41. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
42. I am tall when I am young and short when I am old. What am I?
43. What has to be broken before you can use it?
44. What is full of holes but can still hold a lot of weight?
45. What goes up and down but never moves?
46. What kind of band never plays music?
47. What is the center of gravity?
48. What gets sharper the more you use it?
49. What has four wheels and flies?
50. What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?
51. What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?
52. What can you hold in your left hand but never in your right hand?
53. What tastes better than it smells?
54. What has two heads, four eyes, six legs, and a tail?
55. What kind of cheese is made backwards?
56. What is cut on a table but never eaten?
57. What do you throw out when you want to use it and take in when you do not?
58. What has branches but no fruit and a trunk but no wood?
59. What is made of water but disappears if you put it in water?
60. What is harder to catch the faster you run?
61. What never asks questions but is often answered?
62. What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?
63. What is in the middle of nowhere?
64. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
65. What is the longest word in the dictionary?
66. What can you hear but never touch or see?
67. What is always hungry and must always be fed?
68. What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space?
69. What has six faces and twenty-one eyes?
70. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
71. I am round and I glow in the dark. What am I?
72. What has roots that nobody sees and grows taller than trees?
73. Thirty white horses on a red hill: first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still. What are they?
74. What has a horn but never honks?
75. What animal can jump higher than a house?
76. What falls but never gets hurt?
77. What has a foot but no legs?
78. What is the best month for a parade?
79. What is the difference between a hill and a pill?
80. Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
81. What is the easiest way to double your money?
82. What is the capital of France?
83. What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night?
84. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
85. What has many needles but never sews?
86. What is the end of everything?
87. What begins with E but only has one letter?
88. What goes up when the rain comes down?
89. What room do ghosts avoid?
90. What is black and white and red all over?
91. What has four eyes but cannot see?
92. What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?
93. What runs but has no legs?
94. What belongs to December but to no other month?
95. What has teeth but cannot eat?
96. What can you see in the middle of March and April but never at the beginning or end of either month?
97. What has a tongue but cannot talk?
98. How many months have 28 days?
99. What has a neck but no head, and two arms but no hands?
100. What has many rings but no fingers?

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Frequently asked questions

What is a riddle?

A riddle is a tricky question or puzzle with a clever answer. Classic riddles play with words and ideas, like 'What has keys but cannot open a single lock? A piano.' Solving them is great exercise for young brains.

Are these riddles good for kids?

Yes. All 100 riddles are clean, kind, and written in simple language. Each riddle page includes a hint, so kids can get help without seeing the answer right away.

How can I use these riddles?

Use them for family game nights, classroom warm-ups, car rides, birthday parties, or rainy-day fun. Every riddle has its own page you can link to or print.

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