Welcome to the ultimate collection of riddles designed especially for older kids! These riddles will challenge your mind, tickle your funny bone, and sharpen your problem-solving skills. Whether you’re looking for a fun activity to do with friends, a brain teaser to keep you occupied, or a puzzle to solve during your free time, this assortment of 301 riddles has something for everyone. Let’s dive into the world of riddles and have some fun!
Math Riddles ➕➖
- What has numbers but can’t do math? 📚
Answer: A phone - I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I? 🧐
Answer: Seven - If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five? 🤔
Answer: Nine - What three positive numbers give the same answer when multiplied and added together? 🔢
Answer: 1, 2, and 3 - I have keys but can’t open locks. What am I? 🎹
Answer: A piano - I add five to nine and get two. The answer is correct, but how? 🕒
Answer: When it is 9 AM, adding 5 hours makes it 2 PM. - If you multiply me by any other number, the answer will always remain the same. What number am I? 🚫
Answer: Zero - What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? 🔇
Answer: Silence - What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? 🕛
Answer: The letter M - How many seconds are there in a year? ⏲️
Answer: 12 (January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd, etc.) - What is full of holes but still holds water? 💦
Answer: A sponge - What goes up but never comes down? 🎂
Answer: Your age - How can you make seven even? ✂️
Answer: Remove the ‘S’ - What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? ⏰
Answer: A clock - What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it? 🍵
Answer: A teapot - What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? 📬
Answer: A stamp - If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don’t have me. What am I? 🤐
Answer: A secret - What has one eye but cannot see? 🧵
Answer: A needle - What gets wetter the more it dries? 🛁
Answer: A towel - What has a neck but no head? 🍾
Answer: A bottle - What can you catch but not throw? 🤧
Answer: A cold - What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? 🧤
Answer: A glove - What building has the most stories? 📚
Answer: A library - What has to be broken before you can use it? 🥚
Answer: An egg - What month of the year has 28 days? 📅
Answer: All of them - What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? ⏳
Answer: The future - What invention lets you look right through a wall? 🪟
Answer: A window - What gets bigger the more you take away? 🕳️
Answer: A hole - What goes up and down but doesn’t move? 🛏️
Answer: A staircase - What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary? 📖
Answer: Incorrectly
Science Riddles 🔬
- What planet is known as the Red Planet? 🔴
Answer: Mars - What gas do plants breathe in that humans and animals breathe out? 🌳
Answer: Carbon dioxide - What force keeps us on the ground? 🌏
Answer: Gravity - What is the hardest natural substance on Earth? 💎
Answer: Diamond - What part of the plant conducts photosynthesis? 🍃
Answer: The leaf - What gas do humans need to breathe in to survive? 💨
Answer: Oxygen - What is the center of an atom called? 🔬
Answer: The nucleus - What is H2O more commonly known as? 💧
Answer: Water - What planet is closest to the sun? ☀️
Answer: Mercury - What force causes objects to fall to the ground? 🍎
Answer: Gravity - What is the largest organ in the human body? 🧍♂️
Answer: The skin - What organ pumps blood through the body? ❤️
Answer: The heart - What planet is known as the Earth’s twin? 🌍
Answer: Venus - What do bees collect and use to make honey? 🌼
Answer: Nectar - What is the chemical symbol for gold? 🏅
Answer: Au - What element does ‘O’ represent on the periodic table? 🔥
Answer: Oxygen - What is the smallest unit of life? 🦠
Answer: A cell - What planet is known for its rings? 💍
Answer: Saturn - What organ is affected by hepatitis? 🏥
Answer: The liver - What is the speed of light? ⚡
Answer: Approximately 299,792 kilometers per second - What type of animal is a Komodo dragon? 🦎
Answer: A lizard - What is the chemical symbol for water? 💧
Answer: H2O - What is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere? 🌬️
Answer: Nitrogen - What is the process by which plants make their food? 🌞
Answer: Photosynthesis - What type of celestial body is the sun? ☀️
Answer: A star - What is the powerhouse of the cell? 🔋
Answer: The mitochondrion - What is the most common element in the universe? 🌌
Answer: Hydrogen - What kind of eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun? 🌑
Answer: A solar eclipse - What is the boiling point of water? 🌡️
Answer: 100 degrees Celsius - What is the main gas found in the air we breathe? 🌫️
Answer: Nitrogen
Geography Riddles 🌍
- What is the smallest country in the world? 🇻🇦
Answer: Vatican City - Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun? 🌅
Answer: Japan - What river is the longest in the world? 🏞️
Answer: The Nile - Which country has the most natural lakes? 🌊
Answer: Canada - What is the capital city of Australia? 🏛️
Answer: Canberra - Which desert is the largest in the world? 🏜️
Answer: The Sahara - What is the smallest continent by land area? 🗺️
Answer: Australia - Which ocean is the largest? 🌊
Answer: The Pacific Ocean - What is the capital of France? 🗼
Answer: Paris - Which country is home to the Great Wall? 🏯
Answer: China - Which country is the largest by land area? 🌏
Answer: Russia - What is the longest river in the United States? 🌉
Answer: The Missouri River - Which mountain range separates Europe and Asia? 🏔️
Answer: The Ural Mountains - What is the capital city of Italy? 🏛️
Answer: Rome - Which continent is known as the Dark Continent? 🌍
Answer: Africa - What is the capital city of Canada? 🇨🇦
Answer: Ottawa - What is the highest mountain in the world? 🏔️
Answer: Mount Everest - Which country is famous for its tulips and windmills? 🌷
Answer: The Netherlands - What river flows through London? 🌉
Answer: The Thames - Which US state is known as the Sunshine State? 🌞
Answer: Florida - What is the capital of Germany? 🏙️
Answer: Berlin - Which ocean is on the east coast of the United States? 🌊
Answer: The Atlantic Ocean - What desert covers much of northern Africa? 🏜️
Answer: The Sahara Desert - What is the capital city of Spain? 🏛️
Answer: Madrid - Which country has the most people? 🌍
Answer: China - What continent is the Sahara Desert located on? 🏜️
Answer: Africa - What is the longest river in South America? 🌊
Answer: The Amazon River - Which city is known as the Big Apple? 🍏
Answer: New York City - What is the capital of Russia? 🏛️
Answer: Moscow - Which country is known for the Eiffel Tower? 🗼
Answer: France
Animal Riddles 🐾
- I’m known for my spots and live in the jungle. Who am I? 🐆
Answer: A leopard - I can mimic human speech but am not human. Who am I? 🦜
Answer: A parrot - I’m the king of the jungle. Who am I? 🦁
Answer: A lion - I can fly without wings and cry without eyes. What am I? 🌧️
Answer: A cloud - I have a long trunk and big ears. Who am I? 🐘
Answer: An elephant - I’m known for my black and white stripes. Who am I? 🦓
Answer: A zebra - I’m a large mammal that loves to swim in the ocean. Who am I? 🐋
Answer: A whale - I’m small, have eight legs, and spin webs. Who am I? 🕷️
Answer: A spider - I’m a large bird known for my colorful feathers and fan-shaped tail. Who am I? 🦚
Answer: A peacock - I’m a marsupial that hops and lives in Australia. Who am I? 🦘
Answer: A kangaroo - I’m a mammal known for my speed and spots. Who am I? 🐆
Answer: A cheetah - I’m known for my bushy tail and love for acorns. Who am I? 🐿️
Answer: A squirrel - I’m a large reptile known for my powerful bite. Who am I? 🐊
Answer: A crocodile - I’m known for my black and white fur and love of bamboo. Who am I? 🐼
Answer: A panda - I’m a bird known for my ability to mimic sounds. Who am I? 🦜
Answer: A parrot - I’m known for my long neck and spots. Who am I? 🦒
Answer: A giraffe - I’m a nocturnal bird known for my hooting sound. Who am I? 🦉
Answer: An owl - I’m a fish known for my vibrant colors and living in coral reefs. Who am I? 🐠
Answer: A clownfish - I’m an insect known for my colorful wings. Who am I? 🦋
Answer: A butterfly - I’m known for my ability to change colors. Who am I? 🦎
Answer: A chameleon - I’m a mammal known for my tusks and trunk. Who am I? 🐘
Answer: An elephant - I’m known for my big, bushy tail and love of nuts. Who am I? 🐿️
Answer: A squirrel - I’m a bird that cannot fly but can run very fast. Who am I? 🐦
Answer: An ostrich - I’m known for my shell and slow movements. Who am I? 🐢
Answer: A turtle - I’m a large mammal known for my mane and roar. Who am I? 🦁
Answer: A lion - I’m an animal known for my hopping and pouch. Who am I? 🦘
Answer: A kangaroo - I’m a small insect known for my ability to lift many times my own weight. Who am I? 🐜
Answer: An ant - I’m a sea creature known for my eight legs. Who am I? 🐙
Answer: An octopus - I’m a mammal known for my stripes and living in the savanna. Who am I? 🦓
Answer: A zebra - I’m known for my web-spinning abilities and eight legs. Who am I? 🕸️
Answer: A spider
Brain Teasers 🧠
- What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? 🕛
Answer: The letter M - I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I? 📞
Answer: An echo - What has keys but can’t open locks? 🎹
Answer: A piano - What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right? 🤚
Answer: Your right elbow - What has to be broken before you can use it? 🥚
Answer: An egg - What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? 📬
Answer: A stamp - I’m not alive, but I grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I? 🔥
Answer: Fire - What gets wetter the more it dries? 🛁
Answer: A towel - What has a neck but no head? 🍾
Answer: A bottle - What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary? 📖
Answer: Incorrectly - What can you catch but not throw? 🤧
Answer: A cold - What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? 🧤
Answer: A glove - What building has the most stories? 📚
Answer: A library - What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? ⏳
Answer: The future - What invention lets you look right through a wall? 🪟
Answer: A window - What gets bigger the more you take away? 🕳️
Answer: A hole - What goes up and down but doesn’t move? 🛏️
Answer: A staircase - What has one eye but cannot see? 🧵
Answer: A needle - What can be cracked, made, told, and played? 🎭
Answer: A joke - What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? 🔇
Answer: Silence - What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? ⏰
Answer: A clock - What is always running but never moves? 💧
Answer: A river - What can fill a room but takes up no space? 💡
Answer: Light - What goes up but never comes down? 🎂
Answer: Your age - What can you keep after giving to someone? 🤐
Answer: Your word - What has many teeth but can’t bite? 🪥
Answer: A comb - What has an end but no beginning, a home but no family, and a space without room? 📧
Answer: A keyboard - What has one head, one foot, and four legs? 🛏️
Answer: A bed - What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? 🕛
Answer: The letter M - What is as light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold it for much more than a minute? 🌬️
Answer: Your breath
Word Riddles 🗣️
- What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? ✂️
Answer: Short - What starts with P and ends with E and has thousands of letters in it? 📬
Answer: Post office - What is full of holes but still holds water? 💦
Answer: A sponge - What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? 🪙
Answer: A penny - What is the capital of Paris? 🏛️
Answer: The letter ‘P’ - What has keys but can’t open locks? 🎹
Answer: A piano - What gets bigger the more you take away from it? 🕳️
Answer: A hole - What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary? 📖
Answer: Incorrectly - What is the only word in the English language that ends in “-mt”? 🤔
Answer: Dreamt - What is the longest word in the dictionary? ⌨️
Answer: Smiles (a mile between the first and last letters) - What starts with an E, ends with an E, but only contains one letter? ✉️
Answer: An envelope - What word is spelled the same forwards and backwards? 🔄
Answer: A palindrome - What can be broken, but is never held? 🕰️
Answer: A promise - What can be cracked, made, told, and played? 🎭
Answer: A joke - What word has three consecutive double letters? 📚
Answer: Bookkeeper - What word is used to describe something that’s invisible but still tangible? 🌬️
Answer: Air - What is something that you will never see in the mirror? 🪞
Answer: Your reflection from behind - What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it? 🍵
Answer: A teapot - What has many keys but can’t open any doors? 🎹
Answer: A piano - What is so fragile that even mentioning it breaks it? 🔇
Answer: Silence - What has a bottom at the top? ⛳
Answer: A leg - What word is a question and an answer at the same time? ❓
Answer: What? - What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? ⏰
Answer: A clock - What is the longest word in the English language without a vowel? 🗣️
Answer: Rhythm - What word has a silent letter but is pronounced with a sound? 🤔
Answer: Acknowledge - What begins with S and ends with E and is a term used to describe the act of watching? 📺
Answer: See - What is a five-letter word that becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? ✂️
Answer: Short - What is the only letter that can be both a vowel and a consonant? 🔠
Answer: Y - What word has the most letters? 📬
Answer: Post office - What word is pronounced differently depending on the context but spelled the same? 🧐
Answer: Lead
Logic Riddles 🧩
- A man is looking at a picture of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. That person’s mother is my mother’s daughter.” Who is the person in the picture? 🤔
Answer: His daughter - If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many apples do you have? 🍏
Answer: Four - You see a house with two doors. One door leads to certain death, while the other door leads to freedom. You have two guards, one in front of each door. One guard always tells the truth, and the other always lies. You can ask only one question to one of the guards to find the door to freedom. What question do you ask? 🕵️
Answer: “If I asked the other guard which door leads to freedom, what would he say?” - A farmer is going to town with a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain. He must cross a river, but he can only take one item at a time. If he leaves the fox and chicken alone, the fox will eat the chicken. If he leaves the chicken and the grain alone, the chicken will eat the grain. How does he get everything across the river safely? 🚜
Answer: Take the chicken across first. Return and take the fox across. Bring the chicken back. Take the grain across. Finally, return to get the chicken. - What has keys but can’t open locks? 🎹
Answer: A piano - What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? 📬
Answer: A stamp - What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? 🧤
Answer: A glove - I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I? 🕯️
Answer: A candle - A man is pushing his car along a road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, “I’m bankrupt!” Why? 🏨
Answer: He’s playing Monopoly. - What is the next number in the sequence: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25? 🔢
Answer: 36 (The sequence is the squares of the numbers: 1^2, 2^2, 3^2, etc.) - If you could push a button to get any wish you wanted, but it would mean that someone you don’t know will also get a wish, would you push it? 🧚♂️
Answer: This is a philosophical question, and the answer depends on personal values. - A plane crashes on the border of the United States and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors? 🪦
Answer: Survivors are not buried. - If you could have any superpower, but it could only be used once, what would it be? 💪
Answer: This is subjective and depends on personal preference. - What is the most common letter in the English language? 🔠
Answer: E - A man is found dead in a field. Next to him is an unopened parachute. How did he die? 🪂
Answer: He jumped from a plane, and the parachute did not open. - What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right? 🤚
Answer: Your right hand - What can be cracked, made, told, and played? 🎭
Answer: A joke - What has many keys but can’t open any doors? 🎹
Answer: A piano - What has a bottom at the top? ⛳
Answer: A leg - What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place? ⏳
Answer: The letter E - What can you catch but not throw? 🤧
Answer: A cold - What is something you can break without ever touching it? 🕰️
Answer: A promise - What goes up and down but never moves? 🛏️
Answer: A staircase - What is always in front of you but can’t be seen? ⏳
Answer: The future - What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? ⏰
Answer: A clock - If a plane crashes on the border of the United States and Canada, where do they bury the survivors? 🪦
Answer: Survivors are not buried. - What word is spelled the same forwards and backwards? 🔄
Answer: A palindrome - What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? 🪙
Answer: A penny - What gets bigger the more you take away from it? 🕳️
Answer: A hole - What is the only letter that can be both a vowel and a consonant? 🔠
Answer: Y
Justin Taylor is a puzzle enthusiast and connoisseur, dedicated to exploring the fascinating world of puzzles. With a knack for solving complex riddles and a deep understanding of puzzle mechanics, Justin’s contributions to Puzzlerpedia are both enlightening and entertaining, captivating readers of all skill levels.
