Fun Riddles for Kids
Brain Teasers, Tricky Questions & Clever Puzzles
Put on your thinking caps! These riddles for kids will challenge young minds and spark
creative thinking. Whether you're looking for a fun way to pass the time or want to
stump your friends and family, these clever brain teasers are sure to entertain.
Our collection features 50 kid-friendly riddles including classic brain teasers,
tricky "what am I?" questions, and clever puzzles with surprising answers. These clean,
family-friendly riddles are perfect for kids ages 4-12 and are great for road trips,
classroom activities, or family game nights. From "What has hands but can't clap?" to
mind-bending word puzzles, there's something to challenge every young thinker! 🤔💡🧩
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Q: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A: A clock!
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Q: What has a head and a tail but no body?
A: A coin!
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Q: What can you catch but not throw?
A: A cold!
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Q: What has legs but doesn't walk?
A: A table!
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Q: What has ears but cannot hear?
A: A cornfield!
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Q: What goes up but never comes down?
A: Your age!
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Q: What gets wetter the more it dries?
A: A towel!
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Q: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?
A: A glove!
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Q: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A: A stamp!
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Q: What has teeth but cannot bite?
A: A comb!
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Q: What has one eye but can't see?
A: A needle!
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Q: What is full of holes but still holds water?
A: A sponge!
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Q: What can you break without touching it?
A: A promise!
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Q: What has keys but no locks?
A: A piano!
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Q: What building has the most stories?
A: A library!
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Q: What has a neck but no head?
A: A bottle!
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Q: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks?
A: A river!
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Q: What has words but never speaks?
A: A book!
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Q: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
A: Light!
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Q: What goes up and down but doesn't move?
A: Stairs!
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Q: What can you hold without ever touching it?
A: Your breath!
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Q: What month of the year has 28 days?
A: All of them!
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Q: What is always in front of you but can't be seen?
A: The future!
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Q: What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
A: Your name!
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Q: What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish?
A: A map!
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Q: What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
A: A hole!
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Q: What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A: A window!
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Q: What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
A: A joke!
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Q: What has four wheels and flies?
A: A garbage truck!
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Q: What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
A: A carrot!
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Q: What has a bottom at the top?
A: Your legs!
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Q: What's black and white and red all over?
A: A newspaper (read all over)!
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Q: What can you serve but never eat?
A: A tennis ball!
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Q: What has 88 keys but can't open a single door?
A: A piano!
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Q: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
A: The letter M!
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Q: What tastes better than it smells?
A: Your tongue!
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Q: What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
A: Wrong!
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Q: What disappears the moment you say its name?
A: Silence!
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Q: What begins with an E and ends with an E but only contains one letter?
A: An envelope!
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Q: What can go through glass without breaking it?
A: Light!
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Q: What has a bed but never sleeps?
A: A river!
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Q: What has branches but no fruit, trunk, or leaves?
A: A bank!
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Q: What can be long or short, grown or bought, painted or left bare, round or square?
A: Fingernails!
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Q: What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
A: Lunch and dinner!
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Q: What room can no one enter?
A: A mushroom!
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Q: What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
A: A road!
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Q: What has a ring but no finger?
A: A telephone!
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Q: What is at the end of a rainbow?
A: The letter W!
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Q: What can honk without using a horn?
A: A goose!
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Q: It can't be seen, can't be felt, can't be heard, and can't be smelled. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. What is it?
A: The dark