Read the question first and give everyone time to guess before revealing the answer.
These 50 riddles for kids work for classroom breaks, road trips, or family game night.
The first group uses familiar objects, the second relies more on words and logic, and
the final ten are a slightly trickier challenge. Answers appear directly below each riddle.
Object Riddles
Q: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? A: A clock!
Q: What has a head and a tail but no body? A: A coin!
Q: What can you catch but not throw? A: A cold!
Q: What has legs but doesn't walk? A: A table!
Q: What has ears but cannot hear? A: A cornfield!
Q: What goes up but never comes down? A: Your age!
Q: What gets wetter the more it dries? A: A towel!
Q: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand? A: A glove!
Q: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? A: A stamp!
Q: What has teeth but cannot bite? A: A comb!
Q: What has one eye but can't see? A: A needle!
Q: What is full of holes but still holds water? A: A sponge!
Q: What can you break without touching it? A: A promise!
Q: What has keys but no locks? A: A piano!
Q: What building has the most stories? A: A library!
Q: What has a neck but no head? A: A bottle!
Q: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks? A: A river!
Q: What has words but never speaks? A: A book!
Q: What can fill a room but takes up no space? A: Light!
Q: What goes up and down but doesn't move? A: Stairs!
Word and Logic Riddles
Q: What can you hold without ever touching it? A: Your breath!
Q: What month of the year has 28 days? A: All of them!
Q: What is always in front of you but can't be seen? A: The future!
Q: What belongs to you but others use it more than you do? A: Your name!
Q: What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish? A: A map!
Q: What gets bigger the more you take away from it? A: A hole!
Q: What invention lets you look right through a wall? A: A window!
Q: What can be cracked, made, told, and played? A: A joke!
Q: What has four wheels and flies? A: A garbage truck!
Q: What is orange and sounds like a parrot? A: A carrot!
Q: What has a bottom at the top? A: Your legs!
Q: What's black and white and red all over? A: A newspaper (read all over)!
Q: What can you serve but never eat? A: A tennis ball!
Q: What has 88 keys but can't open a single door? A: A piano!
Q: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? A: The letter M!
Q: What tastes better than it smells? A: Your tongue!
Q: What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary? A: Wrong!
Q: What disappears the moment you say its name? A: Silence!
Q: What begins with an E and ends with an E but only contains one letter? A: An envelope!
Q: What can go through glass without breaking it? A: Light!
Trickier Brain Teasers
Q: What has a bed but never sleeps? A: A river!
Q: What has branches but no fruit, trunk, or leaves? A: A bank!
Q: What can be long or short, grown or bought, painted or left bare, round or square? A: Fingernails!
Q: What two things can you never eat for breakfast? A: Lunch and dinner!
Q: What room can no one enter? A: A mushroom!
Q: What goes through towns and over hills but never moves? A: A road!
Q: What has a ring but no finger? A: A telephone!
Q: What is at the end of a rainbow? A: The letter W!
Q: What can honk without using a horn? A: A goose!
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