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60 Fun brain teasing riddles for kids

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By April Green

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Ready to Riddle? 🧠🌟

Get ready to solve some brain teasers that will test your thinking. They’re perfect for sparking curiosity and getting you to think deeply. 🎩🧠

Let’s see who can solve these mysteries! 🕵️‍♂️⬇️

Riddles to Make You Think:

  • What has keys but can’t open locks? 🗝️ – A piano
  • Where does today come before yesterday? 📖 – In the dictionary
  • I fly without wings, I cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness flies. 🌧️ – A cloud
  • What has one head, one foot, and four legs? 🛏️ – A bed
  • I’m taken from a mine, shut in a wooden case, and used by almost everyone. 🖊️ – Pencil lead
  • I am heavy and hard to pick up, but backward, I am not. ⚖️ – A ton
  • The more you take away, the bigger I become. 🕳️ – A hole
  • What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it? 🤫 – Silence
  • What has lots of eyes, but can’t see? 🥔 – A potato
  • If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five? 🔢 – Nine
  • What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? ✂️ – Short

More Mysteries to Solve:

  • I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. 🗺️ – A map
  • I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. 🔠 – Few
  • What can you catch but not throw? 🤧 – A cold
  • What has many needles but doesn’t sew? 🎄 – A Christmas tree
  • What has words, but never speaks? 📚 – A book
  • What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? 🧤 – A glove
  • I am a ball that can be rolled but never thrown or bounced. 👁️ – An eyeball
  • What has a bed but never sleeps and a mouth but never eats? 🌊 – A river
  • I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. 🧔‍♂️ – A barber
  • What has an end but no beginning, a home but no family, and a space without a room? 🛣️ – A road

Fun Riddles to Share:

  • I’m always on the dinner table, but you don’t get to eat me. 🍽️ – Plates
  • What has a bottom at the top? 👖 – Your legs
  • I can fill a room, but I take up no space. 💡 – Light
  • What has a head and a tail but no body? 💰 – A coin
  • What can be cracked, made, told, and played? 🤭 – A joke
  • What has a ring but no finger? ☎️ – A telephone
  • What has many teeth but can’t bite? 🧼 – A comb
  • What has a bark but no bite? 🌳 – A tree
  • What is full of holes but can hold water? 🧽 – A sponge
  • What has an eye but can’t see? 🪡 – A needle
  • What comes down but never goes up? 🌧️ – Rain
  • What has a neck but no head? 🍾 – A bottle
  • What has four legs but can’t walk? 🪑 – A table

Riddles with a Twist:

  • What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? 🔤 – The letter ‘m’
  • I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. 🔥 – Fire
  • The more of this there is, the less you see. 🌌 – Darkness
  • What can travel around the world while staying in the corner? ✉️ – A stamp
  • I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. 🌬️ – An echo
  • What gets wetter the more it dries? 🛁 – A towel
  • The more you take, the more you leave behind. 👣 – Footsteps
  • What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary? 📕 – Incorrect
  • If you don’t keep me, I will break. 🤝 – A promise
  • What is the end of everything? 🔚 – The letter ‘g’
  • I shrink the more you work on me. ✏️ – A pencil
  • I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I? ✉️ – The letter ‘E’

Keep the Fun Going:

  • What belongs to you but is used more by others? 🏷️ – Your name
  • I come down but never go up, and I cover everything without a sound. ❄️ – Snow
  • If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile, and I’ll always smile back. 🪞 – A mirror
  • I am an instrument you can hear but never touch or see. 🎶 – Your voice
  • What has roots nobody sees, is taller than trees, and goes up but never grows leaves? 🏔️ – A mountain
  • What comes at the end of a rainbow? 🌈 – The letter ‘W’
  • If you drop a blue hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? 🧢 – A wet hat
  • What has 13 hearts but no other organ? 🃏 – A deck of cards
  • I go up and down but never move. 🛗 – A staircase
  • What starts with ‘P’ and ends with ‘E’ and has thousands of letters? 📬 – Post office
  • You will find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter but not in Venus or Neptune. 🪐 – The letter ‘R’

Riddles are such a fun, screen free way to engage kids and at the same time stimulating their thinking skills. We use it on the road, at the dining table, at bed time, in parties, to practice writing. The possibilities are endless.

Time to Test Your Kids! 🎉

Share these riddles and watch as your kids try to figure them out. Which one will stump them the most? Let the riddle fun begin! 🤓✨

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