88 riddles for kids with answers

Every morning you make me, but not with glue, paper or paint. At night you climb into me. What am I?

Hint: Making it does not mean building it; think of tidying your room.

The more air you give me, the bigger I grow, but give me too much and I'm gone with a bang. What am I?

Hint: Think of a birthday party decoration you blow into.

I keep you the same age forever, even while you keep growing. What am I?

Hint: It keeps one moment, and you might find it in an album.

I go forward and back all afternoon, but I never get anywhere. What am I?

Hint: Think of the playground: you sit on it and pump your legs.

I'm a set of steps you can pick up and carry to another room. What am I?

Hint: Painters and window cleaners use one to climb.

I fly without wings, but only while someone holds on to my string. What am I?

Hint: Think of a windy day at the beach or the park.

After a rainstorm I lie flat on the path. Jump in me and I jump right back out, all over your pants. What am I?

Hint: It only appears after rain, and boots love it.

I'm full of feathers, but I've never flown anywhere. Every night I hold up your head. What am I?

Hint: Look on your bed, under your head.

I wake you up every morning, but I've never been asleep. What am I?

Hint: It beeps or rings in the morning.

You make me with a wand, but I'm not magic. I float for a little while, and then I pop. What am I?

Hint: You blow through a little ring dipped in soapy water.

I'm the only game where the best players are the ones you can't find. What am I?

Hint: One person counts while everyone else goes quiet.

I come out of my tube easily, but I'll never go back in. What am I?

Hint: You squeeze it onto your toothbrush.

I'm a plane with no pilot, no engine and no seats, and you make me by folding. What am I?

Hint: It is made from one sheet of paper and thrown across the room.

I'm a castle, but no king has ever lived in me, and the waves knock me down by the end of the day. What am I?

Hint: You build it at the beach with a bucket and spade.

I always know where you stopped reading, but I've never read a word. What am I?

Hint: It sits between the pages of a book.

I make a sunny day darker, and that helps you see. What am I?

Hint: You wear them on your face on bright days.

You lose me, and someone might leave a coin under your pillow. What am I?

Hint: Think of the tooth fairy.

I'm a bed with no legs. I hang between two trees and swing when you climb in. What am I?

Hint: You might lie in one on a summer holiday.

Every morning we get tied up, but we've never done anything wrong. What are we?

Hint: They are on your shoes.

Which word for a baby dog reads the same backward and forward?

Hint: A baby dog is a ___. Spell it both ways.

I'm a cone, but I never stand in the middle of the road. Scoops of something cold sit on top of me. What am I?

Hint: Think of a cold treat you lick.

Children play on the swings in me, and grown-ups do me with their cars. What am I?

Hint: Kids go to it to play, and cars stop in a space.

You can make me with your hand, and surfers ride me in the sea. What am I?

Hint: Your hand can do it to say hello, and the sea makes them.

You have one in the middle of each hand, and coconuts grow on one. What am I?

Hint: Look at the inside of your hand; it is also a kind of tree.

You wash dishes in me, and it's what a stone does when you drop it in a pond. What am I?

Hint: It is in the kitchen, and a stone does it in water.

You have one on the tip of every finger, and a builder bangs one in with a hammer. What am I?

Hint: Your fingers have them, and so does a toolbox.

I spin to keep you cool on a hot day, and I cheer loudly for my favorite team. What am I?

Hint: It can cool you down, and it can cheer at a game.

You wear me on your wrist, and you do me with your eyes when a show is on. What am I?

Hint: It tells the time, and it is also what you do to a show.

Two socks that look exactly alike make one of me, and so does a soccer game. What am I?

Hint: Think of a pair that goes together, or a game between two teams.

I'm a big bus for a long trip, and I'm also the grown-up who runs soccer practice. What am I?

Hint: A long-distance bus, or the person with the whistle at practice.

You eat cereal out of me, and it's what you do when you roll a ball at the pins. What am I?

Hint: You eat cereal from it, and you can do it at a bowling alley.

I'm a hat with a brim at the front, and I'm the lid you twist onto a bottle. What am I?

Hint: A baseball hat, or the top of a bottle.

I hold your coat closed, and you press me to start a video game. What am I?

Hint: It is on your coat and on a game controller.

I twinkle in the night sky, and I'm also the most important actor in a movie. What am I?

Hint: Look up at night, then think of a famous actor.

Pencils have one, your team gets one when it scores, and you do it with your finger. What is it?

Hint: A pencil needs to be sharp at this end.

You do me in bed at night, and you also do me when you don't tell the truth. What am I?

Hint: It is what you do in bed, and what you should not tell.

I'm a deep hole with water at the bottom, and I'm how you feel when you're not sick. What am I?

Hint: It is a hole for water, and the opposite of feeling sick.

I'm a toy that spins on its point, and I'm the highest part of a mountain. What am I?

Hint: A spinning toy, or the very peak of something.

I'm the coins you get back after you pay, and it's what a caterpillar does when it becomes a butterfly. What am I?

Hint: Coins from the shop, and what a caterpillar does.

Cars roll on four of me, and a long day of running makes you do me. What am I?

Hint: Cars roll on them, and you feel it after a long day.

Some nights I look like a circle and some nights like a thin slice, but I never really change shape. What am I?

Hint: It changes how it looks every night, but it is always round.

I only show up when the sun shines while it's raining, and my colors always come in the same order. What am I?

Hint: Look for it after rain when the sun comes out.

I can make you laugh without telling a single joke, but I hardly ever work when you try me on yourself. What am I?

Hint: Someone wiggles their fingers on your feet or tummy.

The harder you pull on me, the tighter I get. What am I?

Hint: Think of shoelaces or a rope.

The longer I get, the longer you have to wait. What am I?

Hint: Think of a queue at a shop.

The more you roll me across the yard, the bigger I get. What am I?

Hint: Think of winter and a snowman's body.

The more candles on top of me, the older the person I was made for. What am I?

Hint: Think of the cake at a party.

In this race, teammates never pass each other, but they still have to pass something. What race is it?

Hint: Runners hand a stick to each other in this race.

I have a diamond, but it's not in a ring, and a pitcher, but it holds no lemonade. What game am I?

Hint: A pitcher throws a ball in this game.

I collect stamps, but I've never been mailed anywhere. You take me with you when you visit another country. What am I?

Hint: You need one to travel abroad.

In baseball, three strikes and you're out, but in this game a strike is the best roll you can make. What game is it?

Hint: You knock down pins in this game.

Take the first letter off something you sit on, and you get something that grows on your head. What are the two words?

Hint: Think of furniture you sit on, then drop its first letter.

Take the first letter off a toy you stack, and you get something a key opens. What are the two words?

Hint: Think of a toy you stack, then drop its first letter.

Which part of your body is hiding in the word SHIP?

Hint: Look inside SHIP for a body part.

Which part of your leg is hiding in the word SHINE?

Hint: Look inside SHINE for a part of your leg.

My first half is at the end of your leg. My second half bounces. Put us together and you get a game. What am I?

Hint: Your leg ends in the first half; a ball does the rest.

My first half hears. My second half goes on a finger. Together I hang from your ear. What am I?

Hint: Think of what you hear with, then what goes on a finger.

Take one letter out of a word for Earth or Mars, and you get something that grows in a flowerpot. What are the two words?

Hint: Earth is one; take out one letter.

Take one letter out of something you eat soup with, and you get a word that means "in a little while." What are the two words?

Hint: Think of what you eat soup with, then drop one letter.

Spell something you chew backward, and you get a cup for hot cocoa. What are the two words?

Hint: You chew it; now read it backwards.

Spell a word that means "hold on to" backward, and you get a quick look. What are the two words?

Hint: Another word for hold on to starts with K; read it backwards.

Add two letters to the front of ANT, and you get a huge person from a fairy tale. What is it?

Hint: Think of the huge person at the top of the beanstalk.

Add two letters to the end of CAN, and you get a boat you paddle. What is it?

Hint: Think of a narrow boat you paddle on a lake.

I'm the color of a fire truck, and I sound exactly like what you did with your book yesterday. What am I?

Hint: The past tense of read sounds like a color.

I'm the color of the sky, and I sound exactly like what the wind did last night. What am I?

Hint: The wind blew; which color sounds like that?

Cars drive on me, and I sound exactly like what you did on your bike yesterday. What am I?

Hint: Yesterday you ___ your bike. Which word for a street sounds the same?

I'm sixty minutes long, and I sound exactly like a word that means "belonging to us." What am I?

Hint: Sixty minutes, and it sounds like a word for belonging to us.

I'm all of something, with no pieces missing, and I sound exactly like something you dig in the sand. What am I?

Hint: The opposite of a part; it sounds like what you dig.

Spelled out, I have three letters. I'm an even number, and I'm between five and nine. What number am I?

Hint: Count the letters, then think of numbers between five and nine.

I'm the number of legs on a spider, and if you lay me on my side I look like the sign for "forever." What number am I?

Hint: Count a spider's legs.

Which two letters of the alphabet are also words all by themselves?

Hint: Think of which single letters are words on their own.

A bike has me so it can stop, and I sound exactly like what happens to a glass when you drop it. What am I?

Hint: It stops a bike, and it sounds like what a glass does when dropped.

A pencil is longer than a crayon but shorter than a ruler. Which one is the shortest?

Hint: Line them up from shortest to longest.

What is one thing you can never see in a mirror, no matter how hard you try?

Hint: Close your eyes and think about it.

Emma is older than Jack. Jack is older than Lily. Lily is older than Noah. Who is the second youngest?

Hint: Put the four names in order from oldest to youngest.

Which has more legs: three chairs or two dogs?

Hint: Count the legs: chairs have four each, dogs have four each.

I'm your aunt's son. Who am I to you?

Hint: Your aunt's child is related to you.

I'm thinking of a number. It's even, it's bigger than 5 and smaller than 10, and it isn't 6. What is it?

Hint: List the even numbers between 5 and 10, then cross one out.

At sunrise, Jay stands in the schoolyard and his shadow points straight at the gym. Is the gym east or west of Jay?

Hint: At sunrise the sun is in the east, and shadows point away from the sun.

My grandma's only son is not my dad. Who is he?

Hint: Grandma's son could be your dad or someone else in your family.

My first letter is in BAT but not in CAT. My second is in HOT but not in HAT. My third is in TOP but not in TIP. My last is in KITE but not in BITE. You read me. What am I?

Hint: Work it out one letter at a time.

Add me to myself or multiply me by myself, and you get the same answer. I'm not zero. What number am I?

Hint: Try adding and multiplying small numbers by themselves.

Three friends ran a race. Zoe didn't come first, and Max finished right after Zoe. The third runner was Ivy. Who won?

Hint: If Zoe was not first and Max was right after her, who is left?

A basket holds 10 pieces of fruit, apples and pears. There are 4 more apples than pears. How many pears are there?

Hint: Put the 4 extra apples aside, then share what is left equally.

I'm a month with 31 days. My name starts with a vowel, and I'm not the month with Halloween. Which month am I?

Hint: Months with 31 days include January, March, May, July, August, October and December.

On a map with north at the top, you walk from the bottom left corner to the top right corner. Which direction are you going?

Hint: Bottom left to top right means up and to the right.

Mia's clock says 9:00, but it's 15 minutes fast. What time is it really?

Hint: If the clock is 15 minutes fast, take 15 minutes away.

Which capital letters look exactly the same in a mirror as they do on paper? Name three.

Hint: Look for letters that are the same on both sides when cut down the middle.