28 Thanksgiving riddles with answers

I'm a bone that everybody wants to break. What am I?

Hint: Two people pull on it after dinner and hope for luck.

I'm poured from a boat, but I've never been to sea. What am I?

Hint: This boat is a little jug that sits on the dinner table.

I'm shaped like a horn, but nobody ever plays me. Fruit and vegetables spill out of me onto the table. What am I?

Hint: It is a basket shaped like a curly goat horn.

I'm stuffed, but not with food. I stand in the field with my arms out, and birds are supposed to be scared of me. What am I?

Hint: Look in a farm field for a straw man in old clothes.

I'm as tall as a building and I float down the street, but people have to hold me down with ropes. What am I?

Hint: Picture giant cartoon characters floating down a city street on TV.

After the big dinner, everybody suddenly has somewhere else to be when it's time to do us. What are we?

Hint: Think of the job at the kitchen sink after everyone eats.

I'm a drumstick, but I've never played a drum. What am I?

Hint: It is the part of the big roasted bird that you hold in your hand.

On Thanksgiving afternoon I get kicked and thrown around, and nobody feels sorry for me. What am I?

Hint: Many families watch a big game on TV after the meal.

In November we fall, but nobody trips. What are we?

Hint: Think about what the season after summer is called.

I'm a vegetable on the Thanksgiving table, and I'm also a sport played with a racket. What am I?

Hint: The word also means to press something flat.

Some families say me before the meal, and a ballet dancer moves with me. What am I?

Hint: Some families bow their heads and say a short thank you.

My name is a month and a flower put together, but I'm a ship that carried the Pilgrims. What am I?

Hint: Pick the spring month that comes right before June.

Which thing that opens a lock is hiding in the word TURKEY?

Hint: Look at the end of the bird's name.

Put one letter in front of CORN, and you get a nut that squirrels bury. What is it?

Hint: Try each vowel in front of the word.

Add one letter to the end of PIE, and you get a dock where boats tie up. What is it?

Hint: Try adding letters at the end, one at a time, and say each out loud.

Which short sleep is hiding in the word NAPKIN?

Hint: Check the first three letters for a short rest.

Rearrange the letters of PLATE to get part of a flower.

Hint: Picture a daisy; you pull these off one by one.

Which small hotel is hiding in the word DINNER?

Hint: Cover the first and last letters and look at the middle.

Which word for what you did at dinner is hiding in GRATEFUL?

Hint: Look between GR and FUL for something you did with your food.

Which part of your foot is hiding inside the word POTATOES?

Hint: Look near the end of the word, just before the S.

Add one letter to the front of a compass direction, and you get a big holiday meal. What is it?

Hint: Start with the direction where the sun comes up.

Dinner is at 5:00. The turkey needs 4 hours in the oven and 30 more minutes to rest on the counter. When should it go into the oven?

Hint: Count back the resting time from 5:00 first.

Rearrange the letters of CARVE, what the host does to the turkey, to get what you do when you really want another slice.

Hint: Only two letters next to each other need to trade places.

Rearrange the letters of BASTE, what a cook does to keep a turkey juicy, to get a big wild animal.

Hint: Keep the B at the front and shuffle the other four letters.

Rearrange the letters of TABLE to get the sound a sheep makes.

Hint: Look for a fancier word than baa that uses the same five letters.

I'm the bird on the table, and in bowling I'm three strikes in a row. What am I?

Hint: The bowling slang is named after the main dish of the day.

Put the same letter in front of ARVEST, AM and OLIDAY to make three words you might hear at Thanksgiving. Which letter is it?

Hint: Start with OLIDAY; only one letter turns it into a day off.

Which word for very serious and gloomy is hiding at the end of PILGRIM?

Hint: Cover the first three letters and read the rest.