Riddles for Children

Here are some good  riddles for children.   Read them and enjoy.  Try to answer the riddles without checking the answers.   Here are the riddles.


Riddle 1:   I go into the water red and come out black.   Who am I?

Riddle 2 :  I make up all literature, but I'm often sealed.  Who am I?

Riddle 3:  There are three jars full of equal amounts quarters, dimes, and penny's. Which one has the highest value?


Riddle 4:  Christmas and New Year's Day occur exactly one week apart. So a New Year's that occurs right after Christmas should be on the same day of the week. But in the year 2020 Christmas will occur on a Friday and New Year's on a Wednesday.   Why is this?

Riddle 5:   What two letters can spell the word candy?

Riddle 6:  I am a nice word composed of five letters, but the Romans would call me a numbers.
What am I?


Riddle 7:   How can you make 7 even?

Riddle 8:   The shorter I am, the bigger I am.   What am I?

Riddle 9:   I have a few points but we're not competing.   And I'll help you win when you're eating.    What am I?

Riddle 10: If a man carried my burden, he'd break his back.   I am not rich, but I always leave silver in my track.    What am I?



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Answer 1 :  Red hot Iron

Answer 2 : Letters

Answer 3 : The jar full of quarters would have the highest value because a quarter is worth more than a dime and penny. Amount refers to quantity, so if they have equal amounts there will be an equal number of each.

Answer 4 : In 2020 New Year's occurs on January 1st, 2020 and Christmas on December 25th, 2020. These dates are 51 weeks and 2 days apart, not one week apart (during the year New Year's occurs before Christmas).
 
Answer 5 : C and Y. If you take away the spaces, it will become the word CandY.

Answer 6 : Civil (C, I, V, and L are all roman numerals).

Answer 7 : Remove the 's' from 'seven' to make it 'even.'

Answer 8 : A temper.

Answer 9 : A Fork

Answer 10 : Snail
  

Animal Riddles for children

Here are some of the funny animal riddles for children.  Read them and enjoy.  Try to answer the riddles without checking the answers.   Here are the riddles.


Riddle 1:   What does a dog call its father?

Riddle 2 :  I live in the ocean.    I move slowly.     I eat clams.     I have five arms.  Who am I?


Riddle 3:  Why do ostriches have such a long legs?


Riddle 4:   Why does a dog scratch himself?

Riddle 5:   What kind of food does a race horse eat?

Riddle 6:   I live in lakes and rivers.    I eat fish and birds.    I have four legs and a long tail.
I have lots of pretty teeth.     Who am I?


Riddle 7:   What did the bee say when he got home? 

Riddle 8:   Which bird can lift the heaviest weight?

Riddle 9:   Why do lions eat raw meat?

Riddle 10:  What kind of leopard has red spots? 



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Answer 1 :  Paw

Answer 2 : Star Fish

Answer 3 : So that their feet can touch the ground

Answer 4 : Because no one knows where it itches for the dog

Answer 5 : Fast Food

Answer 6 : Crocodile

Answer 7 : Hi Honey

Answer 8 :The Crane

Answer 9 :Because Lions do not know how to cook

Answer 10 : One who has measles

Do you know these abbreviations?

NEWS   -  North East West South
CHESS - Chariot Horse Elephant SoldersS
COLD - Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
JOKE - Joy Of Kids Entertainment
AIM -  Ambition In Mind
DATE - Date And Time Evolution
EAT - Energy And Taste
TEA - Taste and Energy Admitted
PEN - Power Enriched in Nib
SMILE -Sweet Memories In Lips Expression
BYE - Be with You Every time

Maths Riddles -1 for Children

Riddles are always a great way to have fun with friends as well as to kill time.  Here are some easy maths riddles which will be teasing your brains.  These riddles are provided with answers are of different levels of difficulty and require some amount of concentration and logical reasoning to crack them.  So read these maths riddles and enjoy...

Riddle 1:   How can you add eight 8's to get the number 1,000? (only use addition) 

Riddle 2 :  What weighs more - a pound of iron or a pound of feathers?

Riddle 3 :  Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs, each person had an egg. The riddle is for you to explain how?

Riddle 4 :  How many eggs can you put in an empty basket one foot in diameter?

Riddle 5 :  I am an odd number; take away an alphabet and I become even. What number am I?

Riddle 6 :  If you have 6 black socks, 4 blue socks, 8 brown socks, and 2 red socks in your sock drawer, what is the minimum number of socks that you need to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?

Riddle 7 :   Are you good at maths?  Complete the sequence : 1=3, 2=3, 3=5, 4=4, 5=4, 6=3, 7=5, 8=5,  9=4, 10=3, 11=?  12=?

Riddle 8 :   If  
     1 = 5   
     2 = 25 
     3 = 325
     4 = 4325
then 5 = ?

Riddle 9 :  A frog fell into a hole that was 14½ feet deep. He could jump 3 feet, but he slid back a foot each time he jumped. How many jumps does it take him to get out of the hole?

Riddle 10 :   Suppose there are 10 apples in  a basket with you.  Your 10 friends want those apples.  You give one apple to each one of them, yet one apple remains in the basket, how is it possible?

Did you get the answers to the above riddles........   If  not then check the answers below.

Answer 1 :  Here is the answer to get 1000 by adding eight 8's. -->   888 +88 +8 +8 +8 =1,000

Answer 2 :  Both would weigh the same - this is because a pound remains a pound, irrespective of the object!

Answer 3 :   One of the 'fathers' is also a grandfather. Therefore the other father is both a son and a father to the grandson.    In other words, the one father is both a son and a father. 

Answer 4 : You can put only one egg into an empty basket,  because after that the basket is not empty any more!

Answer 5 :  7 (SEVEN-S=EVEN)

Answer 6 :  You should pull out at least 5 socks so that at least one color has two socks!!

Answer 7 :  Answer is 6. That is the number of letters in the spelling of each number!

Answer 8 :  1 ( one).  This is because when 1 = 5, naturally 5 = 1.

Answer 9 :  Every 3 feet jump is followed by a 1 foot slide, so it is equal to 2 feet high jumps each;  At this rate, he needs 7 jumps to come out of the hole.

Answer 10:  It is very simple,  you give 9 apples to 9 friends and give the last apple to your 10th friend along with the basket!  So 1 apple still remains in the basket.

Easy Riddles for kids

 Kids like riddles and jokes.  Read the following riddles and let children enjoy them.  They may like to test them out on their friends and family.   Read some easy riddles for kids.


Q. What is the easiest way to double your money?
A. Put it in front of the mirror of course!


Q. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? A. A clock!


Q. What has a neck but no head? A. A bottle.



Q. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? A. A glove.


Q. What goes up and doesn’t come back down? A. Your age.
   
Q. What has to be broken before you can use it? A. An egg.

 
Q. What gets wetter as it dries? A. A towel.


Q. What belongs to you but is used more by others? A. Your name.

 
Q. Everyone has it and no one can lose it, what is it? A. A shadow.

 
Q. It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it? A. The moon.

Spinning Dancer Illusion

The Spinning Dancer illusion is a bistable illusion where you can see the dancer move both clockwise and anti clockwise.  This illusion is erroneously used as brain test to determine whether right or left hemisphere is dominant.  If you close either left or right and observe the other two images, you can see both of them rotating in one of the directions.

Funny Riddles for Children

Riddles are some thing which people have enjoyed for hundreds of years.  The children enjoy and like riddles very much.  Once upon a time there were competitions to decide who is cleverest person.  This was determined by who could answer the most riddles.  Here are some old riddles for you especially the children to try out and answer.     The answers to these riddles are at the bottom of this page.


1. What is found over your head but under your hat?

2. A hole full or a forest full  but you cannot catch a bowl full?

3.  I am purple, yellow, red, and green
     The King cannot reach me and neither can the Queen.
     I show my colours after the rain
     And only when the sun comes out again 

4.  What flares up quickly and does some good,   But a moment later, it’s just a small piece of wood?   

5.  I am round like an apple,   Flat as a chip,  I have eyes,  But I can’t see one bit?

6.  Look at my face and you see somebody,   Look at my back and you see nobody.

7.  I have a mouth but cannot eat.

8.  I have a face  but cannot see, who am I ?

9.  We have legs, but cannot walk,  who are we?

10.  What is as big as an elephant, looks like an elephant, but has no weight?


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Answers to the above riddles are given below.

1.  Your Hair
2.  Smoke
3.  Rainbow
4.  Match stick
5.  Button
6.  Mirror 
7.  River
8. Clock
9. Tables and Chairs
10.  Shadow of the elephant
 
   

Some riddles for children

Please answer the following riddles.

1. A gate which we can open?
2. A room which we can eat?
3. A dress which we cannot wear?
4. What has a finger but cannot type?
5. It has face but no head?
6. Can giraffe’s have baby?
7. How do rabbit travel?
8. What do you call the funny egg book?
9. Where is the best place to see a man-eating fish?
10. What do whales like to chew?
11. It came running removed the dress and jumped into a well?
12. What is sheiks favorite juice?
13. It has a mouth but cannot talk?
14. Biggest drum?
15. Which fruit is mentioned in the history?
16. It goes up but never comes down
17. It comes down but never goes up

 Please read the answers here below.

1. Colgate
2. mushroom
3. address
4. gloves
5. clock
6. no, It have only giraffe
7. through hare transport
8. yolk book
9. sea fish hotel
10. bubble gum
11. banana
12. sharja shake
13. bottle
14. trivandrum
15. dates
16. age
17. rain

Planet Riddles

Try to find the answers to the following riddles.

1 I am the hottest body in the solar system. I keep everyone warm. Who am I? ____________

2 I am the second planet from the sun. I am very hot. Who am I? _______________

3 I am the planet between Venus and Mars. I have one moon. I am the 3rd planet from the sun. Who am I?____________

4 I am the 7th planet from the sun and the planet before Neptune. Who am I ? _______________

5 I am one of the coldest planets in the solar system. I am the farthest planet from the sun. Who am I? _______________

6 I am made of gas. I have a ring around me. I am the 8th planet from the sun. Who am I? ______________


7 I am the reddest planet and the 4th planet from the sun. I have two moons. Who am I?___________

8 I am not a sun or a planet. I orbit the earth. Who am I?_______________

9 I am the 5th planet from the sun. I am almost entirely made out of gas. Who am I? ______________

10 I am the 6th planet from the sun. I have thousands of rings that are mostly ice mixed with ashes and dust. Who am I?_________________


Answers :

Riddles on Numbers

1 When do elephants have 8 feet?

2 What has 4 legs and only 1 foot?

3 What is alive and has only 1 foot?

4 What has 100 legs but cannot walk?

5 What has 4 legs and flies? (Hint: it's not a dead horse!)

6 What coin doubles in value when half is deducted?

7 What is the difference between a new penny and an old quarter?

8 If you can buy eight eggs for 26 cents, how many can you buy for a cent and a quarter?

9 Why should you never mention the number 288 in front of anyone?

10 Where can you buy a ruler that is 3 feet long?

11 How many times can you subtract 6 from 30?

12 What number can you subtract half from to obtain a result that is zero?

13 How can half of 12 be 7?

Answers:

1 'When there are 2 of them
2 ' A bed
3 ' A leg
4 '50 pairs of pants
5 '2 pairs of pants
6 'A half dollar
7 '24 cents
8 'eight
9 'Because it is too gross - 2 times 144 which is a gross.
10 ' At a yard sale
11 ' Only once, after that it is no longer 30.
12 'The number 8 - made up of 2 zeros one on top of the other.
13 'When the 12 is a Roman numeral - XII. Cut off the top half and you get VII.

RIDDLES FOR THE MONTH OF MAY, 2007

1. Which is the most noisy game?
Ans. Tennis, YOu cannot be playing without raising the racket!

2. Which fruit is mentioned most in history?
Ans. Dates

3. Which pet has no life?
Ans. CArpet

4. Imagine you are in a sinking boat, surrounded by sharks, what will you do?
Ans. Just stop imagining.

5. For which fruit will you find gents rushing?
Ans. Man-Go

6. Which is the smallest room which we cannot enter?
Ans. Mushroom

7. Which animal becomes divine being when it turns around?
Ans. DOG

8. X is the father of Y and Z. But Y and Z are not his sons. How can this happen?
Ans. Y and Z are his daughters.

9. A dhobi washes a shirt and puts it up for drying. It dries in 4 hours. If he
puts 10 shirts to dry, how much time will it take?
Ans. 4 hours

Riddles for April, 2007

Q. Why is it impossible to take the picture of a woman with long hair?
A. You need a camera, and not long hair to take picture.


Q. I travel around world, but I have permanent place, who am I?
A. Black box in air craft

Q.What could be the opposite of Muthuswamy?
A. Muthu did not see me.


Q.What are doctors afraid of?
a. Apple

Q.Why did Thomas alwa Edison invent the bulb?
A. Because he was afraid of darkness.

Q. I am a man, but do not have legs, hands or head. Still people call me a man, after prefixing me with a verb. who am I?
A. Walkman

Q. Which is faster, "Hot" or "Cold"?
A. "Hot" is faster because you can catch "Cold" but not "Hot".

Q. Whyd did the boy put his watch into piggy bank?
A. Because he wanted to save time.

Q. Where do ghosts go for a swim?
A. In the Dead Sea.

Q. Which part of a clock is always old?
A. Its "Seconds" hand.

Q. What has a bed but does not sleep?
A. A river

Q.Why are clocks not allowed in library?
A. Because they talk too much.

Q. what is black when it is clean, and white when it is dirty?
A. A Black board.

Q. I am a 7 letter word. Remove 1 letter, it remains same; remove 2 letters, it remains same' remove 3 letters, it remains same; remove 4 letters, it remains same;remove 5 letters, it remains same; remove 6 letters, it remains same; remove 7 letters, it remains same;
Who am I?

A. Post Box