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Riddles for Kids List With Answers

1. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock

2. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table

3. What has an eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle

4. What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A carrot

5. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock

6. What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: Corn

7. What has a tail and a head but no body?
Answer: A coin

8. What runs but never walks?
Answer: Water

9. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel

10. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle

11. What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t alive?
Answer: A glove

12. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold

13. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke

14. What has a mouth but never eats?
Answer: A river

15. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age

16. What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano

17. What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
Answer: A stamp

18. What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book

19. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge

20. What has teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb

21. What animal can jump higher than a house?
Answer: Any animal

22. What is black and white and read all over?
Answer: A newspaper

23. What has stripes and roars?
Answer: A tiger

24. What has wings but cannot fly?
Answer: A penguin

25. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck

26. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot

27. What has many eyes but can’t see?
Answer: A potato

28. What has a bark but no bite?
Answer: A tree

29. What can fly without wings?
Answer: Time

30. What has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river

31. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future

32. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A phone

33. What has cities but no houses?
Answer: A map

34. What can you break without touching it?
Answer: A promise

35. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain

36. What has one head and one foot?
Answer: A bed

37. What is easy to lift but hard to throw?
Answer: A feather

38. What has a shell but no legs?
Answer: A snail

39. What has keys and space but no room?
Answer: A keyboard

40. What is always hungry and must be fed?
Answer: Fire

41. What has a face but no eyes?
Answer: A clock

42. What has a horn but doesn’t honk?
Answer: A rhino

43. What has a tail but isn’t an animal?
Answer: A kite

44. What can you keep but cannot share?
Answer: A secret

45. What has four legs in the morning, two at noon, three at night?
Answer: A person

46. What has a cap but no head?
Answer: A bottle

47. What has hands but can’t wave?
Answer: A clock

48. What is full of keys but can’t open doors?
Answer: A piano

49. What has a nose but can’t smell?
Answer: A clown

50. What goes up and down but stays in one place?
Answer: Stairs


51. Why did the student eat his homework?
Answer: The teacher said it was a piece of cake

52. Why did the teddy bear skip dessert?
Answer: He was stuffed

53. Why don’t eggs tell jokes?
Answer: They’d crack each other up

54. Why did the cookie go to the doctor?
Answer: It felt crummy

55. What do you call a sleeping bull?
Answer: A bulldozer

56. Why did the tomato turn red?
Answer: It saw the salad dressing

57. Why was the broom late?
Answer: It swept in

58. Why did the golfer bring two pairs of pants?
Answer: In case he got a hole in one

59. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear

60. Why did the computer go to the doctor?
Answer: It caught a virus

61. What do you call fake spaghetti?
Answer: An impasta

62. Why did the picture go to jail?
Answer: It was framed

63. Why did the calendar look scared?
Answer: Its days were numbered

64. What do you call a fish wearing a crown?
Answer: King fish

65. Why did the banana go to the hospital?
Answer: It wasn’t peeling well

66. Why did the music teacher need a ladder?
Answer: To reach the high notes

67. What do you call cheese that isn’t yours?
Answer: Nacho cheese

68. Why was the math book sad?
Answer: It had too many problems

69. Why did the cow go to space?
Answer: To see the moooon

70. What do you call a dinosaur that sleeps all day?
Answer: A dino-snore


71. Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Answer: He was outstanding in his field

72. Why did the bicycle fall over?
Answer: It was two-tired

73. What do you call a lazy kangaroo?
Answer: A pouch potato

74. Why don’t skeletons fight?
Answer: They don’t have the guts

75. Why did the duck get a time-out?
Answer: It was acting quackers

76. What do you call a pig that knows karate?
Answer: A pork chop

77. Why did the frog take the bus?
Answer: His car got toad away

78. Why did the computer get glasses?
Answer: To improve its web sight

79. Why was six afraid of seven?
Answer: Because 7 ate 9

80. What do you call a snowman in summer?
Answer: A puddle


101. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What is it?
Answer: Footsteps

102. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole

103. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light

104. What disappears when you say its name?
Answer: Silence

105. I’m tall when young and short when old. What am I?
Answer: A candle

151. What has roots nobody sees but grows tall?
Answer: A mountain

152. What can run but never walk?
Answer: A river

153. What has leaves but isn’t a tree?
Answer: A book

154. What has branches but no fruit?
Answer: A bank