Brain teasers are fun for adults, sure, but they’re especially fun for kids—and brain-healthy, too! It’s a game that sharpens their logic skills, stokes their creativity and instills a love of words and wordplay. Here are 30 (not too easy, not too hard) riddles to try out on your kids the next time you hear a “Mom, I’m bored.”
Name That Object
1. What has legs but can’t walk?
A table.
2. I make two people out of one. What am I?
A mirror.
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3. I’m always on the dinner table, but you don’t get to eat me. What am I?
Plates and silverware.
4. What has hands but can’t clap?
A clock.
5. What ship has two mates, but no captain?
A relationship.
6. I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle.
7. Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?
A map.
8. What gets cracked before you use it?
An egg.
9. What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.
10. What gets bigger the more you take away?
A hole.
11. What can travel around the world without leaving its corner?
A stamp.
Let’s Get Abstract
12. What can you catch but not throw?
A cold.
13. What goes up but never comes back down?
Your age.
14. What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
Silence.
15. I am often following you and copying your every move. Yet you can never touch me or catch me. What am I?
A shadow.
16. What’s really easy to get into, and hard to get out of?
Trouble.
17. Why are teddy bears never hungry?
Because they are always stuffed.
18. What do you call a sad strawberry?
A blueberry.
19. What is yours but others use it more than you?
Your name}}
Fun with Words
20. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
A teapot.
21. What begins with an “E” but only has one letter?
An envelope.
22. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?”
Shorter.
23. Where does Friday come before Thursday?
In the dictionary.
24. What starts with a P, ends with an E and has thousands of letters?
Post office.
25. What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
Wrong.
Logic Time!
26. David’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle and ____?
David.
27. Three men were in a boat. It capsized, but only two got their hair wet. Why?
One was bald.
28. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
Mount Everest.
29. There’s a one-story house where everything is yellow. The walls are yellow. The doors are yellow. Even all the furniture is yellow. The house has yellow beds and yellow couches. What color are the stairs?
There aren’t any stairs—it’s a one-story house.
30. You walk across a bridge and you see a boat full of people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
All the people on the boat are married.
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