125 Fun Riddles for Kids (with Answers!) ❤️

Get ready to laugh, think, and challenge yourself with this awesome collection of 125 riddles! I’ve gathered the best, funniest, and trickiest riddles just for kids—but don’t worry, grown-ups will have fun too! Some are super easy, while others will make you stop and think. Whether you’re a young riddle master, in middle school, or even a teen, there’s something here for everyone.

Are you ready to test your brain and have some fun? Let’s get started! 🎉

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125 Kids Riddles – Let start riddling!

All the riddles have answers below them, so if you don’ want to see the answer, you can shield the screen with your hand or a piece of paper.

To get things started, I have listed my favorite Top 10 Riddles, and added the answers at the bottom of the page. So, you have to scroll down to find them. But after the first 10 riddles, the answer is shown directly below the riddle.

Top 10 Favorite Riddles for Kids.

1) What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
(See answer at the bottom of the page. Funny riddle).

2) What loses it’s head in the morning and gets it back at night?
(See answer at the bottom of the page).

3) There were 30 cows on a farm and 28 chickens. How many didn’t?
(See answer at the bottom of the page. This one is a bit tricky..)

4) How far can you walk into a forest?
(See answer at the bottom of the page).

5) What’s a room without doors and windows?
(See answer at the bottom of the page. Easy riddle).

6) What word starts with e and ends with e but only has one letter?
(See answer at the bottom of the page).

7) A man leaves home, turns left, then left and left again. He then passes a guy in a mask but knows he’s safe. How does he know he is safe?
(See answer at the bottom of the page).

8) If there’s a bee in my hand, what’s in my eye?
(See answer at the bottom of the page. Funny answer).

9) What question can you never answer yes to?
(See answer at the bottom of the page).

10) What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
(See answer at the bottom of the page).

Popular Riddles for Kids (with Answers).

  1. Riddle: What gets sharper the more you use it?
    Answer: Your brain
  2. Riddle: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
    Answer: A penny
  3. Riddle: What can fill a bathtub but weighs nothing?
    Answer: Bubbles
  4. Riddle: What has words, but never speaks?
    Answer: A book
  5. Riddle: What has ears but cannot hear?
    Answer: A cornfield
  6. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
    Answer: An egg
  7. Riddle: I am a five-letter word, and people eat me. If you remove the first letter, I become an energy form. If you remove the first two letters, I am needed to survive. Scramble the last three letters, and I am a drink. What word am I?
    Answer: Wheat
  8. Riddle: What has a head and a tail but no body?
    Answer: A coin
  9. Riddle: What has a ring but no finger?
    Answer: A telephone
  10. Riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
    Answer: The letter ‘M’
  11. Riddle: The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
    Answer: Footsteps
  12. Riddle: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, and has a bed but never sleeps?
    Answer: A river
  13. Riddle: What can you break without touching it?
    Answer: A promise
  14. Riddle: If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
    Answer: A mirror
  15. Riddle: What has one eye but cannot see?
    Answer: A needle
  16. Riddle: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
    Answer: A piano
  17. Riddle: What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?
    Answer: An umbrella
  18. Riddle: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
    Answer: Light
  19. Riddle: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
    Answer: Fire
  20. Riddle: What starts with a ‘P’, ends with an ‘E’, and has thousands of letters?
    Answer: A post office
  21. Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?
    Answer: Your legs
  22. Riddle: I am invisible, weigh nothing, and if you put me in a barrel, it will become lighter. What am I?
    Answer: A hole
  23. Riddle: There once were seven dwarfs who were all brothers. They were all born two years apart. The youngest dwarf is seven years old. How old is his oldest brother?
    Answer: 19 years old
  24. Riddle: I am a five-letter word, and people eat me. If you remove the first letter, I become an energy form. If you remove the first two letters, I am needed to survive. Scramble the last three letters, and I am a drink. What word am I?
    Answer: Wheat
  25. Riddle: It spends most of its day eating white, but when it’s quick enough, it gets to eat fruit and sometimes some blue things. It’s in a dark room, where the walls are blue, it runs from a ghost that roams the halls and haunts it all the time. What is it?
    Answer: Pac-Man
  26. Riddle: A man is shown a portrait painting. He looks closely, then yells, “Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man’s father is my father’s son!” Who is the man in the portrait?
    Answer: The man’s son
  27. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
    Answer: An egg
  28. Riddle: What belongs to you, but others use it more than you?
    Answer: Your name
  29. Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?
    Answer: Your age
  30. Riddle: Mrs. Jones has four daughters. Each of her daughters has one brother. How many children does Mrs. Jones have?
    Answer: Five
  31. Riddle: Grandpa went for a walk, and it started raining. He forgot to bring an umbrella and didn’t have a hat. When he got home, his clothes were soaking wet, but not a hair on his head was wet. How was this possible?
    Answer: Grandpa is bald.
  32. Riddle: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
    Answer: Silence
  33. Riddle: What can run but not walk, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
    Answer: A river
  34. Riddle: What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right hand?
    Answer: Your right elbow
  35. Riddle: I fly without wings, I cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness flies. What am I?
    Answer: A cloud
  36. Riddle: What has words, but never speaks?
    Answer: A book
  37. Riddle: What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
    Answer: A bed
  38. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?
    Answer: An egg
  39. Riddle: What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
    Answer: An artichoke
  40. Riddle: What can you break without touching it?
    Answer: A promise
  41. Riddle: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
    Answer: Silence
  42. Riddle: What is always before you but can’t be seen?
    Answer: The future
  43. Riddle: What starts with a ‘P’, ends with an ‘E’, and has thousands of letters?
    Answer: A post office.
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More easy and fun riddles for kids, below.

Below, we have added 70 more riddles for kids, and placed them in categories. So, for example, if you want some fun math riddles for kids, then scroll down to ‘Math Riddles’.

Easy Riddles for Kids.

Simple Riddles for Kids.

Math Riddles for Kids.

Hard Riddles for Kids.

Funny Riddles for Kids.

Animal Riddles for Kids.

English Riddles for Kids.

Christmas and Halloween Riddles for Kids.

Answers to Top 10 favorite Riddles.

1) What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
Answer: A Carrot

2) What loses it’s head in the morning and gets it back at night?
Answer: A pillow.

3) There were 30 cows on a farm and 28 chickens. How many didn’t?
Answer: 10 (Its a funny riddle. Speak the riddle line as ‘There were 30 cows on a farm and TWENTY ATE chickens. If 20 of the cows ate chicken, then 10 didn’t eat chicken. People hear the number 28 (and then the riddle doesnt make sense), instead of TWENTY ATE. Get it? 🙂

4) How far can you walk into a forest?
Answer: Until the middle, after that you’re walking out of the forest.

5) What’s a room without doors and windows?
Answer: A Mushroom.

6) What word starts with e and ends with e but only has one letter?
Answer: envelope

7) A man leaves home, turns left, then left and left again. He then passes a guy in a mask but knows he’s safe. How does he know he is safe?
Answer: He hit a homerun (baseball). He runs the bases and is safe when he passes the catcher (with the mask).

8) If there’s a bee in my hand, what’s in my eye?
Answer: Beauty (Its a joke riddle: It’s in the eye of the bee-holder (as in the saying ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder).

9) What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer: Are you asleep yet?

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

Which one was the best riddle? Let me know in the comment section.

9 responses

  1. Love the collection of riddles here, especially the math ones. Gonna try some on my kids tonight, thanks for sharing!

  2. Not all riddles here challenge the mind equally. Some of these seem way too easy, don’t you think? Kids are smarter than we give them credit for.

  3. hey, got any more of those funny riddles? my little bro loves them, and i wanna seem cool, lol.

  4. Christmas and Halloween riddles are such a good idea! Cheers for the seasonal fun, really sets the mood for festive times.

    1. Totally agree! Can’t wait to try some of these out at our Halloween party. Gonna be spooktacular!

  5. Really appreciate the variety of riddles for different age groups. Keeps the brain ticking and the laughter rolling. Great job, News Room!

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