Ready to give your brain a workout? These gentle brain teasers for kids use wordplay, logic, and a little maths to make you think. They are still solvable, so take your time, think it through, and enjoy that great feeling when the answer clicks.
150 Brain Teasers for Kids Riddles
What word sounds the same after you remove its first letter?
Answer: Knight.
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M.
I have a head on one side and a tail on the other, but I have no body. What am I?
Answer: A coin.
I am always ahead of you, but you can never see me. What am I?
Answer: The future.
I go up and down, but I never move. What am I?
Answer: Stairs.
The more you take away from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
Answer: A hole.
I am full of holes, yet I can hold water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge.
I have a thumb and four fingers, but I am not alive. What am I?
Answer: A glove.
What can you break even if you never touch it?
Answer: A promise.
I have one eye but I cannot see. What am I?
Answer: A needle.
It belongs to you, yet everyone else uses it more than you do. What is it?
Answer: Your name.
I am full of words, but I never say a word. What am I?
Answer: A book.
I have banks, but I hold no money. What am I?
Answer: A river.
I run around the yard but I never move. What am I?
Answer: A fence.
I have a mouth, but I never eat. What am I?
Answer: A river.
I have a tongue, but I cannot speak. What am I?
Answer: A shoe.
I have a foot, but I have no legs. What am I?
Answer: A ruler.
I have bark, but I never bite. What am I?
Answer: A tree.
I have ears, but I cannot hear a sound. What am I?
Answer: Corn.
I have eyes, but I cannot see. What am I?
Answer: A potato.
I run all day but I never get tired. What am I?
Answer: A river.
What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?
Answer: A blackboard.
What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.
What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly.
What has many needles but never sews?
Answer: A pine tree.
What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble.
What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.
What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter G.
What is in the middle of nowhere?
Answer: The letter H.
What comes at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The letter W.
What is the beginning of eternity and the end of time and space?
Answer: The letter E.
What is the center of gravity?
Answer: The letter V.
What can you put in a bucket to make it weigh less?
Answer: A hole.
What has no beginning, no end, and no middle?
Answer: A donut.
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.
What is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Answer: They weigh the same.
If a rooster lays an egg on top of a roof, which way will it roll?
Answer: Roosters do not lay eggs.
How many months have 28 days?
Answer: All of them.
What can you make that no one can see?
Answer: Noise.
What has legs but cannot walk?
Answer: A table.
What flies without wings?
Answer: Time.
What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
Answer: A joke.
What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain.
What has six faces but no mouth?
Answer: A dice.
What is the easiest way to double your money?
Answer: Put it in front of a mirror.
What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.
What is as light as a feather, yet the strongest person cannot hold it for five minutes?
Answer: Your breath.
What do you throw out when you want to use it and take in when you do not want it?
Answer: An anchor.
I have a spine, but I have no bones. What am I?
Answer: A book.
What starts with T, ends with T, and is full of T?
Answer: A teapot.
What word has five letters but only one left when you take two away?
Answer: Stone.
What is the longest word in the dictionary?
Answer: Smiles.
What can you keep after giving it to someone?
Answer: Your word.
What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed.
What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you will die?
Answer: Nothing.
What does a cat have that no other animal has?
Answer: Kittens.
What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
Answer: A coat of paint.
What has a heart that does not beat?
Answer: An artichoke.
What is easy to lift but hard to throw?
Answer: A feather.
What goes through cities and fields but never moves?
Answer: A road.
What is always hungry and must always be fed?
Answer: Fire.
What can you serve but never eat?
Answer: A tennis ball.
What has three feet but cannot walk?
Answer: A yardstick.
What is the most difficult key to turn?
Answer: A donkey.
What building has the most stories?
Answer: A library.
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny.
What word is spelled the same when written upside down?
Answer: Swims.
What comes once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?
Answer: The letter E.
What is the difference between a cat and a comma?
Answer: A cat has claws at the end of its paws, and a comma is a pause at the end of a clause.
What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.
What has a beak but is not a bird?
Answer: An octopus.
What has a horn but does not make music?
Answer: A rhinoceros.
What has a mane but is not a horse?
Answer: A lion.
I have stripes, but I am not a zebra. What am I?
Answer: A tiger.
I have spots, but I am not a leopard. What am I?
Answer: A ladybug.
I have wings, but I cannot fly. What am I?
Answer: A penguin.
I have a shell and I live in the sea. What am I?
Answer: A clam.
I carry my baby in a pocket, but I am not wearing trousers. What am I?
Answer: A kangaroo.
I am the tallest land animal and I eat leaves from trees. What am I?
Answer: A giraffe.
I have a big nose and big ears and I love mud. What am I?
Answer: An elephant.
I have a trunk but no suitcase. What am I?
Answer: A tree.
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?
Answer: Chicago.
What four-letter word can be written forward, backward, or upside down and still read the same?
Answer: Noon.
What can you see in the middle of March and April that you cannot see at the beginning or end of either month?
Answer: The letter R.
What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
I am taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
What is the only even prime number?
Answer: 2.
What has four letters, sometimes nine letters, and always six letters?
Answer: What, sometimes, and always.
If you have 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
Answer: 2 apples.
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 run away. How many are left?
Answer: 9 sheep.
How many sides does a circle have?
Answer: 2, inside and outside.
What is the next number: 2, 4, 8, 16?
Answer: 32.
What is the next letter: A, C, F, J?
Answer: O.
What 3 numbers add up to 12 and multiply to 48?
Answer: 2, 4, and 6.
I am a number. Double me and add 4, and you get 20. What am I?
Answer: 8.
What is half of the sum of 2 and 2?
Answer: 2.
How many 9s are there between 1 and 100?
Answer: 20.
What number is spelled with its letters in alphabetical order?
Answer: Forty.
What is the only number that has the same number of letters as its value?
Answer: Four.
What is 12 times 12?
Answer: 144.
What is 7 times 8?
Answer: 56.
What is 100 divided by 4?
Answer: 25.
What is 3 squared?
Answer: 9.
What is the square root of 81?
Answer: 9.
If a train goes 60 miles in 1 hour, how far does it go in 3 hours?
Answer: 180 miles.
What is the next number: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8?
Answer: 13.
What is the next number: 3, 6, 9, 12?
Answer: 15.
What is the next number: 10, 20, 30, 40?
Answer: 50.
What comes next: Monday, Wednesday, Friday?
Answer: Sunday.
What is the missing number: 5, 10, 15, ?, 25?
Answer: 20.
How many fingers do 3 people have?
Answer: 30.
How many legs do 2 dogs and 1 chicken have?
Answer: 10.
How many wheels do 2 cars have?
Answer: 8.
If you have 10 cookies and eat 3, how many are left?
Answer: 7 cookies.
What is 15 minus 7?
Answer: 8.
What is 20 plus 30?
Answer: 50.
What is 100 minus 1?
Answer: 99.
What is 6 times 7?
Answer: 42.
What is 8 plus 8 plus 8?
Answer: 24.
What is 5 plus 5 plus 5 plus 5?
Answer: 20.
What is the largest 2-digit number?
Answer: 99.
What is the smallest 3-digit number?
Answer: 100.
How many days are in a leap year?
Answer: 366.
How many days are in February in a leap year?
Answer: 29.
How many seconds are in a minute?
Answer: 60.
How many minutes are in an hour?
Answer: 60.
How many hours are in a day?
Answer: 24.
How many days are in a week?
Answer: 7 days.
How many months are in a year?
Answer: 12.
What month comes after August?
Answer: September.
What season comes after winter?
Answer: Spring.
What is the coldest season?
Answer: Winter.
What is the hottest season?
Answer: Summer.
What do caterpillars turn into?
Answer: Butterflies.
What do tadpoles turn into?
Answer: Frogs.
What is a baby dog called?
Answer: A puppy.
What is a baby cat called?
Answer: A kitten.
What is a baby cow called?
Answer: A calf.
What is a baby horse called?
Answer: A foal.
What is a baby sheep called?
Answer: A lamb.
What is a baby goat called?
Answer: A kid.
What is a baby bear called?
Answer: A cub.
What is a baby kangaroo called?
Answer: A joey.
What is a group of wolves called?
Answer: A pack.
What is a group of fish called?
Answer: A school.
What is a group of birds called?
Answer: A flock.
What is a group of bees called?
Answer: A swarm.
What is a group of lions called?
Answer: A pride.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are these brain teasers hard for kids?
They are gentle brain teasers, made to challenge kids without frustrating them. Most are solvable with a little thinking, and every one has its answer included if you get stuck.
Can brain teasers help kids learn?
Yes, brain teasers help kids practise logic, maths, and word skills in a fun way. They build patience and creative thinking, and they are great for classrooms and homework breaks.
What should I do if I cannot solve one?
Take a break and come back to it later, or ask a friend for a hint. The answer is always right below the riddle, so you can check it and learn the trick for next time.
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