101 Riddles For Kids And Adults To Find Out How Smart You Really Are (2023)

101 Riddles For Kids And Adults To Find Out How Smart You Really Are (1)

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They start off easy and some are perfect brain teasers for kids. Others, however, are difficult and may require you to be a math whiz. Many are letter and word games, so keep going if you're not intimidated. We've even thrown in some fun brain teasers to keep you going. Now, if you get close to the end, you can try the rest, but beware, hard riddles for adults will test you!

easy riddles

1. Enigma:What has to be broken before you can use it?
Respondedor:Egg

2. Enigma:I am tall when young and short when old. What I am?
Respondedor:a candle

3. Enigma:What month of the year has 28 days?
Respondedor:All of them

4. Enigma:What is full of holes but still holds water?
Respondedor:a sponge

5. Enigma: What question can you never answer yes to?
Respondedor:Are you already sleeping?

6. Enigma:What is always in front of you but you can't see it?
Respondedor:The future

7. Enigma:There is a one-story house where everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
Respondedor:There isn't - it's a one-story house.

8. Enigma.What can you break even if you never pick it up or touch it?
Respondedor:a promise

9. Enigma:What goes up but never comes down?
Respondedor:Your age

10. Enigma:A man standing outside in the rain without an umbrella or a hat would not wet a single hair on his head. Why?
Respondedor:I was bald

11. Enigma:What gets wet during drying?
Respondedor:A towel

12. Enigma:What can you keep after giving it to someone?
Respondedor:
Your word

13. Enigma:I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What I am?
Respondedor:a barber

14. Enigma:You see a ship full of people, but there is no one on board. How is that possible?
Respondedor:All the people on the ship are married.

15. Enigma:You enter a room containing a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. What would you light first?
Respondedor:The game

16. Enigma:A man dies of old age at the age of 25birthday🇧🇷 How is that possible?
Respondedor:He was born inFebruary29

17. Enigma:I have branches, but I have no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What I am?
Respondedor:A bank

18. Enigma:What can't speak but will respond when spoken to?
Respondedor:an echo

19. Enigma:The more there is, the less you will see. What's that?
Respondedor:Darkness

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riddles for kids

20. Enigma:David's parents have three children: Snap, Crackle, and what's the name of the third child?
Respondedor:David

21. Enigma:I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can't touch me or catch me. What I am?
Respondedor:your shadow

22. Enigma:What has many keys but can't open a single lock?
Respondedor:On the floor

23. Enigma:What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Respondedor:your right elbow

24. Enigma:What is black when clean and white when dirty?
Respondedor:a blackboard

25. Enigma:What gets bigger when more is taken away?
Respondedor:A hole

26. Enigma:I'm light as a feather, but the strongest person can't hold me for five minutes. What I am?
Respondedor:Your breathing

27. Enigma:I am inmedias, scarves and gloves; and often on the paws of playful kittens. What I am?
Respondedor:fio

28. Enigma:Where does today come from before yesterday?
Respondedor:Dictionary

29. Enigma:What invention allows you to look through a wall?
Respondedor:A window

30. Enigma:If you have me, you want to share me; if you share me, you didn't keep me. What I am?
Respondedor:A secret

31. Enigma:What can't be put in a pot?
Respondedor:it's cover

32. Enigma:What goes up and down but doesn't move?
Respondedor:a stair

33. Enigma:if you arethe racein a race and you overtake second place, where are you?
Respondedor:Second place

34. Enigma:It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you. What's that?
Respondedor:Your name

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funny riddles

35. Enigma:What has many eyes but cannot see?
Respondedor:a pope

36. Enigma:What has an eye but cannot see?
Respondedor:A needle

37. Enigma:What has many needles but does not sew?
Respondedor:AChristmas tree

38. Enigma:What has hands but can't clap?
Respondedor:A clock

39. Enigma:What has legs but can't walk?
Respondedor:a table

40. Enigma:What has a head, a foot and four legs?
Respondedor:a bed

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41. Enigma:What can you catch but not play?
Respondedor:A cold

42. Enigma:What kind of band never playsmusic?
Respondedor:a rubber band

43. Enigma:What has lots of teeth but can't bite?
Respondedor:a sentence

44. Enigma:What is cut at the table but never eaten?
Respondedor:a deck of cards

45. Enigma:What has words but never speaks?
Respondedor:Book

46. ​​Enigma:What runs around a yard but never moves?
Respondedor:a fence

47. Enigma:What can go around the world without leaving your corner?
Respondedor:A seal

48. Enigma:What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?
Respondedor:a glove

49. Enigma:What has a head and tail but no body?
Respondedor:A coin

50. Enigma:Where does one wall meet the other wall?
Respondedor:In the corner

51. Enigma:Which building has more floors?
Respondedor:Library

52. Enigma:What tastes better than it smells?
Respondedor:In your language

53. Enigma:What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Respondedor:a deck of cards

54. Enigma:He stalks the field with ears that cannot hear. What's that?
Respondedor:Corn

55. Enigma:What kind of coat is better to wear wet?
Respondedor:a coat of paint

56. Enigma:What has a background on top?
Respondedor:Your legs

57. Enigma:What has four wheels and flies?
Respondedor:a garbage truck

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Mathematical Puzzles

58. Enigma:I am an odd number. I draw a card and I'm even. What number am I?
Respondedor:Seven

59. Enigma:If two is company and three is too many, how many is four and five?
Respondedor:New

60. Enigma:What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether added or multiplied?
Respondedor:One, two and three

61. Enigma:Maria has four daughters and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Maria have?
Respondedor:Five: each daughter has the same brother.

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62. Enigma:What weighs more: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Respondedor:Neither, both weigh a ton.

63. Enigma:Three doctors said that Bill was his brother. Bill says that he doesn't have siblings. How many siblings does Bill really have?
Respondedor:None. She has three sisters.

64. Enigma:Two parents and two children are in a car, but there are only three people in the car. How?
Respondedor:they are oneGrandfather, father and son.

65. Enigma:I turned 21 the day before yesterday and next year I will be 24. When is my birthday?
Respondedor: December31; today isJanuary1.

66. Enigma:A little girl goes to the market and buys a dozen eggs. When she goes home, all but three run away. How many eggs were left intact?
Respondedor:Three

67. Enigma:A man describes his daughters by saying: “All but two are blonde; all but two brunettes; and all but two redheads. How many daughters does he have?
Respondedor:Three: a blonde, a brunette and a redhead.

68. Enigma:if there are threeapplesand you take two, how many apples do you have?
Respondedor:You have two apples.

69. Enigma:A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers. How many brothers and sisters are there infamily?
Respondedor:four sisters and three brothers

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word puzzles

70. Enigma:What five letter word is shortened when you add two letters to it?
Respondedor:Low

71. Enigma:What starts with an "e" and only contains one letter?
Respondedor:a wrapper

72. Enigma:A word I know contains six letters, I take one letter away and there are 12 left. What is that?
Respondedor:dozens

73. Enigma:What would you find in downtown Toronto?
Respondedor:The letter "o"

74. Enigma:You see me once in June, twice inNovemberand not in May. What I am?
Respondedor:The letter "e"

75. Enigma:Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a hostel. What's that?
Respondedor:the letter "r"

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76. Enigma:I am the beginning of everything, the end of all places. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What I am?
Respondedor:Also the letter "e"

77. Enigma:What 4-letter word can be written forwards, backwards, or backwards and still be read from left to right?
Respondedor:MIDDAY

78. Enigma:Forward I am heavy, but backwards I am not. What I am?
Respondedor:The word "not"

79. Enigma:How much is 3/7 of a chicken, 2/3 of a cat, and 2/4 of a goat?
Respondedor:chicago

80. Enigma:I am a three letter word; add two and there will be less. What word am I?
Respondedor:Some

81. Enigma:What five-letter word is left when two are removed?
Respondedor:Roca

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82. Enigma:What is the end of everything?
Respondedor:the letter "g"

83. Enigma:What word is pronounced the same if you drop four of its five letters?
Respondedor:fila

84. Enigma:I am a word that begins with the letter “i”. If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but it sounds exactly the same. What word am I?
Respondedor:Island (add "a" to make "hallway")

85. Enigma:Which word in Portuguese means the following: The first two letters mean man, the first three letters mean woman, the first four letters mean big, while the whole world means big woman. What's the word?
Respondedor:Heroin

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Really Hard Riddles for Adults

86. Enigma:What is so fragile that when pronouncing its name it breaks?
Respondedor:Silence.

87. Enigma:What can run but never walk, has a mouth but never speaks, has a head but never cries, has a bed but never sleeps?
Respondedor:a river

88. Enigma:Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog to the other side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or boat. How?
Respondedor:The river was frozen.

89. Enigma:What can fill a room but not take up space?
Respondedor:Luz

90. Enigma:If you drop me I'll definitely break but give me onesmileand I will always return your smile. What I am?
Respondedor:A mirror

91. Enigma:The more you take, the more you leave behind. What they are?
Respondedor:Steps

92. Enigma:I turn around once, what comes out doesn't come in. I turn it over again, what's inside doesn't come out. What I am?
Respondedor:A key

93. Enigma:People make me, save me, change me, create me. What I am?
Respondedor:Cash

94. Enigma:What breaks but never falls and what falls but never breaks?
Respondedor:Day and night

95. Enigma:What crosses cities and fields but never moves?
Respondedor:One Way

96. Enigma:I'm always hungry and I'll die if you don't feed me, but everything I touch will soon turn red. What I am?
Respondedor:Fuego

97. Enigma:The person who does it doesn't need it; the person who buys it is useless. The person wearing it cannot see or feel it. What's that?
Respondedor:a coffin

98. Enigma:A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, "I have no brothers or sisters, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is in the painting?
Respondedor:the son of man

99. Enigma:With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with penetrating force I crush fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming power; physically coming together with a single bite. What I am?
Respondedor:a stapler

100. Enigma:I have lakes without watermountainswithout stone and cities without buildings. What I am?
Respondedor:a map

101. Enigma:What does man love more thanlifeI hate more than death or deadly strife; what satisfied men desire; the poor have, the rich demand; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men take it to the grave?
Respondedor:Not a thing

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