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Riddles

For kids

73 riddles. Tap one to have a go.

  1. What has ears but cannot hear?
  2. What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
  3. What do you call a dinosaur that's always on time?
  4. What has stripes and goes round and round?
  5. What animal can jump higher than a house?
  6. Why can't a bicycle stand up on its own?
  7. What has a trunk but no key, and never goes on holiday?
  8. What do you call a cow with no legs?
  9. What do you call a sleeping bull?
  10. What goes up and down but never moves?
  11. What kind of key opens a banana?
  12. What has a tongue but can't talk, and goes everywhere you go?
  13. What do you call a fish that wears a bow tie?
  14. Why did the cookie go to the doctor?
  15. What do you call a bear in the rain?
  16. What has four legs and goes boo?
  17. Which letter is a body of water?
  18. Which letter is a vegetable?
  19. Which letter is a drink?
  20. Which letter is an insect?
  21. What do you call a pig that does karate?
  22. What do cats eat for breakfast?
  23. What's a cat's favourite colour?
  24. Where do fish keep their money?
  25. What has lots of buttons but no shirt?
  26. What has a face, two hands and lives on your wrist?
  27. What do you call a lazy kangaroo?
  28. What do you call a snowman in the summer?
  29. Why did the teddy bear say no to dessert?
  30. What gets bigger the more you blow into it, but pops if you blow too much?
  31. What is yellow, long and can be peeled?
  32. What has a long neck and spots, and eats leaves from tall trees?
  33. What do you call a dog magician?
  34. Why are fish so smart?
  35. What do you call a train carrying bubblegum?
  36. What's a ghost's favourite fruit?
  37. What has four wheels, is white, and goes ding-a-ling?
  38. What has a bark but no bite?
  39. What do you call a pile of kittens?
  40. What kind of shoes do frogs wear?
  41. What goes "oom, oom"?
  42. What do you call an alligator in a vest?
  43. What is round and bad-tempered?
  44. What do you call a fly without wings?
  45. What goes up white and comes down yellow and white?
  46. What do you call a deer with no eyes?
  47. What's brown and sticky?
  48. What two keys can't open any doors?
  49. What did the ocean say to the beach?
  50. What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
  51. What do elves learn at school?
  52. What's the best thing to put into a pie?
  53. What do you call a bee that can't make up its mind?
  54. What is a spider's favourite subject at school?
  55. What musical instrument can you find in the bathroom?
  56. How do you make a tissue dance?
  57. What falls in winter but never gets hurt?
  58. What can you put in a glass but never take out?
  59. What has lots of letters but isn't a book, and arrives at your door?
  60. What has a horn and charges at you, but is grey and wrinkly?
  61. What can you find in the middle of nowhere?
  62. What is as big as an elephant but weighs nothing?
  63. What has feathers but can't fly, and you sleep on it?
  64. Why did the banana go to the doctor?
  65. What has a hundred legs but can't walk?
  66. What kind of music do mummies like?
  67. What starts with E, ends with E, and usually has one letter inside?
  68. What kind of dog keeps the best time?
  69. What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?
  70. How do you make an octopus laugh?
  71. What do you call a cold dog?
  72. What do you get from a pampered cow?
  73. Why do bees have sticky hair?

Riddles are written for EscapePod. Many are new takes on classic riddles that have been told for generations.