Brain Teasers and Riddles for Kids

Brain teasers are good fun and an excellent brain exercise for the kids because they stimulate their thinking and problem solving abilities and help them think differently. The biggest advantage of solving riddles is that they develop thinking power and develop a positive attitude towards obstacles and real life hurdles.

Brain Teasers with Answers

Suppose there are three men, who are frozen and two of them died. How many left?
(Answer: None! You were only supposing)

If a man is at the bottom of a cliff and he is dead and he has half of a match in his hand. How did he die?
(Answer: The man was in a hot air balloon with some of his friends and the balloon started to go down so the group of friends made a decision to draw sticks (matches) and who ever got the shortest stick had to jump off. The dead man got the shortest stick so he had to jump off!)

A man walks into a restaurant and the waiter says good day Admiral. Why did the waiter call the man an Admiral?
(Answer: Because he was wearing his uniform!)

You are in a cabin and it is pitch black. You have one match with you. Which do you light first, the newspaper, the lamp, the candle or the fire?
(Answer: You light the match first!)

Each day a lady gets the lift from the 12th floor to the ground level, so she can go to work. When she comes home however she only goes up on the lift to level 8. Why is this and it is not to keep fit?
(Answer: Because she is a midget and can only reach the up to the button for level 8!)

A ship is sailing in the Atlantic ocean ... it sinks and every single person dies.....how is that possible?
(Answer: The couples lived and single people died!)

The maker doesn't need it, the owner doesn't want it, the user doesn't know he's using it, what is it?
(Answer: A coffin!)

Which word, if pronounced right, is wrong, but if pronounced wrong is right?
(Answer: Wrong!)

If an electric train is going 150 miles per hour north and the wind is blowing at the same speed to the south, which way does the smoke blow?
(Answer: It is an electric train there is no smoke!)

Which word is the odd one out: First Second Third Forth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth
(Answer: Forth; spelling is incorrect, it should be fourth!)

What is so fragile that when you say its name, you break it?
(Answer: Silence!)

A sheep was in a field and it just vanished. How can that be?
(Answer: It was a hologram!)

Can giraffes have babies?
(Answer: Nope! They can have giraffes!)

How do rabbits travel?
(Answer: By hareplane!)

What shoes should you wear when your basement is flooded?
(Answer: Pumps!)

What did the sock say to the foot?
(Answer: Are you putting me on!)

What part of your body has the most rhythm?
(Answer: Eardrums!)

How does Mother Earth fish?
(Answer: With North and South Poles)

What did the beach say when the tide came in?
(Answer: Long time no sea!)

What did one potato chip say to the other?
(Answer: Shall we go for a dip?)

How does a king open a door?
(Answer: With a monarch-key!)

If you are baby-sitting a bunch of 10 year olds, then solving riddles is a good pastime. Other than that, brain teasers and riddles for kids are excellent way to keep kids entertained and thinking, while driving or while doing a few chores. Have fun!