Short Riddles

Spending time with kids is one of the best ways to relax and enjoy. However, as a babysitter, parent or a teacher, it becomes slightly difficult to keep the child entertained for a long period of time and can sometimes be a big riddle. Riddles, puzzles and brain teasers are the most creative ways in which you can help the kids to think in a creative way and also keep them engaged in an intelligent activity. Short riddles that don't need any pen or paperwork, are a lot of fun and very popular amongst kids.

Riddles with Answers

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What kind of words are the following: Level, civic, madam and eye ?


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What can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up?


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What is the shortest complete sentence in the English language?


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I arrive once in every second, once in every minute and once in every year. What am I?


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What always ends everything?


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If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?


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How could a cowboy ride into town on Friday, stay two days, and ride out on Friday?


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The man who makes it does not need it. The man who buys it, does not use it. The man who uses it doesn't know he is. What is it?


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It regulates our daily movements, but it feels no interest in our lives. It directs us when to come and go, but does not care if we pay attention. What is it?


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You can take away the whole and still have some left. You can take away some and still have the whole left. What is it?


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The thunder comes before the lightning; the lightning comes before the clouds. The rain dries everything it touches.


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What goes around the world yet stays in a corner?


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The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Saturday. What day is it today?


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The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?


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Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.


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I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?


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What is yours but your friends use it more than you do?


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Never was, am always to be. No one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all, to live and breathe on this terrestrial ball. What am I?


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What English word has three consecutive double letters?


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All about, but cannot be seen
Can be captured, cannot be held
No throat, but can be heard.


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What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?


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It's red, blue, and purple and green, no one can reach it, not even the queen. What is it?


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The more you take, the more you leave behind.


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Remove six letters from this sequence to reveal a familiar English word. BSAINXLEATNTEARS.


Riddles and brain teasers help children to be insightful and perceptive, by making them think out of the box. Try out these short riddles for kids to quiz them for hours on end. Have fun!!