hard riddles for kids
Hard Riddles for Kids
Challenging kids to solve hard riddles is a fun activity for when they're sitting idly at home or are with their friends at school. Here is a Buzzle article that will give you some amazing riddles for kids to solve.
- No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
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Answer: Silence!
- This old one runs forever, but never moves at all. He has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call. What is it?
Show AnswerAnswer: A Waterfall.
- I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Show AnswerAnswer: Fire.
- A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter, and twelve remains. What am I?
Show AnswerAnswer: Dozens.
- When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don't have me. What am I?
Show AnswerAnswer: A Secret.
- With thieves I consort, With the vilest, in short, I'm quite at ease in depravity; Yet all divines use me, And savants can't lose me, For I am the center of gravity!
Show AnswerAnswer: Letter 'v'.
- What question can you never answer yes to?
Show AnswerAnswer: Are you asleep yet?
- You can see nothing else, when you look in my face, I will look you in the eye, and I will never lie.
Show AnswerAnswer: Your reflection.
- What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
Show AnswerAnswer: Queue.
- What stinks when living and smells good when dead?
Show AnswerAnswer: Bacon.
- It happens once in a minute, twice in a week, and once in a year. What is it?
Show AnswerAnswer: The letter 'e'.
- When things go wrong, what can you always count on?
Show AnswerAnswer: Your fingers.
- Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs, each person had an egg. Explain how?
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Answer: One of the 'fathers' is also a grandfather. Therefore, the other father is both a son and a father to the grandson. In other words, the one father is both a son and a father.
- Divide 110 into two parts so that one will be 150 percent of the other. What are the 2 numbers?
Show AnswerAnswer: 44 and 66.
- There are a mix of red, green and blue balls in a bag. The total number of balls is 60. There are four times as many red balls as green balls and 6 more blue balls than green balls. How many balls of each color are there?
Show AnswerAnswer: Blue balls = 15 Red balls = 36 Green balls = 9
- How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
Show AnswerAnswer: After the first calculation, you will be subtracting 5 from 20, then 5 from 15, and so on.
- The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father's age is the son's age reversed. How old could they be?
Show AnswerAnswer: 51 and 15 42 and 24 60 and 06
- King Tut died 120 years after King Eros was born. Their combined ages when they died was 100 years. King Eros died in the year 40 B.C. In what year was King Tut born?
Show AnswerAnswer: King Tut was born in 20 B.C. There were 120 years between the birth of King Eros and the death of King Tut, but since their ages amounted to only 100 years, there must have been 20 years when neither existed. This would be a period between the death of King Eros, 40 B.C., and the birth of King Tut, 20 B.C.
- I am a three digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
Show AnswerAnswer: Number 194.
- Why is six afraid of seven?
Show AnswerAnswer: Because seven eight nine!
- Joe bought a bag of oranges on Monday, and ate a third of them. On Tuesday he ate half of the remaining oranges. On Wednesday he looked in the bag to find that he only had two oranges left. How many oranges were originally in the bag?
Show AnswerAnswer: He had 6 oranges to start with, and ate 2 the first day and 2 the second day.