419 riddles for age 10
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Two mothers and two daughters go shopping. They have $21, which they split equally between them. How can this be possible?
Hint: Two mothers and two daughters go shopping…
Two words, my answer is only two words. To keep me, you must give me.
Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, When I have flown.
Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, When I have flown. What am I?
Hint: Until I am measured…
Violet, indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are the colors you have seen after the storm has fled.What am I?
Hint: Violet…
Walking home one day, you take a short cut along the train tracks. The tracks cross a narrow bridge over a deep gorge. At the point you are 3/8 of the way across the bridge, you hear the train whistle somewhere behind you. You charge across the bridge, and jump off the track as the train is about to run you down. As it happens, if you had gone the other way, you would have reached safety just before being run over as well. If you can run ten miles per hour, how fast is the train moving?
Hint: Walking home one day…
We are little creatures; all of us have different features. One of us in glass is set; one of us you’ll find in jet. Another you may see in tin, and the fourth is boxed within . If the fifth you should pursue, it can never fly from you. What are we?
Hint: We are little creatures; all of us have different features…
Weight in my belly, Trees on my back. Nails in my ribs, Feet I do lack.
What always goes to bed with shoes on?
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant yet lasts a life time?
Hint: What can bring back the dead; make us cry…
What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?
What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?
What can go up and come down without moving?
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Hint: What can run but never walks…
What can you catch but not throw?
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
What demands an answer, but asks no question?
What do you serve that you can’t eat?