452 riddles for age 10
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Tom and his younger sister were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting, and decided to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of newspaper in such a way that they couldn’t touch each other. How did she accomplish this?
Hint: Tom and his younger sister were fighting…
Trains travel from one town to another town all day, always on the same track, always going nonstop and at the same speed. The noon train took 80 minutes to complete the trip, but the 4 PM train took an hour and 20 minutes. Why?
Hint: Trains travel from one town to another town all day…
Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can’t reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan?
Hint: Two convicts are locked in a cell…
Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?
Hint: Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day…
Two girls have the same parents and were born at the same hour of the same day of the same month, but they are not twins. How can this be possible?
Hint: Two girls have the same parents and were born at the same hour of the same day o…
Two men were playing tennis. They played five sets and each man won three sets. How can this be possible?
Hint: Two men were playing tennis…
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. 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?