Riddles for 10 Year Olds — Page 6

how many animals did moses take on the arc with him?

How many letters are in the alphabet?

How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the Ark?

How many three cent stamps are in a dozen?

How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?

I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?

Hint: I am a box that holds keys without locks…

I am a fathers child and a mothers child, yet I am not a son. Who am I?

I am a shoe with a special row of wheels lined up in a straight single file. I love smooth concrete and bike paths. What am I?

I am a word. If you pronounce me rightly, it will be wrongly. If you pronounce me wrongly, it will be rightly. What word am I?

Hint: This is a pure language trap — you have to step outside the literal meaning to figure it out.

I am a word of 5 letters. If you take away two letters, you only have one left. What word am I?

I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I lick Will soon turn red.

I am large as a castle, yet lighter than air. 100 men and their horses cannot move me. What am I?

Hint: I am large as a castle…

I am like day, you can find me near the river any day, and you can make almost anything out of me. who am I?

Hint: I am like day…

I am only useful When I am full, Yet I am always Full of holes.

I am served at a table, In gatherings of two or four; Served small, white and round. You’ll love some, And that’s part of the fun. What am I?

Hint: I am served at a table…

I am six letters. When you take one away I am twelve. What am I?

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.

Hint: I am taken from a mine…

I am that which is hunted, and this panes me. Do you dig, Stone? What am I?

I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.

Hint: I am the beginning of sorrow…

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. Who am I?

Hint: I am the black child of a white father…