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Riddles for 11 Year Olds — Page 9

417 riddles for age 11

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I was framed, yet I didn't commit a crime, and the person who framed me committed no crime

I was framed, yet I didn’t commit a crime, and the person who framed me committed no crime. How is this possible?

Hint: I was framed…

✨ I am a picture, and I was put in a picture frame
L3 · brain teaser

If a fire hydrant has H2O inside, what does it have on the outside?

If a fire hydrant has H2O inside, what does it have on the outside?

✨ K9P (you'll get it eventually)
L3 · joke

If a man carried my burden he would break his back

If a man carried my burden he would break his back. I am not big but leave silver in my tracks. What am I?

Hint: If a man carried my burden he would break his back…

✨ A snail
L2 · what am i

If a man carried my burden He would break his back

If a man carried my burden He would break his back. I am not rich, But leave silver in my track.

Hint: If a man carried my burden He would break his back…

✨ I am a Snail
L2 · what am i

If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?

If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?

✨ Roosters don't lay eggs
L2 · joke

If a wheel has 64 spokes, how many spaces are there between the spokes?

If a wheel has 64 spokes, how many spaces are there between the spokes?

✨ 64. The space that comes after the 64th spoke, would be just before the first spoke
L3 · brain teaser

If life gets tough, what do you have that you can always count on?

If life gets tough, what do you have that you can always count on?

✨ Your fingers!
L2 · joke

If someone says to you, “I'll bet you $1 that if you give me $2, I will give you $3 in return“, woul

If someone says to you, “I’ll bet you $1 that if you give me $2, I will give you $3 in return“, would this be a good bet for you to accept?

Hint: If someone says to you…

✨ No
L3 · logic

If three cats catch three mice in three minutes, how many cats would be needed to catch 100 mice in

If three cats catch three mice in three minutes, how many cats would be needed to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?

Hint: If three cats catch three mice in three minutes…

✨ The same three cats would do. Since these three cats are averaging one mouse per minute, given 100 minutes, the cats could catch 100 mice
L2 · math

If you are a velophile, what is it that you love?

If you are a velophile, what is it that you love?

✨ bicycle
L3 · what am i

If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?

If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?

✨ Wet, duh!
L2 · joke

If you go to the movies and you're paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or

If you go to the movies and you’re paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at the same time?

Hint: If you go to the movies and you’re paying…

✨ It's cheaper to take two friends at the same time. In this case, you would only be buying three tickets, whereas if you take the same friend twice you are buying four tickets
L2 · math

If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door

If you’re 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door.

Hint: If you’re 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distan…

✨ You will never reach the door, it will always be half the distance, no matter how small!
L3 · brain teaser

If you say my name I am no more

If you say my name I am no more.

✨ I am Silence. You are silent until u speak. When you say silence you break it. Therefore, silence does not exist when you say “it's”name
L3 · brain teaser

If you screw a light bulb into a socket by turning the bulb toward the right with your right hand, w

If you screw a light bulb into a socket by turning the bulb toward the right with your right hand, which way would you turn the socket with your left hand in order to unscrew it while holding the bulb stationary?

Hint: If you screw a light bulb into a socket by turning the bulb toward the right wit…

✨ To the right. It's always the same direction
L3 · logic

If you spell out all the numbers, how far do you have to go until you use the letter a?

If you spell out all the numbers, how far do you have to go until you use the letter a?

Hint: If you spell out all the numbers…

✨ one thousand
L3 · brain teaser

if you stack thousands of pizza pies on top of eachother what would you get?

if you stack thousands of pizza pies on top of eachother what would you get?

✨ the leaning tower of pizza
L2 · joke

Imagine you are in a room with 3 switches

Imagine you are in a room with 3 switches. In an adjacent room there are 3 bulbs (let’s say in lamps which are on a regular table), each switch belongs to one bulb. All are off at the moment. It is impossible to see from one room to another. No help from anybody else is allowed. How can you find out which switch belongs to which bulb, if you may enter the room with the bulbs only once?

Hint: Imagine you are in a room with 3 switches…

✨ You only need to turn on 1 switch as each switch belongs to one bulb. Walk into the other room and remove another bulb
L3 · logic

In a contest, four fruits (an apple, a banana, an orange, and a pear) have been placed in four close

In a contest, four fruits (an apple, a banana, an orange, and a pear) have been placed in four closed boxes (one fruit per box). People may guess which fruit is in which box. 123 people participate in the contest. When the boxes are opened, it turns out that 43 people have guessed none of the fruits correctly, 39 people have guessed one fruit correctly, and 31 people have guessed two fruits correctly. The Question: How many people have guessed three fruits correctly, and how many people have guessed four fruits correctly?

Hint: In a contest…

✨ It is not possible to guess only three fruits correctly: the fourth fruit is then correct too! So nobody has guessed three fruits correctly and 123-43-39-31 = 10 people have guessed four fru
L3 · math

In a pond there are some flowers with some bees hovering over the flowers

In a pond there are some flowers with some bees hovering over the flowers. How many flowers and bees are there if both the following statements are true: 1. If each bee lands on a flower, one bee doesn’t get a flower. 2. If two bees share each flower, there is one flower left out.

Hint: In a pond there are some flowers with some bees hovering over the flowers…

✨ 4 bees and 3 flowers
L2 · math