Riddles for 12 Year Olds — Page 6

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…

I am the shortest complete sentence in the English language. What am I?