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586 riddles for age 8

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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
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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
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If two is company and three is a crowd, what are four and five?

If two is company and three is a crowd, what are four and five?

✨ Nine (4 + 5 = 9)
L2 · impossible
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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
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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
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if you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many pancakes are in the doghouse?

if you’re paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many pancakes are in the doghouse?

Hint: if you’re paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off…

✨ Green, because ice-cream doesnt have a celphone
L2 · math
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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 · impossible
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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
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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
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I'm a skater's most honest teacher. Every lesson leaves a mark. Knees and palms know me best. What am I?

I’m a skater’s most honest teacher. Every lesson leaves a mark. Knees and palms know me best. What am I?

✨ The ground (falling)
L1 · skate
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I'm not a wall, not a bench, not a rail — but skaters grind me, slide me, and ollie over me. Security guards are my sworn enemies. What am I?

I’m not a wall, not a bench, not a rail — but skaters grind me, slide me, and ollie over me. Security guards are my sworn enemies. What am I?

✨ A curb
L1 · skate
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I'm the enemy of every smooth ride. A skater doesn't see me until it's too late. Tiny and round, I send boards flying. What am I?

I’m the enemy of every smooth ride. A skater doesn’t see me until it’s too late. Tiny and round, I send boards flying. What am I?

✨ A pebble (or rock)
L1 · skate
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I'm the metal heart between board and wheel. Tighten me for control, loosen me to turn. Every skater has to find my perfect balance. What am I?

I’m the metal heart between board and wheel. Tighten me for control, loosen me to turn. Every skater has to find my perfect balance. What am I?

✨ A truck (skateboard truck)
L2 · skate
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I'm the part of the board that curves upward. Without me, no ollie, no flip, no pop. Skaters kick me to make the magic happen. What am I?

I’m the part of the board that curves upward. Without me, no ollie, no flip, no pop. Skaters kick me to make the magic happen. What am I?

✨ The tail (or nose)
L2 · skate
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I'm the rail that runs along the edge. Skaters slide their boards along my spine. Sparks and wax are my best friends. What am I?

I’m the rail that runs along the edge. Skaters slide their boards along my spine. Sparks and wax are my best friends. What am I?

✨ A grind rail
L2 · skate
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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
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In a tall hotel, which floor calls the elevator the most?

  • A hotel has many floors with more guests higher up.
  • But everyone must start on the same level.
  • To go up, you call the elevator from the bottom.
  • Think about which floor is busiest.
  • It’s not the top floor.

Hint: Where does every ride begin?

✨ Ground floor
L2 · logic
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In Crayon Town, the Red family lives in a red house, the Green family in a green house. Who lives in the rainbow house?

Every hue has its own cozy nest. But one home sparkles with every shade. No single family claims it.

Hint: A rainbow is made of all colors together.

✨ all the colors
L3 · brain teaser
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In marble walls as white as milk, Lined with skin as soft as silk, Within a fountain crystal clear,

In marble walls as white as milk, Lined with skin as soft as silk, Within a fountain crystal clear, A golden apple does appear. No doors are there to this stronghold— Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

Hint: In marble walls as white as milk…

✨ An egg
L2 · what am i
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In spring I am gay in handsome array; in summer more clothing I wear; when colder it grows I fling o

In spring I am gay in handsome array; in summer more clothing I wear; when colder it grows I fling off my clothes; and in winter quite naked appear. What am I?

Hint: In spring I am gay in handsome array; in summer more clothing I wear; when colde…

✨ A Tree
L2 · what am i
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