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Medium Riddles for Kids — Just the Right Challenge — Page 7

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What is once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?

What is once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?

✨ The letter M
L3 · brain teaser

What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?

What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?

✨ A deck of cards
L2 · what am i

What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up?

What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn’t fill it up?

Hint: What is round as a dishpan…

✨ A sieve
L2 · what am i

What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet

What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?

Hint: What is that which goes with a carriage…

✨ Noise
L2 · what am i

What is the difference between a school boy studying and a farmer watching his cattle?

What is the difference between a school boy studying and a farmer watching his cattle?

Hint: What is the difference between a school boy studying and a farmer watching his c…

✨ One is stocking his mind, while the other is minding his stock
L2 · joke

What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

✨ A coat of paint
L3 · brain teaser

What kind of rocks does Frankenstein have in his collection?

What kind of rocks does Frankenstein have in his collection?

✨ Tombstones
L3 · joke

What kind of storm is always in a rush?

What kind of storm is always in a rush?

✨ a hurry- cane
L3 · joke

What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

Hint: What object has keys that open no locks…

✨ A computer keyboard
L3 · brain teaser

What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the

What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?

Hint: What question can someone ask all day long…

✨ “What time is it?“
L3 · brain teaser

What tree do Fortune Tellers look at?

What tree do Fortune Tellers look at?

✨ It's a kind of tree A palm tree of course
L3 · joke

What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

Hint: What word can be written forward…

✨ NOON
L3 · brain teaser

What word doesn't belong in this group?

What word doesn’t belong in this group? That, hat, what, mat, cat, sat, pat, or chat?

Hint: What word doesn’t belong in this group…

✨ What. It's pronounced differently; all of the others rhyme
L2 · logic

When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

✨ Look at a clock When you add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one o'clock
L3 · brain teaser

When you stop and look, you can always see me

When you stop and look, you can always see me. If you try to touch you cannot feel me. I cannot move, but as you near me, I will move away from you. What am I?

Hint: When you stop and look…

✨ I am the horizon
L2 · what am i

Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?

Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?

✨ The North Pole
L2 · logic

Which word can be placed between the two following words to make two new ones: TABLE - - - - HOUSE

Which word can be placed between the two following words to make two new ones: TABLE - - - - HOUSE

Hint: Which word can be placed between the two following words to make two new ones: T…

✨ WARE
L2 · brain teaser

Which word in the English language becomes shorter when it is lengthened?

Which word in the English language becomes shorter when it is lengthened?

✨ Short
L3 · brain teaser

Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?

Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?

✨ There is a one dollar differnce The same reason seven dollars is more than six. Because there is one more
L2 · math