Tricky Riddles & Brain-Teasers for Kids — Page 4

what is a triangle with 2 sides?

What is round on the ends and high in the middle?

What is the difference between a dollar and a half and thirty five-cents?

What’s the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?

What’s the difference between a penniless man and a feather bed?

What sport has four letters, is played all around the world, and begins with a T?

Hint: What sport has four letters…

What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook?

Hint: What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Ca…

When I left, I didn’t know where I was going; when I got there, I didn’t know where I was; when I returned, I didn’t know where I had been. Who was I?

Hint: When I left…

When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height. Ten years later at age sixteen, John returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimeters each year, how much higher would the nail be?

Hint: When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark hi…

Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil.

Hint: Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a…

Which is heavier ? A pound of feathers or a pound of gold.

While on my way to St. Ives, I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wives, How many were going to St. Ives?

Hint: While on my way to St…

You and your three friends stay over night at a hotel it costs thirty to stay over each of you pay 10 bucks shortly after you get back the bellhop arrives and gives you 5 bucks becasue it was only 25 dollars you give the bellhop a tip of 2 bucks and your friends both a dollar WHERE DID THE LAST DOLLAR GO !!!

Hint: You and your three friends stay over night at a hotel it costs thirty to stay ov…

You are in a room that is completely bricked in on all four sides, including the ceiling and floor. You have nothing but a mirror and a wooden table in the room with you. How do you get out?

Hint: You are in a room that is completely bricked in on all four sides…

You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?

Hint: You are on a ship…

You are standing on the top one of two solid metal pillars. They are both exactly one kilometer apart from each other and they both stand one kilometer high. There is absolutely nothing around these pillars, but you have one small twig, one small rock and an unlimited supply of rope. Usuing only the materials named, how can you get from the top of the pillar that you are on to the top of the other pillar?

Hint: You are standing on the top one of two solid metal pillars…

You must keep this thing, its loss will affect your brothers. For once yours is lost, it will soon be lost by others.

Hint: You must keep this thing…

You want to send a valuable object to a friend. You have a box which is more than large enough to contain the object. You have several locks with keys. The box has a locking ring which is more than large enough to have a lock attached. But your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. How do you do it? Note that you cannot send a key in an unlocked box, since it might be copied.

Hint: You want to send a valuable object to a friend…