Tricky Riddles & Brain-Teasers for Kids — Page 4

What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?

What can go up and come down without moving?

What falls but doesn’t break, and what breaks but doesn’t fall?

What has a spine, but no bones? It has leaves, but no branches?

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 kind of “skate” can travel at high speeds on land, glide gracefully across the winter ice, fly through the air at a park, but has absolutely no brains of its own?

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…

What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

Hint: The word itself is the answer.

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.

Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

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…