Looking for food riddles? You've found the right page. We've collected 20 kid-safe food riddles, ranging from quick "what am I" warm-ups to head-scratching brain-teasers. Each riddle includes the answer behind a tap, so kids get a chance to guess before peeking. Great as classroom starters, lunch-box surprises, or a family game.
34 food riddles
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A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bustrip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
Hint: A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman…
A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?
Hint: A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree…
A kind man comes across a dirty box, a voice says to him “Coconuts, $5 a dozen”With his lightning quick arithmetic he calculates that if he sold those same coconuts to the coconut air assault team for the accepted rate of $3 per dozen that in no time at all he would be a millionaire. What’s with this guy, assuming his math is accurate?
Hint: A kind man comes across a dirty box…
A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I?
Hint: A little pool with two layers of wall around it…
A woman was horrified to find a fly in her tea. The waiter took her cup and went into the kitchen and returned with a fresh cup of tea. She shouted, “You brought me the same tea!”How did she know?
Hint: A woman was horrified to find a fly in her tea…
Big as a biscuit, deep as a cup, even a river can’t fill it up. What is it?
Farmer Brown came to town with some watermelons. He sold half of them plus half a melon, and found that he had one whole melon left. How many melons did he take to town?
Hint: Farmer Brown came to town with some watermelons…
Harry went out to dinner with his friends Larry, Barry, and Gary. Harry sat across from Gary. At Gary’s right, opposite Barry, sat Larry. When the waiter came for their orders, Larry and Barry ordered steak. Gary chose fish, and Harry (who likes to be difficult) ordered like this: “Unless the man at the left of the man opposite the man who ordered fish is not having what the man across from the man at the right of the man at my left is having, then I’ll have what the man across from the man at the right of the man opposite me ordered. Otherwise, bring me the fettucine alfredo.”Assuming “right”and “left”is from the viewpoint of the diners, what did Harry order?
Hint: Harry went out to dinner with his friends Larry…
I am a fruit. I taste very yummy. I came from trees, ofcourse. I am color orange. What am I?
Hint: I am a fruit…
I give milk and have a horn but I’m not a cow? What am I?
I have no legs or arms but I still eat with a fork everyday, What am I?
I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils O red fruit, Ivory, fine timber! The loaf’s big with it’s yeasty rising Money’s new minted in this fat purse. I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I’ve eaten a bag of green apples Boarded the train there’s no getting off.
Hint: I’m a riddle in nine syllables…
If you have three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?
if you stack thousands of pizza pies on top of eachother what would you get?
im a container with the inside golden than cant be opened unless im broken!!!
In a contest, four fruits (an apple, a banana, an orange, and a pear) have been placed in four closed boxes (one fruit per box). People may guess which fruit is in which box. 123 people participate in the contest. When the boxes are opened, it turns out that 43 people have guessed none of the fruits correctly, 39 people have guessed one fruit correctly, and 31 people have guessed two fruits correctly. The Question: How many people have guessed three fruits correctly, and how many people have guessed four fruits correctly?
Hint: In a contest…
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…
I hop instead of walk, my fluffy tail is small and round, and crunchy orange carrots are my favorite snack of all.
Hint: I’m a small furry friend you might see in a garden.
My first is in fish but not in snail, My second is in rabbit but not in tail. My third is in up but not in down, My fourth is in tiara but not in crown. My fifth is in tree you plainly see, My whole a food for you and me. What am I?
Hint: My first is in fish but not in snail…
My first is often at the front door. My second is found in the cereal family. My third is what most people want. My whole is one of the United States.
Hint: My first is often at the front door…