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.
193 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…
Hint: Start working backwards from the end.
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…
Look at a coin. One part you see, one part you don’t. Both are part of the shape.
Hint: Inside vs. outside count as separate places.
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…
Hint: First, find how much water each cup will actually hold.
For a class pizza party, each student brings cash. The amount from each equals the total number of students. Together they collect 529 dollars. How many students are there?
Hint: Look for a square number.
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 am chocolate, shaped like a bunny, and appear in your Easter basket. What am I?
I am made from pumpkin, baked in a crust, and served at Thanksgiving. What am I?
I am made of gingerbread with gumdrop buttons and frosting. What am I?
I am orange, round, and carved with a scary face on Halloween. What am I?
I am the star of Thanksgiving dinner. I am a big bird. What am I?
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?