Looking for object riddles? You've found the right page. We've collected 20 kid-safe object 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.
140 object riddles
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I have no voice and yet I speak to you, I tell of all things in the world that people do. I have leaves, but I am not a tree, I have pages, but I am not a bride or royalty. I have a spine and hinges, but I am not a man or a door, I have told you all, I cannot tell you more. What am I?
Hint: I have no voice and yet I speak to you…
I have two arms, but fingers none. I have two feet, but cannot run. I carry well, but I have found I carry best with my feet OFF the ground. What am I?
Hint: I have two arms…
I’m as big as an elephant, but lighter than a feather. What am I?
I’m not really more than holes tied to more holes; I’m strong as good steel, though not as stiff as a pole. What am I?
Hint: I’m not really more than holes tied to more holes; I’m strong as good steel…
I say everything I hear to others around. I’m not an animal, nor part of the human race. I will, immediately, repeat after you; But only if my tail is in place. What am I?
Hint: I say everything I hear to others around…
I turn around once. What is out will not get in. I turn around again. What is in will not get out. What am I?
Hint: I turn around once…
I was framed, yet I didn’t commit a crime, and the person who framed me committed no crime. How is this possible?
Hint: I was framed…
If a wheel has 64 spokes, how many spaces are there between the spokes?
If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
If you go to the movies and you’re paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at the same time?
Hint: If you go to the movies and you’re paying…
If you screw a light bulb into a socket by turning the bulb toward the right with your right hand, which way would you turn the socket with your left hand in order to unscrew it while holding the bulb stationary?
Hint: If you screw a light bulb into a socket by turning the bulb toward the right wit…
im a container with the inside golden than cant be opened unless im broken!!!
Imagine you are in a room with 3 switches. In an adjacent room there are 3 bulbs (let’s say in lamps which are on a regular table), each switch belongs to one bulb. All are off at the moment. It is impossible to see from one room to another. No help from anybody else is allowed. How can you find out which switch belongs to which bulb, if you may enter the room with the bulbs only once?
Hint: Imagine you are in a room with 3 switches…
In spring I am gay in handsome array; in summer more clothing I wear; when colder it grows I fling off my clothes; and in winter quite naked appear. What am I?
Hint: In spring I am gay in handsome array; in summer more clothing I wear; when colde…
It goes up, but at the same time goes down. Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground. It’s present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you. What is it?
Hint: It goes up…
John was very tired after a long day of work. He went to bed at 10 p.m., wound his alarm clock and set it for noon the next day. Since John fell asleep almost immediately, how many hours of sleep did he get before the alarm woke him?
Hint: John was very tired after a long day of work…
Many things can create one, it can be of any shape or size, it is created for various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time. What is it?
Hint: Many things can create one…
My first is high, My second damp, My whole a tie, A writer’s cramp.
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…
My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick Fat, I am slow Wind is my foe.
Hint: My life can be measured in hours…