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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They can trickle down, They can tickle too. Or make you sneeze, Or comfort you. Their rustling sound, you’ve rarely heard, Unless you’re a pillow or a bird! What are they?
Hint: They can trickle down…
They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they?
Hint: They have not flesh…
Three playing cards in a row. Can you name them with these clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the left of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade. Now, identify all three cards.
Hint: Three playing cards in a row…
Three robbers robbed a store. Once they came out they were totally changed, but they still continued robbing. Why?
Hint: Three robbers robbed a store…
Tom and his younger sister were fighting. Their mother was tired of the fighting, and decided to punish them by making them stand on the same piece of newspaper in such a way that they couldn’t touch each other. How did she accomplish this?
Hint: Tom and his younger sister were fighting…
Two mothers and two daughters go shopping. They have $21, which they split equally between them. How can this be possible?
Hint: Two mothers and two daughters go shopping…
We are little creatures; all of us have different features. One of us in glass is set; one of us you’ll find in jet. Another you may see in tin, and the fourth is boxed within . If the fifth you should pursue, it can never fly from you. What are we?
Hint: We are little creatures; all of us have different features…
Weight in my belly, Trees on my back. Nails in my ribs, Feet I do lack.
The more I do my job, the wetter I become. I show up after baths and pool days, and I’m usually folded in a cupboard until needed.
Hint: Picture what you reach for after stepping out of the shower.
What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Hint: What can run but never walks…
What demands an answer, but asks no question?
What do you serve that you can’t eat?
What fastens two people yet touches only one?
What force and strength cannot get through I with a gentle touch can do, And many in the street would stand were I not a friend in hand.
Hint: What force and strength cannot get through I with a gentle touch can do…
What gets wetter the more it dries?
What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
What goes into the water red and comes out black?
What goes up when the rain comes down?