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Object Riddles for Kids

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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When I am young I am tall

easy Age 6+ object what am i

When I am young I am tall. When I am old I am short. What can I be?

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✨ Fire A Candle

L1 · what am i

When I point up it's bright, but when I point down it's dark

easy Age 6+ object what am i

When I point up it’s bright, but when I point down it’s dark. What am I?

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✨ A Light Switch

L2 · what am i

Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?

easy Age 6+ object what am i

Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?

Hint: Where will you find roads without cars…

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✨ On a Map

L2 · what am i

Which is heavier ?

tricky Age 10+ object brain teaser

Which is heavier ? A pound of feathers or a pound of gold.

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✨ lots of feathers A pound of feathers

L3 · brain teaser

Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?

easy Age 6+ animal what am i

Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?

Hint: Who spends the day at the window…

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✨ A fly

L2 · what am i

Whoever makes it, tells it not

hard Age 10+ object brain teaser

Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?

Hint: Whoever makes it…

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✨ they are fake Counterfeit money

L3 · brain teaser

Whoever makes it, tells it not

hard Age 10+ object brain teaser

Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it wants it not.

Hint: Whoever makes it…

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✨ Counterfeit money

L3 · brain teaser

Why did the baseball coach tell the baseball player to go to the bank?

easy Age 6+ sports joke

Why did the baseball coach tell the baseball player to go to the bank?

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✨ Because the baseball coach wanted his quarter back!

L2 · joke

With pointed fangs it sits in wait, With piercing force its doles out fate, Over bloodless victims p

medium Age 8+ object what am i

With pointed fangs it sits in wait, With piercing force its doles out fate, Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might, Eternally joining in a single bite. What am I?

Hint: With pointed fangs it sits in wait…

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✨ I'm a Stapler

L2 · what am i

You are in a room that is completely bricked in on all four sides, including the ceiling and floor

tricky Age 10+ object brain teaser

You are in a room that is completely bricked in on all four sides, including the ceiling and floor. You have nothing but a mirror and a wooden table in the room with you. How do you get out?

Hint: You are in a room that is completely bricked in on all four sides…

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✨ You look in the mirror you see what you saw, you take the saw and you cut the table in half, two halves make a whole, and you climb out the hole

L3 · brain teaser

You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods

hard Age 10+ science brain teaser

You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet. How can you identify this magnet?

Hint: You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods…

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✨ You can hang the iron rods on a string and watch which one turns to the north (or hang just one rod)

L3 · brain teaser

You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs

tricky Age 8+ nature logic

You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?

Hint: You are on a ship…

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✨ Remember the tde Nine rungs will be above the water. As the tide rises, so will the ship and the ladder

L3 · logic

You are standing on the top one of two solid metal pillars

tricky Age 10+ object brain teaser

You are standing on the top one of two solid metal pillars. They are both exactly one kilometer apart from each other and they both stand one kilometer high. There is absolutely nothing around these pillars, but you have one small twig, one small rock and an unlimited supply of rope. Usuing only the materials named, how can you get from the top of the pillar that you are on to the top of the other pillar?

Hint: You are standing on the top one of two solid metal pillars…

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✨ The twig and the rock were simply distractions used to divert you from the real answer

L3 · brain teaser

You can see nothing else When you look in my face, I will look you in the eye And I will never lie

easy Age 6+ body what am i

You can see nothing else When you look in my face, I will look you in the eye And I will never lie.

Hint: You can see nothing else When you look in my face…

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✨ I am your reflection

L2 · what am i

You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving

medium Age 8+ object brain teaser

You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving. What is it?

Hint: You can spin…

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✨ Got milk?

L3 · brain teaser

You have three stoves: a gas stove, a wood stove, and a coal stove, but only one match

easy Age 6+ object brain teaser

You have three stoves: a gas stove, a wood stove, and a coal stove, but only one match. Which should you light first?

Hint: You have three stoves: a gas stove…

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✨ The match!

L2 · brain teaser

You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue

medium Age 8+ object what am i

You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?

Hint: You hear it speak…

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✨ A Bell

L2 · what am i

You live in a one story house made “entirely of redwood“

easy Age 6+ building brain teaser

You live in a one story house made “entirely of redwood“. What color would the stairs be?

Hint: You live in a one story house made “entirely of redwood“…

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✨ What stairs? You live in a one story house

L2 · brain teaser

You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows

easy Age 4+ object what am i

You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows. What is it?

Hint: You use it between your head and your toes…

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✨ A Bar of Soap

L1 · what am i

You want to send a valuable object to a friend

tricky Age 10+ object logic

You want to send a valuable object to a friend. You have a box which is more than large enough to contain the object. You have several locks with keys. The box has a locking ring which is more than large enough to have a lock attached. But your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. How do you do it? Note that you cannot send a key in an unlocked box, since it might be copied.

Hint: You want to send a valuable object to a friend…

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✨ Attach a lock to the ring. Send it to her. She attaches her own lock and sends it back. You remove your lock and send it back to her. She removes her lock

L3 · logic