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🧡 Time 🛡️ Kid-Safe ✨ With Answers

Time Riddles for Kids

Looking for time riddles? You've found the right page. We've collected 18 kid-safe time 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.

38 time riddles

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RIDDLE ME THIS:A woman walked into an office building, looked at the guard, and said her name was Je

RIDDLE ME THIS:A woman walked into an office building, looked at the guard, and said her name was Jenny. The next day she walked into the same building, looked at the same guard and said her name was Julie. What is going on?

Hint: RIDDLE ME THIS:A woman walked into an office building…

✨ The woman has Multiple Personality Disorder. This happens when a traumatic experience causes so much pain that they make another personality to cope with the situation
L1 · what am i

RIDDLE:When asked how old she was, Suzie replied, “In 2 years I will be twice as old as I was 5 year

RIDDLE:When asked how old she was, Suzie replied, “In 2 years I will be twice as old as I was 5 years ago.”How old is she?

Hint: RIDDLE:When asked how old she was…

✨ Use some math remember in 2 yrs she's twice as old She's 12 ! 14yr / 2yr = 7yr add 5yr and get 12 years old
L2 · math

Some try to hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, we always will meet

Some try to hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, we always will meet. Try as you might, to guess my name, I promise you’ll know, when you I do claim. Who am I?

Hint: Some try to hide…

✨ Death
L1 · what am i

Something very extraordinary happened on the 6th of May, 1978 at 12:34 a

Something very extraordinary happened on the 6th of May, 1978 at 12:34 a.m. What was it?

Hint: Something very extraordinary happened on the 6th of May…

✨ At that moment, the time and day could be written as: 12:34, 5/6/78
L3 · brain teaser

Trains travel from one town to another town all day, always on the same track, always going nonstop

Trains travel from one town to another town all day, always on the same track, always going nonstop and at the same speed. The noon train took 80 minutes to complete the trip, but the 4 PM train took an hour and 20 minutes. Why?

Hint: Trains travel from one town to another town all day…

✨ 80 minutes is the same as an hour and 20 minutes
L3 · brain teaser

Two girls have the same parents and were born at the same hour of the same day of the same month, bu

Two girls have the same parents and were born at the same hour of the same day of the same month, but they are not twins. How can this be possible?

Hint: Two girls have the same parents and were born at the same hour of the same day o…

✨ They were not born in the same year
L2 · brain teaser

Until I am measured, I am not known

Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, When I have flown.

✨ I am Time
L2 · what am i

Until I am measured, I am not known

Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, When I have flown. What am I?

Hint: Until I am measured…

✨ Time
L2 · what am i

What falls but doesn't break, and what breaks but doesn't fall?

What falls but doesn’t break, and what breaks but doesn’t fall?

✨ Night and Day
L3 · brain teaser

What goes up and never comes down?

What goes up and never comes down?

✨ Your Age
L2 · what am i

What is once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?

What is once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?

✨ The letter M
L3 · brain teaser

What is significant about 3661 seconds past midnight on 1st January 2001?

What is significant about 3661 seconds past midnight on 1st January 2001?

✨ The time and date will be 01:01:01 on 01/01/01
L3 · math

What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the

What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?

Hint: What question can someone ask all day long…

✨ “What time is it?“
L3 · brain teaser

What time is it when the clock strikes 13?

What time is it when the clock strikes 13?

✨ Time to get the clock fixed
L2 · joke

When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

✨ Look at a clock When you add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one o'clock
L3 · brain teaser

Which clock works best, the one that loses a minute a day, or the one that doesn't work at all?

Which clock works best, the one that loses a minute a day, or the one that doesn’t work at all?

Hint: Which clock works best…

✨ The one that doesn't work is best as it will always be correct twice a day, but the one that loses a minute a day will not be correct again for 720 days (losing 720 minutes or 12 hours)
L3 · brain teaser

Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?

Why are 1990 dollar bills worth more than 1989 dollar bills?

✨ There is a one dollar differnce The same reason seven dollars is more than six. Because there is one more
L2 · math

You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock

You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock. This one loses exactly 24 minutes every hour. It is now showing 3:00am and you know that is was correct at midnight, when you set it. The clock stopped 1 hour ago, what is the correct time now?

Hint: You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock…

✨ 6:00am: since the clock is losing 24 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed, the clock will only show 36 minutes
L3 · math