Looking for wordplay riddles? You've found the right page. We've collected 20 kid-safe wordplay 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.
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A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, “If I write your exact weig
A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, “If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50.” The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he’ll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
Hint: A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy…
✨ The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote “your exact weight”on the paper
L3 · brain teaser
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A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah
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…
✨ An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
L3 · joke
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A headless lawyer had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his sight
A headless lawyer had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his sight. The dumb repeated it word for word; And deaf was he who listened and heard.
Hint: A headless lawyer had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his s…
✨ The letter in question is the letter “O“
L3 · brain teaser
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A kind man comes across a dirty box, a voice says to him “Coconuts, $5 a dozen”With his lightning qu
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…
✨ He was a billionaire
L3 · brain teaser
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A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under water
A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under water. His record was 6 minutes. A kid that was listening said, “that’s nothing, I can stay under water for 10 minutes using no types of equipment or air pockets!”The magician told the kid if he could do that, he’d give him $10,000. The kid did it and won the money. Can you figure out how?
Hint: A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under water…
✨ The kid filled a glass of water and held it over his head for 10 minutes
L3 · brain teaser
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A man was going to buy a $5000 car, but he didn't pay a penny for the car, how is this possible?
A petshop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said “Parrot repeats everything it hears.”A young man bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn’t say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?
Hint: A petshop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said “Parrot repeats e…
A phone rings 9 times, and no one answers it. A horse eats 9 pounds of grain. A bannana grows 9 inches evry day. and the computer gets 9 mail messages every day. What is always in the above paragraph ^?
Hint: A phone rings 9 times…
✨ Letters and words
L3 · brain teaser
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A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique, Regis, Michelle, Fawn, Sophie and Lara
A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique, Regis, Michelle, Fawn, Sophie and Lara. What will she name her next child? Jessica, Katie, Abby or Tilly?
Hint: A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique…
✨ Sound of music Tilly. She seems to follow the scale Do, Re, Me, Fa, So, La, and then Ti
A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
Hint: A woman shoots her husband…
✨ The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry
As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
Hint: As a whole…
✨ A Stable
L3 · brain teaser
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As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked
Below are six clues to six words. When arranged in the correct order, each word is an anagram of the previous word with a letter removed. capital of France snake headache tablet single article twisted ankle coarse file equally
Hint: Below are six clues to six words…
✨ Aspirin, sprain, Paris, rasp, asp, as, a
L3 · brain teaser
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Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fr
Detective Marty had been trailing three men suspected of committing several fur robberies. He received a message in a sealed envelope delivered by Roscoe, an underworld contact and decided to call Detective Sam, his partner. “I think I found out where the merchandise is stored,”said Detective Marty. Obviously Marty didn’t want Roscoe to know what was in the envelope, so he read it to Sam in code. This is what Marty had said: “Flame mate weighty soak shave comedy debut stake scared.” What did the message say?
Hint: Detective Marty had been trailing three men suspected of committing several fur …
✨ Am at Eight Oak Ave, come but take care. Read through it again to see!
L3 · logic
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Does the law allow a man to marry his widow's sister?
ees llahs uoy dna sdrawkcab siht daer eeht ot flesti laever lliw elddir eht erbmun a si eulc eht ton si rewsna eht redroni hguorht desuac redro fo tuo yltnerruc nihtiw seil rewsna eht
Hint: ees llahs uoy dna sdrawkcab siht daer eeht ot flesti laever lliw elddir eht erbm…
✨ the answer is “turds“
L1 · what am i
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Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen; First of all figures, the
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen; First of all figures, the first of all letters, Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring Before you the name of an eminent king.