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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Four men sat down to play. They played all night till break of day. They played for gold and not for fun. With separate scores for everyone. When they had come to square accounts. They all had made quite fair amounts. Can you the paradox explain. If no one lost, how all could gain?
Hint: Four men sat down to play…
Four men were in a boat on the lake. The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man got wet! Why?
Hint: Four men were in a boat on the lake…
Give me an x, I’ll stand to face you. Give me a cross, I’ll turn my back on you. What am I?
Hint: Give me an x…
He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
Here on earth it is true, yesterday is always before today; but there is a place where yesterday always follows today. Where?
Hint: Here on earth it is true…
Here on Earth it’s always true, that a day follows a day. But there is a place where yesterday always follows today!
Hint: Here on Earth it’s always true…
How could a cowboy ride into town on Friday, stay two days, and ride out on Friday?
Hint: How could a cowboy ride into town on Friday…
how do you make 30p with 2 coins? one of them is not a 20p..
How do you make “one”disappear?
how does the turtle with no legs cross the road????????? HINT take the f out of free and the f out of way!!!!!!!!!
Hint: how does the turtle with no legs cross the road…
How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the English language spelling of a whole number.
Hint: How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the Englis…
how many animals did moses take on the arc with him?
How many letters are in the alphabet?
How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the Ark?
How many three cent stamps are in a dozen?
How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
I am six letters. When you take one away I am twelve. What am I?
I am that which is hunted, and this panes me. Do you dig, Stone? What am I?
I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.
Hint: I am the beginning of sorrow…
I am the shortest complete sentence in the English language. What am I?