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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There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
Hint: There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a…
There was a buss with 26 people in it. Then, they decided to cross the Golden Gate Bridge. When they crossed the bridge, there was no single person left. Also, no one got out from the bus. What happened?
Hint: There was a buss with 26 people in it…
There was a man who was born before his father, killed his mother, and married his sister. Yet, there was nothing wrong with what he had done. Why?
Hint: There was a man who was born before his father…
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…
Two words, my answer is only two words. To keep me, you must give me.
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…
What can be heard and caught but never seen?
What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
What do you use to hoe a row, slay a foe, and wring with woe?
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?
What is it that you ought to keep after you have given it to someone else?
What is it the more you take, the more you leave behind?
What is once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?
what is perfect, pretty, and smart?
What is round on the ends and high in the middle?
What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?