Impossible riddles are the ultimate brain-melters — the kind that make you say "that's impossible!" until you hear the answer. These 20 impossible riddles for kids demand lateral thinking, wordplay, and a willingness to be wrong. All answers included — no peeking!
21 impossible riddles
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A girl is sitting in a house at night with no lights on. There is no lamp, no candle, and no moonlight streaming through the window. Yet, she is happily reading her book. How is this possible?
I am a word. If you pronounce me rightly, it will be wrongly. If you pronounce me wrongly, it will be rightly. What word am I?
Hint: This is a pure language trap — you have to step outside the literal meaning to figure it out.
I am a word of 5 letters. If you take away two letters, you only have one left. What word 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 can fill a whole room, but I take up absolutely no space. What am I?
I follow you all day long, copying your every move. But the moment you step into a pitch-black room, I completely disappear. What am I?
I have roads but no cars. I have forests but no trees. I have cities but no people. I have oceans but no fish. What am I?
I have three letters. I can read you backward, but I cannot see. I can guide you forward, but I cannot move. What am I?
Hint: It sounds just like the letter “I”, and spelled backward it’s still the same.
I never was, am always to be, No one ever saw me, nor ever will And yet I am the confidence of all To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
Hint: I never was…
If two is company and three is a crowd, what are four and five?
If you say my name I am no more.
What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?
What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
What has a head and a tail, but no body?
What has a spine, but no bones? It has leaves, but no branches?
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
What is at the end of everything?
What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?
What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?
Hint: The word itself is the answer.
Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?