What five letter gets shorter when you add two letters to it? Answer: Short. If a rooster is sitting on top of a barn and lays an egg, which way will it roll off? Which weighs more: a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers? Answer: They both weight a pound. I am an odd number, but if you take away a letter I am even. What number am I? Answer: Seven. How is that possible? Answer: Grandpa is bald. I am always in front of you and never behind you. Answer: The future. What starts with P, ends with E, and has over a thousand letters in it?
Answer: The post office. A riddle a day will keep your classroom joyful and ready to learn new things! Enjoy watching your students figure out these riddles and enjoy their laughter when they do. Have some riddles you want to share with other educators? Come join the comversation in the Empowered Teachers community! All the trending teacher stories, resources, videos, memes, podcasts, deals, and the laughter you need in your life!
Classroom Ideas. Mar 27 10 minutes read. Here are riddles for students to help get you started! Answer: A clock. I can fill up a room, but take no space.
Riddle: Why is an island like the letter T? Riddle: What has wheels and flies, but it is not an aircraft? Answer: A garbage truck. Riddle: What hard rock group has four dudes, but not one of them plays the guitar? Answer: Mount Rushmore. Riddle: Sometimes I am born in silence, Other times, no.
I am unseen, But I make my presence known. In time, I fade without a trace. I harm no one, but I am unpopular with all. Answer: A fart. Riddle: What do you get if you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover?
Answer: A rash of good luck! Riddle: Why is Europe like a frying pan? Answer: Because it has Greece at the bottom.
Riddle: What word has five letters but sounds like it only has one? Answer: Queue. Riddle: I am neither a guest nor a trespasser be, to this place I belong, it belongs also to me. Answer: Home. Riddle: A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said Parrot repeats everything it hears. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be? Answer: The parrot was deaf.
Riddle: Which part of a road do ghosts most love to travel? Answer: The dead end. Answer: Because he always gets lost at sea! Answer: Same middle name. They ate exactly three eggs, each person had an egg. The riddle is for you to explain how. Riddle: Add me to myself and multiply by 4. Divide me by 8 and you will have me once more.
What number am I? Answer: Any number. Answer: 4. Riddle: There is a 3-digit number. The second digit is four times as big as the third digit, while the first digit is three less than the second digit.
What is the number? Answer: Riddle: Ram has 5 sons. Each of his sons has a sister. How many children does Ram have? Answer: Six. All of the sons have the same sister. Riddle: coins were dropped and got scattered inside a dark place.
You are asked to sort the coins into 2 piles. Each pile should have the same count of tails-up coins. How is it possible? Answer: Make 2 piles, one with 90 coins and the other with 10 coins. Flip 10 coins on the pile of The piles will have the same count of tails-up coins. Riddle: A merchant can place 8 large boxes or 10 small boxes into a carton for shipping.
In one shipment, he sent a total of 96 boxes. If there are more large boxes than small boxes, how many cartons did he ship? Answer: 11 cartons total. Riddle: In an alien land far away, half of 10 is 6. Answer: 6. Riddle: What do geometry teachers have decorating their floor? Answer: Area rugs! Riddle: You have 50 biscuits. How many times can you subtract 5 from 50 biscuits? Answer: Once only because after that it will not be 50 biscuits.
As you subtract 5 biscuits it will be 45 and not 50 anymore. Riddle: I saw my math teacher with a piece of graph paper yesterday Answer: I think he must be plotting something. Riddle: The price of a duck is Rs. By taking into account this information, what will be the price of a cat?
Answer: Rs. Answer: 10! Riddle: Mrs. Jones was very proud of her apple tree. One autumn, after harvesting her apples, she called her 3 sons together. I want you to take them to the market tomorrow and sell them for me.
She gave Paul 15 apples, Nick 50, and Ben Paul sells him one dozen and has three apples left; Nick sells him four-dozen and has two apples left, and Ben sells him seven-dozen and has one apple left. Riddle: Why was math class so long? Answer: The teacher kept going off on a tangent.
Riddle: If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is this? Answer: Zero. Riddle: There are pairs of dogs in a zoo. Two pairs of babies are born for every dog. Unfortunately, 23 of the dogs have not survived. How many dogs would be left in total? Answer: dogs. Too many numbers? Riddle: What do you answer even though it never asks you questions? Answer: A doorbell or a phone.
Riddle: What word describes a woman who does not have all her fingers on one hand? Answer: Typical. She would not be so if she had 10 fingers on one hand. Riddle: First, think of the person who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Finally, give me the sound often heard during the search for a hard-to-find word. Now, string them together, and answer me this: Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
Answer: A spider. Riddle: Mr. Mustard have 6 daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family? Answer: There are 9 Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are 6 girls, 1 boy, and Mr. Riddle: What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman.
What is the word? Riddle: How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it? Answer: Concrete floors are very hard to crack.
It tastes sweet and tart, now throw out the peel. Answer: Orange. Riddle: Which of the following is the largest? Triangle, circle, square, or rectangle? Answer: Rectangle, it has the most letters.
Riddle: Pronounced as 1 letter, And written with 3, 2 letters there are, and 2 only in me. Answer: Eye. Answer: A knife. Riddle: It was an especially hot day and a man was walking in the desert. How is this? Here on earth it is always true, that a day follows a day. But there is a place where yesterday always follows today! A boy goes and buys a fishing pole that is 6' 3" long. As he goes to get on the bus, the bus driver tells him that he can't take anything on the bus longer than 6'.
The boy goes back to town, buys one more thing, and the bus driver allows him on the bus. What did he buy, and what did he do with it? The boy bought a 6' long box.
He put the fishing pole in diagonally, and the entire package was only 6'! They weigh exactly the same, one ton each, when you use the same weight standard; however, gold is traditionally measured in Troy weight, which is 13 ounces to the pound instead of 16, so a ton of feathers, weighing 16 ounces, would actually be heavier! Scientists have proven that cats have more hair on one side then their other side. Some people believe that this is because when cats lay on their side they need insulation from the cold on the floor or ground.
Which side of a cat has more hair? Your mother's brother's only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch? When young, I am sweet in the sun. When middle-aged, I make you gay. When old, I am valued more than ever. What's colorless and weightless, but if you put it into a barrel, the barrel would become lighter? What won't break if you throw it off the highest building in the world, but will break if you place it in the ocean?
Want to learn more about space science? A year like the year of , which reads the same upside down. This will not happen again until the year What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now nearly everyone can have it? You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library? If you were standing directly on Antarctica's South Pole facing north, which direction would you travel if you took one step backward?
If you were locked in a concrete room with no windows or doors, and all you have with you is a bed and a calendar, how would you eat and drink? Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer.
You are pushing your car. You stop at a hotel. At that precise moment you realize that you are bankrupt. What is actually going on? As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, the seven wives had seven sacks, the seven sacks had seven cats, the seven cats had seven kittens; kittens, cats, sacks and wives, how many were going to St. The one who made it, didn't want it. The one who bought it, didn't need it.
The one who used it, never saw it. What question can a person ask all day long, getting a different answer each time, and yet all the answers were correct. What runs all day, but never walks Often murmurs, never talks Has a bed, but never sleeps Has a mouth, but never eats? If a father bull drinks 4 gallons of water a day and a baby bull drinks 2 gallons of water, how many gallons of water does a mother bull drink a day?
You come into a room with a table, chairs, and fifty-three Bicycles lying around. A man in the room is being accused of something. Cheating at cards. Someone must have been cheating since there are only 52 cards in a deck. I have a face, two arms, and two hands, yet I can not move.
I count to twelve, yet I can not speak. I can still tell you something everyday. You enter a dark room. You have only one match. There is an oil lamp, a furnace, and a stove in the room. Which would you light first?
Jack and Jill were found gasping for breath, lying in a puddle of water with broken glass all around. What happened? Hank is at work. He goes off to his right.
Then he goes off to his left three times and passes a man in a mask. What is Hank's occupation? A man turned out all the lights and went to bed.
He woke up, saw something on the news and became very upset with himself. Give me a quick "off-the-top-of-your-head" answer to this: How many second's are there in a calendar year?
January second, February second, March second, April second, May second, etc. Tommy's mom has three sons. The youngest son is named "Nickel". The middle son is named "Dime". What is the name of the oldest son? Three people are standing under an umbrella looking at a hole in the center of it. Which one s is getting wet? The temperature! But Lauren, of Lawrenceville, NJ, told us her 8 year old son had another answer -- the stock market!
So perhaps the "Y" generation thinks about stocks as much as the weather! Three men were fishing. The boat flipped over and the three men fell into the water. Two of the men got their hair wet.
Why didn't the third man's hair get wet? A father and a son got into a car accident. The father went home to rest. The son was taken to the hospital for minor surgery. The doctor came in and said: "I shouldn't do any surgery on this boy because he's my son. A man rode into town on Tuesday and stayed in a hotel and two nights later he rode home on Tuesday. There is a box smashed on the sidewalk. There is a package next to it, unopened. The equipment was ruined because the package didn't open.
What's in the package? There was an accident on the border between Canada and the US. Where would they bury the survivors? How can you put you left hand in your right pocket and put your right hand in your left pocket without crossing your arms? Skip Navigation. Kids Homepage. Not So Hard Riddles You can use these buttons to move to the next or previous webpage. Warm up with some little ones below Reveal Answer Barium! Reveal Answer In a riverbank, of course! Reveal Answer A carpet! Reveal Answer If you said "Nono", then you are wrong.
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What runs around a house but doesn't move? Reveal Answer A fence! Reveal Answer A Catfish. Reveal Answer A Cool Cat. Reveal Answer It concentrates! Reveal Answer There is a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter. Reveal Answer A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush! Reveal Answer One if they are all combined, there is just 1 sandpile. Reveal Answer She knew it was only a coin. Reveal Answer A snake! Reveal Answer You are the smartest! Humans are primates too. Reveal Answer A mouse on vacation!
Reveal Answer The other end of the rope isn't tied to anything! Reveal Answer The dictionary! Reveal Answer The boy bought a 6' long box. Reveal Answer They weigh exactly the same, one ton each, when you use the same weight standard; however, gold is traditionally measured in Troy weight, which is 13 ounces to the pound instead of 16, so a ton of feathers, weighing 16 ounces, would actually be heavier!
Reveal Answer The outside, of course! Reveal Answer Yes, "all that"! Reveal Answer Your father. Reveal Answer Because they have their own scales. Reveal Answer Because he is still alive.
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