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RIDDLES FOR KIDS

OVER 300 RIDDLES AND JOKES FOR CHILDREN

M. PREFONTAINE

M. Prefontaine has asserted his moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance
with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise without
the prior permission of the copyright owner.

Published by MP Publishing

Copyright © 2016

Other Children’s books by the author include;
Difficult Riddles for Smart Kids
Math Riddles for Smart Kids
Difficult Word Search for Smart Kids
Difficult Logic Puzzles for Smart Kids
Riddles for Kids: Over 300 Riddles and Jokes for Children
Jokes for Kids
Best Jokes Book for Kids: Over 900 Jokes, Riddles, Tongue Twisters,
Knock Knock Jokes and Limericks that Children will Love
Tongue Twisters for Kids: Over 150 of the Toughest Tongue Twisters that
Children will Love
Knock Knock Jokes for Kids: A Joke Book for Children

CONTENTS

1 -50
51 – 100
101-150
151 – 200
201 – 250
251 – 300
301 –
Answers
1- 50
51 - 100
101 - 150
151 - 200
201 - 250
251 - 300
301 -

One last thing…

1 -50

1. What goes up and down stairs without moving?

Answer
2. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a
head but never weeps and has a bed but never sleeps?

Answer
3. What do ghosts eat on Halloween?

Answer
4. Why was six afraid of seven?

Answer
5. What is brown and sticky?

Answer
6. What goes up when the rain comes down?

Answer
7. What color socks do bears wear?

Answer
8. What type of cheese is made backwards?

Answer
9. What happened when the red ship crashed into the blue ship?

Answer
10. What do ghosts like for dessert?

Answer
11. How do you get straight As?

Answer
12. I went into the woods and got it, I sat down to seek it and I brought
it home with me because I couldn’t find it. What am I?

Answer
13. Which animal keeps the best time?

Answer
14. What do you get from a pampered cow?

Answer
15. What case is not a case?

Answer
16. Why don’t dogs make good dancers?

Answer
17. Why was the teacher cross eyed?

Answer
18. What do polar bears eat for lunch?

Answer

19. Why can’t a woman living in the USA be buried in Canada?
Answer

20. What is the worst vegetable to have on a boat?
Answer

21. Where do cows go for entertainment?
Answer

22. What do you find in the middle of nowhere?
Answer

23. When is an Irish potato not an Irish potato?
Answer

24. What do you call a bear caught out in the rain?
Answer

25. What has hands but cannot clap?
Answer

26. Why do you need a license for dogs but not cats?
Answer

27. What room is useless for a ghost?
Answer

28. What would you call the USA if everyone had a pink car?

Answer
29. What did the farmer call the cow with no milk?

Answer
30. What is black and white, black and white and black and white?

Answer
31. What happened to the lost cattle?

Answer
32. What do you call 2,000lbs of laundry?

Answer
33. Why do bears have fur coats?

Answer
34. Why can’t you shock cows?

Answer
35. If an electric train is travelling south which way is the smoke going?

Answer
36. What do you get if you cross a grizzly bear and a harp?

Answer
37. How many months have 28 days?

Answer

38. What was T. Rex’s favorite number?
Answer

39. What can fill a room but takes up no space at all?
Answer

40. What is the problem with twin witches?
Answer

41. Which rock group has four guys who don’t sing?
Answer

42. What is a monster’s favorite place to swim?
Answer

43. What question can you never answer yes to?
Answer

44. Mr. Blue lives in the blue house, Mr. Pink lives in the pink house,
and Mr. Brown lives in the brown house. Who lives in the white house?

Answer
45. Why do dogs run in circles?

Answer
46. What is the capital of Washington?

Answer
47. What do you call a bear with no teeth?

Answer
48. Why did the Archaeopteryx catch the worm?

Answer
49. Why did the cow cross the road?

Answer
50. How do you make the number one disappear?

Answer

51 – 100

51. If a man was born in Greece, raised in Spain, came to America and
died in San Francisco what is he?

Answer
52. What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back?

Answer
53. Why do cows wear bells?

Answer
54. What do prisoners use to call each other?

Answer
55. Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?

Answer
56. Why does a flamingo stand on one leg?

Answer
57. What did the inventor of the door knocker win?

Answer
58. What nails do carpenters hate to hit?

Answer
59. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?

Answer

60. What is the greatest worldwide use of cowhides?
Answer

61. What part of the car is the laziest?
Answer

62. Two waves had a race. What was the result?
Answer

63. What is the end of everything?
Answer

64. I go around the yard but never move. What am I?
Answer

65. Why was the strawberry sad?
Answer

66. What do you get when dinosaurs crash their cars?
Answer

67. What did the dinosaur say after the crash?
Answer

68. How do teddy bears keep their den cool in the summer?
Answer

69. Where does a peacock go when it loses its tail?

Answer
70. Waiter, will my pizza be long?

Answer
71. How does the man in the moon cut his hair?

Answer
72. You answer to me though I never ask you questions. What am I?

Answer
73. What is always coming but never arrives?

Answer
74. What can you hear but not touch?

Answer
75. Why didn’t Cinderella make the basketball team?

Answer
76. Why did the baker stop making doughnuts?

Answer
77. What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night?

Answer
78. What kind of plates do they use in space?

Answer

79. Why did the golfer have an extra pair of pants?
Answer

80. What position does a ghost play in the soccer team?
Answer

81. Jack rode into town on Friday and rode out two days later on
Friday. How is this possible?

Answer
82. What vegetables do librarians like?

Answer
83. What is the last thing you take off before going to bed?

Answer
84. Why did the picture go to jail?

Answer
85. What happened when the lion ate the clown?

Answer
86. What happened to the origami store?

Answer
87. Why is a tree like a big dog?

Answer
88. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter

but not go outside. What am I?
Answer

89. If a crocodile makes shoes what does a banana make?
Answer

90. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer

91. If two’s company and three’s a crowd what is four and five?
Answer

92. Why is everyone so tired on April 1st?
Answer

93. What did the computer do at lunchtime?
Answer

94. Why did cyclops stop teaching?
Answer

95. Which is the shortest month?
Answer

96. If April showers bring May flowers what do May flowers bring?
Answer

97. If the pilgrims were alive today what would they be most famous
for?

Answer
98. What gets wetter as it dries?

Answer
99. What goes up but doesn’t come back down again?

Answer
100. What subject in school is easy for a witch?

Answer

101-150

101. A woman has seven daughters and each daughter has a brother.
How many children does the woman have altogether?

Answer
102. What is harder to catch the further you run?

Answer
103. What did the zero say to the eight?

Answer
104. What is the hardest part about skydiving?

Answer
105. Why was the math book sad?

Answer
106. What type of bow cannot be tied?

Answer
107. Where can you always find money?

Answer
108. What has one head, one foot and four legs?

Answer
109. Why did superman cross the road?

Answer
110. What do you call Tyrannosaurus Rex when it wears a cowboy hat
and boots?

Answer
111. How many letters are in The Alphabet?

Answer
112. What is worse than finding a worm in your apple?

Answer
113. Why did the scarecrow win the Nobel Prize?

Answer
114. David’s father has three sons – snap crackle and …?

Answer
115. What do witches put on their bagels?

Answer
116. What English word has three consecutive double letters?

Answer
117. What is full of holes but can still hold water?

Answer
118. What is green and smells like blue paint?

Answer

119. What is the coldest country in the world?
Answer

120. Why is the mushroom always invited to parties?
Answer

121. How do trees get on the internet?
Answer

122. What day do potatoes hate the most?
Answer

123. Where does success come before work?
Answer

124. How do you make a witch itch?
Answer

125. What breaks when you say it?
Answer

126. Why did the teacher wear sunglasses?
Answer

127. What dinosaur can you ride in a rodeo?
Answer

128. What two things can you not eat for breakfast?

Answer
129. What does a dentist call his x-rays?

Answer
130. What did the nut say when it sneezed?

Answer
131. I have all the knowledge you have but am as small as a fist. What
am I?

Answer
132. How does a witch tell the time?

Answer
133. What’s the gooey stuff between shark’s teeth?

Answer
134. Why is a piano so hard to open?

Answer
135. Take off my skin and I won’t cry, but you. What am I?

Answer
136. What only starts to work after it is fired?

Answer
137. I have no feet, no hands and no wings but can climb into the sky.
What am I?

Answer
138. What has one eye but cannot see?

Answer
139. What do you call a man at the top of a hill?

Answer
140. What’s a great name for a lawyer?

Answer
141. What do you call a man in a hole?

Answer
142. What do you call a woman standing on a tennis court?

Answer
143. What do you call a man lying on your doorstep?

Answer
144. What do you call a man in the mailbox?

Answer
145. What do you call a woman with one leg?

Answer
146. I am a building with many stories. What am I?

Answer

147. The more you have of it the less you see. What am I?

Answer

148. Who won the skeleton beauty contest?

Answer

149. How do trains hear?

Answer

150. Each morning I appear to lie at your feet. All day I will follow you
no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish in the midday sun.
What am I?

Answer

151 – 200

151. What has a neck and no head, two arms but no hands?

Answer
152. What is out of bounds?

Answer
153. What is the strongest creature in the sea?

Answer
154. Which type of dinosaur can jump higher than a house?

Answer
155. What is put on a table, cut but never eaten?

Answer
156. Why didn’t the skeleton cross the road?

Answer
157. It cannot be seen, it weighs nothing, but when put into a barrel it
makes it lighter. What is it?

Answer
158. Why didn’t the dinosaur cross the road?

Answer
159. What do you get if you cross a dinosaur and a pig?

Answer
160. Where do fish sleep?

Answer

161. Lighter than what I am made of, more of me is hidden than is seen.
What am I?

Answer
162. What is the most slippery country in the world?

Answer
163. What do you call a dinosaur with one leg?

Answer
164. A man is pushing his car along a road when he comes to an hotel
and shouts “I’m bankrupt”. Why?

Answer
165. What do you call a sleeping bull?

Answer

166. At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost
without being stolen. What are they?

Answer
167. A box without hinge, lock or key and a golden treasure lies within.
What is it?

Answer

168. What makes a loud noise changing its jacket and becomes larger,
but weighs less?

Answer
169. What has a foot but no legs?

Answer
170. Where do baby ghosts go during the day?

Answer
171. Who earns a living by driving their customers away?

Answer
172. What comes down but never goes up?

Answer
173. What has a head, a tail, is brown and has no legs?

Answer
174. What is a tornado’s favorite game?

Answer
175. Why do dinosaurs eat raw meat?

Answer
176. Why is there a gate around cemeteries?

Answer
177. What did dinosaurs have that no other animals ever had?

Answer
178. What did the duck say after he went shopping?

Answer
179. How do you stop an elephant from charging?

Answer
180. Mary’s father has five daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What
was the fifth daughters name?

Answer
181. Why are movies so cool?

Answer
182. Why did the woman run around her bed?

Answer
183. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Answer
184. What happens once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a
thousand years?

Answer
185. If I have it I don’t share it. If I share it I don’t have it. What is it?

Answer
186. What can you catch but not throw?

Answer
187. A house has four walls all facing south and a bear is circling the
house. What color is the bear?

Answer
188. What is a lifeguard’s favorite game?

Answer
189. What snakes are good at doing sums?

Answer
190. What do you call a camel with no humps?

Answer
191. What’s the key to a great thanksgiving dinner?

Answer
192. You walk into a room with a match, a kerosene lamp and a
fireplace. Which do you light first?

Answer
193. We see it once in a year, twice in a week and never in a day. What
is it?

Answer
194. What does the sick lemon need?

Answer
195. What can point in every direction but can’t get to its destination by

itself?
Answer

196. What gets broken without being held?
Answer

197. What is even smarter than a talking bird?
Answer

198. What has 88 keys but can’t open a single door?
Answer

199. What has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps, can
run but never walks and has a bank but no money?

Answer
200. What is black and white and red all over?

Answer

201 – 250

201. What do you call a grumpy cow?
Answer

202. What has no fingers but many rings?
Answer

203. What happens when you throw a white hat into the Black Sea?
Answer

204. Why do hummingbirds hum?
Answer

205. What did the dog say when he sat on the sandpaper?
Answer

206. What kind of hair do oceans have?
Answer

207. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer

208. Two fathers and two sons go on a fishing trip. They each catch a
fish. Why do they only bring three home?

Answer
209. What do you give a sick bird?

Answer

210. The more it dries the wetter it gets. What is it?
Answer

211. What do fish and maps have in common?
Answer

212. What do you get if you cross a frog and a bunny?
Answer

213. Which witch is good when it gets dark?
Answer

214. What has only two backbones and thousands of ribs?
Answer

215. What did one flea say to the other?
Answer

216. What gives you the power and strength to walk through walls?
Answer

217. What’s green and sings?
Answer

218. What did one wall say to the other?
Answer

219. What is something you will never see again?

Answer
220. A man was cleaning the windows of a 25 story building. He slipped
and fell off the ladder but wasn’t hurt. How was that?

Answer

221. When is a car like a frog?
Answer

222. What was the result when a piano fell down a mineshaft?
Answer

223. Four men sat down to play, and played all night till the break of
day. They played for cash, and not for fun, and had a separate score
for every one. When it came to settle accounts they all made money.
How is that?

Answer
224. Why do birds fly south in winter?

Answer
225. What do you call a cow that plays a musical instrument?

Answer

226. What is the biggest problem with snow boots?
Answer

227. Where can you find an ocean with no water?
Answer

228. What has a face and two hands but no arms and legs?
Answer

229. What washes up on very small beaches?
Answer

230. What do you get if you cross a parrot with a centipede?
Answer

231. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer

232. What kind of bird can carry the most weight?
Answer

233. How do fleas travel from place to place?
Answer

234. What can go up and down without moving?
Answer

235. What is an insect’s favorite sport?
Answer

236. What is noisier than a whooping crane?
Answer

237. What has a neck but no head?

Answer
238. Before Mount Everest was discovered what was the highest
mountain on earth?

Answer
239. Which side of a parrot has the prettiest feathers?

Answer
240. If you were in a race and passed the person in second place what
place would you be in?

Answer
241. Why do male deer need braces?

Answer
242. What’s worse than raining cats and dogs?

Answer
243. Why did the clown go to the doctor?

Answer
244. Why did the kid throw the butter out of the window?

Answer
245. What is orange and sounds like a parrot?

Answer
246. Why is Europe like a frying pan?

Answer
247. Where does Dracula keep his money?

Answer
248. How many books can you put into an empty backpack?

Answer
249. Two silkworms were in a race, who won?

Answer
250. Which fish is the most famous?

Answer

251 – 300

251. What do you get when you cross a shark and a snowman?
Answer

252. What do you get if you cross a dog with an airplane?
Answer

253. What is the biggest ant in the world?
Answer

254. Jack and Jill are lying dead on the floor. They died from a lack of
water. There is shattered glass next to them. How did they die?

Answer
255. What breed of dog does Dracula have?

Answer
256. What geometric figure is like a lost parrot?

Answer
257. What do you get when you cross a fish and an elephant?

Answer
258. I make two people out of one. What am I?

Answer
259. Why don’t lobsters share?

Answer

260. Does your shirt have holes in it?
Answer

261. What do you get if you cross a canary with a 50 foot long snake?

Answer
262. What do you get when you cross a snake and a pie?

Answer
263. A barrel of water weighs 20lbs. What must you add to it to make it
12lbs?

Answer

264. A boy was rushed to the emergency room. The E.R. doctor saw the
boy and said “I cannot operate on this boy as he is my son”. But the
doctor was not the boy’s father. How could that be?

Answer
265. What animals make the best pets?

Answer
266. What was stolen from the music store?

Answer
267. I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even.
What number am I?

Answer
268. What never asks a question but is often answered?

Answer
269. When you look for something why is it always in the place you last
look?

Answer
270. Martha Martin was born on December 27th, but her birthday is
always in the summer. How is this?

Answer
271. What kind of coat can only be put on wet?

Answer
272. What did the cat have for breakfast?

Answer
273. What do you serve that you can’t eat?

Answer
274. I have rivers but I don’t have water. I have dense forests, but no
trees and animals. I have cities, but no people live in those cities. How is
this?

Answer

275. I have no life but I can die. What am I?
Answer

276. I am tall when I am young and short when I am old. What am I?
Answer

277. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg what sort of chicks
would it have?

Answer
278. He has married many women but has never had a wife. Who is he?

Answer
279. What has four eyes but can’t see?

Answer
280. What do you get if you cross Bambi and a ghost?

Answer
281. What do you fill with empty hands?

Answer
282. Why did the lion spit out the clown?

Answer
283. Take away my last letter and I sound the same. Take away my first
letter and I still sound the same. Even take my letter in the middle, I
will still sound the same. I am a five letter word. What am I?

Answer
284. What is at the end of a rainbow?

Answer
285. What do you call a deer with no eyes?

Answer

286. What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?
Answer

287. What animal is it bad to play games with?
Answer

288. What starts with the letter ‘t’, ends with ‘t’ and is filled with ‘t’?
Answer

289. Which is correct “ The yolks of the egg are white” or “The yolks of
the egg is white”?

Answer
290. What is a frog’s favorite music?

Answer
291. What book was once only owned by the wealthy, you can’t buy it
from a bookstore or take it from a library but now everyone can have
it?

Answer
292. When is a doctor most annoyed?

Answer
293. What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?

Answer
294. Why did the leopard wear a striped shirt?

Answer

295. A man was driving his truck. His lights weren’t on. The moon was
not out. Up ahead a woman was crossing the street. How did he see
her?

Answer
296. When is it bad luck to see a black cat?

Answer
297. A monkey, a squirrel and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut
tree. Who will get the banana first?

Answer
298. What time does a tennis player get up?

Answer

299. What is the easiest way to double your money?
Answer

300. Is it hard to spot a leopard?
Answer

301 –

301. Everyone has it and no one can lose it. What is it?
Answer

302. The more you take the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer

303. You will throw me away when you want to use me. You will take
me in when you don’t want to use me. What am I?

Answer
304. What sort of steps do you take if a tiger is running at you?

Answer
305. I will always come, but never arrive today. What am I?

Answer
306. If you give me water I will die. What am I?

Answer
307. Where do tough chickens come from?

Answer
308. I can’t speak or hear But I always tell the truth. What am I?

Answer
309. Why did the chicken cross the road?

Answer

310. Why did the chewing gum cross the road?
Answer

311. Why did the turkey cross the road?
Answer

312. Why did the turkey cross the road twice?
Answer

313. I run yet I have no legs. What am I?
Answer

314. What kind of room has no windows or doors?
Answer

315. Take out one and scratch my head, I am now black where once I
was red. What am I?

Answer
316. I look at you and you look at me. I raise my left and you raise your
right. What am I?

Answer
317. What do you call it when it rains chickens and ducks?

Answer
318. What goes around the world but is stuck in the corner?

Answer