Children’s Corner

Riddles

1. It belongs to you, but your friends use it more often. What is it?

2. What weighs more? A pound of candy bars or a pound of cake?

3. Sean’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle, and _____?

4. What goes away as soon as you mention it?

5. What can you hear, but not see or touch, even though you control it?

6. What has many eyes, but can’t see?

7. How many sides does a circle have?

8. Imagine that you are in a room without any doors or windows. How would you get out?

9. What goes up but never comes down?

10. What gets wet while drying?

11. What kind of band never plays any music?

12. What has a thousand needles but doesn’t sew?

13. I’ve got a slender body but just one eye. No matter what happens, I never cry. What am I?

14. What runs but cannot walk, has a mouth but no teeth, and has a bed but cannot sleep?

15. What asks no questions but requires many answers?

16. What has hands but cannot hold a thing?

17. A rooster is sitting on top of an A-frame barn. Why aren’t eggs rolling off the roof?

18. What can you put in your pocket that would leave it empty?

19. I sometimes run, but cannot walk. You follow me around. What am I?

20. What can travel around the world without leaving its corner?

21. A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. Why?

22. I am made of water, but I’m not wet. What am I?

23. I run around town all day and night, but never get tired. What am I?

24. What is as big as a hippo but weighs nothing at all?

25. You can hear me, but can’t see me, and I won’t answer unless spoken to. What am I?

26. You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?

27. What has 88 keys, but cannot open a single door?

28. Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?

29. I shave several times a day, but my beard stays exactly the same. How?

30. What keeps going up and down but never moves?

31. What month of the year has 28 days?

32. What can you keep after giving it to someone?

33. Three doctors said that Bill was their brother, but Bill has no brothers. How?

34. What can be caught, but not thrown?

35. What has lots of teeth, but doesn’t bite?

36. If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?  river; 15. A doorbell; 16. A cloc; 17. Roosters don’t lay eggs; 18. A hol; 19. Your nose; 20. A postage stamp; 21. She fell off the bottom ste; 22. A cloud; 23. A road; 24. A hippo’s shadow; 25. An echo; 26. The letter e; 27. A piano; 28. A map; 29. I’m a barber; 30. A staircase; 31. All of them; 32. Your word; 33. The doctors were Bill’s sisters; 34. A cold; 35. A comb; 36. Two.

Answers: 1. Your name; 2. They both weigh the same — 1 pound each; 3. Sean; 4. Silence; 5. Your voice; 6. A potato; 7. 2, inside and outsid; 8. Stop imagining; 9. Your age; 10. A towel; 11. A rubber band; 12. A porcupine; 13. A needle; 14. A