Announcing Pregnancy Riddles

Five riddles to announce pregnancy, each answer under a cover: choose who is guessing, then print.

I need you to build something with a hundred screws and one tiny mattress before ______. What is it, and who is it for?
We have been going back and forth over a list of names for weeks, and we do not own a boat. What are the names for?
Your family tree has stopped at my branch for a long time. Look closely this year. What is the tree about to grow?
Start practicing your worst jokes. In ______ someone arrives who will have to hear them for the next eighteen years. Who?
We are expecting a delivery in ______. It cannot be tracked, it may not come on the promised day, and nobody signs for it. What is it?

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How it works

Each of these pregnancy announcement riddles has one answer: the news itself. Hand one over on a card, read it out at dinner, and wait for the answer to dawn.

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Announcing pregnancy: riddles by who is guessing

The menu under the button keeps one set: For the grandparents-to-be, For the dad-to-be, or For friends and coworkers. Where a riddle has a blank line, write in the month the baby is due.

Check the answer, then print

Tap Show answer to see the answer the guesser should reach. Print gives the riddles on screen as a sheet; cut out the one you want.

Tips

Copy the riddle by hand onto the card and leave the answer off.
Have a second riddle ready for the guesser who gets it at once.

Questions and answers

What is a good riddle to announce a pregnancy to grandparents?

One that hands them their new title. Two of you became a family when I came along. Now it is my turn, and you two get promoted. What are your new titles? Grandma and Grandpa.

Are there hard pregnancy riddles?

Yes. Choose More filters in the menu, then Takes a minute under Level. Those riddles never say baby or grand: a list of names and no boat, a title with no salary, a delivery nobody can track.

How do I use a riddle for the announcement?

Write it on a card, on the lid of a gift box or under a photo, and hand it over without a word. The page prints the riddles it shows, and the answers print on a sheet of their own.

Does this page give pregnancy advice?

No. It is a list of riddles for sharing family news, and it holds no health information of any kind.

All 36 riddles

For the grandparents-to-be 12

Dad, you have told the same three jokes for thirty years. A brand-new audience arrives in ______ and will not understand a word at first. Who is it? Answer: Your grandchild. A newborn is the one audience that has not heard the jokes.
The family photo on your wall has room for one more face, and the photographer is booked for ______. Who is missing from the picture? Answer: The new baby. The one more face is a new member of the family.
I am small enough to hide today, and by ______ I will be loud enough to wake a house. I will call you Grandma and Grandpa. Who am I? Answer: Your grandchild, on the way. Only a grandchild calls you Grandma and Grandpa.
Mom, you always told me: wait until you have children of your own. The wait ends in ______. What are we telling you? Answer: That our first wait is over: a baby is coming. The wait for children of my own is over.
Roses are red, violets are blue. In ______ a small someone will be visiting you. Who is coming? Answer: Our baby, your grandchild. The small someone is a newborn.
Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes, somebody's chin and somebody's nose. Who arrives in ______ to be spoiled by you? Answer: Your new grandchild. Fingers, toes and a family nose add up to a baby.
This year you get one more birthday to remember, and nobody knows its exact date yet. Whose birthday is it? Answer: The birthday of the baby we are expecting. A baby's birthday is not known until the day.
Two of you became a family when I came along. Now it is my turn, and you two get promoted. What are your new titles? Answer: Grandma and Grandpa. Parents are promoted to grandparents when their child has a child.
We wrapped an empty picture frame for you, and the label says: hold for ______. Whose picture goes inside? Answer: The first picture of your grandchild. The frame is waiting for a baby photo.
You have a guest room, a rocking chair in the attic and a box of my old picture books. Why should all three be ready by ______? Answer: Because a grandchild is coming. A rocking chair and picture books are for a baby.
You raised me, and you thought that job was finished. Soon a new name will be yours, and it starts with Grand. What is our news? Answer: We are having a baby, and you are going to be grandparents. The new name is Grandma or Grandpa.
Your family tree has stopped at my branch for a long time. Look closely this year. What is the tree about to grow? Answer: A new branch: your grandchild. A new branch on a family tree is a new child.

For the dad-to-be 12

Count the people in this room. Now count again, because one of us is counting for two. How many are we really? Answer: One more than you can see: a baby is on the way. The one counting for two is expecting.
Father's Day is about to mean something new in this house. Why? Answer: Because you are going to be a dad. Father's Day is for fathers.
I bought the smallest pair of socks in the store today, and they are not for the cat. Whose feet are they for? Answer: Our baby's. Socks that small fit only a newborn.
I have added one line to our budget, one room to our plans and one name to the list on the fridge, and it all starts in ______. What did I add? Answer: A child of our own. A budget line, a room and a name are what a baby needs first.
I need you to build something with a hundred screws and one tiny mattress before ______. What is it, and who is it for? Answer: A crib, for our baby. A crib is the one bed that comes flat in a box with a small mattress.
Somebody new is coming to live with us. They cannot walk, talk or pay rent, and they will run the house anyway. Who is it? Answer: Our newborn. A newborn does none of those things and still sets the schedule.
Soon somebody will hand you something small enough to hold in two hands and worth more than the house. What is it? Answer: Our newborn baby. A newborn fits in two hands.
The spare room is about to lose its desk. The car is about to gain a seat. Our nights are about to get shorter. What is going on? Answer: A baby is joining the house. A nursery, a car seat and night feedings point one way.
Start practicing your worst jokes. In ______ someone arrives who will have to hear them for the next eighteen years. Who? Answer: Your son or daughter. Dad jokes need a child to tell them to.
We have always been a team of two, and I have just signed a new player: no tryout, no experience, arrives in ______, sleeps through practice. Who is on the roster? Answer: Our baby, the newest teammate. The new player is the newest member of the family.
You already fix the sink, catch the spiders and carry the heavy bags. In ______ you get one more job, and it comes with a new name. What is the name? Answer: Dad. The new job is being a father.
You plus me has always made two. By ______ the same sum will make three. What changes the math? Answer: A baby makes three. One more person makes three.

For friends and coworkers 12

The card we mail in December will be signed with one more name, and we did not get a puppy. Who is it? Answer: A new baby. One more name on the card is one more member of the family.
Game night at our place gets a new player in ______. This one will not know the rules and will sleep through most of the rounds. Who is it? Answer: Our baby, due then. The player who sleeps through the game is a newborn.
I am about to take a title with no salary, no days off and no way to quit, and I have never been happier to accept one. What is the title? Answer: Parent. Being a parent is the job with no pay and no days off.
I will be out of the office for a while, starting around ______. I am not sick and I am not on a cruise. Where am I going? Answer: On parental leave: I am having a baby. Leave that is planned months ahead and is not a vacation is parental leave.
My household is adding a new member in ______: no interview, no experience, and the hours are terrible. Who did we take on? Answer: A newborn baby. A baby joins without an interview and keeps everyone up.
Next year we will know every word of songs we cannot stand, carry a bag bigger than a suitcase and leave every party by seven. Why? Answer: Because we are having a baby. Children's songs, a diaper bag and an early bedtime come with a baby.
Our two-seat kitchen table needs a third chair by ______, a tall one with a tray. What is my news? Answer: We are expecting a baby. A tall chair with a tray is a high chair.
Please save the date: some time around ______. We do not know the hour, the guest of honor has never met any of us, and the gifts are small. What is the occasion? Answer: The birth of our baby. Nobody knows the hour a baby will arrive.
This desk plant has had my full attention for three years. In ______ it gets some competition. From whom? Answer: From my baby. Something new will need looking after.
We are expecting a delivery in ______. It cannot be tracked, it may not come on the promised day, and nobody signs for it. What is it? Answer: A baby: we are expecting. Expecting and delivery are both baby words.
We have been going back and forth over a list of names for weeks, and we do not own a boat. What are the names for? Answer: For our baby. A list of names is for something about to be named.
What is small, is on its way and has already changed every plan we had for ______? Answer: Our baby, due that month. A due date rearranges the calendar.

How this list was compiled

Written by the Game Night Generator editors on October 3, 2026: 36 riddles for announcing a pregnancy, in three sets of 12 by who is guessing: the grandparents-to-be, the dad-to-be, and friends and coworkers. The answer to every riddle is the news itself. The wording is the editors' own throughout and none was copied from a card, a book or a list. Where a riddle has a blank line, write in the month the baby is due. The second level, Takes a minute, holds the riddles whose answer dawns slowly; the sorting is the editors' judgment. The page holds no health information of any kind. Licence: own work