Riddles With Answers

Choose a kind of riddle. Every answer waits under a cover until you tap it.

Each page here is one kind of riddle with a list of its own: no riddle is on two pages. A page opens on a handful of riddles with every answer under a cover.

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Guess, tap Show answer, and the line under it says why the answer fits. The menu under the button keeps one set. Print gives a sheet with a line to write on for each riddle and the answers on a page of their own.

Kinds of riddle 4

Sorted by how the riddle works: who am I, letters to rearrange, word pictures, rhyming pairs.

Who Am I Riddles

Riddles answered by a person, in five sets: jobs, family, rhymes and old tales, people from history, party and game roles.

For example I have been tagged, so I stand frozen on the spot until a free player touches me. Who am I? ·…
Anagram Riddles

A clue and some letters in capitals: one word hidden in another, a phrase that closes up into a word, and plain jumbles, in three levels.

For example A handheld lunch, often cut corner to corner. Unscramble ASIWCDHN. · A tower with a bright…
Rebus Riddles

Word pictures typed in plain letters: where a word stands, how often it appears and what is missing spell a common phrase.

For example HEAD HEAD > HEAD · LE VEL · FA ST
Hink Pink Riddles With Answers

A plain clue and an answer of two rhyming words: hink pinks of one syllable, hinky pinkies of two and hinkity pinkities of three.

For example Hink pink: a taxi for a shellfish with claws. · Hinky pinky: a name tag on a wire. · Hinky…

For kids and classrooms 4

Written in a child's words, by age or by grade.

Tricky Riddles for Kids

Trick questions a child of 7 to 12 can get, with the trap named under each answer: trick questions, letters, numbers and look again.

For example What begins with E, ends with E and usually holds one letter? · Four friends take six hours to…
Math Riddles for 6th Graders

Short stories and what-number-am-I riddles on grade 5 and grade 6 skills, each with its steps under the answer.

For example Line these up in order: 3, 9, 4, 7, 12. Which number is the median? · A snail moves 2 feet in…
Lunchbox Riddles

Riddles short enough for a note in a lunch box: food, animals, the school day, silly wordplay and a harder one for Friday.

For example What is a snake's favorite school subject? · I am brown outside, white inside, and I turn into…
ESL Riddles

Riddles in plain English for learners, each explained in one line: two meanings, sound-alikes, idioms, everyday words and classroom jokes.

For example It is raining cats and dogs. What is falling from the sky? · Your eyes do it all day, and it…

For a crowd or a game 1

Riddles for the one who runs the evening to pose to a table.

Dungeon Riddles

Riddles for whoever runs a fantasy adventure, sorted by who asks: doors, dragons and trolls, inscriptions, things in the room, fairies.

For example Carved on the wall: "I am a seat. Take off my head and I grow on yours. Take off my head again…

Kinds of riddle 4

For kids and classrooms 4

For a crowd or a game 1

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