48 Hard Riddles For Kids With Answers

Here find some best collections of hard riddles, funny hard puzzle questions, and brain teasers. And to solve these puzzles we are also sharing the answer to the question.

Hard Riddles For Kids

1. A barrel of water weighed 60 pounds. Someone put something in it and now it weighs 40 pounds. What did the person add?

Answer: A hole.

2. A is the brother of B. B is the brother of C. C is the father of D. How is D related to A?

Answer: A is D’s aunt.

3. How can the number four be half of five?

Answer: IV, the Roman numeral for four, is half (two letters) of the word five.

4. How can you drop a glass onto a hard floor without smashing it?

Answer: A glass won’t smash a hard floor!

5. How can you throw a ball as hard as you can only to have it come back to you without it bouncing off of anything?

Answer: Throw the ball straight into the air.

6. How do eight eights add up to one thousand?

Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000.

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7. How many letters are in the alphabet?

Answer: Eleven letters are in “the alphabet”.

8. How many words are in a Dictionary?

Answer: Two. ‘A’ & ‘Dictionary’

9. I am laced twice in eternity and always within sight. What could I be?

Answer: The letter “T”.

10. I am present at the beginning of love, the start of life and I am the end of evil. What am I?

Answer: The letter ‘L’.

11. I am something people celebrate or resist. I change people’s thoughts and lives. I am obvious to some people but, to others, I am a mystery. What am I?

Answer: Age.

12. I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?

Answer: Pencil lead.

13. I am the beginning of the end of time and space that surrounds everything and every place. What am I?

Answer: The letter “E”.

14. I can be long or can be short, I can be black, white, brown, or purple. You can find me the world over and I am often the main feature. What am I?

Answer: Rice.

15. I can heal and kill without touching you. What am I?

Answer: Time.

16. I get shorter as I get older. What am I?

Answer: A candle.

17. I have a face and hands but my hands can never touch my face. What am I?

Answer: A clock.

18. I have many faces, expressions, and emotions, and I am usually right at your fingertips. What am I?

Answer: Emojis.

19. I possess a halo of water, walls of stone, and a tongue of wood. Long I have stood; what am I?

Answer: Castle.

20. I sit above you without judging you and can protect you and keep you warm. What am I?

Answer: A hat.

21. I’m full of holes but strong as steel. What am I?

Answer: A chain.

22. If all Wibbles are Criggles, all Borkins are Kwumblins, no Hoggles are Borkins, and all Criggles are Borkins, is it true that all Borkins are Criggles?

Answer: Nope.

23. If an electric train is moving north at 55 mph and the winds blowing east at 70 mph, which way does the smoke blow?

Answer: An electric train doesn’t emit smoke.

24. Little Jimmy is Seven years old. I go everywhere with him. I cast no shadow and breathe no air. I don’t weigh anything and I can’t be seen, heard or touched. Who am I?

Answer: Little Jimmy’s imaginary friend.

25. Nobody has ever walked this way. Which way is it?

Answer: The Milky Way.

Hard Brain Teasers With Answers

26. People in poverty have this. If you eat this you will die. What is it?

Answer: Nothing.

27. The more there is, the less you see. What am I?

Answer: Darkness.

28. There are 6 sisters. Each sister has 1 brother. How many brothers are in the sister’s family?

Answer: 1 brother.

29. There are two fathers and two sons at a table but there are only three people sitting at the table. How is this possible?

Answer: They are a Grandfather, Father and Son.

30. Three playing cards in a row. Can you name them with these clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the left of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade. Now, identify all three cards.

Answer: Ace of Diamonds, King of Hearts, Two of Spades.

31. Two fathers and two sons come home from the mall. Yet when they arrive home, only three people get out of the car. How is this possible?

Answer: They are a grandfather, father, and son.

32. What can bring tears to your eyes, make you move faster, make you move slower and knock you over?

Answer: The wind.

33. What can cut like a knife, sting like a bee, bite like a lion. Carry truth and lies but never move or speak. What are we?

Answer: Words.

34. What can run but never walk, have a mouth but never talk, have a head that never weeps, and a bed that never sleeps?

Answer: A river.

35. What has fifteen diamonds but isn’t rich?

Answer: A deck of cards.

36. What has leaves but no branches?

Answer: A book.

37. What has roots that no one sees and looms much taller than trees? Up it goes but yet it never grows; what is it?

Answer: Mountain.

38. What has wheels and flies?

Answer: A garbage bin with wheels.

39. What is able to go up a chimney when down but unable to go down a chimney when up?

Answer: An umbrella.

40. What is it that given one, you’ll have either two or none?

Answer: A choice.

41. What is it that no one wants, but no one wants to lose?

Answer: A lawsuit.

42. What is stronger than steel but can’t handle the sun?

Answer: Ice.

43. What is there one of in every corner and two of in every room?

Answer: The letter O.

44. When does 11 + 3 = 2?

Answer: on a clock.

45. When is the only time that today and tomorrow come before yesterday?

Answer: In a Dictionary.

46. Why is it that when you have lost something, it’s always in the last place you look?

Answer: Because you stop looking when you find it.

47. You are in a room that is completely bricked in on all four sides, including the ceiling and floor. You have nothing but a mirror and a wooden table in the room with you. How do you get out?

Answer: You look in the mirror you see what you saw, you take the saw and you cut the table in half, two halves make a whole, and you climb out the hole.

48. You are my brother, but I am not your brother. Who am I?

Answer: I am your sister.


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