Riddles · Grades 3-5

24 brain teaser riddles for kids, with answers

Trickier riddles with clever twists and wordplay for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders who love a challenge. Tap a riddle to see its answer, or print all 24 as cut-out cards.

1. 1What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go inside?Show the answer

   A keyboard

2. 2What can you hold without ever touching it?Show the answer

   Your breath

3. 3I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?Show the answer

   Seven (s-even)

4. 4What is always in front of you but can never be seen?Show the answer

   The future

5. 5What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish?Show the answer

   A map

6. 6What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?Show the answer

   Wrong

7. 7What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?Show the answer

   A stamp

8. 8What runs all the way around a backyard but never moves?Show the answer

   A fence

9. 9If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you do not have me. What am I?Show the answer

   A secret

10. 10What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?Show the answer

    The letter M

11. 11What gets bigger the more you take away from it?Show the answer

    A hole

12. 12I shave several times a day, but my beard stays the same. Who am I?Show the answer

    A barber

13. 13A rooster lays an egg on top of a barn roof. Which way does the egg roll?Show the answer

    Roosters do not lay eggs

14. 14What has its bottom at the top?Show the answer

    Your legs

15. 15What can fill a room but takes up no space?Show the answer

    Light

16. 16What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?Show the answer

    A road

17. 17What can you break without ever touching it?Show the answer

    A promise

18. 18What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?Show the answer

    Silence

19. 19What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?Show the answer

    Short (shorter)

20. 20How many months of the year have 28 days?Show the answer

    All 12 of them

21. 21Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?Show the answer

    A ton (not)

22. 22What has one head, one foot and four legs?Show the answer

    A bed

23. 23Mr. Lee has four daughters. Each daughter has one brother. How many children does he have?Show the answer

    Five

24. 24What building has the most stories?Show the answer

    A library

Printable riddle cards

Eight cards to a page with a numbered badge and an answer line. Cut them out for a reading center, or keep the page whole as a riddle sheet. The last page lists every answer.

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