Fun Tricky Riddles for Kids

What do you get when you cross SpongeBob with Albert Einstein? Answer: SpongeBob SmartyPants!

Try your answers for each riddle before clicking the "show answer" link. Which vehicle is spelled the same forwards and backwards?

Why is six afraid of seven? Answer:

Answer: Racecar

Because seven eight nine!

What do sea monsters eat? Answer: Fish and ships

What do you call your father-in-law's only child's mother-in-law? Answer: Mom!

What do you call a kitten who drinks lemonade? Answer: A sourpuss

How much is a skunk worth? Answer: One s(cent).

What do you call a song about a car? Why did the clock in the cafeteria always run slow? Answer: Every lunch it went back four seconds Why did the cookie go to the doctor? Why did the banana go to the doctor? Answer: Because it was not peeling well! Why did the cake like to play baseball? Why won't bikes stand up by themselves? Answer: Because they are two tired (too tired). What kind of monkey can fly? Answer: Because it was a good batter. Answer: Because he was feeling crummy Answer: A car tune (cartoon)

Answer: A hot air baboon.

Bruce has 3 cages and 4 canaries.

What did the banana do when it heard the ice scream? Answer: It split.

What number am I? I am a three digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. Answer: Number 194

Tricky Math Riddles for Kids Jenny gave Ally as many dollars as Ally started out with. Ally then gave Jenny back as much as Jenny had left. Jenny then gave Ally back as many dollars as Ally had left, which left Jenny broke and Ally with a total of $80.00. How much did Jenny and Ally have at the beginning of their exchange? Answer: Jenny had $50 and Ally had $30 What building has the most stories? Answer: King Tut died 120 years after King Eros was born. Their combined ages when they died was 100 years. King Eros died in the year 40 B.C. In what year was King Tut born? Answer: King Tut was born in 20 B.C. There were 120 years between the birth of King Eros and the death of King Tut, but since their ages amounted to only 100 years, there must have been 20 years when neither existed. This would be a period between the death of King Eros, 40 B.C., and the birth of King Tut, 20 B.C. The library! Tricky Logic Riddles for Kids What gets wetter the more it dries? Answer: A towel!

What can you put in a wood box that will make it lighter? Answer: Holes!

What's the difference between a jeweler and a jailer? Answer:A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells!

Bruce owns a pet store. He puts one canary per cage, but has one bird too many. If he puts two canaries in each cage, he has one cage too many. How many cages and canaries does he have? Answer:

What grows down when it grows up? Answer: A goose!

If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? Answer: Wet!

I don't know, but when it talks, you better listen carefully!

If a fire hydrant has H2O inside, what does it have on the outside? Answer:

If there are three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have? Answer: Two. (You took two)

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Funny Tricky Riddles for Children Why do sharks only swim in salt water? Answer: Because pepper water makes them sneeze. Riddles and Brain Teasers The Answers Revealed

Why don't African animals play games? Answer: There are too many cheetahs (cheaters)!

What do you call a zipper on a banana? Answer: A fruit fly!

Welcome to the riddles and brain teasers page! I've been wanting to put this page up for the longest time, but I never had. But now, you get to test your lateral thinking, flexibility in reasoning skills, and your creativeness. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the frustration. (So much orange.) Uh, oh...look at who's peeking at the answers...

What do lazy dogs do for fun? Answer: Chase parked cars!

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1. The Impossible Math Problem What do you get when you cross a parrot with a tiger? Answer: Three men are travelling and get tired, so they decide to spend the night at a nearby inn. When they go to the front desk, the innkeeper charges them $30, ($10 each), and the three

men go into their rooms and go to sleep. Then the innkeeper realizes that he was only supposed to charge the men $25 total, so he gives $5 to the bellboy to give to the men. But on the way to the men's rooms, the bellboy thinks to himself, "Hey, I've been so good, I deserve some money." So he keeps $2 and gives the remaining $3 to the men. Because they each get $1 back, they paid $9 instead of $10 each. But 3 x 9 = 27. But $30 - the taken $2 = $28. Where is the missing dollar? I don't have the official answer, but here's what I believe it's supposed to be. They were supposed to owe $25 total, so that's $8.3333 each. They only got back $3 total, which is $1 each. That's equivalent to them having paid $8.3333+1 = $9.3333 each. $9.3333 x 3 = $(9x3) + $(.33+.33+.33) = $27+$1 = $28. And that makes sense because $30-$28=$2 (which the bellboy took). 2. It Doesn't Make Any Cents You have two U.S. coins that add up to 35 cents, and one of them is not a quarter. What two types of coins do you have? You have a quarter and a dime. One of them may not be a quarter. But the other is. 3. A Good Deal? Lyanne bought a bicycle for $20. But then she figured that she didn't want the bike, so she sold it for $30. And then she suddenly decided that she indeed wanted that bike in the first place, so she bought it back for $40. But after some long consideration, she sold the bike again for $50. Still not able to make up her mind, she bought it back for $60, only to later sell it again for $70. Did she gain or lose money? No answer revealed yet. 4. To Cross the Bridge A man wants to cross a bridge to get to the other side of the crevice, but there's a problem. The bridge, which takes an hour to walk across, is guarded in the middle by a guard who wakes

up every half hour and carries back anybody crossing the bridge back to where he or she came from. How do you get to the other side? You walk across the bridge as you normally would, and after half an hour, you've reached the middle of the bridge, and the guard wakes up. Right before he wakes up, turn around and face the other direction so that the guard will think that you were heading the opposite direction. The guard will automatically carry you back to the side where he thought you came from, which is the side you wanted to go to. 5. The Man at St. Ives This is one of the oldest riddles in history. The Guiness Book of Records says so. As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits; Kits, cats, sacks and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?

Only the person reciting has explicitly said that he was going to St. Ives. The riddle says nothing about everyone he met along the way.