It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for more than five minutes. What is it?
The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
It likes food, but water kills it. What is it?
What’s full of holes but can still hold water?
Which is heavier, a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of rocks?
What travels faster: heat or cold?
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode back out on Friday. How is this possible?
Q: What gets wetter the more it dries? A towel.
Q: When you look for something, why is it always in the last place you look? Because when you find it, you stop looking!
Q: A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How was that possible? Friday was the name of his horse.
Q: One night, a king and a queen went into a castle. There was nobody in the castle, and no one came out of the castle. In the morning, three people came out of the castle. Who were they? The knight (night), the king, and the queen!
Q: Railroad crossing, watch out of cars. Can you spell that without any “r’s”? T-H-A-T
Q: What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs? A clock.
Q: What has to be broken before you can use it? An egg.
Q: Lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward. What is it? An icicle.
Q: It starts out tall, but the longer it stands, the shorter it grows. What is it? A candle.
Q: What belongs to you but is used more by others? Your name.
Q: What goes up and never comes down? Your age.
Q: How can a man go 8 days without sleep? He only sleeps at night.
Q: I’m full of keys but I can’t open any door. What am I? A piano.
Q: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive? A glove.
Q: A man found an old coin and declared that the date on it was 150 B.C. This could not be true. Why? Because B.C. is counting backwards from the birth of Christ. If Christ hadn’t been born yet, there were no dates in B.C. yet!
Q: Which is heavier, a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers? The same – a pound is a pound!
Q: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I? Breath.
Q: Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday? Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Q: Timmy’s mother had three children. The first was named April, the next was named May. What was the name of the third child? Timmy of course!
Q: What kind of coat can only be put on when wet? A coat of paint.
Q: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years? The letter M.
Q: What has three feet but cannot walk? A yardstick.
Q: What runs, but never walks, often murmurs – never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats? A river.
Q: If you are running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in? Second place.
Q: What gets sharper the more you use it? Your brain.
Q: If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it? A secret.
Q: What can you catch but not throw? A cold.
Q: How many months have 28 days? All 12 months!
Q: They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they? Stars.
Q: What is full of holes but can still hold water? A sponge.
Q: Two in front, two in behind, and one in the middle. How many are there? Three. ( 1 2 ) 3 1 (2 3) 1 (2) 3
Q: What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary? The word “wrong!”
Q: What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of? Trouble!
Q: The more you take away, the bigger this becomes. What is it? A hole!
Q: What word contains 26 letters, but only three syllables? Alphabet!
Q: A girl fell off a long staircase. She wasn’t hurt. Why? She fell off the bottom step.
Q: It follows you and copies your every move. But you can’t touch it or catch it. What is it? Your shadow.
Q: What building has thousands of stories? The library!
Q: What has a neck but no head? A bottle!
Q: A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? 5 cents.
Q: What invention allows you to look right through a wall? A window!
Q: What are two things you can NEVER eat for breakfast? Lunch and dinner!
Q: What goes up and down but never moves? The temperature!(Alternative answer – a flight of stairs!)
Q: The more you take, the more you leave behind? What are they? Footprints!
Q: I have no eyes, no ears, and legs, and yet I help move the earth. What am I? An earthworm!
Q: If there are three cookies and you take away two, how many do you have? If you take two, then of course you have two!
Q: What do dogs have that no other animal has? Puppies!
Q: A man was walking in the middle of nowhere and it started to rain. He had no umbrella and no hat, but not a single hair on his head got wet. How can this be? The man was bald!
Q: Give me food, and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What am I? Fire!
Q: First, I threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside and threw away the inside. What did I eat? Corn on the cob!
125 Brain Teasers for Kids (With Answers!)—Printable Brain Teasers for Kids (parade.com)
1. People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Money
2. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A clock
4. What five-letter word gets shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
5. With pointed fangs I sit and wait; with piercing force I crunch out fate; grabbing victims, proclaiming might; physically joining with a single bite. What am I?
A stapler
6. A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains, what is it?
Dozens
7. I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but if you water me, I’ll die. What am I?
A fire
8. How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
18. 3 in ‘the’, 7 in ‘English,’ and 8 in ‘alphabet.’
9. What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Morning and night
10. Turn us on our backs and open up our stomachs, and you will be the wisest but at the start a lummox. What are we?
Books
11. What type of cheese is made backward?
Edam
12. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
13. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps
14. What’s black, white, and blue?
A sad zebra
15. I turn once, what is out will not get in. I turn again, what is in will not get out. What am I?
A key
16. What is the end of everything?
The letter “g”
17. I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?
Few
18. What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
19. Which jungle animal is hiding “inside” these letters – L P H N?
An elephant
20. A mouse wants to get in better shape. She’s going to start by climbing the stairs. Starting on the fourth floor, she climbs up five stories, down seven stories, up six stories, down three stories, and up four stories again. What floor is she on?
The ninth floor
21. Can you add one mathematical symbol in between 55555 to equal 500?
555-55=500
22. What letters are easily found in every single day of the week?
D-A-Y
23. What’s left when you take an ant out of a plantain?
Something plain
24. Jason turned left, right, spun around 360°, stood on his head, and then walked backward before taking a picture of the sunset. What direction was he pointing?
West
25. Paul the Polar Bear had a birthday party, with each guest bringing five fish. A nasty little penguin stole two fish but there were still 198 fish left. How many people came to the party?
40
26. If tomorrow I said “the day before yesterday was Saturday”, which day is today?
Sunday
27. Frankie the Frog had an accident and broke one of his legs. He went to the hospital on Monday, November 1 and left on November 30. What day of the week is it?
Tuesday
28. Rico the Rabbit eats 1 carrot on Sunday, 2 carrots on Monday, 4 carrots on Tuesday, and so on. How many carrots does he eat every week?
127 carrots
29. Fill me up with hot or cold. Put anything in me and I will make sure I’ll hold. What am I?
A cup
30. I come down, but I never go up. What am I?
Rain
31. I have hands, but I cannot clap. What am I?
A clock
32. I am full of holes, but I can still hold a lot of water. What am I?
A sponge
33. Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
New Zealand
34. What came first, the chicken or the egg?
The egg. Dinosaurs laid eggs long before there were chickens!
35. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest.
36. What happened in 1961 and will not happen again until 6009?
The year will again be the same upside down
37. Can you make the letters in NEW DOOR one word?
ONE WORD
38.If the red house is on the right side and if the blue house is on the left side where’s the white house?
In Washington DC
39. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin
40. There was a pink one-story house in a cozy neighborhood. Everything in it was pink – the walls, the carpets, the furniture, even the cat! What color were the stairs?
There were no stairs. It’s a one-story house!
41. What is Rupert the Bear’s middle name?
The
42. If there are three apples & you took away two, how many do you have?
Two
43. What’s the longest word in the English language?
Smiles. Because there’s a mile between the beginning and the end
44. Ten copycats were sitting in a boat. One jumped out. How many were left?
None. They were copycats so they all jumped out!
45. In baseball, how many outs are there in an inning?
Six. Each team has 3
46. How far can a puppy run into the woods?
Halfway. When they get there, they’re on their way out!
47. What gets wetter & wetter the more it dries?
A towel
48. What the exact middle of America?
The letter “r”
53. Jeff’s dad has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and ___?
Jeff
54. A man went outside in the pouring rain with no protection, but not a single hair on his head got wet. How come?
The man was bald
55. What never gets any wetter, no matter how much it rains?
The ocean
56. You’re a bus driver. At the first stop, 4 people get on. At the second stop, 8 people get on, at the third stop 2 people get off and, at the fourth stop everyone got off. The question is what color are the bus driver’s eyes?
Whatever color eyes you have!
57. If there’s a frog, dead in the center of a lily pad which is right in the middle of the pond, which side would it jump to?
Neither, the frog is dead
58. Twelve pears hanging high, twelve men passing by, each took a pear and left eleven hanging there. How can eleven pears be left?
“Each” was a man’s name
59. If a plane crashed on the border of England and Scotland, where would they bury the survivors?
You don’t bury survivors
60. Agatha’s mother has five different daughters. One’s name is Danielle, one’s name is Brittany, one’s name is Samantha, another is named Rebecca. What’s the name of the fifth daughter?
Agatha
61. Do you know the name of the invention that lets you look instantly right through any wall you want?
A window
62. Can you think of something that’s as light as a feather but even the world’s strongest human couldn’t hold it for any longer than a minute?
Your breath
63. I am filled with keys but have no locks. I have space but there are no extra rooms. Sure, you can enter but there is absolutely no exit. What am I?
A keyboard
64. If you see an electric train headed east at 70 an hour but there is a wind blowing in from the west at 80 miles an hour, which way is the smoke from the train going to blow?
An electric train doesn’t have smoke
65. Can you think of something that goes all around the woods but never actually goes into the wood at all?
Tree bark
66. Do you know what goes up and down every minute of every day but never actually moves?
The temperature
67. What is something you can serve but shouldn’t ever eat?
A volleyball
68. What is something people bite to eat but then never actually eat in the first place?
Silverware and plates
69. Do you know where you can find cities and countries, towns and shops, roads and lakes, but absolutely no people whatsoever?
A map
70. If everything goes wrong, completely sideways, what is something you can always count on?
Your fingers and toes
71. There’s a question that you can never answer yes to. Do you know what it is?
Are you asleep yet?
72. Can you think of something that travels all over the planet but always stays in the exact same spot?
A stamp
73. Draw a line on a piece of paper. Without touching that line, how can you make it longer?
Draw a short line right next to it.
74. I am an odd number, but if you take away just a single letter I become even. Can you guess my number?
Seven
75. A city bus sets out for the morning with no passengers on board. At the first stop, two people get on, at the next stop five more. One after that, seven people get on and three people get off. At the following stop, five people get on and six people get off. The last stop has three people getting on and one person getting off. How many stops were made?
Five stops
76. Put together Tom and his father and they weigh 280 pounds. Tom’s dad weighs three times as much as he does. How much does Tom weigh?
70 pounds
77. What two numbers make a one-digit number when you multiply them but a two-digit number when you add them together?
One and nine
78. How many double-digit numbers are there?
92
79. Billy tells his sister Sarah that he is twice as old and twice as smart as her right now. Sarah says that in five years should be twice as old as she is now and that Billy won’t be. How old will they be in five years?
Billy will be 15 and Sarah will be 10
80. If you were born in an odd-numbered year will you celebrate your 50th birthday in an odd or even year?
Odd
81. Mother’s Day is always the second Sunday in the month of May. When is the earliest day it could be?
May 8th
82. Four friends are racing. Lisa finishes four hours ahead of Tony, with Pete finishing eight hours ahead of Max. Max needed six more hours to finish than Lisa. What order do they cross the finish line in?
Pete, Lisa, Tony, Max
83. If only these letters were written down – J FM AM J JAS OND – what would they mean?
The first letter of every month in a year
84. 16 players enter into a basketball shootout tournament. How many games have to happen before a winner is announced?
15
85. If you rolled a single die just once, would you be least likely to roll an odd number, a number larger than three, or a number smaller than three?
A number smaller than three
86. What object doesn’t belong in this list – trumpet, flute, violin, harmonica, tuba?
Violin
87. Mrs. Adams tells her neighbor that her son turns 16 today and that next birthday he’ll be 20. How can that be?
He was born on February 29, a leap year
88. What does this secret message say? Tha twasn treall ys oh ardaf terall
That wasn’t really so hard after all
89. A baker carries a bag of flour that weighs 15 pounds. He takes half of the flour out, but finds the bag weighs 9 pounds. How heavy is the empty bag?
3 pounds
90. Amy is 14 and her mother is 38. How many years ago was her mother exactly 3 times as old as Amy?
2 years ago
91. If days on Mars are as long as two weeks on Earth, how long is an hour?
14 Earth hours
92. Cara leaves New York at eight in the morning, driving 35 mph. Nancy starts driving to New York at a speed of 50 mph. When they meet a which one will be furthest away from New York?
When they meet, they will be the same distance away from New York
93. A teacher says that there are fewer than 30 students but more than 20 in a classroom. The children can be divided into groups of two, three, four, six, and eight with no leftovers. How many students are there?
24 students
94. If you counted up all of the ears in the country and then divided that number by two, what would you know for sure?
How many living creatures lived in the country.
95. Max and Ross find of lettuce with 20 individual leaves. Because Max found the lettuce first he gets an extra leaf than his friend. How many leaves does Max get?
10 1/2 leaves
96. Which two numbers come out the same whether you multiply or add them together?
2×2=4 2+2=4
97. If every month had exactly 30 days instead of some with 29, some with 30, and some with 31 would each year be longer or shorter?
Shorter (360 days).
98. Mr. Walsh is exactly 5 times as old as his dog Patches. In five years, Mr. Walsh will only be three times as old as Patches. How old will he be in five years?
30
99. Seven brothers were born two years apart. The youngest brother is seven. How old is the oldest brother?
19
100. Every year on Mars is double the length of a year on earth, how old would you be if you lived on Mars?
Double your age
101. What’s the biggest number you can make with the numbers three, five, and seven?
753
102. What uneven numbers are between 10 and 16?
11,13,15
103. Which multiples of four are found between 10 and 19?
12 and 16
104. A new movie comes out with the first people showing up an hour before showtime. The audience doubles every 10 minutes, and after 60 minutes the theater is full. When was the theater half full?
10 minutes before showtime.
105. Maggie lives on a street with 10 houses. The houses are numbered 1 to 10. If Maggie adds up all the house numbers that are lower than hers, the total is three times her actual house number. What number is Maggie’s house?
House number 7
106. Was the smallest amount of coins you can use to get exactly $0.65
Two quarters, dime, and a nickel.
107. What are three things that are only sold in pairs?
Gloves, shoes, socks
108. Lisa is William’s niece, but she isn’t Emily’s niece – even though Emily is William’s sister and William isn’t married. How is that possible?
Lisa is Emily’s daughter
109. A cookie jar has 10 chocolate chip cookies and 10 peanut butter cookies. How many cookies would you have to take out to get two of each kind?
12 cookies
110. Laura says that she can throw a ball so that it flies away from her, will change direction suddenly, and then come right back to her all by itself. Is that even possible?
Yes, if she throws it straight in the air!
111. Liz orders six bowls of ice cream with three scoops in each. Ben wants as many scoops as her, but in just two dishes. How many scoops are in each of his dishes?
Nine in each
112. If five alligators can eat five fish in three minutes, how long will 18 alligators need to eat 18 fish?
3 minutes
113. How long did the Hundred Years War last?
116 years
114. Which country makes Panama hats?
Ecuador
115. What color is the black box on a commercial airplane?
Orange
116. In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
November
117. What is a camel’s hair brush made of?
Squirrel fur
118. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
Dogs
119. What was King George VI’s first name?
Albert
120. What color is a purple finch?
Crimson
121. I am a ball that can be rolled but never bounced or thrown. What am I?
An eyeball
122. You can catch me, but you can’t throw me. What am I?
A cold
123. The more you take away from me, the larger I become. What am I?
A hole
124. The Jones family started driving south for their summer vacation, going through five different states along the way. The Bradfords are driving in the opposite direction and only went through three states. What direction are they driving in?
North
125. Mr. and Mrs. Fredrickson are eating ice cream. Mrs. Fredrickson says that if her husband gives her one scoop of his ice cream she’ll have twice as many scoops as him. Mr. Fredrickson says that if she gives him one of her scoops available has the same amount. How many scoops do they each have?
