Easter Riddles with Answers
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Hunt through these Easter riddles with answers, no basket required. Egg puns and hare-for-hair swaps only land when you say them out loud. Sixteen cards work the other way and hand you plain clues that rule the wrong candidate out one at a time. Seven quiz rounds mark your pick the instant you choose. Open any card to see the answer written out.
Easter riddles you have to say out loud before you answer
The ear is the tool this page asks for. Thirty-five of them are won by sound: a syllable at the front of a word gets stretched until it matches what a hen lays, or one vowel slides and hair turns into hare. Silent reading walks straight past both. Sixteen more are description puzzles, where each clue cuts the candidate list until one object is left standing, and those reward a slower, colder read.
The habit that works is to name the pivot before you name the answer. In a pun card the pivot is a syllable: stretch it, swap it, and hear what else it could be. In a description card the pivot is the one clue no rival candidate can claim, so test each clue against the runner-up you rejected. Once you can put a finger on the pivot, you can explain the joke to the next person at the table.
Three cards state a fact and ask whether it is true, and one asks you to name a marshmallow candy by its chick and bunny shapes. On those four, recall does the work and not the ear, so there is no pun to hunt for. For the same sound swaps without a holiday attached, try the funny riddles.
- Riddle 49: most people say A hare. Long ears, a fluffy tail and a hop fit a hare exactly, and plenty of solvers stop there. The line about hiding eggs on Easter is what picks out the tame pet children draw on cards, not its long-legged wild cousin.
- Riddle 24: most people say Mother's Day. Mother's Day also brings lilies, chocolate and a Sunday in spring, so it matches every clue but one. It sits on the second Sunday of May every year, a fixed slot on the calendar. The card rules it out by saying its Sunday never repeats, and only a date set by the moon behaves that way.
- Riddle 20: most people say A marshmallow bunny. Marshmallow candy comes in egg and bunny shapes too, so the shape clue on its own decides nothing. Melting in the sun is the line that rules it out: a marshmallow chick goes sticky, and the cocoa treat is the one that runs.
- Riddle 37: most people say A cinnamon roll. A cinnamon roll is sweet, spiced and sold from the same bakery case, which is why it arrives first. The riddle names a cross on top, and that piped mark belongs to one seasonal bake and nothing else.
Read the riddle aloud, name the pivot syllable or the one clue a rival answer cannot claim, then say the answer.
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1. I hop but never skip, I hide what hens have made, and children hunt for my treasure every spring. Who am I? Easy
Most people first say: A hen
Need a hint?
Long ears, big feet, a basket full of eggs.
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The Easter Bunny.
Hop and hide are the narrowing pair. A hen lays those eggs but never buries them in the grass, and only one spring visitor carries them out to the lawn.
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2. What kind of jewelry does the Easter Bunny wear? Medium
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14 carrot gold.
Carat is the unit for gold purity, and it sounds exactly like the orange snack a rabbit chews, so the measurement and the vegetable trade places.
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3. How does the Easter Bunny stay in shape? Medium
Most people first say: a gym membership
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Lots of egg-sercise and hare-obics.
Each fitness word loses its opening syllable to a holiday noun: exercise gives up its front to the shell, aerobics gives up its front to the rabbit. One swap, repeated, decides both halves.
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4. What do you call a rabbit covered in fleas? Easy
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Bugs Bunny.
Fleas count as bugs, and a famous cartoon rabbit already carries that word as a name, so the insect doubles as the punchline.
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5. Why shouldn't you tell an Easter egg a good joke? Easy
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It might crack up.
To crack up is a set phrase for laughing hard, but a shell can crack for real, so the egg hears danger in the compliment.
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6. What always comes at the end of Easter? Hard
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Look at the word itself, not the calendar.
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The letter R.
The word Easter literally ends with the letter R, not any calendar event.
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7. I'm oval and fragile, I can be dyed any color, and once a year kids race to find me in the grass. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A bird's egg
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An Easter egg.
Fragile and oval fit any egg in a nest. The dye and the once a year race across the grass are the two details that pin this one to a spring holiday.
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8. What do you get when you pour hot water down a rabbit hole? Hard
Most people first say: a flooded rabbit burrow
Need a hint?
Think of a spiced Easter bun.
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Hot cross bunnies.
Cross is the hinge: boiling water would leave those animals angry, and British English calls an angry creature cross. Add the spiced bakery treat and bunnies stands in for the baked word.
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9. Where does the Easter Bunny love to eat breakfast? Medium
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IHOP.
The restaurant's name already contains hop, the one move a rabbit makes best, so a breakfast chain doubles as a bunny joke.
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10. What kind of beans never, ever grow in a garden? Easy
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Jelly beans.
Bean names a seed you plant and also a candy shaped like one, and only the sugary kind stays out of the soil.
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11. How can you tell exactly where the Easter Bunny has been? Medium
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Eggs marks the spot.
Treasure maps use X to mark the digging point, and eggs sounds close enough to that letter to take its place.
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12. Why was the Easter Bunny so grumpy this morning? Easy
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He was having a bad hare day.
Bad hair day becomes bad hare day since a rabbit is a hare.
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13. What do you call the Easter Bunny on the Monday after Easter? Medium
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Tired.
You brace for a pun, but nothing in the wording asks for one. A whole night of hiding eggs across a town leaves the plainest possible state.
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14. What sport is the Easter Bunny naturally best at? Easy
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He already carries the main equipment.
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Basket-ball.
He already carries a basket, and basketball contains the word basket.
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15. I'm woven but I'm not a sweater, I have a handle but no door, and on Easter morning I'm stuffed with treats. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A picnic hamper
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An Easter basket.
Woven with a handle sounds like a picnic hamper until the treats arrive. Easter morning is the one time this container gets filled and carried around the yard.
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16. Why did the little egg hide from everyone? Medium
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It was a little chicken.
A little chicken means both a baby bird and someone timid who hides.
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17. I'm small, yellow, and fluffy, I say peep peep, and my mother has a red comb on her head. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A marshmallow Peep
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A chick.
Small, yellow and fluffy fits the marshmallow candy, and ducklings peep just as loudly. A red comb belongs to a hen, not to a duck, so the mother in the clue settles it.
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18. What do you call ten rabbits marching backwards? Medium
Need a hint?
Think of a hairstyle that keeps retreating.
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A receding hare-line.
Rabbits marching backward form a receding hare-line, punning on a receding hairline.
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19. What kind of music does the Easter Bunny listen to? Easy
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Hip hop.
Hop names both the move a rabbit makes and half the name of a music style, so the dance floor borrows the rabbit's verb.
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20. I melt in the sun, I come shaped like eggs and bunnies, and I vanish fastest of anything in the basket. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A marshmallow bunny
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Easter chocolate.
Shape alone fits marshmallow candy too. Melting in the sun is the clue that narrows it to the cocoa treat, which softens the moment the basket leaves the shade.
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21. The harder you hide me, the happier people are to find me. What am I? Hard
Need a hint?
Being found is my whole job.
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An Easter egg on an egg hunt.
Hiding usually means you want a thing lost. Here the hiding is a favor to the finder, which only makes sense when the person doing it planned the search.
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22. What day of the week does an egg dread the most? Easy
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Fry-day.
Eggs get fried, and Friday sounds like fry-day, the day an egg dreads.
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23. Why did the Easter egg go to school? Easy
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To get egg-ucated.
Educated becomes egg-ucated, swapping the start for egg since it is an egg.
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24. I land on a Sunday but never the same one twice in a row, I bring lilies and chocolate, and I always show up in spring. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: Mother's Day
Need a hint?
The moon helps pick my date.
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Easter.
Lilies and chocolate would also suit Mother's Day, so the drifting date is the deciding clue: only one spring Sunday is set by the moon rather than by a fixed week of the month.
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25. How does an egg leave its house? Easy
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Through the eggs-it.
Exit becomes eggs-it, blending egg with the way out of a house.
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26. What do you call a mischievous Easter egg? Medium
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A practical yolker.
Practical joker becomes practical yolker, swapping joker for the egg's yolk.
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27. What happened when the Easter Bunny broke the rules at school? Medium
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He was egg-spelled.
Getting expelled becomes egg-spelled, a punny way to say kicked out of school.
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28. I'm a spring flower with two lips but no mouth. What am I? Hard
Need a hint?
Say my name slowly: two...
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A tulip.
A tulip has two lips in its name but no actual mouth to speak with.
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29. Why is the bunny the luckiest animal at the Easter parade? Easy
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It has four rabbit's feet.
A rabbit's foot is the classic good luck charm, and the joke takes that literally: the animal is carrying a full set of them everywhere it goes.
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30. What did the Easter Bunny say about the carrot cake contest? Medium
Need a hint?
It sounds like a courtroom oath.
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Nothing could beat it, and that's the whole carrot and nothing but the carrot.
The courtroom oath swaps one word. Truth gives way to the vegetable, and the rest of the promise stays exactly as a witness would say it.
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31. How many Easter eggs can you put in an empty basket? Hard
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One
The word empty does the work here. Once a single egg is inside, the basket has stopped being empty, so only one egg ever goes into an empty basket.
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32. What does the Easter Bunny grow in his garden? Medium
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Egg-plants
Eggplant is a real vegetable whose name starts with egg, so the pun works by taking that name at face value in a garden.
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33. What's the smartest way to catch the Easter Bunny? Medium
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Act like a carrot
A trap works best when the bait is what he wants, and carrots are the standing joke about what rabbits chase.
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34. 🥚 + 🎨 Easy
Need a hint?
You make these the night before the hunt, and your fingers turn every color.
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A painted egg (egg plus paint).
Read the two pictures as one sum: the shell supplies the object, the palette supplies the color, and the kitchen table craft of hunt week is the result.
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35. 🍫 + 🥚 Easy
Need a hint?
The best thing to find on an egg hunt.
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A chocolate egg (chocolate plus egg).
Both pictures keep their plain meaning and stack into one object with no pun in the way: the candy version of an egg, wrapped in foil for the basket.
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36. Where did the Easter Bunny learn how to ski? Medium
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The bunny slope
Ski areas really do call the beginner run the bunny slope, so the joke needs no invention: the name was already waiting for him.
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37. I'm a sweet bread bun with a cross on top, and I show up in bakeries every Easter. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A cinnamon roll
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A hot cross bun
Plenty of sweet buns show up in spring, and a cinnamon roll is the usual first guess, so the cross on top is the deciding mark, piped there for the Easter baking season.
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38. Easter falls on the same date every year, just like Christmas. Medium
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False.
Easter moves around. It falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox.
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39. The tradition of decorating eggs in spring is more than a thousand years old. Medium
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True.
Persian Nowruz tables have carried painted eggs for over two thousand springs, and a royal English household roll from 1290 lists hundreds bought and covered in gold leaf, so the custom clears a thousand years easily.
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40. The White House hosts an official Easter Egg Roll on its lawn. Medium
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True.
The White House Easter Egg Roll has been an annual tradition since 1878.
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41. I am the colorful liquid you dip eggs into at Easter to make them bright. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: Food coloring
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Egg dye.
Food coloring is the concentrate in the bottle, and it has to go into water and vinegar before any egg goes near it. The wording asks for the finished bath, the cup of color a shell sits in until it turns bright.
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42. I am the season when Easter falls, when flowers bloom and the weather warms up. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: Early summer
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Spring.
Blossom and warming air would also fit early summer, so the holiday named in the wording is the tiebreaker: it never waits that long.
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43. I am a soft woolly baby sheep, and a gentle symbol of Easter and spring. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A sheep
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A lamb.
Woolly brings the whole flock to mind, and the grown animal is the easy wrong answer. Baby is the clue that narrows it to the young one, the creature that turns up on Easter table settings and spring window displays.
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44. I am the Easter-morning game where kids race around the yard with baskets looking for hidden treats. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A relay race
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An egg hunt.
Baskets are the detail that decides it. Children sprinting across a lawn could be running a relay, but nobody carries a container in a race, and a basket only makes sense when there is something to gather up.
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45. I am orange, I grow underground, and I am the Easter Bunny's favorite snack. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A sweet potato
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A carrot.
Orange and underground also fit a sweet potato, so the rabbit decides it: cartoons have paired that animal with one crunchy root for decades.
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46. I am a fancy decorated hat that people show off in an Easter parade. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A sun hat
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An Easter bonnet.
The parade narrows it. Any sun hat can be decorated, and plenty are, but a hat made to be paraded down a street in spring carries the holiday's own name.
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47. What marshmallow candy, shaped like little chicks and bunnies, fills the shelves every Easter? Easy
Most people first say: a chocolate bunny
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Peeps.
A chocolate bunny takes one of those shapes but fails the marshmallow test, and bagged white marshmallows pass that test with no shape at all. Shape and ingredient decide it together.
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48. I hatch from an egg in spring, I am yellow and fuzzy, and I waddle after my mother. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A baby chick
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A duckling.
Yellow and fuzzy overlap with a baby chick, and the waddle is what separates them: a rolling single-file walk behind mother belongs to the water bird, not to the hen's brood.
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49. I have long ears, a fluffy tail, and a hop, and I hide eggs on Easter. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A hare
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A rabbit.
Ears, tail and hop cover a hare just as well. The egg hiding is what picks the tame one children draw on cards each spring.
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50. I am the fake green grass tucked into an Easter basket under all the eggs. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: Shredded paper
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Easter grass.
Shredded paper does the same job in plenty of baskets, but the wording asks for the green plastic strands sold by the bag, named after the lawn they imitate.
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51. What kind of mood is the Easter Bunny always in? Easy
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A hoppy one.
Hoppy and happy differ by one vowel, and the swap works because hopping is the only way a rabbit gets anywhere.
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52. How did the egg stay so calm while everyone searched the yard for it? Hard
Need a hint?
A kitchen word for eggs also describes steady nerves.
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It was hard-boiled.
Hard-boiled means both firmly cooked and unshakably cool under pressure.
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53. What does the Easter Bunny use to keep his fur looking neat? Easy
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A hare brush.
Hairbrush becomes hare brush since a rabbit is a hare.
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54. What did the Easter Bunny say when it was time to start the spring picnic? Medium
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Lettuce begin.
Say the salad leaf out loud and it turns into a two word invitation, which is how a picnic host can open the meal with a vegetable.
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55. What did one Easter egg say to the other as the hunt began? Easy
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Let's get crack-ing.
Crack-ing puns on cracking an egg and getting started right away.
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56. What sweet thing does the Easter Bunny say to make you feel special? Easy
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Somebunny loves you.
Somebody becomes somebunny, a warm message from the Easter Bunny.
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57. How does the Easter Bunny get around when he is in a big hurry? Easy
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By hare-plane.
Airplane becomes hare-plane, the fast way for a hare to travel.
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58. Where does a bunny go when it needs a brand new tail? Medium
Need a hint?
A shop word hides a body part.
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The re-tail store.
Retail store sounds like re-tail, the place a bunny would go for a new tail.
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59. What kind of story does the Easter Bunny tell to give everyone the chills? Easy
Need a hint?
Swap one vowel in a scary phrase.
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A hare-raising tale.
Hair-raising becomes hare-raising, a spooky story told by a hare.
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60. What is the Easter Bunny's favorite subject in school? Medium
Most people first say: art class for egg painting
Need a hint?
Listen to the first half of the subject.
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History, because he loves a good hare-story.
Delete the opening two letters of the subject and the word story is left sitting there, so the animal only needs to replace hi. Letter surgery, not any classroom fact, picks the winner.
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61. What did the mother hen say to her endlessly noisy chick? Medium
Need a hint?
Swap the first sound for what hens lay.
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You are eggs-hausting me.
The hen is complaining and naming her own job at once. Exhausting needs one stretched syllable at the front to turn into what she lays by the dozen.
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62. What do you say when an Easter egg gives the perfectly correct answer? Easy
Need a hint?
The praise word already opens with an egg noise.
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Eggs-actly right.
Praise for a right answer usually arrives as exactly. Stretch the opening syllable and the egg hears its own name inside the compliment.
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63. How did the Easter Bunny describe the greatest egg hunt he ever held? Medium
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A word meaning remarkable hides the hunt's prize.
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Absolutely eggs-traordinary.
Extraordinary is a mouthful, and its first syllable already sits close to the shell word, so the biggest hunt earns a compliment stuffed with its own prize.
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64. What do you call an Easter egg hidden in a truly bizarre spot? Medium
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Something surprising, with the prize tucked inside.
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Totally un-egg-spected.
Unexpected buries the useful sound in the middle rather than the front, so the pun about a hiding place ends up hiding its own joke word.
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65. What did the shopper say about the fancy jeweled Easter egg? Easy
Need a hint?
The price word opens like a breakfast food.
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It is far too eggs-pensive.
A price complaint runs on expensive, and swapping the front of it for the shell word turns the shopper's groan into something the egg could say about itself.
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66. What does a patient teacher egg do when the class looks confused? Easy
Need a hint?
What a patient teacher does, egg version.
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She eggs-plains it again.
A teacher going over it again explains, and the same first syllable belongs to the thing sitting in the nest, so the egg teacher gets a verb of her own.
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67. What do you call an egg hunt with timers, obstacles, and buzzers? Medium
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Think of a sport taken to the limit.
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Eggs-treme egg hunting.
Timers, obstacles and buzzers are the language of extreme sport, and the front of that word is one stretch from the prize being chased across the lawn.
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68. Where does the Easter Bunny proudly display his best painted eggs? Medium
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Where art hangs, with breakfast at the front.
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At an art eggs-hibit.
Galleries hold exhibits, and the first syllable there matches the shell word, so a bunny showing off his painting gets the gallery term with his produce inside.
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69. What is a scientist chicken always busy running in the lab? Medium
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A lab trial that opens like a hen's output.
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An eggs-periment.
A lab test is an experiment, and the opening of that word is also what a hen delivers, so her research and her output share a syllable.
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70. What did the egg do the moment the frying pan got too close? Easy
Need a hint?
A getaway word that starts like breakfast.
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It made an eggs-cape.
A fast exit from the pan is an escape, and the first syllable of it sits one stretch from what is actually sitting in the pan.
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71. What does one egg say after pulling a clever trick on another? Easy
Need a hint?
One sound away from a prank phrase.
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The yolk's on you.
The prank line normally ends in joke, and yolk sounds near enough to take its place, which suits the yellow middle of an egg.
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72. How does an honest egg promise it is telling the truth? Easy
Need a hint?
Swap one word in a serious promise.
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I mean it, and that is no yolk.
No joke becomes no yolk, an egg's way of being serious.
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73. What do you call the champion who finds the most eggs at the hunt? Easy
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Someone skilled, with the basket's prize in front.
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A true egg-spert.
The champion collector would be an expert, and the front of that word already sounds like the item in the basket, so the title names the loot.
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74. Why is the Easter Bunny so difficult to photograph? Easy
Need a hint?
A vanishing phrase with one word swapped.
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He is hare today and gone tomorrow.
Here today and gone tomorrow becomes hare today, since he vanishes fast.
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75. Why was the Easter Bunny late to the spring feast? Medium
Need a hint?
Two words squash into one root vegetable.
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He couldn't turnip on time.
Turn up becomes turnip, a garden pun for arriving late.
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76. How did the detective egg finally solve the Easter mystery? Easy
Need a hint?
One verb covers detectives and shells.
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He cracked the case.
Detectives crack cases in the figurative sense, and a shell cracks in the literal one, so the same verb covers the crime and the breakfast.
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77. How did the egg feel after the huge surprise party? Medium
Need a hint?
A stunned phrase the egg can take literally.
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Completely shell-shocked.
Shell shocked is a set phrase for stunned, and the egg owns a real one, so the stock expression turns literal at the party.
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78. What did the egg have to do to afford a fancy Easter basket? Medium
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Paying up, said with something an egg wears.
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Shell out some money.
To shell out is an old way of saying pay up, and the egg is the one guest at the table already wearing the shell in question.
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79. What do you call a kind and generous friend at the Easter table? Easy
Most people first say: a thoughtful dinner guest
Need a hint?
An old compliment that sounds like breakfast.
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A really good egg.
English idiom already hides a person inside the pantry: bad egg names a scoundrel, so its opposite names someone decent. The holiday setting puts the literal object on the same table, making the figure of speech land twice.
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80. How should you behave around a very grumpy hen? Easy
Need a hint?
A careful phrase built from broken shells.
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You walk on eggshells.
Walking on eggshells is the everyday phrase for treading carefully, and around an annoyed hen the image stops being a figure of speech.
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81. Why can nobody ever say no to the Easter Bunny? Medium
Need a hint?
Hard to resist, and long ears say why.
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He is simply ear-resistible.
Irresistible loses its opening and picks up the bunny's most obvious feature instead, so the compliment names the body part doing the work.
Easy Easter riddles for kids
Hopping bunnies, hidden eggs, and jelly bean logic that young hunters can crack on their own. Perfect between rounds of the egg hunt.
Funny Easter riddles and egg puns for adults
Groan-worthy bunny jokes and egg wordplay for the grownups at the table. Clean enough for grandma, silly enough for everyone.
Easter trivia, emoji riddles, and true or false
Four multiple choice cards and three true or false statements score your pick the moment you tap one. Two emoji codes and one typed answer sit among them. The true or false facts cover the moving date of Easter, centuries of egg decorating and the White House Egg Roll.
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FAQ about Easter Riddles with Answers
Are these Easter riddles kid friendly?
Yes, all 81 are family safe. The easier bunny and egg riddles suit kids around age five and up, while the puns and trivia give adults something to chew on too.
Can I use these riddles as Easter egg hunt clues?
Absolutely, and many families do. Read a riddle aloud before releasing the hunters, or write a few on slips tucked inside plastic eggs. The short ones work best as clues.
Do all the Easter riddles come with answers?
Every one. Open a card and the answer sits right under it, along with a line on how the trick works. Seven cards add buttons and mark your choice right or wrong as you tap. Thirty-six of them also carry a hint you can open first.
Basket empty? The St Patrick's Day riddles ask the same thing of your ear, only the props turn green and the jokes pick up a leprechaun. When you would rather look than listen, work through a few picture-based rebus puzzles, where the clue is drawn rather than spoken.