Riddles for 6 Year Olds
Six year olds love riddles they can actually solve, and every one of these easy riddles for kids comes with answers. The words are simple, the answers are things kids know, and a few picture and emoji puzzles keep it playful. Read them out loud and let your first grader shout the answer.
Six year olds crack the joke cards by swapping a single sound
Eleven cards on this page hang on a noise. When a card asks what you call something, say the ordinary phrase out loud first, then hunt for the word that sounds like a piece of it: a wise cracker gains a quack, a couch potato gains a pouch, a grizzly bear meets the drizzle. None of that needs spelling, because the work happens in the ear, which is why a grown up should read this page aloud.
A second group of cards stacks plain traits instead, a color, a noise, a place, a job, with no contradiction anywhere. Take the loudest trait and ask what it rules out rather than what it fits. Green and hopping still allows a grasshopper; ribbit does not.
Read the scored cards out loud too. Three offer choices, two ask true or false, and one takes a typed answer. Four emoji pairs hand over two short words apiece, often shorter than the name of the drawing itself, so the snowflake gives snow and the crown gives king. The one counting picture asks you to settle which shape you are counting before the first tally.
When a trait list stalls, test the oddest word in it for a second job: the bed a river lies in, the ears on a corn plant. Our riddles for 8 year olds lean hardest on that second job, and an eight year old can meet those alone on the page, while the sound swaps here need a voice.
- Riddle 8: most people say A snowman. Rolling into balls is the clue a child hears loudest, and it names an activity rather than a material. Answering with the thing those balls become skips the question, which asks what they were made from before anybody rolled them.
- Riddle 25: most people say A grasshopper. Small, green and jumping between leaves describes a grasshopper exactly, so it arrives before the child reaches the end of the sentence. The last clue is a sound that belongs to something at the pond, and skipping past it is the whole mistake.
- Riddle 42: most people say A dolphin. Swimming all day is the clue a dolphin takes, and a child who stops there has an answer already. The last clue puts the breathing under the water and gives the job to gills, which is the one piece that guess does not have.
- Riddle 76: most people say To get to the other side. A child already knows the plain version of this joke, so the sentence finishes itself before the cow gets a say. The trick is that one part of a milking animal has been slipped into a phrase children recite from memory, and nobody listens closely to a punchline they expect.
Say the phrase you already know out loud, then change one sound in it and ask whose noise you just borrowed.
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1. I am yellow, I live in the sky, and I go to bed every night. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: The moon
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The sun.
Going to bed is bedtime talk borrowed for sinking below the horizon. Take the human habit back out and the sentence asks a plain question about what leaves the sky at dusk.
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2. I have four legs but I never run. You sit on me every day at dinner. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A dinner table
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A chair.
A dinner table also stands on four legs at the same meal, and it holds the plates. The clue about taking a person's weight is what moves the answer to the seat.
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3. I have a tongue but I never say a word. You tie me up before you run outside to play. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A shoelace
Need a hint?
Check your feet before you head out the door.
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A shoe.
Nothing in this one has a mouth, so tongue does duty as the name of the flap your foot slides beneath, and laces on their own are only string.
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4. I am full of holes but I still hold water. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A net
Need a hint?
You use me to clean up spills.
Show answer
A sponge.
Picture holes as gaps and the water runs straight through, which is how a net arrives first. Picture them as a mass of tiny pockets instead and they fill up until a squeeze empties them.
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5. I have a tail and a head, but no arms or legs. I hide in your piggy bank. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A snake
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A coin.
Head and tail name the two stamped faces of a disc of metal, not the ends of a body. A snake owns both in the animal sense and would jam in the slot of a piggy bank.
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6. What goes up but never comes back down? Hard
Most people first say: A balloon
Need a hint?
Count the candles on each birthday cake
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Your age.
Hearing goes up as something rising through the air is what puts a balloon in the frame. The phrase also covers a number getting larger, and each birthday adds one that cannot be handed back.
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7. 🌞 + 🌻 Easy
Need a hint?
A tall yellow flower that loves the sun.
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Sunflower (sun + flower).
The answer is also the name of the second drawing, so naming it that way leaves you standing still. Call it a plain flower instead, set the sun in front, and the two pieces snap together.
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8. I am white and cold, and I fall from the sky in winter. Kids roll me into balls. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A snowman
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Snow.
Mittens shape the lawn figure with the carrot nose, and that happens on the ground. What the clue about falling from the sky picks out is the white stuff that lands there first.
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9. I have bristles but I am not a hedgehog. Twice a day you use me on your smile. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A hairbrush
Need a hint?
You squeeze toothpaste onto it.
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A toothbrush.
Bristles on their own do not pick anything out, since the word covers a whole cupboard of brushes. Smile is the clue that moves the answer to the mouth, and twice a day fixes it there.
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10. I get bigger and bigger the more you blow into me, but one sharp poke and I am gone. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: Bubble gum
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A balloon.
Blow into either one and it swells, so the gum is a fair guess. One sharp poke is where they part, because rubber tears for good while a chewed wad gathers back together and puffs out again.
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11. What animal says 'moo' and gives us milk? Easy
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A cow
A horse shares the same barnyard, yet it answers with a neigh, so the moo in the question is what rules it out.
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12. I have teeth but I never bite. I keep your hair looking nice. What am I? Medium
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A comb.
Teeth is on loan from a mouth here, naming a row of narrow prongs whose whole job is dragging through tangles before school.
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13. What kind of cup can you never drink from? Medium
Most people first say: A cupcake
Need a hint?
It makes a funny sound and it is tricky to stop.
Show answer
A hiccup!
Hunt for a short word hiding inside a longer one, with no drinking involved. A cupcake keeps that syllable at the front and stays a cake, while the word wanted here ends on it and names a jumpy noise from the chest.
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14. I follow you everywhere on a sunny day, but I hide when it is cloudy. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: Your reflection
Need a hint?
Look down at the sidewalk on a sunny walk.
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Your shadow.
Stand in the sun, put a body in the way, and a dark copy lands on the pavement. Follow and hide are playmate verbs doing duty for something with no life in it at all.
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15. 🌈 + 🎀 Easy
Need a hint?
Look at the sky after it rains.
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Rainbow (rain + bow).
Each drawing hands over one short word: the arch is rain, the ribbon is bow, and the two of them spell the very arch on display.
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16. I have one eye but I cannot see. I help you sew a button. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A sewing pin
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A needle.
No looking happens here at all, because an eye on this object is a hole punched through metal, and a pin has no hole for thread to pass through.
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17. What has legs but cannot walk? Easy
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A table.
Legs here has nothing to do with muscles. The same word covers the four upright props that hold a flat top at plate height, and props were never built to move.
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18. I wear a cap but I have no head. Pop me open and write with me. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A bottle
Need a hint?
I live in your pencil case.
Show answer
A pen or a marker.
Cap has two jobs: a hat for a head, and a lid on a tube. A bottle takes the lid sense too, but pulling the lid off only one of them leaves ink on paper.
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19. A spider has six legs. Easy
Show answer
False.
Spiders carry eight legs while insects such as ants carry six, so the number in this sentence belongs to a different animal group.
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20. What gets wetter the more it dries you? Hard
Most people first say: A hair dryer
Need a hint?
It hangs next to the bathtub
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A towel.
The first reading of dries is turning dry, and that reading hands the card to a dryer. The verb also means taking water off somebody else, and a thing that soaks it up rather than blowing it away keeps what it takes.
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21. I am a fruit with a name that sounds like two words: a color and a sound a dog makes... just kidding! I am yellow and monkeys love me. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A lemon
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A banana.
Two plain facts are all that survive the joke about a dog noise, which the card cancels itself. A lemon matches the yellow, so the monkeys are what carry the answer to something long and curved.
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22. I have a neck but no head, and I hold your juice. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A giraffe
Show answer
A bottle.
On a container, neck is the narrow stretch just below the cap, borrowed from anatomy and nothing more. The missing head sends the zoo animal away, and juice has to pour from something.
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23. You count 3 ducks in the pond. 2 more ducks swim over. How many ducks now? Easy
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5
More arriving means adding rather than taking away, so the two join the three already there and the pond holds five.
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24. I have a trunk but I am not an elephant, and I have leaves but I am not a book. What am I? Medium
Need a hint?
Birds build their nests in me at the park.
Show answer
A tree.
The card blocks the animal reading of trunk and the paper reading of leaves by name, leaving the living pillar in a park with green cover on its branches.
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25. I am small and green, and I hop from leaf to leaf saying ribbit. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A grasshopper
Show answer
A frog.
Small, green and hopping from leaf to leaf describes a fair few garden creatures, so those clues leave the field open. Ribbit arrives last in the sentence and it is the clue a quick reader runs straight past.
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26. ❄️ + 🏀 Easy
Need a hint?
You pack this up to throw in a winter fight.
Show answer
Snowball (snow + ball).
Each drawing gives up a shorter word than its own name, snow from the first and ball from the second. Push those two together and they lock into one thing you pack with mittens on.
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27. I have hands but no fingers, and a band but no drum. I live on your wrist. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A wall clock
Show answer
A watch.
Band names the strap around an arm here rather than anything musical, and a clock keeps hands too but nobody buckles one on before school.
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28. Why did the kid bring a ladder to school? Hard
Most people first say: To reach the roof
Need a hint?
Think what else the word high can mean
Show answer
Because it was high school!
A six year old hears high and pictures distance off the ground, which is exactly what sends the ladder to the roof. The other reading names a stage of school for older students, no climbing needed.
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29. I am red, I say cock-a-doodle-doo, and I wake up the whole farm. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: An alarm clock
Show answer
A rooster
Waking a whole household is the clue that invites a machine, and on its own it settles nothing. The card also hands over a spelled out crow, and that noise is what the answer has to produce.
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30. I am round, I bounce, and kids kick me at recess. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A frisbee
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A ball.
A frisbee is round and comes out at recess as well, so it gets shouted early. It skims instead of bouncing, and nobody kicks one, so two of the three clues throw it out and leave the plain playground kind.
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31. What has a bed but never sleeps? Medium
Need a hint?
Fish swim in it all day long.
Show answer
A river.
Bed carries a second meaning with no furniture in it, the hollow channel water lies in between two banks, where nothing is ever asleep.
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32. The moon is bigger than the sun. Medium
Show answer
False.
The sun is way bigger. The moon only looks big because it is much closer to us.
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33. I am orange, crunchy, and bunnies love to munch me. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: An orange
Show answer
A carrot.
Orange is a fruit and a color at once, so the fruit steps up first. Crunch is where it loses, because citrus squirts juice under a bite while this one snaps in half against a bunny tooth.
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34. What word starts with T, ends with T, and is full of T? Hard
Most people first say: The word tent
Need a hint?
You pour a hot drink from it.
Show answer
A teapot.
Full of T is heard, not spelled, because the letter name sounds exactly like the hot drink brewing inside. Tent opens and closes on the same letter yet pours nothing out.
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35. 👑 + 🐟 Easy
Need a hint?
A bright blue bird that dives to catch fish in a river.
Show answer
Kingfisher (king + fisher).
Name the crown by the person who wears it and stretch the fish into the person who catches fish. Those two titles clip together into the name of a bird that hunts over rivers.
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36. Which one of these can fly? Easy
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A bee
Bees buzz and fly from flower to flower. Penguins and ostriches are birds that cannot fly.
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37. I am your best friend with four paws and a waggy tail. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A cat
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A dog.
Four paws and a tail sit on both animals, so neither clue picks a winner. Best friend is the phrase that carries this one, because English hands that title to one of the two by long habit.
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38. How many stars can you count in this picture? Easy
Most people first say: Five stars
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Four stars. Four pointy stars, plus one crescent moon that is not a star.
What counts as a star here? Every shape in the drawing glows the same color, so the crescent slips into a fast tally, and deciding the shape before you start is the whole trick.
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39. I open when it rains and close when the sun comes out. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A flower
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An umbrella.
Rain opens this and sun shuts it, and that order is the reverse of the one a reader expects. Hold the card's order instead of the familiar one, and the answer is the thing people carry out in a downpour.
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40. I am white and smooth, I crack right open at breakfast, and a hen lays me in her nest. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A baby chick
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An egg.
A hen's nest holds this before any bird exists in it. A chick has already left the shell behind, while what cracks open at breakfast is still whole and smooth.
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41. I say meow, I purr when you pet me, and I love to chase a ball of yarn. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A playful puppy
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A cat.
Yarn and playfulness belong to a puppy just as much, so the dog gets shouted out early. What is left is the pair of sounds on the card, meow and a purr, and those are the clues that decide.
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42. I swim all day and never close my eyes, and I breathe under the water with my gills. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A dolphin
Show answer
A fish.
Every creature in the running swims, so that clue on its own keeps the field wide. The pivot arrives at the end, where the breathing is handed to gills instead of to a trip up for air.
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43. I am red and round, I grow on a tree, and eating one a day keeps the doctor away. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A cherry
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An apple.
Red and round covers cherries and plums just as well, so the tiebreaker is a saying built around one particular fruit, the big one you need two bites for.
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44. I start out as a wiggly caterpillar, then I grow colorful wings and flutter away. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A moth
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A butterfly.
The card runs on start out as and then, so it names two shapes and asks you to read them as one life in order. The wiggly stage and the winged stage belong to a single animal that changed.
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45. I stand on your birthday cake with a tiny flame, and you blow me out to make a wish. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A match
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A candle.
Swap in a match and the song runs out of time, because a match burns down to your fingers in seconds while this one has to stand upright in frosting for the whole tune.
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46. I am white and fluffy and I float in the sky, but when I turn gray I bring the rain. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: Cotton candy
Show answer
A cloud.
White and fluffy suits spun sugar just as well, which is why the fair treat turns up first. Turning gray and bringing rain is the pair of clues the sugar cannot take.
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47. I have a long tail and I fly up high, and you run to launch me on a windy day. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A paper airplane
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A kite.
Two of these clues, the high flight and the running start, would suit a folded paper glider just as well. The long tail is the clue those two leave untouched, and that is where the answer sits.
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48. I sit in the middle of your face, and I help you smell cookies baking in the oven. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: Your mouth
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Your nose.
Smell is the pivot here, not taste, and that rules the mouth out: nothing needs a bite to notice what the oven sends into the air.
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49. I am small and I fit inside a lock, and when you turn me the door swings open. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A door handle
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A key.
Fitting inside the lock is the pivot: a handle stays fixed where it is, while this small shape rides in a pocket and turns the bolt itself.
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50. I am pink with a curly little tail, and I roll in the mud saying oink. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A muddy hippo
Show answer
A pig.
Mud is the clue that lets a bigger animal in, since plenty of animals lie down in it. The curly tail and the oink are what the card pairs with the mud, and those two are what settle it.
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51. I grow tall in a sunny field with yellow kernels, and I have ears but I cannot hear. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A tall sunflower
Show answer
Corn.
Ears sends a child straight to hearing, and a plant that hears nothing is the joke. On a farm the same word names the part of the plant where those yellow kernels grow.
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52. I have big round eyes, I stay awake all night, and I say whoo from my tree. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A bat
Show answer
An owl.
The whoo is the sorter: another night flier hangs upside down in the same dark and squeaks instead, and big round eyes on a branch belong to the bird that calls.
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53. I am cold and sweet and I sit in a cone, and I will melt fast if you eat me too slow. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A popsicle
Show answer
Ice cream.
Put a popsicle in the picture and the cone has nowhere to go, because that one rides a wooden stick instead. Whatever sits in a cone and turns creamy as it melts is the treat the card wants.
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54. I am big and furry, I love a pot of honey, and I sleep all winter long in my cozy cave. What am I? Easy
Most people first say: A groundhog
Show answer
A bear.
Sleeping all winter is the clue a guess starts from, and it is shared ground. The card says big as well, and it says a pot of honey, and those two are what push the answer past any smaller sleeper.
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55. I have a face and two hands, but I have no arms and I cannot clap. I hang on the wall and tell you when it is lunchtime. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A watch
Show answer
A clock.
No person is involved, though face and hands both arrive from one. A flat dial wears them, hanging on a wall rules out the strap on a wrist, and two pointers crawl round to lunchtime.
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56. I am round and shiny, I scoop up your soup, and I live in a drawer right next to the fork. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A soup bowl
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A spoon.
A soup bowl holds soup and goes nowhere: it sits on the table and waits. Scooping is movement, so the answer is the thing that travels from pot to lips and back again.
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57. I am soft and squishy, I hold your sleepy head all night, and I live at the top of your bed. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A teddy bear
Show answer
A pillow.
A teddy bear is squishy and sits at the top of a bed too, so it gets a shout. The job that separates them is holding a head all night, which needs a flat side to rest on.
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58. I have a handle but I am not a cup, and you push or pull me to walk into a room. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A drawer
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A door.
A handle plus push or pull sounds like a drawer, and that is where the guess lands. A drawer slides out of its frame and stays in the room, while this flat panel swings aside so a whole person can walk through.
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59. I have a spine but not a single bone, and I am full of pages with a story you read at bedtime. What am I? Medium
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A book.
Not a single bone is anywhere in this, since spine names the stiff edge that keeps the sheets in order and the story lives on what that edge holds.
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60. Look at me and you see yourself, but I am not a photo, and I hang on the bathroom wall. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A window
Show answer
A mirror.
Seeing yourself is the loud clue, and it is loud enough to end the reading early. The card adds two quieter ones, not a photo and hung on a bathroom wall, and those are the ones that sort it.
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61. I float on the water, I carry people across the lake, and I catch the wind with my big sail. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A raft
Show answer
A boat.
Take the sail as the working clue, because a flat platform needs a pole or a paddle to cross a lake, while wind alone can push the craft with a mast.
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62. I carry my little house on my back, I move very slowly, and I leave a shiny trail behind me. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A tortoise
Show answer
A snail.
A house on the back and a slow pace are the clues most readers stop at, and they stop short of one answer. The shiny trail is the third clue, and holding all three together is what the card asks.
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63. I come in a pair, I keep your foot warm inside your shoe, and sometimes I go missing in the laundry. What am I? Medium
Most people first say: A woolly mitten
Show answer
A sock.
A pair and a trip through the wash fit more than one thing, so those clues settle nothing. What the card adds is a foot and the inside of a shoe, and that is the part a guess skips.
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64. What has a ring but you can never wear it on your finger? Hard
Need a hint?
Listen for a sound, not a shape
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A telephone.
Ring is a sound here, not a circle: the thing being described sits quiet until somebody calls, then it shouts across the house until a person picks it up and answers.
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65. What do you call a duck that loves to tell jokes? Hard
Need a hint?
Who is known for cracking clever jokes
Show answer
A wise-quacker.
A person who tells jokes is a wise cracker, and only one sound in that phrase has to move. Crack becomes quack, the noise the bird already owns, and the phrase keeps its shape.
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66. What kind of shoes does a frog like to wear? Hard
Most people first say: A pair of flippers
Need a hint?
Picture the sandals a shoe shop sells in summer
Show answer
Open toad shoes.
Shoe shops sell open toed sandals, and said out loud toed matches the name of the frog's bumpy relative, so the swap happens purely in the ear.
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67. Why did the teddy bear say no thanks to dessert? Hard
Most people first say: She was on a diet
Need a hint?
Bears from a toy shop are not hollow
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Because she was already stuffed.
Read stuffed as full of dinner and the bear needs a reason to skip dessert. Read it as full of cotton and no reason is needed, because she was packed that way in the factory.
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68. What do you call a cow that plays music? Hard
Need a hint?
One word covers anybody who plays music
Show answer
A moo-sician.
The job title for someone who plays an instrument opens with a syllable a cow can borrow. Stretch that opening into the noise from the field and the word turns into a barnyard pun.
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69. What do you call a bear caught out in the rain? Hard
Need a hint?
Which bear roams the mountains out west
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A drizzly bear.
Grizzly names the big brown kind and drizzly describes a sky of light rain, two words that land the same way on the ear past their first sound.
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70. Why do birds fly all the way south for the winter? Hard
Most people first say: Because the south is warmer
Need a hint?
The joke answers how, not why
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Because it is too far to walk.
Fly carries the joke, and a reader runs past it toward the season. The card treats fly as the choice of travel, so the answer lands on the distance rather than the weather.
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71. I have sharp teeth all in a row, but I never eat a single bite. What am I? Hard
Most people first say: A zipper
Need a hint?
Think of a garage tool that cuts
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A saw.
Teeth in a row suggests a jaw, yet nothing here swallows anything: a zipper carries the same row of blunt little tabs, while sharp points that bite through a plank live in the wood shed.
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72. Why was the broom running late this morning? Hard
Most people first say: It overslept
Need a hint?
Say the ordinary excuse for a late morning
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Because it over-swept.
Overslept is the word a late start calls for, and a broom has never slept in its life. Put the thing a broom does all day into the middle of that word and the joke assembles itself.
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73. What do you call a kangaroo that is very lazy? Hard
Most people first say: A couch potato
Need a hint?
Where does a lazy person spend the afternoon
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A pouch potato.
A kangaroo carries its young in a pocket on the front of its body. The lazy person parked on furniture is a couch potato, one sound from that pocket, so the seat swaps out and the insult still rhymes.
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74. Why did the frog take the bus to work? Hard
Most people first say: Because his car broke down
Need a hint?
His car did not leave on its own
Show answer
Because his car got toad away.
What happens to a car parked in the wrong place? It gets towed, and towed lands on the ear as the name of a lumpy hopper, so the frog borrows the animal and the tow truck story becomes a joke.
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75. What kind of dog can jump higher than a house? Hard
Most people first say: A greyhound
Need a hint?
Ask what the house can do
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Any dog, because houses cannot jump at all.
Line up breeds against each other and you are hunting for a champion jumper, which is what the wording invites. Nothing in the sentence claims the house leaves the ground, and a building that stays put is easy to beat.
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76. Why did the cow cross the road? Hard
Most people first say: To get to the other side
Need a hint?
Say the plain version like a farmer
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To get to the udder side.
Other and udder land almost the same on the ear, and udder is the word that belongs to a milking animal. The old crossing joke gets rebuilt around the part that fills a bucket.
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77. What kind of music do bunnies love to dance to? Hard
Need a hint?
How does a bunny get around
Show answer
Hip hop.
A child hears hip hop as one word for a kind of music and stops there. Hop on its own is a jump, and splitting the name in two hands the rabbit the half it already does all day.
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78. Why did the boy eat his homework? Hard
Most people first say: Because he was hungry
Need a hint?
The teacher meant the phrase, not dessert
Show answer
Because the teacher said it was a piece of cake.
A teacher who says a piece of cake means easy and nothing else. The boy took the set phrase word by word, turned the promise into food, and chewing the paper became the punchline.
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79. What do you call two little birds who are in love? Hard
Need a hint?
Both birds are making the same small noise
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Tweethearts.
Sweethearts is the word for a pair in love, and swapping the first sound for birdsong costs nothing else. Tweet is what a small bird already sings, so the meaning survives and beaks arrive.
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80. What do you call a train that has a bad cold? Hard
Need a hint?
The cold is the part you can hear
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An a-choo-choo train.
A train engine says choo choo and a sneeze says achoo, so the two noises already overlap almost end to end. Sliding the sneeze in front of the engine noise builds the whole gag.
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81. What did one plate whisper to the other plate at dinner? Hard
Need a hint?
Where does your food actually sit
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Tonight, dinner is on me.
Saying dinner is on me normally means paying the bill, which takes a wallet. Food actually rests on top of a flat dish while people eat, so the phrase read word by word describes the speaker.
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82. What kind of fish twinkles up in the night sky? Hard
Need a hint?
Which sea animal shares the shape
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A starfish
Star covers a point of light overhead and a spiny animal on the sea floor that grows its arms in a star shape, and the card describes the first while expecting the second.
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83. What kind of fish likes to say meow? Hard
Need a hint?
Some river fish grow long feelers on the face
Show answer
A catfish
Nothing in the river actually meows. Whiskers earned this swimmer a borrowed pet name, so the cat rides along in front of the fish, and that mismatch is the whole joke.
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84. What kind of little worm loves to curl up with a good story? Hard
Need a hint?
The nickname is not about a real garden crawler
Show answer
A bookworm
Bookworm is a nickname for somebody who reads constantly, with no grub involved, so taking it literally is what puts an actual crawler in the question.
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85. What kind of puppet can you make with something you wear on your foot? Hard
Most people first say: A finger puppet
Need a hint?
A hand goes in where a foot usually does
Show answer
A sock puppet
The card asks what the puppet is made from, not where it is worn, and foot is pointing at the material. Read it as a material clue and the everyday thing on your foot is what gets turned into a face.
Easy riddles for kids with answers
A chair with four legs that never runs, a coin hiding in a piggy bank, the sun and the moon. Every answer is something a six year old sees every day.
Funny riddles a first grader can solve
The ladder that got someone into high school, and other giggle-first riddles that work as jokes even when the answer slips out early.
Picture and emoji riddles for early readers
Emoji pairs like a sun plus a sunflower, a picture that asks you to count the stars, and a few multiple choice questions give pre-readers a way to play along.
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FAQ about Riddles for 6 Year Olds
Are these riddles really easy enough for a 6 year old?
Yes. The vocabulary is first grade level and the answers are everyday objects and animals, not abstract ideas. A few counting questions sneak in gentle math practice, like adding ducks in a pond.
How should I use these riddles with my child?
Read them out loud and give your child time to guess before tapping the answer. They work at bedtime, in the car, or as a morning warm-up in a first grade classroom. The emoji and picture puzzles are good for kids who are still learning to read.
What if my child cannot guess the answer?
Many cards include a hint, so offer that first. If they are still stuck, reveal the answer and let them retell the riddle to someone else. Kids this age love being the one who knows the trick.
If your little one is giggling for more, roll straight into our funny riddles for kids that are perfect for this age. And when they want to play instead of just read, try our picture rebus puzzles for kids to keep those young brains busy.