Hard riddles can get your kid to think outside the box when it comes to riddles.
Not only are hard riddles fun for kids but they also promote problem-solving skills, logic, and critical thinking when it comes to solving them.
Hard riddles can be great for long trips while eating snacks in the car or going camping.
So here are 60 hard riddles for kids where the answer to each riddle is a common object or concept.
See if you can solve these hard riddles!
- I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
- I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
- I have a heart that doesn’t beat. What am I?
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
- I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
- I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
- The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
- I am a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be. What am I?
- I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but can’t go outside. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I am not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
- I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
- I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
- I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
- It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I am not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
- It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
- It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
- It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
- It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
- It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
- I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
- I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
- I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
Answers to Hard Riddles Below:
- Piano
- Cloud
- Artichoke
- Joke
- Pencil
- Hair
- Echo
- Footsteps
- Few
- Computer
- Candle
- Joke
- Hair
- Pencil
- Piano
- Cloud
- Joke
- Joke
- Hair
- Candle
- Cloud
- Candle
- Joke
- Piano
- Joke
- Candle
- Cloud
- Candle
- Joke
- Piano
- Joke
- Candle
- Cloud
- Joke
- Piano
- Candle
- Cloud
- Joke
How fun!
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This is fun! Good subject for conversation starters with kids, especially ones that don’t want to talk.