60 Hard Riddles for Kids ”What am I?” With Answers

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!

1. I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
2. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Whenever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
3. I have a heart that doesn’t beat. What am I?
4. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
5. 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?
6. I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
7. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
8. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
9. I am a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be. What am I?
10. I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but can’t go outside. What am I?
11. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
12. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
13. I am not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
14. 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?
15. I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
16. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
17. It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
18. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
19. I am not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
20. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
21. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
22. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
23. It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
24. I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
25. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
26. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
27. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
28. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
29. It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
30. I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
31. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
32. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
33. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
34. It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
35. I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
36. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
37. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
38. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
39. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
40. I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
41. It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
42. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
43. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
44. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
45. I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
46. It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
47. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
48. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
49. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
50. I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
51. It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
52. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
53. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
54. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
55. I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
56. It can be written, spoken, or unspoken. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
57. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
58. I’m tall when I’m young, and short when I’m old. What am I?
59. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
60. I have keys but open no locks. What am I?

Answers to Hard Riddles Below:

1. Piano
2. Cloud
3. Artichoke
4. Joke
5. Pencil
6. Hair
7. Echo
8. Footsteps
9. Few
10. Computer
11. Candle
12. Joke
13. Hair
14. Pencil
15. Piano
16. Cloud
17. Joke
18. Joke
19. Hair
20. Candle
21. Cloud
22. Candle
23. Joke
24. Piano
25. Joke
26. Candle
27. Cloud
28. Candle
29. Joke
30. Piano
31. Joke
32. Candle
33. Cloud
34. Joke
35. Piano
36. Candle
37. Cloud
38. Joke