Interesting riddles: a collection of simple and fun questions
Riddles value flexible thinking and wordplay, and they’re said to be great for brain exercise and language training.
Indeed, the more associations you can draw from a question and the more words you know, the more riddles you’ll be able to solve.
In this article, we’ll introduce lots of easy and fun riddles!
We’ve included brief explanations along with the answers, so feel free to use them as a reference.
Now, let’s dive in and try some riddles!
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Interesting riddles. A collection of easy and fun questions (11–20)
What is something that both a human face and a plant have?
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nose
The answer is “hana.” People have a nose (hana) on their face, and plants bloom with flowers (hana).
What kind of fruit would a squid become if you marinated it in vinegar?
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watermelon
If you soak squid in vinegar, you get 'vinegar squid'… You might expect it to be sour, but if you write it all in katakana, it turns into 'suika'—which is watermelon! A riddle that makes perfect sense once you think about it calmly.
Why wasn’t the F1 driver caught even though he went the wrong way on a one-way street?
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Because I was walking
Because the problem statement says “F1 racer,” I can’t help but imagine he got in a car and drove the wrong way, but then I can’t think of an answer. Even if there’s a one-way sign, it’s not a problem to go the wrong way if you’re on foot, right?
What kind of pan is still a “pan,” but is heated from below?
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frying pan
You put a frying pan on the stove and heat it to use it, right? It was a riddle you could solve by carefully imagining the situation described in the question.
1 is 1, 4 is 5, 10 is 2. Then, what is 5?
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4
The three examples given at the beginning of the problem represent the number of strokes when written in kanji. Therefore, since the kanji for five (五) has four strokes, the answer is 4. The key to the riddle was to think about converting the three examples into various forms.