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)
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I really enjoy quiz shows and often watch them on TV.
How about you? I’m always impressed by the knowledge and quick thinking of Ujihara from Rozan and Takuji Izawa.
But the one I think is the most amazing is Kazlaser.
He’s so funny and yet so quick-witted… I wonder if a comedian’s brain and quiz skills are connected somehow.
If it’s Kazu, he could probably breeze through even slightly tricky trick questions.
The classic trick question for elementary school kids, both then and now, is probably: “What kind of pan can’t you eat, even though it’s called ‘pan’?” Everyone, try quizzing each other with your best trick questions and enjoy your lunch break!
What time is it now?
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two characters
When someone asks, “What time is it now?” you’d normally answer with a time like three o’clock or six o’clock, right? But this riddle is different. If you focus on the phrase “What time is it now?” itself, it contains two words—“now” and “what time”—so together it makes ‘two characters’ (ni-moji).
Easy and fun riddles
It’s great if you can understand them all! Here are some ideas for easy and fun riddles.
These ideas let you set the riddle difficulty to an easy level.
Invite friends or family who are trying riddles for the first time and give them a go.
For example, there’s a question like: “What kind of bread can you only eat with your mouth wide open?” One tip for solving riddles is to rephrase or transform the words that appear in the question into different terms!
There are 5 candies. If you lick one, how many are there?
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It seems like a question that would trip up adults more than children.
When you read the problem statement, you instinctively want to treat it like an arithmetic problem and think, “5 – 1 = 4, so the answer is 4!” But remember, it’s a trick question.
The hint to solving it is that the candy wasn’t given to someone else, nor did it disappear.
If you think about how many candies you have after you lick one, you should arrive at the correct answer.
An elementary school student with a flexible mind might solve it right away!
Animal Quiz
Let’s have fun with a quiz themed around animal trivia! Since this is aimed at children, each question has three choices to pick from.
Even kids who don’t know much about animals can enjoy it casually, so give it a try.
It’s packed with surprising facts you may think you know but don’t—like the color of a polar bear’s fur, what’s inside a camel’s hump, and the color of a hippo’s sweat! Animals are familiar to children, so this could be a great opportunity to learn while having fun.
Make good use of it—and enjoy!