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 problems (21–30)
5 riddles and brain teasers
There are moments in everyday life when wordplay just comes together, right? Like when you’re putting up posters in the classroom and someone says, “Too high, too high, lower,” and that makes you think of a pun like ‘Uesugi Kenshin’ (since ‘too high’ sounds like ‘Uesugi’).
Puns kind of feel similar to riddle-like brain teasers, don’t they? Here’s one: “It’s usually loud, but if you add one letter, it becomes quiet.
What is it?” The answer is ‘siren.’ Add a ‘t’ to the end and it becomes ‘silent,’ right? That rush you get when you solve a clever riddle is unbeatable!
Scary riddles
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Riddles where you look for hints in the question and use them to get closer to the answer make perfect brain teasers, don’t they? In this set, the riddles are themed around “scary things,” and the word “scary” itself serves as a clue to help you think of the answer.
Since the premise is something scary, you might hesitate to approach the solution, but treat it simply as a hint and think about it casually.
By combining the “scary” hint with the clues you glean from the question, you’ll be able to reach the answer smoothly.
Even though it was taken, everyone’s laughing. I wonder why.
I ended up fighting after my friend and I both tried to take it… It’s something every elementary schooler has probably experienced at least once.
Having something taken from you feels awful and makes you sad, right? So let’s try this puzzle.
Why is everyone smiling even though something was ‘taken’? The first thing to think about when solving this is the meaning of the word ‘taken’ (torareta).
It’s deliberately written in hiragana, so try converting it to kanji and imagining what situation it might describe.
The answer is: because it was a photograph.
What animal gets lighter when you flip it over?
An animal that gets lighter when flipped over… Just imagining various animals flipping over makes you feel warm and fuzzy, doesn’t it? But no matter how many real animals you flip, you won’t reach the answer! And since there are so many animals, guessing at random won’t help much either.
The key to solving this riddle is to focus on the crucial word “karui” (軽い), meaning “light.”
When written in katakana, it’s “カルイ” (karui).
If you flip it—i.e., read it backward—it becomes “イルカ” (iruka), which means “dolphin.” So the answer is “dolphin.”
No matter how many times you call it, it never answers—what is it?
If you call your dad or mom, your teacher or your friends, they all answer you, right? But in this world, there are things that won’t respond no matter how much you call them… What are they? The answer is something you all know well.
The key to solving this riddle is to focus on the hiragana word yondemo.
First, try converting it to kanji.
If you try different options like 呼んでも (even if you call) and 読んでも (even if you read), you’ll arrive at the answer.
By the way, the correct answer is “a book.”