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 simple and fun questions (1–10)
Where is a place where crocodiles are always doing handstands?
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garden
It’s a riddle where the key is the phrase “the crocodile is upside down.” If you read ‘wani’ (crocodile) backwards, it becomes ‘niwa’ (garden), so the answer was “garden.” Since it had few characters, it might have been a bit easy!
One leg is a needle and the other is a pencil—what is it?
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Compass
A compass has a needle on one side and a pencil on the other, right? If you picture the figure described in the problem statement carefully, many of you might have had a flash of insight.
What sport do grasshoppers like?
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baseball
In baseball, the person who hits the ball is called a batter. If the word made you think of 'grasshopper' (which sounds the same in Japanese), you might have gotten it right, don’t you think?
What is the ball that has something inside it?
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cardboard
Even though it’s a “ball,” you can put lots of things inside a cardboard box, right? If you’re someone who can think of lots of words that include “ball,” this question was probably easy for you to answer.
What condiment will agree with anything?
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source
“Sandō shite kureru” means someone will agree with your opinion. The source might be the kind of person who says a breezy “So—ssu!!” and readily agrees to anything.