Easy Riddles for Elementary School Students
Riddles you can enjoy with friends and family in little pockets of time.
Just knowing a few questions lets you play on the bus during a field trip, in between stops on a family vacation, or to kill time with friends!
In this article, we’ll introduce riddles perfect for passing the time, geared toward elementary school students.
We’ve gathered a variety—from easy ones to slightly tricky ones, and even ones that help you learn kanji or English just by solving them.
Even though they’re meant for elementary schoolers, if you try them on Mom or Dad, they might surprisingly not know the answers…?
Give them a try whenever you have a moment, and have some lighthearted fun with friends and family!
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[Easy] Riddles for Elementary School Students (21–30)
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.”
Food Riddles
These are riddles where you think of something that fits the clue, with the friendly theme of food as a key point.
By considering alternative ways of saying the words in the question or visualizing numbers, you can get closer to the answer.
I think the content will spark interest in foods—not only those you eat regularly, but also items you may know by name yet have never tried—through the answers to the riddles.
Sometimes the flavor of a food serves as a hint, so being familiar with a variety of tastes may be the key to getting the right answers.
What animal is bigger than a whale but smaller than a killifish?
See the answer
dolphin
To say that there’s no animal bigger than a whale and smaller than a killifish, we use a pun: we say “iruka” (which means dolphin) as a play on words with “inai” (there isn’t). The trick is to change the intonation when you say the comeback line, like “Sonna no iruka!” (which can sound like “Is that a dolphin?” or “Who would buy that?” depending on intonation). The correct answer is “iruka” (dolphin).
20 fun riddles
This is a collection of 20 riddles to solve within a 15-second time limit.
One question is: “What flower never forms a bundle no matter how many there are?” The correct answer is “rose,” making it a set of very light and easy riddles to answer.
It might be fun to see how many you can solve within the time limit.
Puzzle
It’s a collection of puzzle questions involving letters and drawings with a 50% correct answer rate.
They’re easy, but depending on the case, you might blank out and not recall the answer—just the right level of difficulty.
The time limit varies by question.
There are 13 questions in total.
Momotaro, who defeated the ogres with three animals. Now, who was the first one Momotaro met?
See the answer
Grandfather and grandmother
The first people Momotaro met were the old man and the old woman. The old woman found a large peach floating down the river, took it home, and when they split the peach open, Momotaro came out from inside. In other words, he met the old man and the old woman before the animals who later traveled with him as his companions.
Riddles even a monkey could understand
A collection of riddles so easy that even a “monkey” could understand them.
As the name suggests, these are ultra-simple problems.
If you can’t solve these, it might be a bit embarrassing—these are that easy.
They may be highly recommended as introductory riddles for beginners who are new to riddles and don’t quite understand them yet.