[Simple Riddles] A curated selection of fun questions that will excite everyone from kids to adults!

It means “being colorless or unemployed.”

Window glass is colorless and transparent, and NEET refers to a person who is not in employment, education, or training.

It can mean either “I will watch (a game)” or “I will get infected,” depending on the context.

If you think about it not from the side of participating in a sports match but from the side of watching, you might notice the answer. Watching a sports game is “kansen” (観戦), and catching the flu is “kansen” (感染), so it’s a riddle where the answer is that both are ‘kansen.’

There is ai (love / I).

Between two people who have pledged marriage, there is “love,” and in the alphabet, the ninth letter is “I.”

It can mean either “to get tired/exhausted” (疲労します) or “to present/announce/show” (披露します), depending on the kanji and context.

It’s a question where the answer hinges on the shared reading “hirou”: in labor you experience ‘fatigue’ (hirō), and at a presentation you ‘unveil’ or ‘showcase’ (hirō) your work or results. Since the images associated with labor are quite broad, it might be easier to form an image from the presentation side when thinking of the word.

I will rap.

Hip-hop and microwaves might seem unrelated at first glance, but they actually share one thing in common: “wrap/rap.” In hip-hop, you perform rap. And when you put food in the microwave, you cover it with plastic wrap. Different things, same word—that’s their common point.

I want a perk/bonus/reward

For idol chasers, perks like taking part in handshake events are important, while in baseball, points (runs) are what matter.

It’s open / I’m free. (Also: The other person is there.)

It’s a clever riddle that looks for common ground between completely different Christmas situations. When you’re alone, your Christmas schedule is “open,” and when you’re with a partner, you have an “other person” (aite) — so in both cases, the word aite(iru) is shared.