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30 Riddles for 7 Year Olds

Seven-year-olds can hold a whole riddle in their head and turn it over, which means the answer no longer has to be something they can touch. A few of these are small logic puzzles rather than descriptions — that is deliberate, and usually the ones they retell at dinner.

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From Emma: Let the pause be long. Seven is old enough to feel proud of solving it slowly, and jumping in with the answer robs them of that.

  1. I am not alive, but I grow. I have no lungs, but I need air. I have no mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

  2. What has to be broken before you can use it?

  3. The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

  4. I go all around the world but always stay in the same spot. What am I?

  5. What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at midday, and three legs in the evening?

  6. What has a thousand holes but still holds water?

  7. I am always coming but I never arrive. What am I?

  8. What kind of coat can only be put on when it is wet?

  9. What has one head, one foot and four legs?

  10. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps?

  11. I am taken from a mine and shut inside a wooden case, and almost everybody uses me. What am I?

  12. What gets sharper the more you use it?

  13. Two mothers and two daughters went out for lunch. They ate exactly three sandwiches, one each. How?

  14. What can fill a room but takes up no space?

  15. What has a lot of teeth but cannot chew a single thing?

  16. I have a golden head and a golden tail, but nothing in between. What am I?

  17. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

  18. I follow you all the time and copy every move you make, but you cannot touch me or catch me. What am I?

  19. What is very easy to lift but almost impossible to throw?

  20. Where does today come before yesterday?

  21. What has many keys but cannot open a single lock?

  22. I am so fragile that saying my name breaks me. What am I?

  23. What is full of holes but still strong enough to hold up a boat?

  24. What has a bottom right at its top?

  25. What has thirteen hearts but no other organs at all?

  26. I have branches, but no fruit, no trunk and no leaves. What am I?

  27. What comes down but never goes up?

  28. What has legs but cannot walk, and a back but never lies down?

  29. If you drop me I will probably crack, but smile at me and I will smile back. What am I?

  30. What can you hold in your left hand but never in your right hand?

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